Nation-State Espionage: Hunting Multi-Platform APTs on a Global Scale

ShmooCon XIV - 2018

Presented by: Michael Flossman, Eva Galperin, Cooper Quintin
Date: Saturday January 20, 2018
Time: 12:00 - 12:50
Location: Far Room
Track: Belay It

As the modern threat landscape evolves, so have the players. Cyber-warfare has become so profitable that even lesser resourced nations are entering the arena. This talk will discuss an advanced persistent threat (APT) nation-state actor (to be named later) who is exploiting targets globally across multiple platforms, including mobile devices.

Eva Galperin

Eva Galperin (@evacide) and Cooper Quintin (@cooperq) are with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (@EFF)–the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. We work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced and protected as our use of technology grows.

Cooper Quintin

Eva Galperin (@evacide) and Cooper Quintin (@cooperq) are with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (@EFF)–the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. We work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced and protected as our use of technology grows.

Michael Flossman

Michael Flossman (@terminalrift) is a security researcher at Lookout where he works on reverse engineering sophisticated mobile threats while tracking their evolution, the campaigns they are used in, and the actors behind them.


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