UKNOF51 - Weaponizing mobile infrastructure: Politically motivated cyber attacks threaten democracy?

Speaker: Imran Saleem http://uknof.uk/51/ In this engagement, we describe our intelligence gathered around Russian and Ukraine conflict. How mobile networks were weaponized to inflict cyber war with primary focus on nation state activity led by Russian source/identity holding various objectives. i.e performing account takeover, attacks on Ukrainian subscribers via SS7 Spoofing and new threat indicators captured being used by Russian sources. The massive hybrid war resulted in regulators revisiting their cyber resilience to handle these sophisticated attacks towards mobile operators or attacks initiated covertly by operators.