Cedric Pernet is a senior threat expert with a strong focus on cybercrime and cyberespionage. He currently works at Trend Micro. Prior to that position, he worked for several Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) where he did threat intelligence investigations, incident response, and computer forensics. He was also a Law Enforcement Officer working on Cybercrime in France. He is the author of a paperbook in French language on cyberespionage and an influential person in the cybersecurity community.
Education
Investigator specialized in cybercrime, certified judicial investigator, SANS GPEN, GCIH, GCFA
Traffers are cybercriminals organized in teams whose purpose is to steal a maximum of bankable information from infected computers, which they sell to other cybercriminals.
Browser extensions are amazing tools but sometimes not what they pretend to be. Some are in fact malicious and might be a great risk to the user or his/her data.
Intel introduced at Black Hat USA, a Tunable Replica Circuit to help protect against certain types of physical fault injection attacks without requiring any interaction with the computer owner.
A new command and control as a service allows cybercriminals to easily control victims’ computers and run cryptocurrency mining, DDoS attacks and provide full access to the systems.
Scammers pretend to be highly skilled computer professionals and establish trust with their victim in order to obtain money or installation of fraudulent software.
Cybercriminals increasingly use IPFS phishing to store malicious content such as phishing pages, with the effect of increasing the uptime and availability of that content.
