Cameron Malin at Eagle Security Group

Cameron Malin is an esteemed expert in Cyber Behavioral Profiling with a deep knowledge of digital forensics who has testified regarding cyber-crime, computer intrusions, malicious code (malware) and cyber attacks. Specifically, he has testified in the Federal court system and has provided guidance related to how cyber-crimes were conducted, how malware was used to compromise a victim's computer systems, malware forensics, digital evidence review, types of cyber-attacks, cyber-crime conspiracies, criminal conspiracies, malware used to profit schemes, general properties and characteristics of malware, characteristics of cyber-attacks, and more. Formerly, Mr. Malin was an Assistant State Attorney (ASA) and Special Assistant United States Attorney in Miami, Florida, where he specialized in computer crime prosecutions.

He has over twenty-two years of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) experience investigating, analyzing, profiling and locating cyber adversaries across the spectrum of local cyber criminals to national security attacks. As a Cyber Behavioral Profiler and former Supervisory Special Agent/Behavioral Profiler with the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), he specialized in the assessment of cyber attackers, cyber adversary tradecraft, cyber deception and digital behavioral criminalistics.

Services

Mr. Malin serves Eagle Security Group as an expert in Cyber Behavioral Profiling: Cyber/Malware Attack Analysis, Targeted Violence (Online Reputation Damage/Smear Campaigns), Cyber Intrusion/Insider Threat, Assessing Online Behavior in Digital Devices (Digital Behavioral Criminalistics) and in White Collar/Economic Crimes: Corporate Fraud / Embezzlement / Misappropriation of Funds and Intellectual Property /Transactional Analysis.

Litigation Support Services

As a Special Agent for the FBI, testified on cases before Federal Grand Jury, Preliminary Hearing, and at trial. In each of these cases, testified concerning the facts of the investigation in the following matters:
• Cyber Crime
• Computer Intrusions
• Malicious Code (“Malware”)
• Cyber Attacks

Testified to facts and/or provided professional guidance related to how cyber crimes were conducted, how malware was used to compromise victim computer systems, malware forensics, digital evidence review, types of cyber-attacks, cyber crime conspiracies, criminal conspiracies, malware used to profit schemes, general properties and characteristics of malware, characteristics of cyber-attacks, and more.

Areas of Expertise

Additional Expertise:

Malicious Code, Cyber Behavioral Analysis, Cyber/Malware Attack Analysis, Targeted Violence (Online Reputation Damage/Smear Campaigns), Cyber Intrusion/Insider Threat, Digital Behavioral Criminalistics, Behavioral Threat Intelligence, Cyber Victimology Assessment, Cyber Behavioral Threat Assessment, Cyber Deception, Deepfake and Synthetic Media Analysis, Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics, Risk Mitigation.

Profile

Cameron Malin is an esteemed expert in Cyber Behavioral Profiling with a deep knowledge of digital forensics who has testified regarding cyber-crime, computer intrusions, malicious code (malware) and cyber attacks. Specifically, he has testified in the Federal court system and has provided guidance related to how cyber-crimes were conducted, how malware was used to compromise a victim's computer systems, malware forensics, digital evidence review, types of cyber-attacks, cyber-crime conspiracies, criminal conspiracies, malware used to profit schemes, general properties and characteristics of malware, characteristics of cyber-attacks, and more. Formerly, Mr. Malin was an Assistant State Attorney (ASA) and Special Assistant United States Attorney in Miami, Florida, where he specialized in computer crime prosecutions.

He has over twenty-two years of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) experience investigating, analyzing, profiling and locating cyber adversaries across the spectrum of local cyber criminals to national security attacks. As a Cyber Behavioral Profiler and former Supervisory Special Agent/Behavioral Profiler with the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), he specialized in the assessment of cyber attackers, cyber adversary tradecraft, cyber deception and digital behavioral criminalistics.

Mr. Malin founded two specialized sub units: the FBI BAU's Cyber Behavioral Analysis Center (CBAC) - the methodology and application of science-based behavioral profiling and assessment to national security and criminal cyber offenders - and the BAU's Deception and Influence Group (DIG) - a uniquely trained and experienced cadre of Behavioral Profilers specializing in analyses of and countermeasures to adversary cyber deception campaigns and influence operations.

He has assessed hundreds of offenders and cases spanning the spectrum of cyber, counterintelligence, counterterrorism and violent crime matters. Employing his training and experience, Mr. Malin developed Digital Behavioral Criminalistics™, a combined application of numerous forensic disciplines - digital forensics, criminalistics, and behavioral sciences - to meaningfully uncover offender thoughts and actions in digital artifacts. He formally introduced this discipline in his book chapter, “Digital Behavioral Criminalistics to Elucidate the Cyber Pathway to Intended Violence,” in the International Handbook of Threat Assessment.

He is a co-author of the authoritative cyber deception book, Deception in the Digital Age: Exploiting and Defending Human Targets Through Computer-Mediated Communication and co-author of the Malware Forensics book series: Malware Forensics: Investigating and Analyzing Malicious Code, Malware Forensics Field Guide for Windows Systems, and Malware Forensics Field Guide for Linux Systems.

Upon retiring from his illustrious career with the FBI, Mr. Malin founded Modus Cyberandi, a company that provides consulting services related to the prevention and analysis of formidable cyber-crimes, including cyber behavioral profiling. He now serves Eagle as an expert in Cyber Behavioral Profiling: Cyber/Malware Attack Analysis, Targeted Violence (Online Reputation Damage/Smear Campaigns), Cyber Intrusion/Insider Threat, Assessing Online Behavior in Digital Devices (Digital Behavioral Criminalistics) and in White Collar/Economic Crimes: Corporate Fraud/Embezzlement/Misappropriation of Funds and Intellectual Property/Transactional Analysis.

Areas Served

All States

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Legal Experience & Services

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Affiliations

Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP), 2023-Current
Authors Guild, 2009-Present
Florida Bar Association, 1998-Present
Information System Security Certification Consortium, (ISC)², 2004-Present
NATO Cognitive Warfare Community of Interest, Warfare Development Imperative, 2021-Present
United States Intelligence Community (USIC) Active Measures Working Group, 2020-2023
USIC Foreign Denial & Deception Committee (FDDC), 2018-2023

Seminars & Training

Training and Presentations Provided

Selected by the FBI to speak to prosecutors, law enforcement communities and USIC officials both nationally and internationally, provided intensive hands-on instruction, seminars and training over the course of 21 years about a variety of topics to include cyber crime investigation, cyber behavioral analysis (colloquially known as profiling), cyber deception, cyber information operations, cyber threat actor psychology, and proper interviewing and elicitation techniques.

Sought after presenter/trainer for law enforcement and USIC personnel throughout the country and abroad. Provided instruction on a wide range of topics to include the most effective way to interview cyber attackers, psychological aspects of cyber attackers, human engagement strategies ranging from approach, and influence operations.

Trained and educated investigators and USIC personnel on a myriad of topics including but not limited to cyber threat actor motives, offender typology, criminal investigative analysis, violations relating to cyber attacks and digital crime scene interpretation.

Provided presentations, training and seminars to the following national agencies and organizations:
• Add recent speaking engagements
• Cyber Behavioral Profiling: Assessing Cyber Threat Actors, SecureWorld Chicago, June 2024
• Asymmetric Cyber Deception: Understanding and Assessing Deepfakes and Generative AI, Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan, February 2024
• The Dark Personality Traits Fueling Cybercrime, CrowdStrike Adversary Universe Podcast, February 2024
• Behavioral Profiling in Ransomware Engagements International Conference on Cyber Security (ICCS), Fordham University, January 2024
• Cyber Threats Tabletop Exercise, Cornell Tech (Cornell University) Board of Directors Forum, November 2023
• Five-Eye Behavioral Analysis Consortium to Combat Ransomware, Creator and Moderator: Symposium, September 2022
• The Art and Science of Information Elicitation, Counterintelligence Training Center, July 2022
• Digital Behavioral Criminalistics, International Homicide Investigator's Association, April 2022
• Cyber Deception Through Reflexive Control, NATO Cognitive Warfare Symposium, October 2021
• Assessing and Engaging Cyber Attackers, United States Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), July 2021
• Dissecting Russian Information Operations, United States Foreign Denial & Deception Committee, February 2021
• Foreign Cyber Influence, U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) Active Measures Working Group, January 2021
• Cyber Information and Psychological Operations, USIC Active Measures Working Group, November 2020
• Online Influence and Persuasion, Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy (JCITA), August 2019
• Cyber Attackers and Dark Personality Characteristics, National Security Psychology Symposium (NSPS), July 2019
• Cyber Adversary Assessment and Engagement, United States Central Command, June 2019
• Malware Profiling: Applying Human Sciences to Malware Attacks, USIC Partner Symposium, April 2019
• Cyber Behavioral Analysis and the New Threatscape, Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, February 2019
• Cyber Behavioral Analysis for Intelligence Matters, JCITA Cyber Threat Seminar, August 2018
• Cyber Behavioral Profiling, United States Joint Special Operations Command, August 2017
• Cyber Psychology & Online Persona Analysis, Joint United States/Canadian Government Cyber Workshop, July 2017
• Profiling Cyber Attackers: Mindset and Motivations, United States Sentencing Commission, April 2017
• Behavioral Profiling of Cyber Attackers, Joint United States/Australian Government Cyber Workshop, August 2016

Publications

Malin, C. H. (2021). “Digital Behavioral Criminalistics to Elucidate the Cyber Pathway to Intended Violence” in J. Reid Meloy, and Jens Hoffmann (eds) International Handbook of Threat Assessment, 2 edn. Oxford University Press.

Malin C. H., et. al. (2017). Deception in the Digital Age: Exploiting and Defending Human Targets Through Computer-Mediated Communications. Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier.

Malin C. H., et. al. (2014). Malware Forensic Field Guide for Linux Systems. Syngress, an imprint of Elsevier. Malin C. H., et. al. (2012). Malware Forensics Field Guide for Windows Systems. Syngress, an imprint of Elsevier.

Malin C. H., et. al. (2008). Malware Forensics: Investigating and Analyzing Malicious Code. Syngress, an imprint of Elsevier.

Education

1998 Juris Doctor
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

Bachelor of Science – Legal Studies (Pre-Law)
Nova Southeastern University
Davie, Florida