Keynote:The Woman Who Squashed Terrorists When an Embassy gets Hacked
summary
An embassy email compromise escalates into a three month hybrid incident that combines extortion, espionage and terrorism using commercial off-the-shelf malware and weak credentials like “123456” on unpatched machines with Microsoft Defender only. Attackers send mass extortion emails threatening 400 dignitaries and demand $50 million extortion while operators trace C2 hops and Bitcoin purchases to an Iranian-linked wallet, uncover an insider with diplomatic immunity, deploy forensics with chain-of-custody and force a covert relocation that partially resolves the crisis.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 3:27Embassy security challenges
- 6:27Threat discovery and actors
- 9:30Escalation and vulnerabilities
- 12:05Extortion and phishing
- 16:12Turkish embassy involvement
- 19:22Insider threat investigation
- 22:25Incident closure
- 25:40Q&A session
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