Stopping Python Backdoor Attacks – Peter Smith – PSW #637
The recent MechaFlounder was a backdoor attack linked to Iranian threat actors who targeted Turkish entities. Similar Python-based backdoor attacks have managed to evade traditional network security defenses and propagate inside their target environments.
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Peter Smith is Vice President of Secure Workload Communications at Zscaler. Previously, Peter was the Founder and CEO of Edgewise which was acquired by Zscaler. Peter brings a security practitioner’s perspective to segmentation, workload protection and zero trust security with over ten years of expertise as an infrastructure and security architect of data centers and customer-hosting environments for Harvard University, Endeca Technologies (Oracle), American Express, Fidelity UK, Bank of America, and Nike.