mnemonic security podcast

Hosted by Robby Peralta from mnemonic, one of Europe’s leading cybersecurity companies, the show features conversations with researchers, founders, operators, and security leaders working across the cybersecurity landscape.

Each episode explores a specific topic within cybersecurity: from incident response, threat intelligence, AI, and geopolitics, to leadership, resilience, and the changing role of security leaders.

The podcast is tailored to cybersecurity practitioners and decision-makers who want grounded conversations about where cybersecurity is going, what organisations should prepare for, and what experienced people are seeing.

Guest

Ford Merrill

Ford Merrill is Senior Director of Research and Innovation at SecAlliance, a CSIS Security Group company. He has spent years tracking the evolution of Chinese-language phishing-as-a-service operations — from the early "Smishing Triad" campaigns impersonating postal services and toll operators, through the pivot to mobile wallet fraud, and most recently to phishing kits targeting brokerage accounts in "ramp-and-dump" stock manipulation schemes.

His research has been cited repeatedly by Krebs on Security and CyberScoop, and he presented a deep dive into a 4,000-member Chinese smishing syndicate at M3AAWG's 63rd General Meeting. Merrill's work sits at the intersection of technical kit analysis and tracking how these criminal ecosystems adapt in real time to law enforcement and platform defenses.

Guest appearance on:

The Economy for Phish