2025-10-22 –, Europe
When we say to people that everything can be hacked and not put « smart » devices online, they don’t trust us. Fail!
A true story where an organization has CCTV’s connected to the Internet and they were used to break in and lead to a full compromise with a nice gift: a ransomware.
Xavier Mertens is a freelance security consultant running his own company based in Belgium (Xameco). With 15+ years of experience in information security, Xavier finds “blue team” activities more attractive. Therefore, his day job focuses on protecting his customers' assets by providing services like incident handling, malware analysis, forensic investigations, log management, security visualization, and OSINT). Besides his day job, Xavier is also a Senior Handler at the SANS Internet Storm Center, Certified SANS Instructor (FOR610, FOR710), security blogger and co-organizer of the BruCON security conference.