vOPCDE #2 - Catching APTs@home - how to tap your home internet (Costin Raiu)

In February 2016, Rob Joyce, then-Chief of TAO at the National Security Agency gave a talk at the USENIX Enigma conference. It was during his speech that he said these famous words “One of our worst nightmares is that out-of-band network tap that really is capturing all the data, understanding anomalous behavior that's going on, and someone's paying attention to it.” I started running an out of band network tap on my home internet in June 2015, using a relatively cheap network setup and open source software. During all these years, I realized that you really don’t know what is going on your home network, unless you monitor and inspect the traffic. Smart TVs, smart watches, tablets, laptops, NAS’es, printers - the amount of background noise and hidden traffic that all these devices make is staggering. I’ll talk about cheap and effective out-of-band network tap setups, software and of course, some of my findings.
Costin Raiu (Director of GReAT @ Kaspersky)
Costin specializes in analyzing advanced persistent threats and high-level malware attacks. He is leading the Global Research & Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky that researched the inner workings of Stuxnet, Duqu, Carbanak and more recently, Lazarus, BlueNoroff, Moonlight Maze and the Equation group. Costin’s work includes analyzing malicious websites, exploits and online banking malware. Costin has over 24 years of experience in anti-virus technologies and security research. He is a member of the Virus Bulletin Technical Advisory Board, a member of the Computer AntiVirus Researchers’ Organization (CARO) and a reporter for the Wildlist Organization International. Before joining Kaspersky, Costin worked for GeCad as Chief Researcher and as a Data Security Expert with the RAV antivirus developers group. Costin joined Kaspersky Lab in 2000 and became the Director of the Global Research & Analysis Team in 2010.