| 28th November, 2023, Tuesday |
| 16:30 – 18:00 | Registration |
| 19:00 Onwards | Welcome drinks reception and dinner |
| Conference Day 1: 29th November, 2023, Wednesday |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Registration | ||
| 9:30 – 9:40 | Conference opening Welcome Address: Kesavardhanan J, CEO, AVAR |
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| 9:40 – 10:00 | Special Address: His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti, Head of Cyber Security, United Arab Emirates Government | ||
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Keynote Address: Lt. Colonel. Dr. Hamad Khalifa Al Nuaimi, Head of Telecommunication, Abu Dhabi Police | ||
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Keynote Address: Dr. Ebrahim Al Alkeem, Cybersecurity & AI Expert, Government of Abu Dhabi | ||
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Break |
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| 11:00 – 11:30 | Zero-day exploits of ransomware operators (Windows OS) Boris Larin, Kaspersky |
11:00 – 11:30 | Abusing Electron-based applications in targeted attacks Jaromir Horejsi, Trend Micro |
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| 11:30 – 12:00 | Don’t flatten yourself: restoring malware with Control-Flow Flattening obfuscation Geri Revay, Fortinet |
11:30 – 12:00 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Advanced EDR Bypass Tool Frameworks Andrew Shelton L, K7 |
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| 12:00 – 12:30 | Multi-hopping in reversed SOCKS – the usage of open source proxies by Chinese threat actors Vanja Svajcer, Cisco Talos |
12:00 – 12:30 | Turn the tables: How we use GPT to detect phishing websites Eduard Alles, Marius Benthin, G DATA |
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| 12:30 – 12:50 | Machine learning or behaviour heuristics? The synergy of approaches to defeat advanced ransomware threats Vladimir Strogov, Sergey Ulasen, Acronis, Constructor Technology |
12:30 – 12:50 | APT-C-60 : Observing the hunter Romain Dumont, ESET |
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| 12:50 – 14:00 | Lunch | |||
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Unmasking the Dark Art of Vectored Exception Handling_ Bypassing XDR and EDR in the Evolving Cyber Threat Landscape Donato Onofri, Sarang Popat Sonawane, Crowdstrike |
14:00 – 14:40 | Panel discussion – Positioning cyber security as a contributor to stakeholder value Aloysius Cheang, Huawei Anil Pais, Al Danube Illyas Kooliyankal, CyberShelter Javed Alam, DAMAC Properties Dr. Mohammad Khaled Smith Gonsalves, CyberSmithSECURE |
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| 14:30 – 15:00 | Reversing Nim binaries Holger Unterbrink, Cisco Talos |
14:40 – 15:00 | Evolution of the crypto-mining botnet targeting Russian users for years Ivan Korolev, Igor Zdobnov, Doctor Web |
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| 15:00 – 15:30 | CloudWizard: an APT hiding in the dark for 7 years Georgy Kucherin, Leonid Bezvershenko, Kaspersky |
15:00 – 15:30 | IoT Malware Riding Pegasus – How to Hunt and Analyze GobRAT Yuma Masubuchi, JPCERT |
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| 15:30 – 15:50 | Break | |||
| 15:50 – 16:20 | Panel discussion – Mitigating cyber risk from geopolitical tensions Anoop Kumar, GN Media – Gulfnews David Brown, CyberGate Dr. Hamad Khalifa Al Nuami, Abu Dhabi Police General Head Quarter Dr. Hossam Elshenraki, Dubai Police Academy Waqas Haider, HBL Microfinance Bank LTD Holger Unterbrink, Cisco Talos Michael Daniel, CTA |
15:50 – 16:20 | Linux Hypervisor-level behavior analysis Alexey Kolesnikov, Positive Technologies |
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| 16:20 – 16:50 | The Art of Cyber Espionage: Unleashing the Power of SCADA and ICS Hacking Muhammad Shahmeer, Younite |
16:20 – 16:50 | Is Lazarus Preparing for War? JunSeok Kim, TaeHyeon Song, MyeongSu Lee, MyungUk Han, AhnLab |
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| 16:50 – 17:10 | Plenty of Smish in the Sea – Time to Cast the PhishNet Dr. Khalid Alnajjar, F-Secure |
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| 19:00 – 19:30 | Pre-dinner Drinks | |||
| 19:30 – 22:00 | Gala Dinner | |||
| Conference Day 2: 30th November, 2023, Thursday |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Keynote Address: Ravi Baldev, CTO Cyber Resilience, Dell Technologies EMEA |
| Track 1 | Track 2 | |||
| 10:20 – 10:50 | UEFI Secure Boot Bypasses and The Dawn of Bootkits Martin Smolár, ESET |
10:20 – 10:50 | Amplifying Threat Intelligence via Generative AI-Driven Aggregation and Enrichment Dr. Jason Zhang, Kyle Campbell, Anomali |
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| 10:50 – 11:20 | Understanding ransomware rebranding Dr. Vlad Constantin Craciun, Bitdefender |
10:50 – 11:20 | MEGALO-(AN)-DON: Uncovering data espionage, blackmailing and shell companies in mobile lending apps targeting Asia Jagadeesh Chandraiah, Sophos |
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| 11:20 – 11:40 | GoldenJackal Chronicles: Delving into Enigmas and Unanswered Questions Giampaolo Dedola, Kaspersky |
11:20 – 11:40 | Rebrand to X?: SteelClover Cornucopia Rintaro Koike, Shogo Hayashi, NTT Security Holdings |
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| 11:40 – 12:00 | Break | |||
| 12:00 – 12:30 | SmoothOperator – 3CX Supply Chain Attack Dinesh Devadoss, Niranjan Jayanand, SentinelOne |
12:00 – 12:30 | Panel discussion – Improving data security in the digital-first enterprise Anton Shipulin, Nozomi Networks Bassil Mohammed, PwC Middle East Kiran Kumar, Help AG Kumar Prasoon, Y100.ai Siham Benhamidouche, Schneider Electric Simon Edwards, SE Labs |
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| 12:30 – 12:50 | Next Generation Firewall Deployment for Predictive Analysis of Network Anomalies Using Artificial Intelligence (Sponsor Presentation) Almuhaisen, Salman N, Saudi Aramco |
12:30 – 12:50 | Very Real Assault on Virtual ESXi: The Evolving Linux Ransomware Threat Vigneshwaran P, K7 |
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| 12:50 – 13:10 | Adaptive File Analyzer: NLP combined with Heuristic analysis to detect malicious email attachments Kalpesh Mantri, Abhishek Singh, Cisco Talos |
12:50 – 13:10 | ValleyFall Spyware – Tales of malware discovery and hunting in the wild Marian Gusatu, Gen Digital |
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| 13:10 – 14:20 | Lunch | |||
| 14:20 – 14:50 | Space Pirates: hack, steal, repeat! Denis Kuvshinov, Stanislav Rakovsky, Positive Technologies |
14:20 – 14:50 | An Efficient Approach for Automating Threat Intelligence Analysis through Similarity Detection Hyunjong Lee, Chang-Gyun Kim, SANDS Lab, KSign |
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| 14:50 – 15:20 | Unveiling the DarkGate Malware: A Comprehensive Analysis of Its APT Group, Development Timeline, and Capabilities Aravind Raj, Nihar Deshpande, Quick Heal |
14:50 – 15:10 | Once Gifted is always Gifted Chetan Raghuprasad, Cisco Talos |
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| 15:20 – 15:40 | Cybercrime Atlas: Using Maps to Create a More Secure Ecosystem (Sponsor Presentation) Michael Daniel, CTA |
15:10 – 15:40 | Let’s Chat about Gross Public Text generation Righard Zwienenberg, Eddy Willems, ESET, G DATA |
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| 15:40 – 16:00 | Break | |||
| 16:00 – 16:40 | Panel discussion: Efficacy of Realworld Testing for EDR and XDR Solutions Dr. Jason Zhang, Anomali Michael Daniel, CTA Righard Zwienenberg, ESET Samir Mody, K7 Simon Edwards, SE Labs |
16:00 – 16:20 | Unraveling the MOVEit Vulnerability: A Journey from Exploitation to Clop Ransomware Infestation Prashant Tilekar, Forescout Technologies |
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| 16:20 – 16:40 | This Picasso is a con artist – an update on the latest Ghostwriter activities (Sponsor Presentation) Vanja Svajcer, Cisco Talos |
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| 16:40 – 17:00 | Lazarus and Bluenoroff: New and “Rusty” Tricks for macOS Mellvin S, K7 |
16:40 – 17:00 | Rising to Prominence: A Deep Dive into TargetCompany’s Evolutionary Path with Mallox Earle Maui Earnshaw, Nathaniel Morales, Trend Micro |
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| 17:00 – 17:10 | Closing address | |||
| 17:10 – 17:55 | AGM and Members’ meeting | |||
Note: Agenda is subject to change based on speaker schedules.
| Friday, 01st December, 2023 |
| 9:00 – 22:00 | Dubai tour |
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