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A Proposed Civil Liability Framework for Disrupting Botnets, with a particular focus on Smart Devices

A Proposed Civil Liability Framework for Disrupting Botnets, with a particular focus on Smart Devices Botconf 2020 Thursday | 13:20 – 13:50 Iain Nash 🗣 This paper proposes a legal methodology aimed at disrupting Botnets, whose nodes are mostly comprised of Smart Devices. The methodology allows for the attachment of civil liability to both the […]

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Detecting emerging malware on cloud before VirusTotal can see it

Detecting emerging malware on cloud before VirusTotal can see it Botconf 2022 Thursday | 12:10 – 12:40 Anastasia Poliakova 🗣 | Andreas Pfadler 🗣 | Yuriy Yuzifovich | Ali Fakeri-Tabrizi | Gan Feng | Hongliang Liu | Thanh Nguyen In this session, we will present our approach for detecting newly emerging malware on a cloud platform and predicting its behavior, and doing so before VirusTotal or any

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How Formbook became XLoader and migrated to macOS

How Formbook became XLoader and migrated to macOS Botconf 2022 Thursday | 14:45 – 15:15 Alexey Bukhteyev 🗣 | Raman Ladutska 🗣 In this talk we analyze a prevalent malware family Formbook and its successor XLoader from different angles, including OSINT and technical sides. XLoader is a logical step in Formbook’s evolution, it is now able to

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Smoke and Fire – Smokeloader Historical Changes and Trends

Smoke and Fire – Smokeloader Historical Changes and Trends Botconf 2022 Thursday | 16:45 – 17:25 Marcos Alvares 🗣 Smokeloader (aka Sharik or SmokeBot) turned 10 in 2021! Few malware families make to this mark without collapsing or getting caught by law enforcement. For over a decade, Smokeloader has been deployed as part of distribution

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Jumping the air-gap: 15 years of nation-state efforts

Jumping the air-gap: 15 years of nation-state efforts Botconf 2022 Friday | 09:30 – 10:00 Alexis Dorais-Joncas 🗣 | Facundo Munoz 🗣 Air-gapping is used to protect the most sensitive of networks: voting systems, ICSes running power grids, or SCADA systems operating nuclear centrifuges just to name a few. In the first half of 2020 alone, three

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