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2022-09-06 08:00:00 | Researcher Spotlight: How Asheer Malhotra looks for \'instant gratification\' in threat hunting (lien direct) | The India native has transitioned from a reverse-engineer hobbyist to a public speaker in just a few years By Jon Munshaw. Ninety percent of Asheer Malhotra's work will never see the light of day. But it's that 10 percent that keeps him motivated to keep looking for something new. The Talos Outreach researcher spends most of his days looking into potential new threats. Many times, that leads to dead ends of threats that have already been discovered and blocked or don't have any additional threads to pull on. But eventually, the “lightbulb goes off,” as he puts it, which indicates something is a new threat the wider public needs to know about. During his time at Talos, Malhotra has spent much of his time looking into cyber attacks and state-sponsored threat actors in Asia, like the Transparent Tribe group he's written about several times. “At some point, I say 'Hey, I don't think I've seen this before.' I start analyzing public disclosures, and slowly start gaining confidence and being able to craft a narrative around the motivations and tactics around a specific threat actor or malware campaign,” he said. In the case of Transparent Tribe, Malhotra's tracked their growth as a major player in the threat landscape in Asia, as they've added several remote access trojans to their arsenal, targeted high-profile government-adjacent entities in India and expanded their scope across the region. When he's not threat hunting, Malhotra also speaks to Cisco customers about the current state of cybersecurity in briefings and delivers presentations at conferences around the world (mainly virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic).  “I always try to find the latest and new stuff to talk about. … I've been honing my skills and trying to speak more confidently publicly, but the confidence is backed up with the right kind of knowledge and the threat intelligence, that's what helps me succeed,” he said. Malhotra is a native of India and spent most of his life there before coming to the U.S. for his master's degree at Mississippi State University. Mississippi was a far cry from everything else he had known up until that point, but he quickly adjusted. “That was the 'Deep South,'” he said. “So there was a culture shock, but the southern hospitality is such a real thing, and it felt very normal there.” Growing up, Malhotra always knew he wanted to work with computers, starting out as a teenager reverse-engineering exploits he'd see others talk about on the internet or just poking at smaller applications. His additional interest in politics and national security made it natural for him to combine the two and focus his research on state-sponsored actors. He enjoys continuing his research in the Indian subcontinent and sees many parallels between the state of security in India and the U.S. “Th |
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