Program

08:20-09:20 Registration

09:20-09:30 Welcome by Monica Kello

09:30-10:10 The Rise of Digital Counterintelligence: A Turning Point - Keynote and Q&A [TLP:AMBER] by Thomas Rid

10:10-10:30 How Israel’s bulky pager fooled Hezbollah: An invisible detonator and wafer-thin plastic explosives turned batteries into bombs by James Pearson

10:30-10:50 You will always remember this as the day you finally caught FamousSparrow by Robert Lipovský

10:50-11:10 KnockHuoDou Unmasked – The Fruit of China’s Evolving Zero-Day Exploitation Strategy [TLP:AMBER+STRICT] by Greg Chen, Yi-Chin Chuang & Charles Li

11:10-11:40 Coffee break

11:40-12:00 Bytes that Light the Fire [TLP:AMBER+STRICT] by Bernhard Schneider

12:00-12:20 NoName075(16) with a Name: A Self-Called and So-Called Collaborative Project [TLP:AMBER+STRICT] by Amaury-Jacques Garçon & Maxime Arquillière

12:20-12:40 From Russia, with dns-prefetch [TLP:AMBER] by Daniela Zamfiroiu & Arjan Onwezen

12:40-13:00 Lying Pigeon: Disinformation Campaigns in Europe by Alexandra Gofman

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-14:40 AI & deception: how it started and how it’s going – Keynote and Q&A by Margarita Z. Franklin

14:40-15:00 Artificial Intelligence and Experimental Political Science [TLP:RED] by Josh Goldstein

15:00-15:20 Sea Turtle & Lazarus operations in the Netherlands [TLP:AMBER] by Mattijs Dijkstra & Zawadi Done

15:20-15:40 Stormy seas, stablecoins plz? Iranian proxys usage of cryptocurrency [TLP:AMBER+STRICT] by Thomas de Zoete

15:40-16:10 Afternoon break

16:10-16:30 Forget What You Know: The Criminals and State-Actor Continuum by Selena Larson

16:30-16:50 Ransomware’s New Masters: How States Are Hijacking Cybercrime [TLP:CLEAR] by Aleksandar Milenkoski & Julian-Ferdinand Vögele

16:50-17:10 Ransomware, Unfiltered by Max Smeets

17:10-17:50 Digital Sovereignty: Europe’s Opportunity to Redefine the Game – Keynote and Q&A by Krijn de Mik & Francisco Dominguez

17:50-18:00 Conference closing

18:00-19:00 Networking drinks, sponsored by Chainalysis