Same Playbook, New Exploit: Turning Cl0p's Operational Playbook Into Detection Opportunities
Learn how Cl0p selects targets, prepares infrastructure, and gives defenders a window to detect the next attack before exploitation begins.
📅 Wednesday, September 23, 2026 | 🕑 2:00 PM ET
Cl0p has become one of the most disciplined and persistent data-extortion groups operating today, repeatedly targeting managed file transfer and other internet-facing file services with a combination of zero-day exploitation, long-term reconnaissance, and carefully managed infrastructure. Across nine campaigns spanning 2020 through 2025, a surprisingly consistent operational playbook begins to emerge.
The central idea is simple: Cl0p may be highly disciplined, but disciplined adversaries leave patterns, and patterns can be defended against. This session moves beyond historical indicators of compromise into defensive action, showing how that operational consistency becomes an advantage for the defenders who know how to use it.
What You'll Learn
- HTTP-layer default-deny controls that close off the access paths Cl0p relies on most
- Extended log retention strategies that make retrospective investigation possible
- Infrastructure monitoring and traffic baselining to catch pre-exploitation staging activity
- Retro-hunting techniques to apply immediately after new vulnerability disclosures
- How to translate a repeatable, multi-year adversary playbook into operational controls your team can put in place today
Who Should Attend
Security operations, threat intelligence, detection engineering, vulnerability management, and IT leaders responsible for defending internet-facing file transfer and enterprise file-sharing services.