Fyodor Yarochkin

With the widening segmentation and geo-fencing of the Internet and the explosive growth in number of cyber-physical devices, these devices become a lucrative target for criminal groups and state-sponsored threat actors alike. Often placed at the edge of organizations, devices such as digital cameras, smart building monitoring equipment, and even the city surveillance infrastructure are often targeted as attractive pivoting points and sources of on the ground information of the physical surroundings. In this presentation we discuss the risks of exposure of cyber-physical monitoring infrastructure, and attack patterns that we have identified in the wild. Further, we disclose several unconventional ways that attackers have used in order to identify and exploit such infrastructure and even build malicious overlay networks on the top of them. The presentation discloses some of previously unknown security issues with camera deployments and illustrates it with real-life war stories from different parts of the world

Fyodor Yarochkin is a Senior Researcher, Forward-Looking Threat Research Senior at Trend Micro with a Ph.D. from EE, National Taiwan University. An early Snort Developer and Open Source Evangelist as well as a Programmer, his professional experience includes several years as a threat investigator and over eight years as an Information Security Analyst.

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