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Crane Hassold is a threat researcher at Abnormal Security who specializes in discovering and analyzing malicious email campaigns targeting enterprises. He also works closely with law enforcement agencies to help bring these bad actors out into the open. Before joining Abnormal Security, Hassold was a senior investigator at the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), where he worked for over eleven years. While there, he focused on identifying and tracking emerging threats such as sophisticated spearphishing attacks against government organizations.
Crane stops by to discuss BEC attacks, romance scams, “Active Defense”, his 1-on-1 with the Demonware Ransomware gang, empathy for cybercriminals and more.
TIMESTAMPS
0:03:05 - Transition from FBI Intelligence Analysis to Cybersecurity
0:05:06 - Cyber Behavioral Analysis Center: Applying Violent Crime Profiling Concepts to Cyber Threats
0:06:47 - Cyber Threat Intelligence
0:08:48 - Threat Intelligence: A Primer
0:12:02 - The Impact of Human Behavior on Cybersecurity
0:14:06 - The Human Side of Cybercrime
0:16:08 - Active Defense in the Fight Against Business Email Compromise
0:17:46 - Active Defense Against Business Email Compromise Attacks
0:21:18 - Demonware Ransomware: A Case Study
0:24:13 - Active Defense: A Conversation with a Nigerian Cybercriminal
0:25:46 - How Financial Motivation Overrides Red Flags in Cyber Attacks
0:31:53 - The Relationship Between Romance Scams and Business Email Compromise
0:34:03 - The Evolution of Social Engineering: From Nigerian Print Scams to BEC Actor Attacks
0:38:18 - The Impact of Automation on Cyber Criminal Activity
0:40:16 - The Impact of Automation on Business Email Compromise Attacks
0:42:32 - The Impact of Ransomware on Business Email Compromise Attacks
0:44:43 - BEC Attacks Incorporating Deep Fake Audio
0:47:24 - The Impact of Third Party Impersonation Attacks on Business Email Communications
0:49:30 - The Evolution of Email-Based Attacks
0:51:25 - The Importance of Cybersecurity Awareness

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