Botconf 2023 Wrap-Up Day #3

It’s already the third and last day… Always a strange atmosphere after the gala dinner, and people are always joining late. It’s also challenging to be the first speakers! Ronan Mouchoux and François Moerman presented «From Words to Intelligence: Leveraging the Cyber Operation Constraint Principle, Natural Language Understanding, and Association

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Botconf 2023 Wrap-Up Day #2

And we are still in Strasbourg! The second day started with « From GhostNet to PseudoManuscrypt » by Jorge Rodriguez & Souhail Hammou. PseudoManuscrypt is a recent RAT spotted by Kaspersky in July 2021. It is widely distributed by fake applications, websites and malware loaders. It’s a fork of Gh0st RAT. This

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Botconf 2023 Wrap-Up Day #1

It has been a while since I posted my last wrap-up. With the COVID break, many conferences have been canceled or postponed. But Botconf, one of my favorites, has been scheduled for a long time in my (busy) planning. This edition is located in Strasbourg. I arrived yesterday afternoon to

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Botconf Day 3 Wrap-Up

Here we go with day 3! In the morning, there are always fewer people due to the short night. The gala dinner is always a key activity during Botconf! The last day started with “Jumping the air-gap: 15 years of nation-state efforts” presented by Alexis Dorais-Joncas and Facundo Munoz. Does

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Botconf Day 2 Wrap-Up

The second day is already over. Here is my recap of the talks. The first one was “Identifying malware campaigns on a budget” by Max “Libra” Kersten and Rens Van Der Linden. The idea was to search for malicious activity without spending too much money. Read: “using as few resources

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Botconf Day 1 Wrap-Up

Incredible! Here is my first wrap-up for two years! Now that the COVID seems under control, it’s so good to be back at conferences and meet a lot of good friends. Like most of the events, Botconf was canceled, postponed, uncertain until the COVID situation was better and, finally, it

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BotConf 2019 Wrap-Up Day #3

It’s a classic issue for BotConf attendees, the last day is always a little bit stronger due to the social event organized every Thursday night. This year, we are in the French area where good wines are produced and the event took place at the “Cité du Vin”. The night

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BotConf 2019 Wrap-Up Day #2

The second day is over. Here is my daily wrap-up. Today was a national strike day in France and a lot of problems were expected with public transports. However, the organization provided buses to help attendees to travel between the city center and the venue. Great service as always 😉

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BotConf 2019 Wrap-Up Day #1

Hello from Bordeaux, France where I’m attending the 7th edition (already!) of the BotConf security conference dedicated to fighting against botnets. After Nantes, Nancy, Paris, Lyon, Montpellier, Toulouse and now Bordeaux, their “tour de France” is almost completed. What will be the next location? I attended all the previous editions

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Botconf 2018 Wrap-Up Day #3

And the conference is over! I’m flying back to home by tomorrow morning so I’ve time to write my third wrap-up. The last day of the conference is always harder for many attendees due to the late parties. But I was present on time to attend the last set of

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