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Ryan Slaney

Ryan Slaney is a Senior Security Intelligence Analyst at Field Effect. As a cybersecurity investigator, analyst, and leader, Ryan has experience in malware analysis, memory analysis, data analysis, threat hunting, external threat discovery, reporting, and insider threat investigations across both the public and private sectors.

During his 12 years with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) as a Senior Cyber Intelligence Officer, Ryan received several service medals in recognition of his contributions to investigations of national importance.

Recent Posts by Ryan Slaney

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4 lessons MSPs can learn from the ScreenConnect vulnerabilities

Discover what we learned from analyzing the ScreenConnect vulnerabilities, and how MSPs can use this information to...
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Hackers observed abusing open redirect scripts in recent phishing campaign

Field Effect has detected a limited and brief phishing campaign that takes advantage of misconfigurations in...
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Melting an IcedID sponsored Google ad for trojanized Webex download file

Field Effect security intelligence analysts were recently alerted to an incident in which IcedID malware was detected...
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New Fortinet vulnerability allows RCE without authentication

Learn about a CVE-2023-27997 which affects Fortinet devices with SSL-VPN components, and can allow remote code...
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MOVEit Transfer zero-day vulnerability: A golden opportunity for threat actors

Take a deep dive into the MoveIT Transfer zero-day vulnerability with Field Effect's analysts, and learn more about...
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What you should know about the new .zip and .mov TLDs

Several new TLDs have become available, two (.zip and .mov) introduce additional risk.