Events
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At the annual Virus Bulletin International Conference, Anna Shirokova, security researcher in the Avast IoT research team, will participate in a panel, along with two other panelists, titled "Geost botnet: The discovery story of a new Android banking trojan from an OpSec error". The session will focus on the discovery, causes and effects of Geost botnet and the OpSec error behind it all.
Anna is a security researcher from Russia, currently based in Prague, Czech Republic. Anna works in Avast's IoT research team where she focuses on the IoT threat landscape. She is also a collaborator in the Stratosphere IPS Aposemat project.
It is evident that Ukrainian companies have not been spared when it comes to phishing attacks, and attackers are targeting local communication infrastructures, network providers, and other services.
A new type of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack known as an amplification attack can increase damage by four billion times and stretch out the length of the attack to 14 hours.
In support of the Ukrainian people, Avast suspends operations in Russia.
As we move towards a more privacy-minded world, we must prepare for major platforms to resist the movement. And we must be prepared for the security, privacy, and business model challenges along the way.
A new report documents a wide variety of crypto crime techniques, combining old and new ways to manipulate markets.
While hacktivists likely believe that they are doing the right thing by contributing their skills to the side they support, at the very least they are committing crimes with these actions.
What can women who want to get into tech do to break into the field? Here are seven tips from two women who have been there.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked a number of hacktivist communities that have begun to develop tools to help their cause. Ensuring your security while using such tools is difficult to achieve, and by participating in these actions, you risk your privacy.
