Junior Threat Researcher

2 days ago


Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia F-secure Full time

F-Secure makes every digital moment more secure, for everyone. For over 35 years, we’ve led the cyber security industry, protecting tens of millions of people online together with our 200+ service provider partners. We value our Fellows' individuality, with an inclusive environment where diversity drives innovation and growth. What makes you unique is what we value - be yourself, that is (y)our greatest asset. Founded in Finland, F‑Secure has offices in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.

In F-Secure Research, we ensure that our products and services can handle the latest scams in every digital moments targeting consumers through concepting, building rules and detections, working and training machine learning models and guiding various development teams in delivering needed functionalities. If this sounds interesting to you, we would like to welcome you to join our Scam Protection Engineering team.

As our Junior Threat Researcher your primary responsibility will involve comprehending the taxonomy and impact of cyber threats on consumers worldwide, particularly scams, in the digital experiences of our users. You will also play a key role in enhancing and managing reputation-based strategies to counter network threats across the diverse endpoints of our products.

While not a core focus of this role, our team also handles vulnerability reports to operations items such as locating, classifying, analysing, reverse engineering, and detecting threats. We also work on project-based items such as building new protection capabilities for new product lines and performing detection ramp-ups or false positive ramp-downs for various products. These are potential areas for your career growth, all within the same team.

You will become part of a global team consisting of researchers, threat intelligence and data science experts, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Additionally, you have the option to work in a hybrid mode, provided that you are already residing within the same country. Due to current restrictions imposed by the Government of Malaysia, we are unable to offer relocation support for this role.

**Key responsibilities**:
Be a consumer yourself and have the ability to identify, understand and research on threats associated with scams.
Collaborate with other researchers to find, cluster, and classify malicious threats, particularly on URLs and mobile threats.
Document your research and potentially turn it into a publication (blogpost, whitepaper, public presentation).
Have some ideas to improve protection? Collaborate with other research teams to turn ideas into cutting-edge protection technologies aimed to combat scams.
Perform analysis on individual threats when necessary to understand its behaviour.

Our estimated range for this role is about RM3500 - RM4500 per month based on the requirements and responsibilities of this role.

What are we looking for?

This is a blue team junior level role, and the following are helpful skills for you to be successful in this role. Don’t worry You will be guided and mentored by other researchers, but it always helps if:
You have a good grasp of cybersecurity threats that impact digital life, with a focus on their tactics, techniques, procedures, tools, and significant noteworthy attacks.
You can understand and explain basic computer security concepts and have good usage understanding of different operating systems.
You are comfortable with coding in Python and have some experience with software deployment tooling.
You have good command of English language, both written and spoken.
You are growth-oriented and a team player.

We would love to hear from you even though you wouldn't tick all the boxes above. Your attitude is key Note: A technical assessment will be sent out to applicants before scheduling for an interview session.

What will you get from us

You will work together with experienced and enthusiastic colleagues, and within F-Secure you will find some of the best minds in the cyber security industry.
We actively encourage our Fellows to grow and develop within F-Secure, and in your career here you can find yourself contributing to any number of our other products and teams. You decide what to make of this role, what your priorities are, and how you organize your work for the best benefit to us all.
We offer interesting challenges and a competitive compensation model with wide range of benefits. You get a chance to develop yourself professionally in an international and highly motivated team serving our customers in providing world class security, privacy and uncensored access to information online.
You get to work in a flexible, agile, and dynamic working environment that supports individual needs. Giving our people both support and the opportunity to be in charge of their own work is something that is in our DNA.
We are in a unique phase in our 30-year history and with curiosity and excitement in the air we see no limits for building a strong and fruit



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