☠️🏴‍☠️ Meet the first legend of our @DEFCON crew: Pirate Queen Kitty Hegemon. Once a chill island cat - now a cyber-enhanced resistance leader fighting to free Isla Hexa. Radios on. Fusion splicer ready. Phishing spear sharp. #MaritimeHacking #DC33 #CyberPirate

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🚨 MHV DEF CON 33 CTF ANNOUCEMENT ⚓️🏴‍☠️ This is MHV's premier year at DEF CON, and we're bringing the heat of the South China Sea. Are you ready to fight and compete to lift the digital blockade on Isla Hexa? You've never seen gear like this at DEF CON. Try to hack real

🚢 Challenge Highlight: ABS-MHV OSINT @DEFCON 33 🚨 New from ABS Group: a first-ever maritime OSINT track at the Maritime Hacking Village CTF! Assemble your crew, scour the seas & nets, and help lift the digital blockade on Isla Hexa. 🗺️ #DC33 #CTF #MaritimeHacking

🚨 Challenge Spotlight: AIS Sudden Death ⚓💀 At @DEFCON 33’s Maritime Hacking Village, satellite comms are down, and spoofed AIS signals are your only clue. One ship is real. One’s a trap. Choose right or sink trying. 5 rounds. Zero forgiveness. Can you spot the spoof?

🚢 ☠️ Badge Announcement! Maritime Hacking Village Badge -- Year 0 What's a great village without a great badge? We went a little overboard -- but it turned out incredible. We're proud to announce our Year 0 badge, a highly versatile tool and embedded system for maritime hacking

🚢 Session Drop: Threat Detection & Response in Maritime 🎤 Capt. Kip Louttit & Steve Winston What happens when cyber threats hit the docks? At @DEFCON 33, join us for a deep-dive with the Executive Director of the Marine Exchange (MXSoCal) on a real n-day incident affecting

🚨 Speaker Spotlight: Michael Sulmeyer, former Asst. Sec. of Defense for Cyber Policy, joins @DEFCON 33 Maritime Hacking Village! Cyber defense expert with top roles at DoD, Cyber Command & NSC. Catch him on the policy panel: "Threat Dynamics on the Seas". #DEFCON #DC33

🚨 Workshop: PLC Hacking 101 ⚙️💥 Join Brien Croteau at Maritime Hacking Village, @DEFCON 33. Learn PLC basics, attacks, and defense in maritime ICS. 📍 DEF CON 33 | #MaritimeHacking 🔧 Bring your tools. Or borrow ours. #ICS #PLC #DEFCON33 #OTsecurity #HackTheShips

⚓️ Sponsor Highlight: ABS Group We’re thrilled to welcome ABS Consulting to the Admiral Tier of sponsors for this year’s Maritime Hacking Village at @DEFCON 33! A global leader in risk and reliability, ABS Consulting brings deep expertise in securing critical infrastructure

🚨 Speaker Spotlight: Deputy Minister Herming Chiueh We’re thrilled to welcome Herming Chiueh of Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs back to @DEFCON 33! Catch him live at MHV's policy panel: "Fighting the Digital Blockade: A View from Taiwan." #DEFCON #DC33 #DEFCON2025

🚢 Session Highlight: Pirates of the North Sea with John Andre Bjørkhaug YO HO! Ready to hear about how Red Teamers board cruise ships as passengers—and walk out with control of comms, nav, and engine systems? Get a first-hand account of real-world red team operations targeting

🌊 Policy Panel Highlight: Undersea Cable Attacks in the Pacific ⚓💥 Taiwan sits on the frontlines of digital warfare on the sea. MHV is excited and honored to host a second policy panel with Shin-Ming Cheng, Deputy Director-General of MODA Taiwan, Joshua Reiter, Deputy

🛳️ Challenge Highlight: Dead Reckoning – Tanker Challenge Step into the bridge network of a large bunker fuel tanker bound for Isla Hexa, which has been hacked and diverted by Isla Hexa's unfriendly neighbor for the imminent physical blockade. Your mission is to retake control

⚓️ Sponsor Spotlight: Splash Industries Give a big welcome to Splash Industries, a sponsor and challenge provider at the Maritime Hacking Village at DEF CON 33! Splash is bringing an early development prototype of their TYPHOON USV and giving you the chance to hack another real

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The tides are changing. The seas are the key frontier for power projection and commerce by nations, companies, and militaries -- and surveillance and cybersecurity tradecraft are rapidly reshaping sea-side threat dynamics. Join three of the biggest minds national security to

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