Rootkits And Bootkits: Reversing Modern Malware and Next Generation Threats

About Alex MatrosovC. GeorgeEugene RodionovJessica RedlandSergey Bratus

Alex Matrosov is a leading offensive security researcher at NVIDIA. He has more than two decades of experience with reverse engineering advanced malware analysis firmware security and exploitation techniques. Before joining NVIDIA Alex served as Principal Security Researcher at Intel Security Center of Excellence (SeCoE) spent more than six years in the Intel Advanced Threat Research team and was Senior Security Researcher at ESET. Alex has authored and co-authored numerous research papers and is a frequent speaker at security conferences including REcon ZeroNights Black Hat DEFCON and others. Alex received an award from Hex-Rays for his open source plug-in HexRaysCodeXplorer supported since 2013 by the team at REhint.Eugene Rodionov PhD is a Security Researcher at Intel working in BIOS security for Client Platforms. Before that Rodionov ran internal research projects and performed in-depth analysis of complex threats at ESET. His fields of interest include firmware security kernel-mode programming anti-rootkit technologies and reverse engineering. Rodionov has spoken at security conferences such as Black Hat REcon ZeroNights and CARO and has co-authored numerous research papers.Sergey Bratus is a Research Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth College. He has previously worked at BBN Technologies on Natural Language Processing research. Bratus is interested in all aspects of Unix security in particular Linux kernel security and detection and reverse engineering of Linux malware.