Cisco Talos’ Craig Williams on the hunt for bugs and abnormal behavior
Look at some of the biggest cybersecurity incidents in the last year and one threat intelligence organization tends to pop up: Talos. Researchers from Talos, a division of networking giant Cisco, have helped expose VPNFilter, the massive botnet that loomed over Ukraine and tracked cybercriminals who have used mobile device management servers to distribute malware. On the sidelines of the Black Hat and DEF CON conference in Las Vegas this month, CyberScoop sat down with Craig Williams, Talos’s director of outreach, to get his take on some of these high-profile threats and how he approaches the craft of investigating malware campaigns. Like most other threat intelligence units, Talos has to manage a critical relationship with law enforcement, deciding when to loop-in the public sector as it comes across all different kinds of attacks. Williams provides some insight into how Talos handles these interactions, which can often be as complex as the malware he pores over daily. This conversation […]
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