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Threat Researcher

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Role Summary

As a Sophos Labs Threat Response Engineer you will be responsible for providing protection against malware, email spam and other cyber-threats. 

What you will do

  • You will be analyzing new malware and spam samples, developing protection against them and handling other protection issues reported by our customers in a timely manner and with quality.
  • Analyze files reported by our customers to determine their type and risk level
  • Create first-line detection signatures for new malicious Windows executable
  • Monitor email spam protection levels and respond to spam outbreaks in a timely manner using appropriate anti-spam detection technology available
  • Triage and manage cyber-threat related requests coming from our customers by collecting all the necessary information, responding to standard requests and escalating complex issues to problem domain experts for resolution.
  • Handle false positive reports from customers triggered in anti-spam, URL filtering or anti-malware filtering layers
  • Use Sophos data publishing systems to build, test and release protection updates for customer use
  • Write descriptions for threats for publication on the Sophos website to raise customer awareness

What you will bring

  • 3-6 years of overall experience in Malware Analysis
  • Good understanding of common Internet standards (HTTP, SMTP, DNS, Whois, HTML, RFC822, SSH)
  • Understanding of x86 architecture and familiarity with x86 Assembly
  • Understanding of Windows OS fundamentals
  • Basic understanding of computer and IT security
  • Practical understanding of PE file format structures
  • Desired skills and experiences
  • Reverse engineering with IDA or other tools
  • Malware and/or spam analysis skills
  • Scripting experience (Shell, Perl, Python, JavaScript)
  • Linux user experience
  • SQL experience
  • Should be felxible working in shifts and weekend.

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