Vishal Thakur Vishal Thakur has worked in the information security industry for many years in hands-on technical roles, specialising in Incident Response with a heavy focus on Emerging Threats, Malware Analysis and Research. Vishal regularly conducts training sessions and presents research at international security conferences (France, England, Australia). Vishal also regularly publishes his research; some of the links have been included in this document. Other research teams have used Vishal’s publications to carry out further work in malware analysis. Vishal is currently Senior Director of DFIR at Ankura Consulting. Before joining Ankura, Vishal worked as a Senior Researcher at Salesforce, helping their Incident Response Centre with advanced threat analysis and developing DFIR tools. Vishal has also worked as a member of the CSIRT at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and in the consulting industry in the past. Website: malienist.medium.com