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Fighting modern cybercriminal operations

Gianluca Stringhini

Modern cybercrime has evolved into becoming a worldwide business where specialised actors collaborate to achieve their nefarious goals. To tackle such a threat, technical countermeasures are often now enough, but social and economics ones are also required. In this talk, I will summarise our research on fighting malware operations by acting from different vantage points: on the infected computers themselves, on the network, and in the physical world.

Speaker bio

Professor Stringhini is currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Departments of Computer Science and Security and Crime Science at University College London (UCL), affiliated with the Information Security Group and the International Secure Systems Lab.

He received his PhD in Computer Science from University of California, Santa Barbara in 2014. During his PhD he worked in the Computer Security Lab, advised by Professors Christopher Kruegel and Giovanni Vigna and was awarded the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Department of Computer Science at UCSB in 2014, a Symantec Research Labs Graduate Fellowship in 2012, and a Google Research Award in 2015.

Professor Stringhini’s research interests span various areas of computer security, in particular social network security, network security, web security, botnet mitigation, and cybercrime analysis.

Recently, he has been investigating advanced scams such as spearphishing finalized at hijacking corporate accounts, online dating scams, and money laundering schemes linked to cybercrime. The goal of these studies is to gain a better understanding of such operations and to develop better mitigation techniques against them.

 

 

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