Botconf presentation or article

Preventing File-Based Botnet Persistence and Growth Botconf 2016 Friday | 14:00 – 14:30 Kurtis Armour 🗣 In the current threat landscape, we see most botnets propagating via exploits and file based malware. Anything that touches the disk has the ability to be blocked via access controls on the host. New techniques utilize more than just

Dridex Gone Phishing Botconf 2016 Friday | 14:35 – 15:15 Magal Baz 🗣 | Gal Meiri 🗣 In January 2016, we discovered a new modus operandi launched by Evil Corp, the organization that owned and operated Dridex banking Trojan. A new build was released to the wild, using Andromeda botnet platform, mainly targeting users in the UK.

Vawtrak Banking Trojan : A Threat to the Banking Ecosystem Botconf 2016 Wednesday | 16:00 – 16:50 Victor Acin 🗣 | Raashid Bhat 🗣 Vawtrak has been among the top banking Trojans since quite a long time now. Banking Trojans have not been discussed much in security conferences contrary to APT’s and other type of malwares. This

Snoring Is Optional: The Metrics and Economics of Cyber Insurance for Malware Related Claims Botconf 2016 Wednesday | 16:55 – 17:35 Wayne Crowder 🗣 Insurance addresses the economics of security on the internet. Cyber insurance is sold to companies as a way to offset the risk and costs of a security incident. Governments, large enterprises

Hunting Droids from the Inside Botconf 2016 Wednesday | 17:40 – 18:20 Łukasz Siewierski 🗣 This talk will be a survey of different potentially harmful applications (PHAs), botnets and malware campaigns on Android that we encountered in 2016. I’ll walk through a variety of different malicious apps, explain the malware authors’ objectives and the techniques

Attacking Linux/Moose 2.0 Unraveled an EGO MARKET Botconf 2016 Thursday | 09:45 – 10:35 Masarah Paquet-Clouston 🗣 | Olivier Bilodeau 🗣 Want to give your blog a push or your “gun show” more views? Then why not buy 50,000 fake followers for $1,000! Click farms from down South or botnets such as Game over Zeus will be

Tracking Exploit Kits Botconf 2016 Thursday | 11:00 – 11:50 John Bambenek 🗣 Despite the ever growing number of malware families, botnets and criminal campaigns; there is only a defined few means by which malware can find its victims. This talk will be a deep dive into tracking exploit kits and the infrastructure behind them.

Improve DDoS Botnet Tracking With Honeypots Botconf 2016 Thursday | 11:50 – 12:20 Ya Liu 🗣 | Wenji Qu DDoS botnet tracking can be used to watch botnet assisted attacks in real time together with the details including the botnet families, C&C servers, attack types, and attack parameters. Such information helps us to learn current DDoS attacks