Black Hat Intercepted | Mike Spicer, Black Hat NOC Lead (opens in new tab)

Meet Mike Spicer \(aka DarkMatter\), a NOC lead at Black Hat, revealing how the team detected and tracked down a compromised attendee during the conference\. When a device connected to the network and started communicating with a known malicious source, an alert was triggered among hundreds of thousands of events\. The team conducted a deep dive analysis, examining packet types and communication patterns to identify the threat actor through behavioral analysis\. Using open-source intelligence...