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Garry Kasparov, Avast Security Ambassador and Rajarshi Gupta discuss the benefits and challenges of artificial intelligence in industry and home applications.

Avast's IoT Threat Researcher Vladislav Iliushin spoke about the evolution of IoT botnets at Kaspersky's Security Analyst Summit in Singapore. His talk focused on Avast Threat Labs' analysis of Torii, a current-gen IoT botnet capable of data exfiltration with a stealthy network footprint. The presentation included a live hack of a smart home to illustrate Torii's capabilities and those of future IoT botnets.

Avast's Vladislav Iliushin, IoT Threat Researcher, and Anna Shirokova spoke about the evolution of IoT botnets, at Troopers. Their talk included findings from their analysis of the Torii botnet, including its capabilities, and a smart-home hack demo.The two took a look at the evolution of IoT botnets and see how much IoT malware has evolved in just one year. Threat actors are integrating exploit kits into IoT malware, performing Man-in-the-Middle attacks and using other sophisticated techniques.

Avast attended Cloud Security Expo in London where the team exhibited its new Secure Web Gateway security product for SMBs and released a new global report on the likelihood of small business being infected by malware, leveraging data from Avast's Threat Intelligence database.

Garry Kasparov, Avast's Security Ambassador, and Ondrej Vlcek, President at Avast, spoke about Ethics and Responsibility in the AI and IoT Age, at South by South West

Avast attended the RSA Conference 2019 which took place from March 4 - 8, 2019 in San Francisco. Ondrej Vlcek, president of Avast's consumer business, spoke about the impact of shadow IoT on corporate networks during a talk titled, "The Office as the New Smart Home."

Avast attended Mobile World Congress 2019 where Avast presented an Internet of Things security lab and Avast carrier services and products.

Come to visit the Avast stand at Hack Cambridge which takes place January 19-20, 2019 in Cambridge

Avast Security Evangelist, Luis Corrons, spoke at Electro Week in Burgos Spain about today's threat landscape, recap the most prevalent threats of 2018 and his predictions for 2019, with a special focus on IoT threats.

Avast President of Consumer, Ondrej Vlcek, participated in a panel, along with six other panelists, titled "Cybersecurity as key for a Digital Economy and Society" at ICT 2018: Imagine Digital - Connect Europe. 

At the AI Frontiers conference in San Jose, Avast's Head of AI Rajarshi Gupta spoke about adversarial AI.

At Web Summit, Avast demonstrated the scenario of a smart home hack, performed by security researcher Vladislav Iliushin, and narrated by Garry Kasparov.

At South Summit in Madrid, Avast's Threat Intelligence Director Michal Salat talked about the rise of smart homes and digital threats targeting them. He talked about how artificial intelligence can be used to identify threats at an early stage, to protect people's homes and businesses.

Garry Kasparov shared his views on what can be done by regulators and the industry to assure that ethical standards and privacy protections are a part of the exciting technology of AI.

Martin Hron, Security Researcher, introduced vulnerabilities with the MQTT protocol and the severity of the data leaks from smart home networks.

Hacks in Taiwan (HITCON) is a highly technical security conference in Taiwan to gather the various information security researchers and their expertise, the first of its kind in Taiwan. HITCON aims to provide everyone interested in security and hacking to meetup face to face, so they can exchange their experiences and share their newest and most exciting findings. It was first held 10 years ago by chr00t security group.

Avast's Security Evangelist Luis Corrons spoke about how companies can build resilience and manage the threat of cyberattacks as they become more high profile and damaging to public and private sector organisations. He also discussed how to establish a cross-sector response to cyber risk, and how the industry can build better barriers against an increasing danger.

Ondrej Vlcek spoke about cyberthreats targeting smarthomes and how to protect people and their homes.

Nikolaos Chysaidos spoke on using the APKLAB.IO Mobile Threat Intel platform to fight banking threats.

Martin Hron, a Security Researcher at Avast, presented how to be a hacker in few minutes and demonstrated how easy it is to get full access to someone’s connected home.

Avast brought together cybersecurity experts and those new to security to experience some cybersecurity challenges including trying to compromise remote servers and other IoT hacking challenges.

Vladislav Iliushin spoke on "Shodan and IoT - it is getting darker."

Miroslav Umlauf spoke on big data in IoT at the CRA IoT Summit & Expo 2018.

Martin Hron, Avast Threat Researcher, presented on the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities.