Vitaly has been working with Kaspersky Lab for 10 years. He has dealt with major malware outbreaks such as Conficker worm in 2009, struggling against RSA-encrypting ransomware back in 2008, analyzing advanced cyberespiponage operations such as RedOctober, Duqu, Flame, Careto, NetTraveler, Icefog, DarkHotel, Equation and more. In 2010, Vitaly spent working in Japan as a Chief Malware Expert, leading a group of local researchers. He specializes in threats focusing on global network infrastructures, malware reverse engineering and cybercrime investigations. He is an author of patented technology used at Kaspersky Lab for automated malware analysis and discoverer of 0-day attacks against anti-theft software embedded in most of modern PC BIOS/UEFI firmware. Vitaly lives and works in Singapore as a member of INTERPOL Digital Forensics Lab team, doing malware analysis and investigation support. He has been engaged as a speaker at many information security/hacker conferences such as DEF CON, Black Hat, FIRST, Underground Economy, PHDays, ZeroNights and more.
