SANS Webcast: While You Were in Lockdown - Cyberattacks Against Decentralized Finance Had a Banner Year

EclecticIQ analysts will use threat intelligence to provide highlights and expand discussion regarding how threat actors and cyberattacks are consolidating around emerging targets of the decentralized finance powerhouse.

Cryptocurrency theft has surged over 300% and 1000% year on year, since 2019. During the pandemic threat actors have been observed making a historic shift, adapting attacks targeting decentralized finance systems. EclecticIQ analysts will provide an introduction to popular cryptocurrency implementations and insight into current attack patterns already emerging against the cryptocurrency ecosystem and its infrastructure. Following the background, this session will go further and analyze threat actors observed early within the landscape and how their actions are likely to influence threats targeting the cryptocurrency landscape going forward.

Speakers:

• Matt Bromiley, Certified SASN Instructor, is principal incident response consultant at a top digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) firm. 
  
• Ippolito Forni, Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst, specializes in Ransomware Attacks, Financial Cyber Crime, Cyber Espionage and Cyber Warfare.
• Aleksander Jarosz, Threat Intelligence Analyst, has ten years of experience in Information Security.