Many VB authors and presenters to speak at second botnet-fighting conference.
Last year, I
attended
the first edition of ‘
Botconf
‘ in the French city of Nantes. I really enjoyed the conference, so I am looking forward to the
second edition
, which will take place in less than two weeks’ time in Nancy, in Northeastern France.
I was also pleased to see that several of this year’s Botconf speakers have either spoken at recent VB conferences or published articles through
Virus Bulletin
.
G Data
researcher Paul Rascagnères will present a workshop on using
WinDBG
to analyse rootkits and is co-author of a paper on the ‘Havex’ RAT that will also be presented at the conference. Earlier this year, we published a
paper
by Paul on the ‘IcoScript’ RAT.
At VB2014,
CloudFlare
‘s Nick Sullivan presented a
paper
on DNSSEC and also participated in the
closing panel
. At Botconf, he will speak about this year’s botnet attack trends.
OpenDNS
researcher Dhia Mahjoub took to the VB2014 stage twice: first to speak about using the ASN graph to detect malicious networks (a paper we published
today
), and then with his colleague Thibault Reuille, to speak about security analytics with a 3D visualization engine. At Botconf, Dhia (together with Hendrik Adrian, of
MalwareMustDie
) will speak about taking a new look at fast-flux networks.
Those with an interest in mobile malware will hopefully have read the
paper
we published earlier this year, in which
Fortinet
researchers Axelle Apvrille and Ruchna Nigam took a look at obfuscation in
Android
malware. Ruchna will speak at Botconf about a timeline of mobile botnets.
Another platform that has seen an increased interest from those running botnets is *nix – in particular *nix web servers.
Yandex
researchers Evgeny Sidorov and Andrew Kovalev will speak on this topic in Nancy. The same group of researchers published a
paper
on the ‘Mayhem’ malware earlier this year, while at VB2014, Evgeny
spoke
about ‘Ebury’ and ‘Cdorked’, together with
ESET
‘s Pierre-Marc Bureau.
In their presentation on multiplatform DDoS botnets,
Avast
researchers Peter Kalnai and Jaromir Horejsi will also focus primarily on
Linux
and
OpenBSD
. At VB2014, they
presented
a paper on click fraud.
A few years ago,
Trend Micro
‘s David Sancho spoke at a number VB conferences and seminars. At Botconf, he will speak on ‘Operation Emmental’, in which banking malware defeats two-factor authentication.
Finally, I will speak at the event as well. Together with Joao Gouveia of
AnubisNetworks
, we will speak about the ‘Mevade’ (or ‘Sefnit’) botnet – research that was published by
AnubisNetworks
here
.
Botconf takes place 3-5 December in Nancy, France.
Registration
is still possible, but closes 26 November at noon CET.
Posted on 21 November 2014 by
Martijn Grooten
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