Keynote: Unicorn Hunting
summary
A clear claim: organized ransomware gangs now hold billion‑dollar war chests — cybercrime unicorns — partly because early Bitcoin hoards appreciate, turning $10 million pockets into far larger fortunes; law enforcement responds with a $10 million bounty and a wave of arrests. Concrete numbers and failures: a Finnish therapy hack creates 25,500 victims, a Facebook outage spikes DNS load ~300‑fold, Windows contains 5.7 million source files, and MSSP remote‑management compromise forces grocery and hardware stores to close.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Porcelain factory to cybersecurity
- 4:22Thirty years of security evolution
- 12:35Death of privacy in digital age
- 21:40Complexity versus security
- 32:48Rise of cybercrime unicorns
- 41:10Unicorn hunting begins
- 53:14Successes invisible in cybersecurity
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