Conferences

BlackHat USA 2023 took place on the 9th and 10th of August 2023 in the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Consequtively, DEFCON 31 took place from the 10th through the 13th of August, in Ceasar’s Forum, the LINQ, Harrah’s, and the Flamingo. After visiting BlackHat USA 2022 and DEFCON 30, I had some time to … Read more

Blackhat Asia 2023 took place on the 11th and 12th of May 2023 in the Marina Bay Sands Expo in Singapore. This blog will cover my experience of the conference, including a comparison to last year, along with references to those who I met along the way. The folks from ToolsWatch, NJ, Faisal, and Rachid, … Read more

April was a busy month, in which I gave three talks on three topics. The first two talks were at Botconf, regarding the RTM Locker and about A student’s guide to free and open-source enterprise level malware analysis tooling. My talk at the final edition of Hack In The Box Amsterdam dove into Golang malware … Read more

BlackHat Europe 2022 took place on the 7th and 8th of December in London. This edition, I spoke about DotDumper. In this blog, I will talk about the briefings and the arsenal, meeting friends old and new, and the taken COVID measures. Table of contents Briefings and the Arsenal Meeting friends old and new COVID … Read more

BlackHat Middle-East and Africa (MEA in short) is the successor of last year’s unofficial (yet official) BlackHat edition called atHack. Just like atHack, the conference took place in Saudi Arabia’s Ridyadh. I presented five talks on three different topics: a look back on the wipers of 2022, DotDumper, and my own Binary Analysis Course! The … Read more

BlackHat USA 2022 took place in Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Convention Center on the 10th and 11th of August. Whereas this is the usual location for BlackHat USA, it was my first time visiting this edition, although it wasn’t my first visit to Las Vegas. In this blog I will share my impression of the … Read more

BlackHat Asia 2022 took place in Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre on the 12th and 13th of May. Whereas this is the usual location for BlackHat Asia, it was my first time visiting this edition, as well as my first visit to the country. In this blog I will share my impression … Read more

Botconf 2022 took place in France’s Nantes for four days, starting from April the 26th. The first day consisted of workshops, followed by three days of talks. The previous edition, in 2020, was online, making 2019 the last in-person edition. In this blog I will share my impression of the conference, the friends I met, … Read more

The atHack conference in Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh, where I presented my Mobile Malware Mimicking framework (m3). The event lasted three days, from the 28th of November until and including the 30th. It was the second physical conference I attended since the pandemic started, the first being Black Hat Europe, which I wrote about previously. In … Read more