Editorial team

Get Rich or Die Trying Botconf 2017 Wednesday | 11:10 – 11:40 Mark Lechtik 🗣 | Or Eshed 🗣 In a World where oil is scarce and people click mail attachments they really shouldn’t, One Man sets out on an epic journey for glory, conquest, and other people’s money. So begins the amazing tale of the “Oil

Exploring a P2P Transient Botnet — From Discovery to Enumeration Botconf 2017 Wednesday | 11:40 – 12:10 Renato Marinho 🗣 | Raimir Holanda 🗣 From DDoS attacks to malicious code propagation, Botnets continue to represent a strength threat to entities and users connected to the Internet and, due to this, continue to be an important research area.

RetDec: An Open-Source Machine-Code Decompiler Botconf 2017 Wednesday | 12:10 – 13:00 Jakub Křoustek 🗣 | Peter Matula 🗣 | Petr Zemek Machine-code decompilation transforms an executable file into a high-level language. It has found its applications mostly in the field of reverse engineering, where analysts use decompilers to inspect suspicious binaries. This paper introduces RetDec, a recently open-sourced

A Silver Path: Ideas for Improving Lawful Sharing of Botnet Evidence with Law Enforcement Botconf 2017 Wednesday | 14:15 – 14:55 Karine e Silva 🗣 Business, organizations, and individuals can largely contribute to a better collective response to botnets. Apart from the power of thwarting attacks as they occur, multistakeholders play a meaningful role in

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,