Abandoned Laptop, or How Banks Are Hacked in Africa
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The talk explains how East African criminal groups compromise banks using methods like bribing insiders, planting laptops in server rooms, and deploying keyloggers and hack-back operations. It presents two cyber threat intelligence case studies showing how analysts identify new adversary capabilities and use that knowledge to proactively detect Command-and-Control infrastructure.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:25African attack chain
- 6:05Abandoned laptop attack
- 10:44Role of bribed employees
- 20:38Keyloggers case study
- 28:33Grabson Group case study
- 50:03Summary
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