Click to Recruit: Youth & Online Crime

Criminal and extremist networks are increasingly using game-adjacent platforms to recruit and mobilize, particularly targeting vulnerable youth. This presentation explores how gamification principles are being exploited for illicit purposes, highlighting the urgent need for countermeasures and the potential of gamification as a tool for prevention and education.

CSIRT-CV hits different: elevating OT cybersecurity

In a context where cyberattacks on OT environments are becoming increasingly frequent and sophisticated, CSIRT-CV has created the Industrial Cybersecurity Excellence Center, with the aim of addressing the convergence of IT and OT threats in an integrated manner. One of the center’s main initiatives is the OT Cybersecurity Laboratory, an advanced lab that simulates real […]

Defending Europe against DDoS in a multi-polar world

This presentation examines the evolving nature of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks as tools of hybrid warfare and proposes a collaborative European defense strategy. We provide analysis of how DDoS attacks have transformed from mere technical nuisances, to potentially disturbing tools which can cause major disruption illustrated by the attacks in 2018, to strategic […]