Artemis Kontou
COO MALLOC
Artemis is the COO of the Cypriot start-up Malloc , which won the Cyprus entrepreneurship competition in 2020 and backed by Y-Combinator , IDEA Innovation Centre and the Urban Innovation Fund . Artemis holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London where she published two patents . She has previously worked at Shell UTC , Imperial College , Akzo Nobel and the Joint Research Centre of European Commission . From 2018-2021 Artemis served as a Research Infrastructure Manager at the KIOS CoE , University of Cyprus where she continues to be an affiliate associate . Artemis teaches Project Management at the Department of Business and Public Administration of the University of Cyprus and she represents Cyprus in the Technical Committee of the Innovation Management System family of standards of the International Organisation of Standardisation ( ISO ). Artemis fosters an environment of teamwork and ensures that strategy is clearly defined while targeting growth and maintaining morale .
" Preventing unattended data recordings and transmitions in mobile devices "
Mobile spyware is malicious software that can affect mobile devices in order to secretly monitor , record and transmit sensitive and classified information stored on mobile phones . Spyware can be especially intrusive and dangerous because it can allow someone to turn on the camera or microphone , take screenshots , see activity on third party apps , and intercept , forward , or record phone calls . It is often used by " Cyber Spies " to obtain secrets and information from individuals , competitors , rivals , groups , governments and enemies for personal , economic , political or military advantage .
During the CYPSEC conference , the COO of Malloc , Dr . Artemis Kontou has presented examples of mobile device threats and targeted attacks . Special mention was made of Pegasus spyware which was sold for hundreds of millions of US dollars to governments for surveillance . Dr . Kontou mentioned that conventional anti-spyware apps and enterprise mobile security strategies currently do not protect mobile devices from such spyware . During the presentation , Malloc ’ s state-of-the art solution has been demonstrated to monitor and prevent unattended data recordings and transmissions in mobile devices using artificial intelligence in realtime . The solution is currently being tested in Playstore (“ Antistalker ”) with more than 300K downloads . The app monitors and notifies the user when and which applications secretly use the camera and microphone of the device and informs the user on the amount of data that these applications transmit to the internet .