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Cooper Quintin: How We Tracked Down the Dumbest Cyber Mercenaries in the World

Duration: 20min 30sec Type: Presentation (lecture) Playlist: 34 of 146 in Defcon
A talk by Cooper Quintin about investigating the cyber mercenary group known as Dark Caracal. Over six years, his team tracked their operations and uncovered astonishing mistakes that exposed the group’s methods and victims.

An analysis of how one of the most incompetent APT groups managed to remain effective — and what this reveals about modern cyber warfare.