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Josh Reynolds

Software Engineer

Research & Efficacy Team

Joshua Reynolds is a part of the Research & Efficacy Team at Cisco Systems that assists in increasing the efficacy of the AMP for Endpoints and AMP ThreatGrid product lines through a number of development efforts.

Joshua joined Cisco through the Sourcefire, Inc. acquisition by Cisco Systems where he performed quality assurance for the AMP for Endpoints product line.

Prior to joining Sourcefire, Joshua was a System Administrator at the Calgary based consulting company Graycon Group LTD, and interned at Red Hat Asia Pacific’s Penetration Testing team while finishing his Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology at Griffith University in Australia.

Joshua also holds a diploma of Information Technology from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology where he graduated with honors.

Articles

September 14, 2016

SECURITY

H1N1: Technical analysis reveals new capabilities – part 2

This is the second blog in a 3 part series that provides an in-depth technical analysis on the H1N1 malware. You can read the first entry here where I covered the evolution of H1N1, its infection vector and obfuscation techniques. This blog will provide an overview of its execution. H1N1 Execution E…

September 13, 2016

SECURITY

H1N1: Technical analysis reveals new capabilities

This blog is the first in a 3 part series that will provide an in-depth technical analysis on the H1N1 malware. I’ll be looking at how H1N1 has evolved, its obfuscation, analyzing its execution including new information stealing and user account control bypass capabilities, and finally exploring how…

August 17, 2016

SECURITY

CryptXXX Technical Deep Dive

0.0 Introduction: In our previous post we discussed the AMP ThreatGrid Research and Efficacy Team’s continuous support for Ransomware attack vectors, generic behavior detection of un-discovered variants, and the creation of behavioral indicators once new variants are identified. In this post we̵…