Silas Cutler

The Long Road to Persistent Asymmetric Cyber Espionage?

At LABScon last year, we showed how hundreds of thousands of cameras ship with backdoors, built to be unmaintainable and ready to spy on you out of the box. Delivered through an ocean of shell companies that supply and launder fake testing certifications onto online retailers. Deceptively sold and designed around subscription lock-in, these devices could be easily adopted for malicious purposes. 

This year we followed the thread upstream and found the same pattern replicated across other devices - not just for surveillance, but to create an ecosystem that supports China's long term cyber ambitions. Your TV set top box’s hidden residential proxy is some project manager's secondary revenue stream.

In this talk, we will propose a new open source attribution model for tracking the Chinese APT ecosystem.