DC608

media release: DC608 mission statement is to inspire, motivate, and mentor others in the Madison, Wisconsin area community to learn and share knowledge relating to cybersecurity. We welcome anyone, regardless of their skill, age, job, gender, etc. DEF CON Groups are designed to help others learn new things, meet new people, mentor others in areas you may be strong in, and provide some cohesion within the hacker culture and its members.

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Feb. 5:

Join us for our monthly meetup! This month’s speaker is Aidan Raney giving their talk: North Korean Job Hunters: Key Insights from Infiltrating the North Korean IT Worker Fraud Network.

Thousands of North Koreans are getting remote work jobs around the country and pretending to be you (American IT workers), taking jobs away from normal people, funneling salaries to North Korean nuclear weapons programs, and creating a very serious hidden insider threat. This speaker infiltrated their operations and discovered how they are doing this without getting caught. Now he is sharing his insights so you can defend your networks and data from insider threats. Get important threat intelligence and hear a fun hacker war story while you're at it.

Aidan Raney is known as a leading expert in open source intelligence, publishing the OSINT Insider newsletter and producing content on OSINT for his social media audience. His day job is as the Chief Product Officer for Alerts Bar, where he is building threat intelligence solutions to combat threats like infostealers, and in his freetime he researches emerging threats and assists in intelligence operations that impact the cybersecurity community (like this one), internet crimes against children task-forces, non-profits in the counter child exploitation space, and law enforcement around the world. His dedication is not just to cybersecurity and protecting innocent people's data, but to going after the bad actors who exploit children and hide behind the vail of internet anonymity.