How looking at decades of spam led Jaeson Schultz from Y2K to the metaverse and cryptocurrency
Summary: Jaeson Schultz, a Cisco Talos researcher focused on email threats and spam, has worked in security for more than 25 years, starting with IT support for the state of Nevada and later anti-spam roles at Brightmail and an email provider's abuse desk before reaching Cisco through its acquisition of IronPort. He now studies how attackers use typosquatted domains, DNS manipulation, new top-level domains like .zip, and emerging technologies including Web3, the metaverse and cryptocurrency exchanges.
Key Takeaway: Schultz notes that the number of people who actually get in trouble for online crimes is low relative to the work poured into cybersecurity, and that the basic themes of social engineering have stayed the same even as the techniques evolved.
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