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Alex Holden

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Chief Information Security OfficerHold Security, LLC@HoldSecurity

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Understanding Hackers

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Why is this important?

Can this stop cyber crime?

Transcending technology

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What Drives a Hacker?

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HACKTIVISM REVENGE STATE-SPONSORED

FOR-PROFIT CRIME

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Modern Hacker

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What is a Threat to You

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Defamation and Reputation Loss

Stolen Secrets

Stolen Data

Availability

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Learn to be a Hacker

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Carding UniversityVirtual Carding Basics

Hacker University

Job After Graduation

Professor’s Insight

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Hackers’ View of Us

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Tessa88: Foreignersthe common folkI despise themthey are garbage to me

War of stereotypes“I’m fighting a holy war against the West… They drive their Rolls Royce's and go home to their million-dollar houses, while people here are struggling. I will never harm my fellow Slavs; but America, Europe, and the rest of the world deserve it.”

- aqua (jabberzeus)

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Target Retail Stores Breach

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Kartoxa POS Malware author - Rinat Shabaev was looking for a regular job programming, asking for about 12 USD per hour. After failing to find a job, he is recruited to write a virus that steals financial data from 40 million victims.

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Target Breach – Delivery Man

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Target Breach

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Extortion - Ransomware

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What Happened?

Hacker Techniques

Who Is To Blame?

How To Defend?

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The Russians Did It

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Yandex Mail Messages

Russian Phone Numbers

х Language Preferences

х Access Techniques

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Hackers Setup

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Discovery and Attack ServerScan the Internet

Exploit

Explore

Infection Server

Extort and Communicate

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San Francisco Light Rail Ransomware

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Metropolitan area railroad transportation system paralyzed from Ransomware attack sourced from Iran

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Target the Internet

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Scans of 4.0.0.0/8 network (Layer 3)Scan of 75.0.0.0/11 network (AT&T)

Found 75.10.2xx.xxx target SFMTA Oracle Primavera Server

Exploited vulnerability

Identified a network with 8,000+ systems

Continued scanning US, Iran, and other networks.

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Tessa88

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Who is the Real Tessa88?

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Hacker sells stolen credentials from major breaches. Creates instability by exposing billions of accounts, and lying about Twitter and Yahoo breached data.

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Graduation to a Criminal

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Resume

Petty Crimes

Crime & Punishment

Graduation

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Drugs

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HiroshimaAlso called “Atomic Bomb” or “Atomic Blast”

Contains synthetic cannabinoid products like JWH-018

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2014 – Drug Runner

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While in Prison

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I see a dreamI am DROWNING

My heart beats fastI want to ESCAPETake a deep breath

This is only a dreamOnly a NIGHTMARE

I see myselfI am a bird flying so high

I wake up I am still in SHOCK

White pillowBed CAGEI am LOCKED UP

My mood is dimWorld disappeared This is my reality now

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Yahoo – Summer 2016

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July sampleFake sale

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Malware Tech – Marcus Hutchins

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Transformation from hacker to a security researcher

2009 – Selling password stealers and scareware

2012-2014 – Distribution and reselling of viruses and exploit kits

2014 – Emergence of a researcher alter ego

2017 – Accidental discovery of WannaCry killswitch.

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Understanding Hackers

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Hackers are human with faults

Hackers are ruthless

Hackers are innovative

Understanding the human side of a hacker leads to improvement of our defenses

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Defense Techniques

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Learn about your enemy

Tune your defenses toward the threat

Fortify against hackers NOT auditors

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Defenses 101

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Viruses

Credentials Misconfigurations

0days

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Using Knowledge to Discourage Hackers

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Increase complexity required for an attack to make your infrastructure the most unhospitable and fruitless for an attacker.

Create HoneyPots in systems, applications, functions, and data as early identifiers for on-going attacks or exploitations.

Use Threat Intelligence as a defense technique. Understand the Dark Web. Stay ahead of the adversary by adapting your defenses to their attack techniques.

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Conclusions

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Hackers are winning

We are improving

Understanding our adversary is the key