Apurv is a cybercrime researcher working as a senior threat research analyst at Cyble. He is focused on monitoring and analyzing a wide spectrum of sources, creating automated tools, and performing threat investigations by utilizing HUMINT, SOCMINT, and OSINT and producing threat intelligence. He has contributed to the latest SANS Institute's course FOR589 on Cybercrime Intelligence and is a contributing member of Curated Intel. He has delivered talks and workshops at national and international conferences like SANS OSINT Summit, SANS Cyber Defense Forum, DEF CON Blue Team Village, BSides Singapore, RootCon, and others. He is featured in major podcasts like ITSPMagazine and Tech Talks with Singh. He is passionate about giving back to the community and helping others get into this field, and has delivered many talks and workshops in schools and colleges. He loves volunteering with StationX to help students navigate into cybersecurity. In the past, he has also volunteered as a darknet researcher at CTI League and the EBCS darknet analysis group. He holds a master's degree in information security from Georgia Institute of Technology. He looks forward to the end of the day to play and stream one of the AAA games, Rainbow 6 Siege.