Botconf 2017

Use Your Enemies: Tracking Botnets with Bots Botconf 2017 Wednesday | 14:55 – 15:45 Jarosław Jedynak 🗣 | Paweł Srokosz 🗣 Botnets are a curious thing for malware researchers. Although we’re constantly trying to shut them down and stop the responsible people, we’re also focusing a lot of attention on studying and analysing their inner workings in […]

SOCKs as a Service, Botnet Discovery Botconf 2017 Wednesday | 15:45 – 16:15 Christopher Baker 🗣 | Allison Nixon 🗣 | Chad Seaman On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog, but they know that you are accessing their website from an IP announced by an ASN that belongs to an ISP on the East Coast of the

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