Vladimir Kropotov
Vladimir Kropotov is an Advisor and principal researcher with the Trend Micro Forward-Looking Threat Research team. Active for over 20 years in information security projects and research, he previously built and led incident response teams at Fortune 500 companies. He holds a master's degree in applied mathematics and information security. He also participates in various projects for leading financial, industrial, and telecom companies. His main interests lie in network traffic analysis, incident response, and botnet and cybercrime investigations. Vladimir was a speaker at a variety of cyber security events, including BHEU, BHAsia, HITB, hack.lu, FIRST and others.
Session
Criminal business processes are significantly reshaped in recent years due to appearance and accessibility of new technologies and significant changes in the geo-political landscape. The presentation will focus on the changes of behaviour of russian-speaking criminal groups, significant developments and changes on the cyber underground. Those changes are affecting the lists of priority targets, geographical location of the targets of attacks, criminal business processes, modus operandi and priorities of criminal groups.
The presentation will also include case studies on the criminal business processes related to money mule services, attacks, leveraging e-commerce platforms, reshipment services, offers of commit violent actions in the particular regions of EU, appearance of the business models in EU, which was previously leveraged in the Russian-speaking countries.