When the sun is shining he works for Symantec\'s global security response team, where he has been going far beyond anti virus signatures during the last ten years. He researches new threat vectors, analyses trends and formulates new mitigation strategies. He has published various articles and appeared in magazines and TV shows. He is a frequent speaker at conferences like VB & RSA and of of the organizers of hashdays. He learned coding and the English language on a Commodore 64. Abstract: "A lot of media do report on targeted attacks or so called APTs, but how sophisticated or those attacks really? Flamer & co. are only the tip of the iceberg and even they had flaws. Most of the attacks are not so smart at all, but nevertheless successful. I will elaborate on the common methods of targeted infection & exfiltration, happening every day around the globe. Explaining the methods and tools used by the attackers with real life examples. I will show why they successfully bypass most security tools and analyse where these attacks differ from the common malware flood." The presenter says... The level of difficulty of this talk is 3 and I consider it is suitable for Any Geek. This talk has been presented at other conferences and it can be filmed and released.