Agenda

STORIES FROM ESET TELEMETRY: PROTECTING DIGITAL LIVES IN AND OUT OF THE OFFICE

Tue Nov 21 / 12:10 - 12:35 EET
14. Rene Holt - Security Awareness Specialist, ESET

Rene Holt

Security Awareness Specialist, ESET

Drawing from millions of sensors worldwide, ESET telemetry data offers a unique look into how vulnerable our digital lives actually are both in and out of the office. This session covers a broad range of notable threats that ESET detected in the past year, including malicious personal loan apps for Android, sextortion emails, and RedLine Stealer – a malware-as-a-service enabling cybercrime.

We also go over threats facing the workplace, such as brute-force attacks against Microsoft SQL Server and RDP services, malicious Microsoft OneNote files, the Log4Shell vulnerability, and the first double supply-chain attack ever recorded in history.

René Holt joined ESET in 2019 and is a Security Awareness Specialist who works most closely with the ESET Research team on the wordsmithery of ESET’s private APT reports, which offer in-depth technical information about the latest activities of specific nation-state-aligned groups. He regularly writes articles about cybersecurity and contributed a chapter on ransomware to GDR’s The Guide to Data as a Critical Asset. He holds an MA in philosophy and is finishing up a degree in computer science.