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Automation Of Internet-Of-Things Botnets Takedown By An ISP Botconf 2017 Wednesday | 16:45 – 17:15 Sébastien Mériot 🗣 For the past 12 months, the Internet-Of-Things botnets have made the headlines. Behind the media noise lies a threat that could be easily remedied by taking appropriate actions to discourage the herders which, most of the time, […]

The New Era of Android Banking Botnets Botconf 2017 Wednesday | 17:15 – 18:05 Pedro Drimel Neto 🗣 In the past, mobile malware used to target victims only to harvest SMS messages, which are often used as a 2FA (two-factor authentication) mechanism or as OTP (one-time password). Since late 2015, we have seen attacks which

Hunting Down Gooligan Botconf 2017 Wednesday | 18:05 – 18:45 Elie Bursztein 🗣 | Oren Koriat 🗣 This talk provides a retrospective on how during 2017 Check Point and Google jointly hunted down Gooligan – one of the largest Android botnets at the time. Beside its scale what makes Gooligan a worthwhile case-study is its heavy reliance

Malware, Penny Stocks, Pharma Spam — Necurs Delivers Botconf 2017 Friday | 14:00 – 14:30 Jaeson Schultz 🗣 | Warren Mercer | Edmund Brumaghin | Nick Biasini Email threats have always been a major part of the threat landscape. As the use of exploit kits and other malware distribution techniques have decreased, malicious spam campaigns play an even greater role in