Anastasia Tikhonova, Head of APT Research at Group-IB. Anastasia Tikhonova has been researching financially motivated cyber criminals for the last 8 years. For the last five years, this research has been further honed into researching the activities and changing TTPs of nation-state hackers. Hunting newly created infrastructure of these actors and researching this activity with her APT Research team consumes her business and night hours. Besides her technical contributions, Anastasia takes part in different interviews, webinars and conferences in APAC, notably the OT-ISAC Summit, the Asia Pacific FS-ISAC summit and Govware.  She goes by her personal mantra: “I try to demonstrate by my example that even if it is not easy from the start, you should not give up but rather move forward while staying true to your principles.”