TC October 2009

Evolution of Financial Fraud in Brazil

Security Workshop - 5th Colaris (Day 2)

Wednesday — October 21st, 2009 16:30

Brazil has been facing, since the beginning of this decade, a massive number of incidents related to online fraud, specially phishing scams and schemes based on the use of trojan horses, keyloggers, screenloggers, etc. This presentation will provide a brief history of online fraud in Brazil, beginning in 2002, present the latest trends and discuss how CERT.br is responding to these issues, including technical analysis and coordination with AV vendors and the financial sector.

Presenters

  • Marcelo Chaves (CERT.br — The Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, BR) BR

    Marcelo Chaves is a Security Analyst at CERT.br, the Brazilian National CERT, maintained by NIC.br, from the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee. He has a degree in Computer Science, and a Masters in Applied Computing, focused on network security, by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). Marcelo worked as an incident handler and currently is more involved with R&D, specially with the development of tools, based on honeypots and honeynets, to better understand current attack trends, correlating this data with incidents reported to CERT.br.

    Marcelo has been a speaker in several national and international events, talking about many different information security topics, including incident handling, honeypots, online fraud, and spam.