Byteing back: detection, dissection and protection against macOS stealers

Thursday 3 October 14:00 - 14:30, Green room

Patrick Wardle (Objective-See)

"Stealers" are a notorious strain of malware with an insatiable propensity for harvesting passwords, cookies, authentication tokens, and more. Unfortunately, a recent surge of such threats targeting macOS has heightened the risk to many users' most sensitive data. To counter these insidious threats, our talk will first delve into their infection vectors, internal workings, and the data they are after. Armed with this foundational understanding, we can then shift our focus toward developing heuristic-based capabilities to generically thwart even the most sophisticated of stealers.

Patrick Wardle

Patrick Wardle is the CEO and co-founder of DoubleYou, the founder of the non-profit Objective-See Foundation, and the author of "The Art of Mac Malware" book series. Having worked at NASA and the NSA, as well as presented at countless security conferences, he is intimately familiar with aliens, spies, and talking nerdy. Passionate about macOS security, Patrick spends his days discovering Apple 0-days, studying macOS malware, and releasing free open-source security tools to protect Mac users.

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