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THE HUNT IS OVER 🚨
171 investigators and over 2000 submissions across two days at @ReconVillage, @defcon 34.
4 fugitive locations identified and passed to police. 🚔
This is exactly what #OSINT4GOOD looks like in action.
That’s a wrap on #ReconVillage at @defcon 34. 🔍
Thank you to DEF CON, our sponsors, supporters, speakers, trainers, contest leads, volunteers, participants, attendees, and everyone who made the village possible.
See you next time. #OSINT
A huge thank you to the sponsors and supporters who helped make #ReconVillage at @defcon 34 possible.
@CatoNetworks, @OSINTindustries, @ArgeliusLabs, @cybereyelabs, @Squid_Sec, @RedHuntLabs
Your support powered the experiences throughout the village.
Next up at #ReconVillage:
David Cass
“Recon on Trial: The OSINT Operator's Legal Playbook”
Understand the legal boundaries around scraping, subdomain enumeration, GitHub searches and misconfigured APIs.
🕒 12:00 PM PDT
📍 DEF CON Creator Stage 5
#DEFCON34
Coming up in one hour 🔍
@redong4shi and @armendxgashi
“Living Off Someone Else's Inference”
Explore exposed inference endpoints, leaked AI credentials and the risks of unauthorized compute access.
🕒 10:45 AM PDT
📍 DEF CON Creator Stage 2
#DEFCON34
Starting in one hour ⏰
Michael Reimsbach and Rishi C
“Ghost in the Hiring Machine: How to Spot Fake Personas Before They're on Your Payroll”
Use practical OSINT checks to identify fake candidates.
🕒 10:00 AM PDT
📍 DEF CON Creator Stage 2
One hour to go:
John McCary
“There Is No Internet: Cross-Domain Recon of all 4.3 Billion IPv4s”
Compare registry, DNS and live-service data across the full IPv4 space to expose what single-source intelligence misses.
🕒 5:30 PM PDT
📍 DEF CON Creator Stage 2
#DEFCON34
Starting in under an hour ⏰
@avishai_efrat and @roeybc: “Total Recon: How We Discovered 1000s of open Agents in The Wild”
See how internet-wide recon uncovered thousands of exposed AI agents and what defenders should monitor.
🕒 5:00 PM PDT
📍 DEF CON Creator Stage 3
Coming up in one hour 🔍
@spsuriya3, Chandru J and Muthu Kumar
“CyberKB: When Your AI Copilot Runs the Recon, Crawls the Dark Web, and Maps the Kill Chain”
See an AI copilot orchestrate recon, dark-web research, attack graphs.
🕒 5:00 PM PDT
📍 DEF CON Creator Stage 2
Starting in one hour ⏰
@elijahwoodward9
“Cl0p ^_- Til You Drop - 6 years, 9 Campaigns, 7 0-Days”
Follow six years of Cl0p infrastructure across nine campaigns and seven zero-days to uncover recurring patterns.
🕒 3:30 PM PDT
📍 DEF CON Creator Stage 2
#DEFCON34
Starting in one hour: hands-on workshop ⏰
@Alevsk
“Vibe Coding Your Way to a Fully Functional OSINT Platform”
Build a working OSINT platform using AI coding agents.
🕒 3:20 PM PDT
📍 Recon Village Workshop Area
Next up at #ReconVillage:
@anantshri & @0xCardinal
“The Breach Is Over. The Exposure Is Not”
See how leaked contextual residue can continue exposing architecture, technologies and attack-surface clues after a breach.
🕒 3:00 PM PDT
📍 DEF CON Creator Stage 2
#DEFCON34
Coming up in one hour 🔍
Fae Carlisle
“Your OpSec Is Showing”
Track threat actors through reusable infrastructure fingerprints such as JARM, JA3/JA4, SSH keys and MurmurHash.
🕒 1:30 PM PDT
📍 DEF CON Creator Stage 2
#DEFCON34
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Come around and say hi if you are at @defcon
Starting in one hour ⏰
Eddie Miro
“Tag, You’re It: Physical Tracking Tech, Defense, and How to DIY Your Own”
Explore physical tracking technology, practical defenses and a DIY beacon built from accessible hardware.
🕒 1:00 PM PDT
📍 DEF CON Creator Stage 2
#DEFCON34
One hour to go for this hands-on workshop:
@jeff_foley
Workshop: “The Hard Part of ASM: Ownership Attribution”
Turn fragmented internet metadata into defensible ownership attribution for attack-surface management.
🕒 12:40 PM PDT
📍 Recon Village Workshop Area
#DEFCON34
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The crowd is here, the contests are active, and the OSINT rabbit holes are getting deeper.
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