Abhijit Mohanta has a decade of experience in cybersecurity. He works as a security researcher at Juniper Networks. He has worked with Cyphort (now part of Juniper), McAfee, and Symantec as a security researcher. His expertise includes reverse-engineering, automation, malware analysis, Microsoft Windows programming, and machine learning. He has worked on antivirus, sandboxes, and intrusion prevention systems. He has also authored a number of blogs about malware and has a couple of patents pending related to malware detection.
I am deeply indebted to my friends who have helped in gathering content for the book. Special thanks to Brad Duncan, owner of malware-traffic-analysis.net for providing malicious pcaps. I would also like to thank Anoop Saldanha, Arunpreet Singh and Dhruval Gandhi for providing valuable inputs for the book. A special mention to Sharon Raj and Mohit Hassija for all their efforts and hard work!
Mounir Hahad head of threat research at Juniper Networks, is a cybersecurity expert focused on malware research, detection techniques, and threat intelligence. Prior to joining Juniper, he was the head of threat research at Cyphort, a company focused on advanced threat detection and security analytics. He has also held various leadership positions at Cisco and IronPort working on VPN, UTM, email, and web security. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Rennes in France.
Kumaraguru Velmurugan has over 10 years of experience in malware analysis and remedial measures. He has been associated with different antivirus and sandbox products in his career. He is a passionate reverse engineer and is interested in assembly programming and automation in the cybersecurity domain. He has authored and assisted technically in blogging about interesting key features employed by malware and owns a patent on malware remedial measures.
Himanshu Sharma has achieved fame for finding security loopholes and vulnerabilities in Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Adobe, Uber, AT&T, Avira, and many more. He has gained worldwide recognition through his hacking skills. He was a speaker at Botconf '13, held in Nantes, France and at IEEE Conference in California and Malaysia, as well as for TedX. Currently, he is the cofounder of BugsBounty—a crowd-sourced security platform for ethical hackers and companies interested in cyber services. He has also authored Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook, by Packt Publishing.
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