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About the Role:

CrowdStrike is looking for a self-starting, action-oriented, and highly motivated Senior Security Researcher to join our Counter Adversary Operations Team. This position will require the candidate to track and collect information related to Russian-language eCrime actors, tools, tradecraft, and techniques in a wide variety of environments, to include the deep and dark web and is instrumental in providing unique insight into finished Intelligence products used by CrowdStrike customers and stakeholders.

The successful candidate will be an operational security (OPSEC)-savvy, detail-oriented problem solver, and have substantial experience driving concurrent projects, self-motivation and ability to execute assigned tasks to completion with minimal direction.

Highly qualified candidates will be a subject matter expert on eCrime, especially Russian-language eCrime threat actors, have significant experience conducting advanced engagement and research pertaining to Russian/Eastern-European eCrime activity, possess a solid understanding of threat intelligence, have strong open source (OSINT) research skills, and be comfortable with internal and cross-team collaboration.

What You'll Do:

• Collect unique, relevant actionable, and timely information to answer established standing and ad hoc requirements related to eCrime actors, especially Russian-language eCrime actors.

• Leverage advanced engagement skills and OSINT tradecraft to follow up on leads and identify eCrime threat actors and track them in various online communities.

• Identify current and emerging cyber threats and trends pertaining to eCrime threat actors, including technical information with a special focus around Russian-language eCrime actors.

• Create consistently clear, highly-contextualised internal reports of collected information in a way that enables robust analysis.

• Collaborate with teams producing analytical reports and threat estimates pertaining to eCrime topics, especially Russian language threat actors.

• Employ secure virtual operational tradecraft methods and practices.

What You'll Need:

Required:

• Advanced engagement skills with threat actors.

• Extensive experience conducting OSINT investigations using Russian-language skills.

• Experience in navigating a wide variety of cyber threat actor environments, to include social media, hidden services, and forums.

• In-depth familiarity with a wide variety of eCrime groups generally, with a specialty in Russian-language ones.

• Practical knowledge of technical terminology, tools, and tactics employed by eCrime actors, particularly those used by Russian-language eCrime actors.

• Ability to adapt quickly to changing environments and identify creative solutions to difficult problems and scenarios with persistence. Tenacity is key.

• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as self-motivation to collect independently and proactively.

• Ability to work effectively under tight deadlines with minimal guidance.

• Excellent attention to detail.

• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Preferred:

• Language capabilities including, but not limited to, Russian and Ukrainian.

• Prior intelligence community, human intelligence (HUMINT), or cyber threat intelligence background highly preferred. Practical experience with virtual HUMINT is highly desirable.

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