Emilio Iasiello has twenty years of experience in cyber threat intelligence leading teams at the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Department of State in strategic cyber intelligence production supporting national-level decision-makers and senior civilian and military policymakers. Emilio has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Parameters, Journal of Strategic Security, Georgetown University Journal of International Affairs, and War on the Rocks, among others, and has presented at NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence and an international Aviation conference. He is a frequent contributor to cyber-related blogs.
Indeed, over the past few years, ransomware operators have shifted tactics, moving from widespread targeting intended to collect smaller ransoms from several entities to being more selective in what organizations are targeted and setting larger ransom amounts. One recent tactic revealed ransomware operators using virtual machine to evade detection, which was quickly adopted by other groups.
