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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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Detecting and Disrupting Compromised Devices based on Their Communication Patterns to Legitimate Web Services

Detecting and Disrupting Compromised Devices based on Their Communication Patterns to Legitimate Web Services Botconf 2022 Friday | 10:55 – 11:15 Yael Daihes 🗣 | Hen Tzaban 🗣 Data breaches of enterprises have been one of the most destructive and prominent security threats that enterprises have been facing in recent years. Some well-known APT groups as well

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