Malware Village Preview
A preview of the interactive workshops, reverse engineering challenges, and malware analysis labs featured at DEF CON 33 Malware Village.
Summary
Lena Yu, CEO of World Cyber Health and founder of Malware Village, announces the village's debut as an official full-fledged DEF CON village at DEF CON 33, addressing the severe international shortage of reverse engineers and malware analysts [00:05, 00:34].
Yu previews four new interactive competitions debuting at the conference, including the MARK 1 malware analysis report competition [01:10] and "Yeet Havoc," an adversarial LLM prompt-injection challenge where competitors attempt to compromise the automated cybercrime victim helpline [01:31]. She introduces gamified educational tools, exclusive village swag, and collectible malware trading cards designed to make reverse engineering and threat intelligence accessible to beginners [01:00, 01:57].
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