Current Defcon Level 2025. As of january 2023, the current defcon level is estimated to be at 3 due to the russian conflict, according to osint (open source intelligence) on the website defconlevel.com. On august 10, 2025 researchers from ioactive delivered a talk at the defcon conference titled “amd sinkclose:
There are two published threat levels. Citing confidence in homeland defenses, the defense department recently declined to disclose the defcon level.
