Speakers

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I’ve been working Principal Security Engineer and Security Researcher at Zup Innovation and Security Researcher and Instructor at Hacker Security…I’m Hacking is NOT crime Advocate..I’m part of the Staff team of DEFCON Group São Paulo-Brazil, International Speakers in Security and New technologies events in many countrie such as US, Canada, Germany, Poland and others, I’ve been served as University Professor in graduation and MBA courses at colleges as FIAP / Mackenzie / UNIBTA and UNICIV, in addition, I’m Founder and Instructor of the Course Malware Attack Types with Kill Chain Methodology (PentestMagazine) and Malware Analysis – Fundamentals (HackerSec Company).

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Loránt Szabó is a security researcher at TASZK Security Labs. An electrical engineer by trade with an MSc from BME, he got introduced to the infosec world by joining the !SpamAndHex CTF team 5 years ago. He has been an avid CTF player and explorer of hardware hacking and embedded and wireless security ever since. He has never met a hardware requirement that he didn’t want to DIY from scratch and his co-workers call him the frequency whisperer, which is an inside joke that he doesn’t like very much.

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Vasiliy joined Kaspersky in 2010 as a member of the Anti-Malware Research Team, specifically the Anti-Rootkit Group. He was responsible for discovering complex threats that are difficult to detect or cure, specifically those that bypass Kaspersky security systems and technologies. Since 2016, he has worked in the Targeted Attacks Research Group (TARG) and researches targeted and complex threats (APTs), writing detection logic that allows Kaspersky products to hunt previously unknown activity of that nature

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Piotr specializes in the use of DNS in cybersecurity systems. For the last 3+ years he has been researching various malware and APT examples for their use of DNS. He has experience in administration, design and implementation of network solutions acquired during over 20 years of work in various types of companies, from a service provider, through integrator, to vendors of network and cybersecurity solutions. Currently working as a senior solution architect at Infoblox, where he deals with the technical side of Secure DNS solutions. Cisco CCIE Emeritus #15966.

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With more than 15 years’ experience in Application and Serverless Security, Tal recently co-founded CloudEssence, a cloud-native Application Security company that was acquired by Contrast Security in 2020, where he now leads the new innovation centre in Israel. Previous to CloudEssence, Tal headed the security research at Protego Labs, a Serverless security startup that was acquired by Check Point. To follow his moto “security through education” ,Tal trains hundreds of developers and security teams around the world while also serving as an AWS Community builder, an Open-Source projects leader and a professor at the cybersecurity master’s program at Quinnipiac University.

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Dániel Komáromy earned computer science degrees from BME and Georgia Tech. He’s worked in the mobile security field ever since, gaining a decade-plus of vulnerability research experience playing both defense and offense. At Qualcomm, he hunted baseband 0-days, authored exploit mitigations, trained developers, and fought the SDLC machine. Later, he worked as a security consultant in the automotive security industry, followed by years of playing offense: at Pwn2Own, at CTFs around the world, and also for real. Today he is the founder and director of security research at TASZK Security Labs, still following the motto: there’s no crying in baseband!

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Paul Rascagneres is a security researcher within Kaspersky GReAT (Global Research & Analysis Team). As a researcher, he performs investigations to identify new threats and presents his findings as publications and at international security conferences throughout the world. He has been involved in security research for ten years, mainly focusing on malware analysis, malware hunting and more specially on advanced persistent threat (APT) campaigns and rootkit capabilities. He previously worked for several incident response teams within the private and public sectors.

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Mark Lechtik is a Senior Security Researcher at Kaspersky`s GReAT (Global Research & Analysis Team), based in Israel. After working as a researcher and manager in Check Point’s malware research team, he is focused mainly on analysing malware of all shapes and forms, digging up its underlying stories and profiling the actors behind it. Today he is tasked with breaking down implants and campaigns in the realm of APT and putting it all into intelligence reports for Kapserky’s customers. Mark has previously presented some of his work at known security conferences including REcon, CCC, CARO Workshop, AVAR and TheSASCon.

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Aseel is a security researcher at Kaspersky’s GReAT (Global Research and Analysis Team). Her research mainly focuses on threat groups and attacks active in the Middle East region. Aseel received her Bachelor’s degree in computer science and English literature, and speaks Arabic, Hebrew and English. Some of her work has been presented at security conferences such as Virus Bulletin, CCC, Botconf, and TheSASCon.

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Ákos Csilling is a senior manager at the Bosch Engineering Center in Budapest. He leads an automotive communications testing team, as well as a cross-organizational core team for product security. He earned a PhD in Physics from Eötvös University and an MBA in international management from the University of Geneva. As a Bosch Scientist, he is also promoting collaboration between industry and academia for research and education.