Michael Sandee

Biography

Michael Sandee works as Principal Security Expert at the Intelligence department of business unit Cybercrime of Fox-IT. His day to day work involves researching digital threats focused at the Internet population. Michael combines the technical forensic and reversing work with profiling digital perpetrators, both at the level of code used but also at the methods used by the various operators. In his profession and also his hobby he deals with both threats against financial institutions but also those aimed against normal Internet consumers, giving an unique insight into the cybercrime ecosystem.

Presentation: Beyond Botnets

Beyond Botnets covers a large part of the cybercrime ecosystem, the main focus is to educate the audience on Cybercrime, and that it is not just related to botnets, but that botnets are merely a part of it. Most of the cybercrime ecosystem revolves around services, which is not so different from a normal economy, it is a matter of supply and demand. This is why we see a lot of offerings in the cybercrime world "... As A Service", which include exploit kits, financial malware kits, ddos services, etc. In the media, the main focus is mostly about the botnets, also most research companies reveal information about the technical aspects of botnets. In some cases they will reveal what the botnets do, such as... 'clickfraud', 'fake anti-virus', 'information stealer', 'worm', and so on. The reality is often more complicated, and there is much more involved than just the botnet itself. Think about the hosting, domain registration and the programming done on various components used in the Trojan. During this presentation we will deal with many of the main players in the cybercrime world and how they operate, and for example how much money they earn with their services.

On November 14, Fox-IT will also give an full-day training session Banking Trojans. You can register for this training on the Symposium registration form.