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SUMMARY:My crimeware digital garden - Pierre-Marc Bureau
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DESCRIPTION:A digital garden is a living collection of notes\, reflections
 \, and half-formed ideas that grow and connect over time. After more than 
 twenty years spent reverse engineering\, tracking\, and disrupting botnets
 \, mine has become a map of what endures in crimeware\; the patterns that 
 survive every reinvention of the threat landscape. In this talk I walk thr
 ough the core ideas at the center of my crimeware digital garden.\n\nEach 
 concept presented is illustrated with recent\, hands-on cases. Financial m
 otivation still shapes almost every design decision attackers make. Detect
 ion evasion explains a lot of convoluted functionalities analysts need to 
 dig through. This includes sandbox awareness\, software packing\, and tric
 ks against static detection engines. On the defender's side\, concrete act
 ions can be taken to protect users and organizations\, from technical prot
 ection\, to takedowns and litigations. \n\nThe recurring lesson surfaced i
 n organizing this knowledge is that there is rarely magic here\; just malw
 are developers\, and operators\, with their objectives. Keeping objectives
  and techniques in focus is what makes analysis tractable\, whether you ar
 e doing the work yourself or guiding agents to help.
LOCATION:Europe
URL:https://pretalx.com/hack-lu-2026/talk/EH8W3V/
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