The Abricto Podcast

Episode 8: Exploring Havoc C2 with 5pider– Nation-States Discover New Threat

April 17, 2023 Brent Brackin & Cornel Du Preez
Episode 8: Exploring Havoc C2 with 5pider– Nation-States Discover New Threat
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The Abricto Podcast
Episode 8: Exploring Havoc C2 with 5pider– Nation-States Discover New Threat
Apr 17, 2023
Brent Brackin & Cornel Du Preez

In this episode, we meet the young and emerging star in cybersecurity, 5pider. We explore a new Command and Control framework by the name of Havoc. This is a powerful and flexible architecture that is capable of huge scalability. Havoc is open-source and is being used by nation-state threat actors. 

  • How does someone so young get into cybersecurity creating C2s and malware? 
  • What is it like creating modern malware avoiding detection? 
  • Where does the inspiration for Havoc come from? 
  • What are the future plans for Havoc? 
  • How does it feel to know nation-states are using your framework as a standard C2 in their arsenal? 
  • How can vulnerable services like Log4J be identified when a zero-day vulnerability drops?
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In this episode, we meet the young and emerging star in cybersecurity, 5pider. We explore a new Command and Control framework by the name of Havoc. This is a powerful and flexible architecture that is capable of huge scalability. Havoc is open-source and is being used by nation-state threat actors. 

  • How does someone so young get into cybersecurity creating C2s and malware? 
  • What is it like creating modern malware avoiding detection? 
  • Where does the inspiration for Havoc come from? 
  • What are the future plans for Havoc? 
  • How does it feel to know nation-states are using your framework as a standard C2 in their arsenal? 
  • How can vulnerable services like Log4J be identified when a zero-day vulnerability drops?