Ukraine’s Top Cyber Cop on Defending Against Disinformation and Russian Hackers
In recent years, Ukraine has become an involuntary testing ground for some of the most dangerous cyberweapons in the world. Serhii Demediuk has perhaps played the most prominent role in defending Ukraine against digital intrusions, investigating cyberattacks and the groups behind them, and strengthening the country’s capabilities in cyberspace….
A Conversation With Jack Rhysider About How He Started His Hit Hacking Podcast Darknet Diaries—and What It Has Taught Him About Infosec
“On a weekly basis, I get some CEO messaging me saying that they would love to be on the show. My first question is always, ‘Have you ever been hacked? And are you willing to talk about that?’ Because that’s the story I want. I want a first-hand experience of the worst day of your life on the job…”
A Conversation With the DoJ Attorney Who Is Exposing State-Sponsored Hackers
“The honest truth is if we’re going to be public about charges, we’re going to charge the case when it’s ready to be charged, when we’re able to line up what we need to operationally, allowing for things like engaging foreign partners and rally like-minded nations into joining us on commenting on the activity. We’re going to do that when we can do it, and if you don’t hear from us for a couple months it just means we’re working on something else…”
Bellingcat Founder Eliot Higgins on Finding Truth in a World of Disinformation
In 2013, Eliot Higgins was an unemployed finance and administration worker blogging about the Syrian civil war from his home in Leicester, about 100 miles north of London. Since then, Higgins has turned his hobby into a full-fledged investigative journalism operation, with an office in the Netherlands and 18 full-time employees…
‘Be Careful Who You Bite’: An Interview With the Businessman at the Center of One of Russia’s Biggest Treason Scandals
In 2013, Pavel Vrublevsky’s life turned upside down. After ten years of running a successful payments firm called ChronoPay, the Russian internet entrepreneur was convicted of orchestrating a distributed denial-of-service attack against a competing payments system used by Russian airline Aeroflot. Vrublevsky talked extensively with Recorded Future expert threat intelligence analyst Dmitry Smilyanets about this event and others in a recent interview…
How To Write for The Record
The Record by Recorded Future is looking for talented freelance writers to cover the untold stories of cybersecurity. These can be profiles of extraordinary people in the industry, investigations, news updates, personal essays, or deep dives explaining specific cybersecurity-related topics…
A Malware Detective Shares What Makes Some Attacks More Alarming Than Others
Few people have spent as much time studying malware as Costin Raiu. This year marks Raiu’s 20th anniversary with the