Tag: botconf
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Conference review: Botconf 2017
Since its first edition in 2013 , the Virus Bulletin team have been big fans of Botconf , the botnet fighting conference held every year in France. This year, Virus Bulletin sent team members Adrian Luca and Ionuț Răileanu to the event, which took place in the Mediterranean city of Montpellier. There appears to have been…
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Conference review: Botconf 2017
Since its first edition in 2013 , the Virus Bulletin team have been big fans of Botconf , the botnet fighting conference held every year in France. This year, Virus Bulletin sent team members Adrian Luca and Ionuț Răileanu to the event, which took place in the Mediterranean city of Montpellier. There appears to have been…
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Virus Bulletin to attend AMTSO, AVAR and Botconf
Next week, Virus Bulletin will attend a number of important security conferences in Beijing, China and Montpellier, France. In Beijing, security product vendors and testers will get together for a meeting of the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO). As a company with more than two decades’ worth of experience testing security products, Virus Bulletin recognizes…
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Virus Bulletin to attend AMTSO, AVAR and Botconf
Next week, Virus Bulletin will attend a number of important security conferences in Beijing, China and Montpellier, France. In Beijing, security product vendors and testers will get together for a meeting of the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO). As a company with more than two decades’ worth of experience testing security products, Virus Bulletin recognizes…
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Conference review: Botconf 2016
This review was written by Martijn Grooten, Adrian Luca and Ionuț Răileanu. Though still only in its fourth year, Botconf has become one of the Virus Bulletin team’s favourite conferences. Late in November, three of the VB team flew to Lyon to attend this year’s three-day event. As its name suggests, Botconf is aimed at…
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Conference review: Botconf 2016
This review was written by Martijn Grooten, Adrian Luca and Ionuț Răileanu. Though still only in its fourth year, Botconf has become one of the Virus Bulletin team’s favourite conferences. Late in November, three of the VB team flew to Lyon to attend this year’s three-day event. As its name suggests, Botconf is aimed at…
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More on the Moose botnet at Botconf
This week, several members of the Virus Bulletin team are attending Botconf 2016 in Lyon, France. Security conferences provide good opportunities to meet fellow researchers and to learn about new trends and developments, but it also interesting to see a continuation of previously presented research. At this year’s Botconf, GoSecure researchers Masarah Paquet-Clouston and Olivier Bilodeau presented their research on…
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More on the Moose botnet at Botconf
This week, several members of the Virus Bulletin team are attending Botconf 2016 in Lyon, France. Security conferences provide good opportunities to meet fellow researchers and to learn about new trends and developments, but it also interesting to see a continuation of previously presented research. At this year’s Botconf, GoSecure researchers Masarah Paquet-Clouston and Olivier Bilodeau presented their research on…
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Conference review: Botconf 2015
Third botnet fighting conference another big success. Though only in its third year, Botconf has already become a regular fixture in my schedule. And thus, after having attended the conference in Nantes in 2013 and in Nancy in 2014 , this year I joined more than 250 others for the three-day conference on botnets at…
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Paper: a timeline of mobile botnets
Ruchna Nigam provides an overview of more than 60 mobile malware families. The rise of mobile malware is still a relatively recent thing, with the first actual mobile botnets not appearing until the beginning of this decade. However, since then things have changed quickly, and today there are more than one million known mobile malware…