#Hacktivity2023 // Carved in Stone: Malware [ab]use of the Bitcoin Blockchain

Gibran Alberto Gómez Montez - Carved in Stone: Malware [ab]use of the Bitcoin Blockchain

This presentation was held at #Hacktivity2023 IT security conference on 5th October 2023.

How to build signatures from the Bitcoin transactions produced by addresses of these malware families, use them to identify more of their [previously unknown] addresses, and search for their economic relations with other entities, which aid their attribution.
How this technique allowed us to measure, for the first time, the impact …

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