#About the Workshop

CyberHunt 2026 explores the future of intelligence-driven cyber defence at the intersection of cyber threat intelligence, threat hunting, AI-enabled Security Operations Centres (SOCs), and agentic cybersecurity systems. The workshop brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss methods, tools, architectures, datasets, standards, and operational experiences that make intelligence more actionable, automate security workflows, support human–AI collaboration, and strengthen proactive cyber defence. The workshop will be held for the ninth consecutive year in conjunction with the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2026).

#Description:

Cyber threats are becoming more complex, faster-moving, and increasingly difficult to detect using reactive security approaches alone. Modern Security Operations Centres are therefore shifting towards intelligence-driven, highly automated operations, in which cyber threat intelligence, threat hunting, detection engineering, and incident response are closely integrated to support proactive defence. At the same time, advances in artificial intelligence (AI), large language models (LLMs), agentic systems, and neuro-symbolic reasoning are reshaping how cyber defenders collect, analyse, interpret, and operationalise intelligence. These technologies create new opportunities to automate parts of the intelligence cycle, augment human analysts, improve decision-making, and enable more adaptive security operations. They also introduce new risks, including adversarial manipulation, insecure AI deployment, and AI-enabled cyber threats.

The 9th Annual Workshop on Cyber Threat Intelligence and Hunting (CyberHunt 2026) brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, government, and the wider cybersecurity community to explore the evolving relationship between cyber threat intelligence, threat hunting, AI-enabled security operations, and operational cyber defence. The workshop welcomes original research, practical experience reports, system designs, datasets, benchmarks, and emerging ideas that advance intelligence-driven cybersecurity. Particular emphasis is placed on methods and systems that make threat intelligence actionable, support human–AI collaboration, improve SOC automation, enable machine-readable intelligence sharing, and advance rigorous evaluation, effective governance, and the trustworthy deployment of AI-enabled cyber defence systems.

#Topics of Interest (please see the comprehensive list on the official webpage):

- Threat Intelligence and Threat Hunting
- AI, Agentic Systems, and Automation for Cybersecurity
- Data, Knowledge Representation, and Intelligence Engineering
- SOC Architectures and Operational Intelligence
- Security of AI and Adversarial Threats
- Emerging Threat Landscapes and Applications
- Evaluation, Benchmarking, and Datasets
- Governance, Ethics, and Collaboration

#Organising Committee:

Workshop Chair:
- Vasileios Mavroeidis, University of Oslo

Workshop Co-Chairs:
- Habtamu Abie, Norwegian Computing Center
- Nicholas Kolokotronis, University of the Peloponnese
- Fabio Martinelli, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
- Eva Papadogiannaki, Technical University of Crete

Program Committee Chairs:
- Mateusz Zych, University of Oslo
- Thrasyvoulos Giannakopoulos, University of Piraeus
- Vasileios Mavroeidis, University of Oslo

#An outstanding paper will be selected for the CyberHunt 2026 Best Paper Award and announced during the workshop#