SpyCloud is on a mission to make the internet a safer place by disrupting the criminal underground. SpyCloud ’s solutions thwart cyberattacks and protect more than 4 billion accounts worldwide. Cybersecurity is an exciting, evolving space, and being at the forefront of the fight to disrupt cybercrime makes SpyCloud a special place to work. If you’re driven to align your career with a fantastic mission, look no further!
SpyCloud is looking for a self-driven Security Researcher to join our team and participate in our research initiatives that drive SpyCloud ’s tailored intelligence collection. You will work closely with teams across the organization to build applications and processes that enable data collection at scale.
What You'll Do
- Data Collection: Locate, target and recapture data from Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) kits using a combination of human intelligence and platform sourcing.
- Data Analysis: Apply data science techniques to understand the quality of sourced data, in order to refine and improve the PhaaS data sourcing pipeline.
- Human Intelligence: Perform human intelligence techniques such as managing multiple alternate personas, actor engagements, and social engineering in support of data recapture efforts.
- Security Analysis: Participate in the drafting of research blogs and analytical products to support customers and business objectives.
- Security Research: Participate in security research including investigation of threat actors, PhaaS, and other critical research in support of SpyCloud ’s priorities.
Requirements
- 5+ year(s) experience as a cybersecurity researcher, analyst, or similar cybersecurity related position.
- Working knowledge of modern PhaaS kits and techniques, inducing AiTM and Device Code phishing.
- Working knowledge of the criminal underground and how to access data traded through the deep and dark net.
- Experience with human intelligence techniques including elicitation, persona management, and direct threat actor engagement.
- Critical thinker that is comfortable supporting collaborative problem solving in a team environment.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Highly curious, empathetic, flexible and self-directed.
- Experience working in a remote work environment with team members all around the world.
- A passion for thwarting bad actors in the cyber criminal ecosystem.
Nice to Have
- Experience with a high-level programming language like Python, Rust, Go.
- Experience working with large enterprises in delivery of security analytics products.
- Experience in using data science to analyze datasets for the purposes of detecting fraud or cyberthreats.
- Experience with databases (relational or NoSQL).
- Experience automating data collection and analysis with a programming language.
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