Vinny Troia, CEO at Night Lion Security

Vinny Troia, Ph.D., is the CEO and co-founder of Night Lion Security, white hat hacker and cybercrime investigator. With over 20 years’ experience in IT security consulting, threat hunting, and penetration testing, Troia launched Night Lion Security in 2014 to put his passion into practice and take an unconventional approach to an oversaturated market. In addition to running a security consulting firm dedicated to providing top-tier ethical hacking and risk management services, Troia spends most of his free time hunting for data breaches and infiltrating private criminal circles on the dark web. He is a member of the McAfee Global Technologies (MGT) prestigious Hacker Advisory Board.

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Cyber Criminal Warfare: How Hacker Behaviors Can Tell Us About Their Identities

June 7, 2021

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