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The LockBit ransomware gang no longer offers just one service, like ransomware, but multiple services, like anti-analysis tools and bug bounty programs. Mick Baccio from Splunk’s SURGe explains how ransomware gangs are evolving into crimeware-as-a-service platforms, as one stop shop for all your online criminal needs.

You could, of course, sell your skillz to the dark web. Or you could legitimately report what you find and get paid to do so. You might even travel the world. In this episode of The Hacker Mind, I return to Episode 7 with Tim Becker, Episode 9 with Stok, and Episode 22 with Jack Cable to get their perspective on leaving 1337 skillz while getting paid by various bug bounty programs.

CTFs are for people to teach themselves, through games, how to be better hackers. In fact, some are designed to teach you, through gamification, how to reverse engineer. At the very least, Capture the Flag challenges you to solve problems creatively. That’s something that is often missing.

Red teams and pen tests are point in time assessments. What if you could simulate an ongoing attack to test your teams’ readiness? You can with a cyber range. Lee Rossi, CTO and co founder.of SimSpace, a cyber range company, joins The Hacker Mind podcast to explain how using both live Red Teams and automated cyber ranges can keep your organization ahead of the attackers.

Just because you have a tool, like ATT&CK, you might not realize its full potential without someone being there to guide you … at least in the beginning. Frank, now the chief innovation officer and co founder of Tidal Security, returns to The Hacker Mind to discuss the ATT&CK, only ...

DEF CON is 30 years old this year, and it’s bigger and better in part because of topic-specific villages. Here’s an inside look at four of the most popular villages.

Fighting organized crime online might seem like a logical extension for law enforcement, but, in fact, it is not all that straight forward. Michael McPherson is someone with 25 years in the FBI, who has transitioned out to the corporate world, and can best describe the experiences on both sides.

There’s a war online in Ukraine, one that you haven’t heard much about, in part because the country is holding its own thanks to infosec volunteers worldwide. Mikko Hypponen joins The Hacker Mind to discuss cybercrime unicorns and the fog of cyber war that surrounds the Ukrainian war.

Living off the Land (LoL) is an attack where files already on your machine, ie your operating system, are used against you. They would be undetectable, right? Kyle Hanslovan CEO of Huntress Labs joins The Hacker Mind to discuss recent LoL attacks.