Paul Melson's Blog

On October 4, 2020 I came across an interesting malware sample.  The payload is a Cobalt Strike Beacon stager, and the initial loader was bu...

My PowerShell hunting presentation from BSides Augusta 2019.

This is the presentation I gave at BSides Augusta 2018 on the @ScumBots project. The GitHub repo for this project is located at https://gi...

This is my talk from BSides Augusta 2017. I can't say enough good things about the caliber of speakers and the concentration of defend...

Last fall, as promised, I made a return trip to BSides Augusta to talk about malware analysis, the Viper Framework , and threat intelligenc...

Earlier this month I had the privilege of speaking at BSides Augusta .  I gave a lightning talk on working with the Viper Framework for sta...

In June I gave a presentation at BSides Detroit entitled, "Broke, Note Broken: An Effective Information Security Program With a $0 Budg...