Spam and All Things Salty: Spambot v2013 Botconf 2013 Thursday | 10:50 – 11:30 Jessa dela Torre 🗣 This presentation will discuss our research on a threat that involves the massive attacks on WordPress, Joomla and Drupal sites and where they attempt to test the waters on a new spamming cycle. This routine involves different […]
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Distributed Malware Proxy Networks Botconf 2013 Thursday | 11:30 – 12:10 Brad Porter 🗣 | Nick Summerlin This presentation discusses several existing proxy networks used in malware campaigns and our efforts to track them in an automated fashion. Criminals are increasingly turning to proxy networks to provide an additional layer of protection between their adversaries (law enforcement
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Legal limits of proactive actions: Coreflood botnet example Botconf 2013 Thursday | 13:00 – 13:20 Oğuz Kaan Pehlivan 🗣 Passive defense mechanisms are necessary component of well-designed cyber defense programs but they are no longer sufficient to address increasingly sophisticated threats. Thus, addressing the threats more comprehensively may require additional mechanisms. So, active cyber defense
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Back to life, back to correlation Botconf 2013 Thursday | 13:20 – 13:40 Vasileios Friligkos 🗣 In this presentation, I will talk about all the distinctive characteristics of botnet behavior and more specifically, how we can detect it using effective solutions while avoiding over flood of false positives. How we can collect pieces of information
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Using cyber intelligence to detect and localize botnets Botconf 2013 Thursday | 13:40 – 14:00 Enrico Branca 🗣 Our purpose is to present a cyber intelligence system created to analyze network communications in order to detect and identify botnet activities and distribution of malware related to botnets, both over the internet and within targeted networks.
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