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Gabor Szappanos (VirusBuster)
When a daily sports paper compares a national soccer crisis with the spread of an Internet worm, you know that the worm has had an enormous impact on everyday life. In March 2004, Gabor Szappanos tracked the rise of W32/Mydoom.
Read moreMaddie Stone (Google)
This paper analyses one of the most interesting anti-analysis native libraries we’ve seen in the Android ecosystem. No previous references to this library have been found.The anti-analysis library is named ‘WeddingCake’ because it has lots of layers.
Read moreJuan Andrés Guerrero-Saade (Chronicle Security)
When it comes to the descriptive study of digital adversaries, we’ve proven far less than poets. Currently, our understanding is stated in binary terms: ‘is the actor sophisticated or not?’. Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade puts forward his views on how we…
Read moreGabor Szappanos (Sophos)
It has never been easier to attack Office vulnerabilities than it is nowadays. In this paper Gabor Szappanos looks more deeply into the dramatic changes that have happened in the past 12 months in the Office exploit scene.
Read moreYa Liu (Qihoo 360)
Hui Wang (Qihoo 360)
Mirai, the infamous DDoS botnet family known for its great destructive power, was made open source soon after being found by MalwareMustDie in August 2016, which led to a proliferation of Mirai variant botnets. This paper presents a set of Mirai…
Read moreAdrian Şendroiu (Bitdefender)
Vladimir Diaconescu (Bitdefender)
This paper presents a thorough analysis of the inner workings of Hide’n’Seek, a peer-to-peer IoT botnet discovered in January 2018. With an exploit table that can be updated in memory and modular in its approach, Hide’n’Seek gives us a glimpse of…
Read moreJan Sirmer (Avast Software)
Adolf Streda (Avast Software)
Researchers Jan Sirmer and Adolf Streda describe the branch of the Necurs botnet that they have been monitoring, the changes it has undergone in the course of a year, and present an analysis of the next stage of the attack: Flawed Ammy.
Read moreMinseok (Jacky) Cha (AhnLab)
Minseok (Jacky) Cha describes various attacks in Korea which occurred after the Sony Pictures hacking incident and which are suspected to be the work of the same group, the Lazarus Group.
Read moreMasarah Paquet-Clouston (GoSecure)
Olivier Bilodeau (GoSecure)
In this paper GoSecure researchers Masarah Paquet-Clouston and Olivier Bilodeau explore an undocumented segment of the social media fraud (SMF) industry: wholesaling, from botnet supply operations to bulk reselling.
Read moreSaher Naumaan (BAE Systems Applied Intelligence)
There has recently been a trend of APT campaigns including a 'wiper' functionality to destroy data, either as a means to remove evidence or as its core purpose. This paper examines three different classifications of wipers through examples of various…
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