Alex J.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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My cybersecurity contributions have been featured in SANS courses, on the websites of the…

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Volunteer Experience

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    Malware Analyst

    VirusTotal

    - Present 7 years 4 months

    Science and Technology

    Thwarting malware campaigns one maldoc at a time.

    Analyse Remcos & NanoCore RATs, Trickbot, Emotet & multiple malware droppers; and report TTP & IOC on VT.

    Profile: https://www.virustotal.com/#/user/westwind

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    CTF Contender

    Hack The Box

    - Present 7 years 9 months

    Science and Technology

    Handle: Praetor1an

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    Research Volunteer

    Zooniverse

    - 2 years 2 months

    Science and Technology

    Research volunteer for the following projects:
    - Kepler K2 Exoplanet Explorers (10,218 classifications made): Discovering planets orbiting distant stars.
    - Gravity Spy (231 classifications made): Helping scientists at LIGO search for gravitational waves.
    - Milky Way Project (21 classifications made): Measure & mapping the Milky Way galaxy.
    - Higgs Hunter (88 classifications made): Uncovering the building blocks of the universe, searching for unknown exotic particles in the LHC…

    Research volunteer for the following projects:
    - Kepler K2 Exoplanet Explorers (10,218 classifications made): Discovering planets orbiting distant stars.
    - Gravity Spy (231 classifications made): Helping scientists at LIGO search for gravitational waves.
    - Milky Way Project (21 classifications made): Measure & mapping the Milky Way galaxy.
    - Higgs Hunter (88 classifications made): Uncovering the building blocks of the universe, searching for unknown exotic particles in the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) data.

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    Content Contributor

    Unprotect

    - Present 2 years 7 months

    Science and Technology

    Contributed - https://unprotect.it/technique/unloading-module-with-freelibrary/

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    GIAC Advisory Board Member

    GIAC Certifications

    - Present 2 years 7 months

    Science and Technology

    Member badge - https://www.credly.com/badges/8cfbff46-27e8-4821-bdda-83e869d0c515

Publications

  • Ransomware Kill Chain for Security Operations Center

    YASREF ISMS Knowledge Base

    The purpose of this publication was to map out the cyber kill-chain for Ransomware attacks. This allows a Security Operations Center Analyst to identify key steps of an attack and disrupt the kill-chain, thereby successfully stopping the attack.

Projects

  • Forensic Container Drift Detection

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    This project focuses on enhancing Google's Container Explorer tool by integrating drift detection functionality. The aim is to automate the process of identifying filesystem changes (drift) in containers, as this is often the first step. The implementation is inspired by the filesystem changes output generated by the Forensic Container Checkpointing feature in Kubernetes. My project extends that same functionality to support dead disk forensics, enabling the analysis of container filesystem…

    This project focuses on enhancing Google's Container Explorer tool by integrating drift detection functionality. The aim is to automate the process of identifying filesystem changes (drift) in containers, as this is often the first step. The implementation is inspired by the filesystem changes output generated by the Forensic Container Checkpointing feature in Kubernetes. My project extends that same functionality to support dead disk forensics, enabling the analysis of container filesystem changes even when working with offline disk images.

Honors & Awards

  • SANS Course Contributor Recognition - SANS Lethal Forensicator

    SANS Institute

    Received the SANS Lethal Forensicator coin for a contribution to the SANS FOR509 Enterprise Cloud Forensics & Incident Response course.

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