"The Cyber Arms Race" - Mikko Hyppönen, F-Secure - Guest Lecture 20.1.2015 At Aalto University

Mikko Hyppönen (Chief Research Officer CRO, F-Secure) guest lecture "The Cyber Arms Race" goes through the history of computer viruses, and speculates where we are heading in the future. The lecture is a part of HIIT (Helsinki Institute of Information Technology) lecture series "Helsinki Distinguished Lecture Series on Future Information Technology". Lecture was held January 20, 2015 at the Aalto University Campus

Published on Youtube, 6 FEB 2015

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUotmeaZayE

Keywords

HISTORY OF MALWARE

DOS - 1st Generation
Brain, Stoned, Casade Yanklee Doodle
Omega
Michelangelo
Virus Creation Lab (VCL)

Macro Viruses
Concept

Windows viruses
Marburg

email worms
Melissa
Loveletter

web worms
Code Red
Slapper
Slammer
Blaster
Sasser

Monetization, keyloggers, banking trojans, information theft
Fizzer

Criminal malware
Sobig
MyDoom
Bagle

Nation State Attacks/ Targeted Attacks/ Backdoors/ Intelligence gathering/ Spying/ China
APT

Mobile Phone Viruses
Cabir

Music CDs
Sony Rootkit

Trojans
Storm Worm
Conficker
Zeus

Factory Automation/ Infrastructure
Stuxnet

Ransom trojans
Cryptolocker

Governments
< Edward Snowdon
NSA
GCHQ,UK

Russia > Ukraine
Cosmicduke
Havex
Sandworm
Turla
Onionduke

Sony Pictures

Biological genomes
SPTH-syn1.0