The world-class cybersecurity international conference, CODE BLUE 2024, selected 24 presentations from CFPs and announced the timetable!

The CODE BLUE Executive Committee has announced the timetable for the CODE BLUE 2024 International Conference on Cyber Security (Training: November 9-13, Conference: November 14-15 in Takadanobaba, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo).

CODE BLUE 2024

This year's Call for Papers (CFP) received more than 350 submissions from Japan and abroad, and 24 well-selected sessions were accepted. Themes included AI/LLM (attack on Edge Copilot), consumer devices (breaking through PlayStation5 network encryption), cyber physical security (hacking rail systems), ATP (information warfare) targeting the aerospace industry, Google's Global Red (building a security structure for an organization), and many more.

The opening keynote for Day 1 will be announced as soon as it is determined. The closing keynote on Day 2 will be a panel discussion on the development of young cyber security professionals in Japan, Europe, the U.K., and the U.S.

The lineup on Day 1 will focus on security technologies, including AI/LLM-related topics such as "Piloting Edge Copilot," which studies the security of web browsers with integrated AI functions from an attacker's point of view, and "Attention Is All You Need for Semantics Detection: A Novel Transformer on Neural-Symbolic Approach" which proposes a new method that applies LLM to analyze obfuscated malware, which until now has relied on experts. The topics on Security for popular consumer devices, such as "Defeating PlayStation 5 network encryption" as well as "Abusing legacy railroad signaling systems" on cyber-physical security will also be noteworthy.

The second day will feature a number of sessions analyzing the trends of state-backed threat actors and cybercriminal groups. Among them, "Did Subdomain Abuse by BlackTech “Evolve”?" a detailed analysis of the APT group's tactics to exploit DNS from a technical perspective will be thought-provoking for CSIRTs and others involved in organizational security. Also "Behind Enemy Lines: Engaging and Disrupting Ransomware Web Panels" is a very interesting content about an attempt to hack into the web panels used by ransomware groups in order to disrupt their activities and gain clues to identify the operators behind it.

The conference venue is divided into Tracks 1-3, with Track1 featuring the main track talks, Track2 featuring "U25" speakers under 25 years old and "Open Talks". Track3 will feature "Bluebox," which will introduce open source tools and projects.

(*The details of "OpenTalks" by sponsors in Track 2 will be announced at a later date.)

This is a rare opportunity to meet top cyber security experts from around the world. Tickets will be sold out as soon as the maximum number of tickets are sold.

Scene of CODE BLUE 2023

■CODE BLUE 2024 Track 1 Timetable (Main Track)

●Day 1 (November 14)

Start time  Lecture titles (Speaker *Honorific titles omitted)

10:00   Piloting Edge Copilot

　　　（Jun Kokatsu）

10:50　Proxying to Kernel : Streaming vulnerabilities from Windows Kernel

　　　（Angelboy Yang）

12:50　Defeating PlayStation 5 network encryption

　　　（Aapo Oksman）

13:40　Attention Is All You Need for Semantics Detection: A Novel Transformer on Neural-Symbolic Approach

　　　（Mars Cheng/ Yi-An Lin/ Sheng-Hao Ma）

14:50　SBOM and Security Transparency - How it all fits together

　　　（Allan Friedman）

15:40　Abusing legacy railroad signaling systems

　　　（David Melendez）

16:30   Hacking Google - Lessons learned running and growing an internal 　　　  red team

　　　（Stefan Friedli）

17:20　TBA

●Day 2 (November 15)

Start time  Lecture titles (Speaker *Honorific titles omitted)

9:00　 Did Subdomain Abuse by BlackTech “Evolve”?

　　　（Tsuyoshi Taniguchi/ Kotaro Ohsugi）

9:50　 PkgFuzz Project: Yet Another Continuous Fuzzing for Open Source Software

　　　（Yuhei Kawakoya/ Eitaro Shioji/ Yuto Otsuki）

10:40　APTs in APAC aerospace: when Dragons and Chollimas Reach for the Stars

　　　（Vic Huang/ Ming-Xuan Yang）

11:30　China’s Evolving Playbook: The Combination of Hack-and-Leak and Influence Operations

　　　（Li-an Huang/ Chih-yun Huang）

13:20　Behind Enemy Lines: Engaging and Disrupting Ransomware Web Panels

　　　（Vangelis Stykas）

14:10　V for Vendetta: Dissecting a Global Phishing Platform After Being Phished

　　　（Mangatas Tondang）

15:10　NGate: Novel Android malware for unauthorized ATM withdrawals via NFC relay

　　　（Lukas Stefanko/ Jakub Osmani）

16:00　From Snowflake to Snowstorm: Navigating Breaches and Detections

　　　（Roei Sherman）

16:50　Closing Keynote (Panel discussion on the development of young cyber security professionals in Japan, Europe, the U.K., and the U.S. )

■CODE BLUE 2024 Track 2 Timetable (U25, OpenTalks)

●Day 1 (November 14)

10:00-16:45 Open Talks by sponsor companies (TBA)

●Day 2 (November 15)

Start time Title of Speech (Speaker *Honorific titles omitted)

10:00-12:00 Open Talks by sponsor companies (TBA)

13:00　 1-Click-Fuzz: Systematically Fuzzing the Windows Kernel Driver with Symbolic Execution.

　　　（Sangjun Park/ Yunjin Park/ Jongseong Kim）

13:50　 WebAssembly Is All You Need: Exploiting Chrome and the V8 Sandbox 10+ times with WASM

　　　（Seunghyun Lee）

14:40-16:30 Open Talks by sponsor companies (TBA)

■CODE BLUE 2024 Track 3 Timetable (Bluebox)

●Day 1 (November 14)

10:00　Automatically Detect and Support Against Anti-Debug with IDA/Ghidra to Streamline Debugging Process

　　　（Takahiro Takeda）

11:00　BullyRAG: A Multi-Perspective RAG Robustness Evaluation Framework

　　　（Sian-Yao Eric Huang/ Cheng-Lin Yang/ Yen-Shan Chen）

13:00　EchidnaTermApp: Penetration Test Assist & Learning Tool

　　　（Yu Terada）

14:00　Event Tracing for Windows Internals

　　　（Shusei Tomonaga）

15:00　Modern SOC: Less Than One and More Than Infinity

　　　（Alexander Rodchenko/ Farid Dzhugunusov）

16:00　NTLMv1 reversion to NTLM with hashcat and the NTLMv1-multi tool

　　　（Dustin Heywood）

*Please note that the titles of the talks and speakers' names are subject to change.

*For details of the timetable, please visit the official website below. Please note that the program is subject to change.

https://codeblue.jp/2024/en/time_table/

■Notice of Partial Cancellation of "CODE BLUE 2024" Training 

We regret to inform you that "OffSec PEN-300 Live Training" has been canceled out of the 5 training programs scheduled to be held at CODE BLUE. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding.

<The canceled training>

OffSec PEN-300 Live Training

We are still accepting participants for the other trainings, "OffSec PEN-200 Live Training," "OffSec WEB-300 Live Training," "OffSec EXP-401 Live Training," and "Windows Forensics Master Class and Fundamentals of Malware Analysis, so please consider joining us.

Training details: https://codeblue.jp/2024/en/training/

■Outline of CODE BLUE 2024

Date: November 9th (Saturday) to November 15th (Friday), 2024

Organizer: CODE BLUE Executive Committee

Operation: CODE BLUE Secretariat (BLUE Co., Ltd.)

Language: Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation available* 　　　　             　         (*excluding some talks)

Format: In-person

【Training】

Date: November 9th (Saturday) to November 13th(Wednesday), 2024  

  (Each course has a minimum number of participants. The number of days varies depending on the course.)

Venue: Waim Rental Room Takadanobaba (TD Building 3F)

*Please refer to the Training page of the official website for the participation fee and details of each course.

(Japanese) https://codeblue.jp/2024/training/

(English) https://codeblue.jp/2024/en/training/

【Conference】 

Date: November 14th (Thursday) to November 15th (Friday), 2024

Venue: Bellesalle Takadanobaba

　    　(Sumitomo Fudosan Shinjuku Garden Tower B2/1F)

Price: 

 1.Conference Ticket

(Admission to all areas, including networking parties)

　  <Regular Price> 98,000 yen (tax incl.): Jun 1st - Nov 7th

　  <On Site> 128,000 yen (tax incl.): Nov 14th - Nov 15th

2. Visitor Ticket

(Limited admission to areas other than the main track, no admission to networking parties)

　  <Regular Price> 27,000 yen (tax incl.): Jun 1st - Nov 7th

　  <On Site> 32,000 yen (tax incl.): Nov 14th - Nov 15th

Registration:

Please register from the Registration page on the official website.

(Japanese) https://codeblue.jp/2024/registration/

(English) https://codeblue.jp/2024/en/registration/

(For Press) https://codeblue.jp/2024/registration/press/

■About CODE BLUE

CODE BLUE is an international cyber security conference that brings together top-class experts from Japan and abroad. This year marks the 12th CODE BLUE conference, which provides cutting-edge lectures by cyber security experts and opportunities for information exchange and interaction across national and language borders. 

By bringing together the world's top experts in a variety of fields, the conference aims to revitalize and strengthen cooperation in security in Asia, including Japan, and to discover talented young researchers from Japan and other Asian countries and encourage them to enter the international arena.

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