Claudio Guarnieri is a security researcher mostly specialized in the analysisof malware, botnets and computer attacks in general. He's a core member of TheHoneynet Project as a research fellow at the Citizen Lab, University ofToronto. He created the open source malware analysis software Cuckoo Sandboxand Viper and runs the Malwr free service. He published abundant research onbotnets and targeted attacks and presented at conferences such as Hack In TheBox, BlackHat, Chaos Communication Congress and many more. In recent years hedevoted his attention especially to issues of privacy and surveillance andpublished numerous articles on surveillance vendors such as FinFisher andHackingTeam with the Citizen Lab as well as on NSA/GCHQ and Five Eyessurveillance capabilities with The Intercept and Der Spiegel. He has beenselected among the 50 persons of the year 2014 by Wired Italy, he receivedwith the Citizen Lab the EFF Pioneer Award 2015, and has been selected byForbes among the 30 Under 30 honorees for 2016. He continuously researches andwrites on government surveillance and threats to journalists and dissidentsworldwide and supports human rights organisations with operational securityand emergency response.