Internet Commerce Security Laboratory (ICSL)

MRE 2026

Malware and Reverse Engineering Conference 2026

Reverse engineers and malware researchers enjoyed high-quality speakers and networking at MRE 2024, and we are now preparing MRE 2026, which will be held on Thursday and Friday, the 26th and 27th of February, 2026 as a part of our BSides Ballarat event.

MRE-2026 is a bridge between industry, government and academia, with a strong focus on practical results from research and development projects in reverse engineering and malware research.

The conference aims to cover:

  • AI security,
  • Automated cyber operations,
  • Reverse engineering and compiled program analysis,
  • Behavioral and attribution analysis of malware,
  • Incident response,
  • Impacts into critical infrastructure,
  • Threat intelligence.

Venue

Emerging Technologies Hub (ETH),
SMB Technology Park
107 Lydiard St South,
Central Ballarat.

Registration

Tickets for MRE 2026 are available from Eventbrite.

Keynote Speakers

NameOrganisationTopic
Richa AroraIBMAI Security & Autonomous Threat Operations
   

Speakers

Some of the presentation titles shown below are works in progress and will change slightly as the presentation is developed.

NameOrganisationTopic
Raashid BhatIndependent Security ProfessionalMalware Binary Detection: From Trace to Similarity
Muhammad IkramMacquarie UniversityDeception Meets Diagnostics: Deception-Based Real-Time Threat Detection for Critical Infrastructure
Smita Jhajharia
Ajat Sharma
RMIT
Check Point, Australia
Cybersecurity & the Offensive Misuse of AI
Stefan  Avgoustakis 
Yazan Mughrabi
Google 
Jonathan OliverCarbon Black / Broadcom 
Sam TseitkinExeQuantumQuantum Computers are Coming, are you Ready?
Rue MaharajMelbourne WaterCybersecurity Defence Management
Martijn van PraagMicrosoft / ICSLAutomatic Deobfuscation of a Complex Malware
Abhay VaishPalo Alto NetworksMapping Your Threat Landscape using AI & Python