TITLE:

Attacks on Ethereum - Analyzing 10M blocks

ABSTRACT:

In recent years, Ethereum gained tremendously in popularity, growing
from a daily transaction average of 10K in January 2016 to an average of
500K in January 2020. Similarly, smart contracts began to carry more
value, making them appealing targets for attackers. As a result, they
started to become victims of attacks, costing millions of dollars. In
response to these attacks, both academia and industry proposed a
plethora of tools to scan smart contracts for vulnerabilities before
deploying them on the blockchain. However, most of these tools solely
focus on detecting vulnerabilities and not attacks, let alone
quantifying or tracing the number of stolen assets. This talk will
present Horus, a framework that empowers the automated detection and
investigation of smart contract attacks based on logic-driven and
graph-driven analysis of transactions. Horus provides quick means to
quantify and trace the flow of stolen assets across the Ethereum blockchain.

BIO:

Antonio Ken IANNILLO is a research scientist at the University of
Luxembourg (SnT). He got his Ph.D. in 2018 in Information Technology and
Electrical Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II. His
research is about cybersecurity assessment in the latest technologies
such as robotics, blockchain, and IoT devices. He's leading a research
project granted by the national research funds about trusted execution
environments for IoT devices.