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Chats, Cheats, and Cracks: Abuse of Collaboration Platforms in Malware Campaigns - Edmund Brumaghin OISF 2021 (Hacking Illustrated Series InfoSec Tutorial Videos)

Chats, Cheats, and Cracks: Abuse of Collaboration Platforms in Malware Campaigns
Edmund Brumaghin

The COVID19 pandemic has led to significant changes in how many organizations conduct business. The widespread adoption of remote working arrangements has caused many organizations to increasingly rely on collaboration platforms like Discord and Slack to enable employees to communicate more effectively. Attackers have recognized this and have begun leveraging these platforms for nefarious purposes as well. This presentation will discuss how attackers are using collaboration platforms throughout various stages of their malware attacks and what organizations can do to defend against these attack techniques.

Edmund Brumaghin is a threat researcher with Cisco Talos. He has spent the past several years protecting environments across a number of different industries including nuclear energy, financial services, etc. He currently spends his days hunting malware and analyzing various threats as they emerge and continue to evolve. In his time with Talos he has researched ransomware and other threats being distributed using various attack vectors. He has also worked to expose large scale malware campaigns and raise awareness of security threats observed across the threat landscape.

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