About
Candid Wüest is a cybersecurity expert with over 25 years of experience, currently focusing on Phishing & AI threats as the Principal Security Advocate at xorlab. He previously led the creation of Acronis's security department and spent over 16 years at Symantec analyzing high-profile malware like Stuxnet. An ETH Zurich graduate holding ten patents, Wüest is also a published author, the organizer of AREA41, and a frequent speaker at top conferences like RSAC and BlackHat.
Sessions
The rise of AI attacks – what we should know about AI powered threats
What you will learn:
• Gain practical insight into how agentic malware operates (prompting, orchestration, tool usage), including where it can adapt to defenses and where it breaks. Enabling better threat modeling and detection engineering. • Learn how to identify and detect AI powered malware using existing behavioral signals and reputation systems, and understand why most current samples do not evade well-configured EDR/XDRs. • Understand the current AI powered threat landscape and be able to differentiate the marketing hype from reality.