Erlend Leiknes
Erlend Leiknes is a cybersecurity researcher and security consultant at mnemonic, where he has spent more than a decade working with penetration testing, red teaming and hands-on security research. He holds a master’s degree in technical societal safety from the University of Stavanger, and has a background that combines engineering, IT and practical offensive security.
Erlend was one of the mnemonic researchers behind the Magic Cat investigation into Darcula, a global phishing-as-a-service operation linked to hundreds of thousands of victims and large-scale credit card theft. His work has been presented through mnemonic’s research, the mnemonic security podcast, BSides Oslo and NDC Security.