Daniel Blackford currently leads Proofpoint's global threat research team devoted to tracking financially motivated threat actors. From high-profile botnets to credential harvesting and business email compromise, Daniel's team is in the weeds every day leveraging Proofpoint's world-class visibility to make high-confidence attributions and to share their findings with defenders across the world. Prior to his work at Proofpoint, Daniel worked as a malware analyst at the NCFTA (National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance) and got his start tracking adversaries as a combat engineer with the US Army.