Jakub Kroustek Jakub Kroustek leads the Threat Intelligence team at Avast. Prior to that he led the AVG Threat Intelligence team - for seven years combined. He and his team, which is based in Brno, Czech Republic, are focused on hunting new malware strains, dissecting them, and preparing malware detection methods. Furthermore, they are active in developing tools for malware analysis (e.g. Retargetable Decompiler https://retdec.com/), malware clustering, and providing free decryption tools to victims of ransomware attacks. Jakub is a reverse engineer with more than 15 years of experience in digging in machine code. For the last several years, his expertise has been in ransomware and botnets, but he likes to mess with all the other malware types as well. Jakub also likes to share his findings via any available channel, such as the company blog (https://blog.avast.com/author/jakub-kroustek, https://now.avg.com/author/jakub-kroustek/), conference talks (CARO, RAID, etc.), and social media. Jakub has a Ph.D. in machine-code analysis from Brno University of Technology. @JakubKroustek