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Warren Mercer (Cisco Talos)
Paul Rascagnères (Cisco Talos)
Paul Rascagnères & Warren Mercer present the malware that they have identified – with moderate confidence – as having been used in the attack against the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. They describe the malware’s propagation techniques and its…
Read moreJérôme Segura (Malwarebytes)
Jérôme Segura discusses the rise of drive-by cryptocurrency mining, explaining how it works and putting it in the broader context of changes in the cybercrime landscape.
Read moreAishwarya Lonkar (Symantec)
Siddhesh Chandrayan (Symantec)
The WebAssembly (Wasm) format rose to prominence recently when it was used for cryptocurrency mining in browsers. This opened a Pandora’s box of potential malicious uses of Wasm. In this paper Aishwarya Lonkar & Siddhesh Chandrayan walk through some…
Read moreThe computer’s webcam is one of the most relevant components when it comes to digital privacy. In this paper, Reason Software's Ronen Slavin dives into the video capturing internals of Windows and discusses the implementation of a driver that…
Read morePeter Kálnai (ESET)
Michal Poslušný (ESET)
With the ever-increasing use of banking-related services on the web, browsers have naturally drawn the attention of malware authors. They are interested in adjusting the behaviour of the browsers for their purposes, namely intercepting the content of…
Read moreIt is likely that, by now, everyone in computer science has at least heard of the Spectre attack. Since many excellent explanations of the attack already exist, this article focuses on the probability of finding Spectre being exploited on Android…
Read morePradeep Kulkarni (Quick Heal Security Labs)
Sameer Patil (Quick Heal Security Labs)
Prashant Kadam (Quick Heal Security Labs)
Aniruddha Dolas (Quick Heal Security Labs)
At the centre of last year's infamous WannaCry ransomware attack was an NSA exploit leaked by the Shadow Brokers hacker group, known as ‘EternalBlue’. The worm-like functionality of the exploit made a deadly impact by propagating to interconnected…
Read moreRandy Abrams (Microsoft)
There are situations that warrant the use of live viruses. There are also situations where the use of live viruses is unwarranted. Specifically, live viruses should not be used when safer and equally effective methods can be used to obtain the…
Read moreAditya K. Sood (SecNiche Security)
Rohit Bansal (SecNiche Security)
Since their return more than four years ago, Office macros have been one of the most common ways to spread malware. In this paper, Aditya K Sood and Rohit Bansal analyse a campaign in which VBA macros are used to execute PowerShell code, which in…
Read moreAxelle Apvrille (Fortinet)
In the Android security field, all reverse engineers will probably have used some of the most well-known analysis tools such as apktool, smali, baksmali, dex2jar, etc. These tools are indeed must‑haves for Android application analysis. However, there…
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