Chris Boyd

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Award winning Infosec researcher | 7 time Microsoft MVP | Google Hall of Fame (2006) | Keeper of the visa and the colander | 🇬🇧​ 🇵🇭​
Paperghost.comhttps://www.paperghost.com/p/about-me.html
Show threadChris BoydNov 7, 2023
@http_error_418 ta daaaaa
Chris BoydNov 6, 2023
rounding off a decade of research with my final talk for malwarebytes at this year's virus bulletin conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLDcKHsvXOY the full paper about visa and immigration scams can be found here: https://www.virusbulletin.com/uploads/pdf/conference/vb2023/papers/The-history-and-tactics-of-visa-centric-scams-in-search-spam-and-social-apps.pdf
The history & tactics of visa-centric scams in search, spam, & social apps Chris Boyd (Malwarebytes)

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Show threadChris BoydSep 12, 2023
@LysaMyers principal threat researcher comes very close to what i have done / do now (with a few "i haven't done all of this stuff" caveats). would hugely appreciate a good word for that one though - I can probably get a submission in for it on thursday. thanks!
Chris BoydSep 11, 2023
@brianhonan cheers!
Show threadChris BoydSep 11, 2023
@gsuberland ah, boo to the bad stuff and hooray for the good stuff!
Show threadChris BoydSep 11, 2023
@gsuberland ole boydy's (soon to be) out of a job lmao https://infosec.exchange/@paperghost/111047507006190661 not bad other than that, how's you?
Chris Boyd (@[email protected])

I'll be looking for work from next month. If you know of a UK based, full-time remote position in security (I research but I usually - but not always! - report to marketing as everything I do is public facing) then by all means let me know. linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/in/paperghost/

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Show threadChris BoydSep 11, 2023
@gsuberland still here! something went wrong with my login and it's taken me forever to fix. still largely over on the hellsite and bluesky at the moment
Chris BoydSep 11, 2023
I'll be looking for work from next month. If you know of a UK based, full-time remote position in security (I research but I usually - but not always! - report to marketing as everything I do is public facing) then by all means let me know. linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/in/paperghost/
Chris BoydMay 5, 2023
i had to play counter strike for work purposes which was somewhat novel https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/05/evading-russian-media-restrictions-with-custom-video-game-maps
Newspaper evades Russian censors, hides news in Counter-Strike map

We take a look at one newspaper's innovative way of bypassing Russian media restrictions.

Malwarebytes
Chris BoydMay 5, 2023
Jonty WareingMay 4, 2023

It turns out you can simply serve a file from a domain to use it as your bsky handle.

So this guy is now S3. All of S3.