Threat Researcher (Cybersecurity)

TL;DR

Threat Researcher (Cybersecurity): Investigating and tracking the latest cyber threats targeting the travel sector, focusing on hacker groups and their evolving tactics. Focus on finding undetected malware, DLP threats, and API weaknesses and improving security posture.

Location: Must be based in Bangkok, Thailand

Company

hirify.global bridges the world through travel, offering great deals across millions of hotels, flights, and experiences worldwide.

What you will do

• Hunt to find undetected malware, DLP threats and API weaknesses.
• Replicate malware in isolated environment and check security posture, and advice improvements.
• Identify TTPs used, malware family and threat actors based from attack information.
• Proactively automate repetitive tasks and leverage AI in these automations wherever possible.
• Analyze each step of the attack cycle and come up with detection ideas to mitigate them.
• Document and produce research content in form of reports.

Requirements

• Bachelors in Computer Science or related degree.
• Experience 2-5 years in cybersecurity research.
• Malware analysis (static and behavioral), network PCAP and memory analysis.
• Scripting knowledge (Python, PowerShell), Jupyter notebooks and working with no-code flows for automation.
• Fundamentals of malware and phishing attacks.
• Good communication skills in English to communicate security risks to other teams.

Nice to have

• Demonstration of published research in public domain is a big plus (Whitepapers, Blogs, GitHub etc.)
• Good at pattern recognition and thinking out of the box solutions.
• Passionate with fighting Cybercriminals, and up to date with latest security news.