At this point in his career, Jaeson Schultz has seen nearly every type of online scam there is to see.
From fake bomb threats at schools, to “sextortion” campaigns, cryptocurrency mining, metaverse and more of the 2010s, to the earliest type of spam emails in the 1990s that promised to protect people from a Y2K meltdown or had the next great penny stock that the recipient needed to jump on asap, Schultz’s security career has spanned more than 25 years now.
At this point, nothing adversaries come up with surprises him, but that doesn’t mean he’s not looking for those surprises.
Schultz, a researcher for the Talos Outreach team focused specifically on email threats and spam, is currently looking to new and emerging technologies and how they play into attackers’ hands, including Web3, the metaverse (including the capital “M” Metaverse from the company Meta), cryptocurrency exchanges and the blockchain.
But his security experience dates back to the early days of email when he took a job with the state government of Nevada performing traditional IT troubleshooting and support. At the time, cybersecurity was not a specialized field, so by working in IT, you already needed to be interested in security, Schultz said.
“At that point, [cybersecurity] was more of a hobby for me in the late 80s and early 90s. It wasn’t an established profession, and you couldn’t study it. So, if you were into network administration, you were probably also ..
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