Most are familiar with the term Darknet. Many have ventured a few times out of curiosity. For us, Darknet is an untapped source of Threat Intelligence and in some cases amusement. The news you see online about things being sold on the Darknet generally focuses on the United States, Russians, credit cards and drugs. While those are the most sought after topics, there is a lot people who don’t know about Canada’s Darknet shore. This talk covers interesting yet shocking information about credit cards, PayPal Accounts, bank accounts, financial data, PII, fake IDs, money laundering and more. The final objective is to highlight the Canadian market and why we should not ignore it.
Milind Bhargava is a Security Consultant with TELUS Communications Inc. He works with a team of operations analysts to proactively investigate and analyze customer traffic, while also providing threat intelligence on attacks, campaigns, and zero-days in order to protect customer’s environment and enhance their security posture. He is also a part time faculty member at George Brown College in Toronto where he teaches Cryptography, Forensics and Network Auditing in the Network and System Security Analysis (NaSSA) Post Grad program.
Peter Desfigies is a Security Consultant at TELUS Communications Inc. He works with a team of operations analysts to proactively investigate and analyze customer traffic, while also providing threat intelligence on attacks, campaigns, and zero-days in order to protect customer’s environment and enhance their security posture. During his time at TELUS, he has worked with a variety of teams providing LAN, WAN, telco, security and hardware break/fix support, and now security analysis for government and corporate customers. Prior to TELUS, he worked for 12 years in IT operation roles to provide backbone network support including DNS, SMTP, POP, dialup, T1 to OC12 , and Ethernet at various companies, with the bulk of his experience at UUNET / MCI.
Philip Shin is a Security Consultant with TELUS Communications Inc. He works with a team of operations analysts to proactively investigate and analyze customer traffic, while also providing threat intelligence on attacks, campaigns, and zero-days in order to protect customer’s environment and enhance their security posture. He has over 8 years of experience in information security and 12 years of experience in IT, including experience as a systems and network administrator.