Cato Networks to Present Two Sessions at BSides TLV 2025
Cato CTRL to explore LLMs from attacker and defender perspectives
TEL AVIV, Israel, June 12, 2025 – Cato Networks, the SASE leader, today announced that Cato CTRL will speak at BSides TLV 2025 in Tel Aviv, which is a leading security research conference in Israel.
The sessions featuring Cato CTRL include:
- Thursday, June 26 at 11:50 AM IST
- Session: The Dark Side of LLMs
- Speaker: Vitaly Simonovich, threat intelligence researcher at Cato Networks and member of Cato CTRL
- Location: AI Hacking Village
- Thursday, June 26 at 14:30 PM IST
- Session: LLMs Suck at Cyber Intel—Unless You Hack Them Right
- Speaker: Inga Cherny, security researcher at Cato Networks and member of Cato CTRL
- Location: Main Stage
“As revealed in the 2025 Cato CTRL Threat Report, I will take the audience on a journey into the world of a zero-knowledge threat actor,” said Vitaly Simonovich, threat intelligence researcher at Cato Networks and member of Cato CTRL. “I will explain how we attempted to develop an infostealer by using common jailbreak techniques against popular LLMs but initially failed. Eventually, we created an ‘Immersive World’ jailbreak technique, which allowed us to successfully develop the infostealer. I will provide a detailed analysis of the techniques we employed, the generated code, and more.”
“In a world where X generates thousands of posts per second, buried within the noise are critical threat signals—phishing campaigns, malware links, and indicators of compromise (IoCs),” Inga Cherny, said security researcher at Cato Networks and member of Cato CTRL. “My session will unpack how these fleeting signals can be turned into actionable threat intel using AI.”
To learn more about Cato’s threat intelligence team, visit the Cato CTRL page.
Download the 2025 Cato CTRL Threat Report. It is the inaugural annual threat report from Cato CTRL. The key theme for this year’s report is AI.
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- [Photo] Vitaly Simonovich
- [Photo] Inga Cherny
About Cato CTRL
Cato CTRL (Cyber Threats Research Lab) is the world’s first CTI group to fuse threat intelligence with granular network insight, made possible by Cato’s global SASE platform. By bringing together dozens of former military intelligence analysts, researchers, data scientists, academics and industry-recognized security professionals, Cato CTRL utilizes network data, security stack data, hundreds of security feeds, human intelligence operations, AI (Artificial Intelligence), and ML (Machine Learning) to shed light on the latest cyber threats and threat actors.
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