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Mikko Hyppönen is pacing back and forth on the stage, with his trademark dark blond ponytail resting on an impeccable teal suit.
Key facts
- So your successes disappear, while your failures pile up,” he tells the audience during his keynote at Black Hat in Las Vegas in 2025
- The other differences today are that the cybersecurity industry is now estimated to be worth $250 billion
- As one of the industry’s longest serving cybersecurity figures, he has spent more than 35 years fighting malware
- In mid-2025, Hyppönen pivoted from cybersecurity to a different kind of defensive work
Summary
“I often call this ‘cybersecurity Tetris,’” he tells the audience with a serious face, rattling off the rules of the classic video game. “So your successes disappear, while your failures pile up,” he tells the audience during his keynote at Black Hat in Las Vegas in 2025. Hyppönen’s work, however, has certainly not been invisible. Since then, Hyppönen estimated he has analyzed thousands of different kinds of malware.