Mykhailo Sakaly is the Cyber Threat Research Unit Lead for the Russianlanguage underground at Intel 471. At Intel 471, Mykhailo proactivelymonitors, tracks and attributes cyber threat actors, predominantly those, whooriginate from a Russian language underground. He has previously served at theCybercrime Department of the Security Service of Ukraine. He made his waythrough various investigative roles, where he organized and directly conductedinvestigations of computer-related crimes, up to the level of the Deputy Chiefof the Unit, tasked with intelligence gathering and coordination of analyticaland investigative efforts of the Department's Headquarters and regionalcybercrime teams. He also provided computer forensic support to keyinvestigations, carried out by other branches of the Service, includingterrorism and organized crime and participated in numerous joint operationswith foreign Law Enforcement partners.