Last week in Rome, our team was happy to participate with two papers in the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART).
Slips and the AI VPN presented at the 20th DIMVA Tool Arsenal in Hamburg, Germany
The Stratosphere Laboratory focus on applied research at the intersection of machine learning, cybersecurity and helping others. As part of our research and social commitment we develop free software tools that can help the community. In this blog we will recount our experience participating in the 2023 (DIMVA) Tool Arsenal with two of our tools: Slips and the AI VPN.
CYBERSEC & AI Connected Workshops: Call for Presentations
CyberSec & AI Connected is an annual conference where academic and industrial leaders come together to discuss developments at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity. 2019 brought together a stellar group of speakers from industry and academia to discuss and debate these intellectual challenges (see the 2019 conference report and speaker list at cybersecai.com). This year event will take place online and in four cities on 8th October 2020.
[Cyber] CiderSecurityCon Conference Wrap Up
The CiderSecurityCon conference was scheduled to take place on March 14-15, 2020. Due to the COVID pandemic however, the on-site event was cancelled. The organizing crew however, decided to re-organize a virtual version of the conference. Using Zoom with the speakers, and streaming via YouTube, they managed to pull off a very friendly and nice virtual event. Here’s our wrap up.
Swiss Cyber Security Days: Conference Wrap-Up
The Swiss Cyber Security Days are a two-day event in Fribourg, Switzerland. This event brought together Cyber security researchers, consultants from technology, business, politics and the general public interested in cybersecurity from all over the world.
At the second edition of the Swiss Cyber Security Days our researcher Maria Jose Erquiaga presented the work of the Aposemat laboratory in the talk: “The Truth is out there: Hunting malware from an IoT laboratory”.
Paper: A Study of Machete Cyber Espionage Operations in Latin America
On Wednesday, October 2, at the 29th Virus Bulletin International Conference (VB2019) in London, our researchers Veronica Valeros, Maria Rigaki, Kamila Babayeva and Sebastian Garcia will present the results of more than 3 years of studying and tracking the Machete APT in their talk “A Study of Machete Cyber Espionage Operations in Latin America”.
Upcoming Talk: A Study of Machete Cyber Espionage Operations in Latin America
On Wednesday, October 2, at the 29th Virus Bulletin International Conference (VB2019) in London, our researchers Veronica Valeros, Maria Rigaki, Kamila Babayeva and Sebastian Garcia will present the results of more than 3 years of studying and tracking the Machete APT in their talk “A Study of Machete Cyber Espionage Operations in Latin America”.
DEFCON 2019. Beyond Sandboxes. How to Execute IoT Malware and Analyze its Evolution
Summary of the Amparo-CERTUNLP Workshop in Neuquén, Argentina
On May 27-30 I participated as member of the CERTUNLP in a conference organized by the Government of Neuquén province in Argentina. Together with LACNIC in the frame of the Amparo Project we participated giving a workshop to other incident responders and members of CSIRTs. The event was very successful. The audience gathered individuals responsible for the security area of many Argentine provinces as well as National Universities, representatives of local ISPs, banks and other public and private organizations. By Paula Venosa.
First Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations (WACCO) 2019
On June 20th will take place in Stockholm the First Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations (WACCO) as part of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroSP). WACCO is a great initiative that provides the opportunity for research, discussions, and sharing on cyber-criminal activities.
OWASP CZ 2019: Conference Wrap-Up
Creating "Too much noise" in DEFCON AI village CTF challenge
During DEFCON 26 the AI village hosted a jeopardy style CTF with challenges related to AI/ML and security. I thought it would be fun to create a challenge for that and I had an idea that revolved around Denoising Autoencoders (DA). The challenge was named “Too much noise” but unfortunately it was not solved by anyone during the CTF. In this blog I would like to present the idea behind it and how one could go about and solve it.
My first summer school
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the 1st Transylvanian Deep Learning Summer School (TMLSS). It took place in Cluj, Romania and its main focus was Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning. Here is the link to website that includes the programme and the full list of lecturers. (link)
