Deconstruction and Analysis of modern IT Threats — DeepINTEL Security Intelligence Conference disenchants Complexity of Security Threats *

The modern digital world is constantly threatened. Unfortunately, only a few understand what this actually means. Information security is always presented in distorting stereotypes that have nothing to do with reality. No attack is hammered into a keyboard in minutes. The most dangerous threats can not be detected by watching out for guys in hooded shirts or face masks. Nothing in the digital world can be defused with a simple click. The opposite is the case because domestic and foreign policy have global implications for the digital infrastructure of all organizations. The DeepINTEL Security Intelligence Conference, which takes place every year in Vienna, therefore aims to provide a platform where authorities, businesses, researchers and hackers can productively discuss threats’ characteristics and countermeasures within a closed group.

Striking Examples

Economic espionage is often cited as an example of information threats. Attacks on information systems often have the goal of copying data in order to either deal with them or use them otherwise. Espionage exists at all levels. In May 2019 it became publicly known that one can infect smartphones via WhatsApp calls. Answering the call was not necessary. This vulnerability was exploited by a commercial espionage software produced in Israel. No companies were spied on, but civil rights activists…