Joshua St. Hilaire

Director of Security Research

Joshua St.Hilaire is currently a Director of Security Research at Vectra where he currently leads research on adversarial detection models. He has twenty years of experience in computer security focused on incident response, threat hunting and reverse-engineering. Additionally, Joshua St. Hilaire began his career serving the United States Air Force and was responsible for keeping U.S. DoD information systems secure on a global scale.

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Volt Typhoon: LOLBins get serious

The recent Microsoft announcement on “Volt Typhoon” activity brings the reality of persistent threat actors back into the spotlight.

C2 Evasion Techniques: Understanding Malleable C2 Profiles

Network and endpoint defense technologies will have to either rapidly update signatures or use other investigative ways to detect command and control (C2). Uncover how threat actors evade security tools to execute C2 techniques to learn about what you should look for.

C2 Evasion Techniques: Understanding JA3/S Randomization and Cipher Stunting

Learn how Command and Control (C2) frameworks are continuing to evolve in order to evade detection. Here we will examine a method known as JA3 signature randomization.