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Teams, Scams, and Ransomware: BlackBasta’s Social Engineering Hustle

Teams, Scams, and Ransomware: BlackBasta’s Social Engineering Hustle

Source: YouTube · SANS Digital Forensics and Incident Response · published Jun 26, 2025 · 28:48

Incident Response
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BLUF: Directors Partha Alvar and Kelsey Wardrand from Straw Freedberg introduce their team's focus on investigating cyber threats, including ransomware and nation-state attacks, while highlighting the importance of social engineering awareness 0:09.

Key Takeaways:
• Partha Alvar leads incident response teams investigating cyber threats like ransomware and nation-state attacks 0:24.
• Kelsey Wardrand, also a director, shares similar responsibilities in handling unauthorized access and ransomware incidents 0:35.
• The speakers emphasize the role of social engineering in current security challenges 0:12.

The presentation aims to provide insights into the evolving landscape of cyber threats and the strategic responses required to mitigate them.

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  • 0:09 Introduction to the topic of scams, ransomware, and social engineering.
  • 0:24 Overview of Partha Alvar's role in incident response.
  • 0:35 Overview of Kelsey Wardrand's role and experience.

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Welcome everyone. Uh thank you so much for joining um this uh this this talk uh teams scams and ransomware blackbusters social engineering hustle. So let's start with a few intros. Uh I'm Para Alvar. I'm a director at Straw Streetberg AON. Uh been with the company for around 9 years now. Uh currently I lead incident response teams to investigate cyber threats like ransomwarees and nation state attacks. Kelsey, do you want to quickly introduce yourself? Yeah, thanks Partha. Hi everyone, my name is Kelty Wardrand. Uh I'm also a director here at Stra Freedber. I've been here around eight years. Uh very similar day-to-day to Partha leading incidents, lots of ransom wares, unauthorized access, nation, states, um all over the place. Thanks Kelsey. U so let's start with a brief background. Ryan g…