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Challenges for a cross-jurisdictional botnet takedown

Challenges for a cross-jurisdictional botnet takedown Botconf 2016 Friday | 12:20 – 13:00 Margarita Louca 🗣 Practical case: how legislation can improve Law Enforcement effectiveness in pursuing criminals acting in an international environment.What to do when criminals act as if they were multinational enterprises, delocalizing their criminal services across multiple jurisdictions? When Internet is borderless

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Preventing File-Based Botnet Persistence and Growth

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

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Vawtrak Banking Trojan : A Threat to the Banking Ecosystem

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

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Snoring Is Optional: The Metrics and Economics of Cyber Insurance for Malware Related Claims

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

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