Proofpoint’s director of threat research, Daniel Blackford, is set to take the Black Hat stage in 30 minutes! Responsible for threat actor attribution and tracking large-scale botnets, credential phishing, business email compromise, and nation-state-supported espionage, researchers on Daniel’s team leverage Proofpoint’s vast and diverse threat telemetry to identify malicious activity and combat it in real time. Prior to Proofpoint, Daniel worked as a malware analyst at the NCFTA and got his start tracking adversaries as a combat engineer with the US Army. Meet him at Theater B for his talk on the effectiveness of botnet takedowns by law enforcement.
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