In Episode 91 of TheCyber5, we are joined by Paul Malcomb, Intelligence Advisory for Nisos. Paul brings over 15 years of experience from Fortune 500 security teams and the public sector including incident response, threat intelligence, and thir

Insider Threat Extortion Attempt of $300,000 Leads to Arrest

Feb 22nd, 2023 35m 22s

In Episode 11 of Know Your Adversary®, we chat with an undisclosed security team that prevented an insider threat actor from extorting $300,000 from a global company. The result of the six months long investigation resulted in the arrest of the

Compare and Contrast Saudi Aramco and Colonial Pipeline Cyber Attacks

May 31st, 2022 42m 55s

In Episode 10 of Know Your Adversary™, ICE Miller Managing Partner Guillermo Christensen discusses the difference between the 2012 Saudi Aramco destructive cyber attacks and the 2021 Colonial Pipeline ransomware attacks. In 2012, Iran attacked

OneSight Backstage Management System: Attributing a Chinese Marketing Firm’s Tools to Disinformation Campaigns

May 4th, 2022 31m 42s

In Episode 9 of Know Your Adversary™, Nisos researcher Zeshan Aziz revealed that Chinese commercial marketing firm OneSight, developed a sophisticated social media management and monitoring system called OneSight Backstage Management System to

Human Intelligence Recruitment of an Employee to Deploy Ransomware

Feb 15th, 2022 30m 13s

In Episode 8 of Know Your Adversary™, we detail an August 2020 investigation when a Russian gang member named Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov traveled to the United States to recruit an employee of a US-based manufacturing company and to install ranso

Investigating the T-Mobile Hack: Direct Threat Actor Engagement with John Binns

Dec 7th, 2021 22m 38s

In Episode 7 of Know Your Adversary™, we detail the August 2021 compromise disclosure of T-Mobile. A typical compromise of a sophisticated production network starts with an unwitting employee executing malware on their device. The threat actor

Supply Chain Attacks Escalation and Evolution by Foreign Nation States

Aug 31st, 2021 38m 53s

In Episode 6 of Know Your Adversary™, we detail a previous supply chain attack from 2007 and then again in 2015 against a security software company. Foreign nation state adversaries conducted detailed reconnaissance and knew when a router was g

Nisos Attributes and Unmasks Insider Threat Saboteurs Who Caused $1M in Business Loss

Jun 29th, 2021 38m 7s

In Episode 5 of Know Your Adversary™, we discuss a 2018 Nisos insider threat investigation of network sabotage that caused almost $1,000,000 in business operations loss. Following a recent merger and acquisition transaction, IT engineers of the

Attribution to Russian GRU for 2015 and 2016 Cyber Attacks on Ukraine Energy Power Stations with Gigamon Senior Manager Joe Slowik

May 25th, 2021 36m 29s

In Episode 4 of Know Your Adversary, we are joined by Gigamon Senior Manager Joe Slowik. Our discussion takes a look into the world of Russian nation-state hacking units, particularly the GRU and the SVR. We take a deep dive into the 2015 and 2

Identifying and Disrupting Malicious Bot Programmers and Security Researchers with CISO Shawn Valle

Apr 18th, 2021 31m 24s

In Episode 3 of Know Your Adversary™ we are joined by Shawn Valle, former Chief Information Security Officer at Rapid 7. Our discussion takes a look into the world of online platform abuse and fraud. Shawn tells us about two major threats he f

Selling Backdoor Access to a Managed Service Provider

Mar 24th, 2021 30m 6s

In Episode 2 of Know Your Adversary™, we discuss an attempted compromise of a managed service provider (MSP) by a disgruntled former employee who tried to sell backdoor access on the dark web. Our guest is former Senior FBI Computer Scientist a

The Attribution, Arrest, and Sentencing of SpyEye Malware Developers Alexander Panin and Hamza Bendellaj

Feb 17th, 2021 25m 39s

In episode 1 of the Know Your Adversary™ Podcast, we are joined by Mark Ray, former FBI Special Agent, Kamal Ghali former Assistant US Attorney and current partner at Bondurant, Mixon & Elmore, and former FBI Forensics Expert and current Techn

Introduction to Know Your Adversary™ with Nisos Co-Founder Landon Winkelvoss

Feb 16th, 2021 46s

Welcome to the podcast series, “Know Your Adversary™”. In this podcast series, we will show you how organizations can achieve attribution, unmask adversaries, and understand the context of threats against their enterprise. Nisos will share

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