Elbsides 2025

Axelle Apvrille

Axelle Apvrille is a Principal Security Researcher at Fortinet, Fortiguard Labs. Her research interests are mobile and IoT malware that she reverses every day. In addition, she is the lead organizer of Ph0wn CTF, an on-site competition which focuses on ethical hacking of smart objects. In a prior life, Axelle used to implement cryptographic algorithms and security protocols.

Axelle has spoken at many conferences such as Black Hat Europe, Confidence, Hack.Lu, Hacktivity, Insomni'hack, ShmooCon, Troopers, Virus Bulletin... NorthSec 2021 ;-) She has also published in academic journals such as IEEE Security & Privacy, or Journal in Computer Virology. She regularly writes in the French magazine MISC and Hackable, and has recently published in Phrack #71.


Session

06-13
17:15
30min
Closing Keynote: Malware, Meet AI: Friend or Foe?
Axelle Apvrille

Artificial Intelligence is capable of creating malware. Fortunately, it is also capable of analyzing them, summarizing and decompiling them with surprising clarity. But how much can we trust it?

In this keynote, we'll explore moments where AI shines and fails. We'll also discuss MCP security (Model Context Protocol): a modern protocol with no/little security? As AI and malware evolve together, what does the future hold, in terms of malware and anti-malware?

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