Cato Networks to Present Three Sessions at BSides TLV 2025

December 4, 2025

Cato CTRL to spotlight how threat actors exploit AI, how malicious LLMs are evolving, and how defenders can flip the script by hacking LLMs into a powerful threat intelligence tool      

TEL AVIV, Israel, December 4, 2025 – Cato Networks, the SASE leader, today announced that Cato CTRL will speak at BSides TLV 2025 in Tel Aviv. 

The sessions featuring Cato CTRL include:

  • Thursday, December 11 at 11:20 AM IST
    • Session: “From Prompt to Payload: Breaking GenAI with Real-World MCP Exploits”
    • Description: In this talk, a live hacking demo will be presented that reproduces two real examples of model context protocol (MCP) abuse. As MCP adoption becomes the norm, this session offers hands-on insight into securing AI workflows before these vulnerabilities become widespread.
    • Speaker: Dolev Moshe Attiya, staff research engineer at Cato Networks and member of Cato CTRL
  • Thursday, December 11 at 11:30 AM IST (at AI Hacking Village)
    • Session: “The Dark Side of LLMs”
    • Description: This presentation will reveal how threat actors are weaponizing AI and what defenders must do to stay ahead. This talk will explore real-world examples including WormGPT variants, Nytheon AI, and LAMEHUG. 
    • Speaker: Vitaly Simonovich, senior security researcher at Cato Networks and member of Cato CTRL
  • Thursday, December 11 at 14:30 PM IST
    • Session: “LLMs Suck at Cyber Intel—Unless You Hack Them Right”
    • Description: This session will dive deep into how AI can turn social media chaos on X into actionable threat intelligence, including how to track key cybersecurity insiders, extract Indicators of Compromise (IoCs), and leverage machine learning (ML).
    • Speaker: Inga Cherny, security researcher at Cato Networks and member of Cato CTRL

To learn more about Cato’s threat intelligence team, visit the Cato CTRL page.

Resources 

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.

About Cato Networks

Cato Networks delivers enterprise security and networking in a single cloud platform. The SASE leader creates a seamless and elegant customer experience that effortlessly enables threat prevention, data protection, and timely incident detection and response. With Cato, organizations replace costly and rigid legacy infrastructure with an open and modular SASE architecture based on SD-WAN, a purpose-built global cloud network, and an embedded cloud-native security stack.

Want to learn why thousands of organizations secure their future with Cato? Visit us at www.catonetworks.com. 

Media Contact 

Cato Communications 

press@catonetworks.com