Abnormal Blog/Author/Crane Hassold
Abnormal Blog/Author/Crane Hassold
Crane Hassold
Former Director of Threat Intelligence
Crane Hassold is the former Director of Threat Intelligence at Abnormal Security, where he led an intelligence team responsible for researching enterprise-focused phishing threats. Prior to moving to the private sector in 2015, Crane served as an Analyst at the FBI for more than 11 years, spending most of his career in the Behavioral Analysis Units, providing support to intelligence community and law enforcement partners against national security adversaries and serial criminals. In 2012, Crane helped create the FBI’s Cyber Behavioral Analysis Center, which takes an asymmetric approach to examining cyber threats by combining the traditional behavioral concepts used for decades in the violent crime world with technical expertise to gain a holistic understanding of threat actor TTPs.
Threat Intel
BEC Groups Wage Multilingual Executive Impersonation Attacks Targeting Companies WorldwideFeb 16, 2023
Threat Intel
BEC Group Incorporates Secondary Impersonated Personas and Lookalike Domains in Convincing Third-Party Reconnaissance AttacksFeb 1, 2023
Threat Intel
Phishing Attacks Pose as Updated 2023 HR Policy AnnouncementsJan 19, 2023
Artificial Intelligence
The Double-Edged Sword of ChatGPT: How Threat Actors Could Use It for EvilDec 12, 2022
Data & Trends
Email Threats to Watch Out for During the HolidaysDec 7, 2022
Threat Intel
BEC Group Compromises Personal Accounts and Pulls Heartstrings to Launch Mass Gift Card AttacksNov 30, 2022
Threat Intel
Q3 2022: Ransomware Activity Levels Off, but the Landscape is More Centralized Than EverNov 14, 2022
Threat Intel
Crimson Kingsnake: BEC Group Impersonates International Law Firms in Blind Third-Party Impersonation AttacksNov 3, 2022
Threat Intel
Active Defense: Socially Engineering the Social EngineersOct 6, 2022
Threat Intel
BEC Group Uses Manufactured Email Threads and Brand Impersonation to Facilitate Invoice FraudOct 4, 2022
Threat Intel
Back to School: BEC Group Targets Teachers with Payroll Diversion AttacksSep 13, 2022
Threat Intel
Q2 2022: Ransomware Landscape Continues Its Decline as Another Major Group Shuts DownAug 15, 2022
Threat Intel
The 4 Most Damaging Types of Financial Supply Chain CompromiseJul 15, 2022
Threat Intel
Understanding the Basics of Financial Supply Chain CompromiseJul 7, 2022
Threat Intel
New Abnormal Research Shows Rise in Financial Supply Chain Compromise as Attackers Turn to Vendor ImpersonationJun 22, 2022
Threat Intel
A Deep Dive into Active Ransomware GroupsMay 27, 2022
Threat Intel
Ransomware Volume Drops as a Main Player Exits the StageMay 5, 2022
Business Email Compromise
Unlucky #7: FBI Data Shows BEC Is the Top Cyber Threat for Seventh Year in a RowMar 24, 2022
Threat Intel
The Victimology of Ransomware: 4,200 Ransomware Victims and CountingFeb 23, 2022
Threat Intel
The Driving Factors Behind Today’s Ransomware LandscapeFeb 4, 2022
Threat Intel
New Ransomware Research Shows Growth Trends Across the Threat LandscapeJan 25, 2022
Threat Intel
Nigerian Ransomware: An Inside Look at Soliciting Employees to Deploy DemonWareAug 19, 2021