We are excited to officially announce the
programme
for VB2016, the 26th International Virus Bulletin Conference, which will take place in Denver, Colorado, USA 5-7 October this year.
Ransomware & malvertising
As every year, the VB2016 programme reflects what is going on in the world of security. With ransomware being such a hot topic, the programme includes
an analysis
of one of the most notorious families, Locky, as well as a
presentation
on how to detect new families using static analysis.
Two
talks
deal with the topic of malvertising, and
another one
with exploit kits that are used in this case – while the first Small Talk on the programme will
discuss
the Angler exploit kit and combined efforts to fight it.
APTs & targeted attacks
Of course, several talks will deal with the elite among the adversaries: APTs and targeted attacks. A
paper
will be presented on Disabled Sentry, a group that has been targeting the financial industry since 2009, while Anton Cherepanov and Robert Lipovský
—
who
spoke about
BlackEnergy
at VB2014
—
will present
another
paper on the malware that is notorious for its alleged involvement in power outages in Ukraine.
Two other papers look at APTs from a higher level: could the reports we publish be
helping the threat actors
? And are we sufficiently aware of
false flags
?
Mobile security, IoT, tools & esoterics
The programme includes a number papers on mobile security and the Internet of Things, as well as several papers that provide security researchers with useful tools for their work. And as always, a number of talks deal with the testing of security products and with anti-virus products themselves — just
how secure
are those (mobile) anti-virus products, really?
There are also some more esoteric talks, including one on
hacking smart watches
and one on
attacks against GPS
.
You can find the full details of all 37 papers
—
as well as four reserve papers
—
on the VB2016 programme
here
.
Extras
And there will be more: we have left nine places on the programme open for ‘last-minute papers’, the call for papers for which will go out in the summer. We will also announce two keynotes, more Small Talks and a number of extras in due course. Watch this space!
Register now!
Registration
for VB2016 is now open – make sure you register by 30 June 2016 to get a 10% Early Bird discount.
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