With a little over three weeks to go until the start of
VB2018
, 28th Virus Bulletin Conference, we are excited to announce ten last-minute talks that cover hot research.
Nation-state & cyber espionage attacks
Nation-state attacks and cyber espionage continue to be hot topics in cybersecurity, and this is reflected in several last-minute papers.
Intezer Labs
researchers Jay Rosenberg and Itai Tevet will look at
the threats coming out of North Korea
and in particular at links between the various threat groups. Meanwhile,
Kaspersky Lab
researchers Kurt Baumgartner and Mike Scott will present their
latest research on Turla
, one of the most advanced groups around (and something that Kurt
spoke about
three years ago).
APT-C-23 is a threat group active in the Middle East, which has become a hotbed of cyber activity in recent years. Researcher Aseel Kayal will present details of
Check Point
‘s
investigation into this group
. Meanwhile, ‘Nomadic Octopus’ is a cyber espionage group operating in a different region: Central Asia.
ESET
researcher Anton Cherepanov, a regular VB speaker, will
present details
of this group.
‘Ordinary’ cybercrime & commercial spyware
‘Ordinary’ cybercrime groups can be very advanced too. A good example is the group behind the SamSam ransomware, notorious for its more targeted focus and far higher than usual ransom demands.
Sophos
researchers Andrew Brandt and Peter Mackenzie will present their
investigation into this ransomware
and the group behind it.
Those interested in commercial spyware sold to governments should definitely attend the talk by
CSIS
researchers Benoît Ancel and Aleksejs Kuprins, who look at
a company that resells
commercial spyware as government spyware.
DNS requests, Necurs & VBS
Cisco Umbrella
‘s Brad Antoniewicz will look at
an often overlooked way
to exfiltrate data from compromised systems: DNS requests. Meanwhile,
Avast
‘s Jan Sirmer and Adolf Streda will talk about how a
branch of the Necurs botnet was used
to spread another botnet, and
Blueliv
‘s Jose Miguel Esparza will look at
malware written in VBS
and how it recently targeted Canadian banks.
Triada
Finally,
Google
‘s Lukasz Siewierski will
discuss Triada
, malware that was found preinstalled on
Android
devices, and how
Google
worked with OEMs to fight this threat.
Invited talks
In addition to these ten last-minute papers, we have also added two more invited talks to the VB2018 programme.
Nopsec
‘s Adrian Sanabria, who two years ago discussed
the state of endpoint security
, will present a
n update on this fast-changing market
.
And Michael Daniel, who worked as Cybersecurity Coordinator on the National Security Council Staff under president Obama, and now serves as President & CEO of the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA), will explain
why sharing threat intelligence
actually makes you more competitive.
Registration
for the conference is still open, so
book now
to make sure you don’t miss out on these exciting talks!
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