Anthony Joe Melgarejo Anthony Melgarejo was born in Manila in 1990. In 2012, he started his career as a threat research engineer at Trend Micro, where his main role was to analyse malware and create technical reports. He is a contributor to the TrendLabs Security Intelligence Blog where he writes about noteworthy malware and threats such as Shellshock and the Sony hack. In June 2014, he temporarily joined Trend University to train aspiring threat reponse and reseach engineers. In 2015, he joined the Subject Matter Experts (SME) Team where he will handle crypto-ransom malware evolution research.