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The Only Cure For This Malware Is to Throw Your Router in the Trash 🔌 Episode 174: Pacific Rim

The Only Cure For This Malware Is to Throw Your Router in the Trash 🔌 Episode 174: Pacific Rim

Source: YouTube · Jack Rhysider · published May 5, 2026 · 1:30:45

Cybersecurity
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This video explores a 2018 cyber attack that caught the attention of Sophos researcher Andrew Brandt early in his tenure 0:02.

Key Takeaways:
• Andrew Brandt, then a principal researcher at Sophos (now at Netcraft), was tasked with investigating novel threats and documenting them on the company's newly launched blog 0:17
• Brandt was initially the sole member of his research team, highlighting how lean cybersecurity operations often function 0:41
• The story came to his attention when a fellow analyst reached out through internal company chat with a lead 0:47

The video sets the stage for a deeper dive into this unusual cyber attack, framed through the firsthand perspective of the researcher who investigated it.

Sources:

  • 0:02 Introduction to the 2018 cyber attack
  • 0:17 Andrew Brandt's background and role at Sophos
  • 0:41 Brandt was the only person on his team
  • 0:47 How the case first came to Brandt's attention

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Hi, I'm Jack Cider, host of the show. Back in 2018, an interesting cyber attack took place. >> It's kind of a a funny thing. I mean, it was it basically came onto my radar the second month I was working at Sofos. >> Oh, I should introduce you to Andrew. >> Yeah. So, I'm Andrew Brandt and uh throughout the time that the research was going on for this story, I was a principal researcher for Sophos. Uh, but I am now a principal threat researcher for a company called Netcraft. >> So, one of the things Sofos wanted Andrew to do was research novel threats and write about them on their newly established Sofos blog. The team that I was on eventually didn't exist. I was the only person on it. And one of the analysts reached out to me through the company chat and said, "Hey, I've got a great story f…