Security News > 2022 > February > Ex-Gumshoe Nabs Cybercrooks with FBI Tactics

Crane Hassold, former FBI analyst turned director of threat intel at Abnormal Security, shares stories from his covert work with cyberattackers.

"Behavioral characteristics and motivations of cybercriminals in the real world and virtual world are the same," said Crane Hassold, who helped to create the CBAC after spending more than 11 years as an FBI analyst, offering strategic and tactical analytical support to cyber, financial crime and violent crime cases.

During his stint at the FBI, Hassold researched a slew of cyber threat flavors: malware, network intrusions, denial-of-service attacks, botnets, phishing and hacktivism.

Hassold spent his days scouring digital evidence to identify behavioral artifacts and investigative leads and reverse-engineering malicious code to better understand adversary motivations and tactics.

He's got some interesting stories: stories about looking at cyber threats at a more human level, about delving into more than the tools, techniques and procedures - all those technical bells and whistles of cybercrime.

Hassold visited the Threatpost podcast recently to share his stories about using the concepts built by the FBI to understand how criminals exploit victims' behavior in business email compromise, about engaging with BEC actors, and more.

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https://threatpost.com/gumshoe-nabs-cybercrooks-fbi-tactics/178298/