LABScon23 Replay | From Vulkan to Ryazan – Investigative Reporting from the Frontlines of Infosec

During the last couple of years, Hakan Tanriverdi (@hatr) has reported on several large-scale digital espionage and sabotage campaigns, from hacking groups that were later called out by the Department of Justice to companies targeting critical infrastructure in Germany and across Western Europe. In both cases, mistakes in how the attackers set up their infrastructure enabled Hakan’s team to follow their tracks, in some cases right back to their employers. The resulting stories revealed the intersection where covert …

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