Speaker: Joe Stewart
BlackEnergy is a popular DDoS trojan written by "Cr4sh", a member of the Russian hacking group "Hell Knights". Recently a major new version of the trojan in extremely limited circulation was identified in the wild by the presenter of this talk. This new rewrite of the trojan expands BlackEnergy's capabilities from a simple DDoS trojan to a stealthy modular platform for DDoS, spam and banking fraud.