Virtual Preview: Black Hat 2020

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A preview of Black Hat 2020 with Eugene Kaspersky, Kurt Baumgartner, and Costin Raiu.

Let’s be honest: No one, and I mean no one, could have predicted 2020’s particular challenges. If you know anyone who says they knew it would all go down like this, please send them my way — I have a special present for them.

The vast majority of the population has had to make major changes to the way they live and work. Few were at all prepared for so many people to be working from home, needing to wear masks outside of the home, and lots more. With that said, one group seems almost immune to the pandemic and the changes surrounding it: cybercriminals.

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Crooks saw the pandemic as an opportunity not only to survive but to thrive. In April, we saw a spike in criminal activity that dropped off a bit in May only to return to April levels in June and July. To find out why that happened, we asked Eugene Kaspersky during a recent briefing with media. “Cybercriminals work from home — until they get caught and go to jail,” he summarized.

The panel Kaspersky was on was dedicated to the upcoming Black Hat conference (August 1–6) and also included Costin Raiu and Kurt Baumgartner of the company’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT). Like our Security Analyst Summit, the annual hacker summer camp became a virtual event.

Most anticipated talks of Black Hat 2020

Virtual or not, we still expect Black Hat to be one of the biggest cybersecurity events of this year, and so we asked Raiu and Baumgartner about the Black Hat presentations they are most looking forward to this year. Here are some of the presentations they listed:

• Reversing the Root: Identifying the Exploited Vulnerability in 0-days Used In-The-Wild — Maddie Stone
  
• IoT Skimmer: Energy Market Manipulation through High-Wattage IoT Botnets — Tohid Shekari & Raheem Beyah
  
• Spectra: Breaking Separation Between Wireless Chips — Jiska Classen & Francesco Gringoli
  
• FASTCash and INJX_Pure: How Threat Actors Use Public Standards for Financial Fraud — Kevin Perlow
  
• Operation Chimera – APT Operation Targets Semiconductor Vendors — Chung-Kuan Chen, Inndy Lin & Shang-De Jiang
  

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