BlackHat USA 2020: Deepfakes enter to the phishing arena

Thanks to the SAP devX external conferences program I had the opportunity to attend virtually the BlackHat USA conference. Together with DefCon, BlackHat is one the most advanced and exciting conference on offensive and defensive security that a security expert should attend. As explained in my previous article about BlackHat Europe 2019 the conference is proposing three main tracks: Briefings (advanced hacking and research presentations), Arsenal (live demo of open source security tools) and Sponsored sessions (presentation made by security companies). I made my selection among these different tracks according to my interest topics (Social Engineering, Machine Learning Security, Threat Intelligence, Code scanning, vulnerability management, ..) and here is a non exhaustive list from my personal selection of interesting topics: MLaaS (Machine Learning as a Service) platforms, are cloud based commercial services proposing pre-trained machine learning models and prediction functionalities deployed in a powerful cloud computing infrastructure and accessible to any user through an API. The goal is to benefit from a descent computing power hosted by a cloud provider but also take benefit from pre-trained models to make directly some predictions on the data.