Webinar Title: Tracking The Adversary: Key Threat Intelligence Trends Across Australia And APAC
Australia continues to face a diverse range of cyber threats from financially motivated cybercriminals, state-sponsored actors, and increasingly mature access broker ecosystems. While many incidents make headlines as isolated events, threat intelligence reveals broader patterns that extend across the Asia-Pacific region and shape the risks facing Australian organisations.
This session examines recent threat activity through a cyber threat intelligence lens, focusing on the adversaries, campaigns, and tradecraft driving today's threat landscape. Using recent examples from Australia and across APAC, we will explore how threat actors are gaining initial access, how their objectives are evolving, and what defenders can learn from observed operations.
Rather than focusing on individual incidents, this session will identify the strategic trends and adversary behaviors emerging across the region, providing attendees with actionable intelligence that can help inform security strategy, operational priorities, and resilience planning.
Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions of the speakers. The webinar will be recorded and shared with registered AISA members within 7 days post webinar. AISA's Cloud Branch webinar is available exclusively to all AISA members.
Speaker:
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Santiago Pontiroli, Threat Intelligence Research Lead - Acronis
Santiago is the Threat Intelligence Research Lead at the Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU), where he leads global investigations into advanced threat actors, cybercrime ecosystems, and emerging attack techniques. He specialises in analysing nation-state actors, criminal organisations, and financially motivated threat groups, focusing on malware analysis, reverse engineering, and developing advanced detection capabilities. With over 15 years of experience in cyber security, he has presented original research at leading international conferences including Virus Bulletin, CARO, MITRE ATT&CK, BlueHat, AVAR, Nuit du Hack, and ekoParty, among others.
Speaker:
Darrel Virtusio, Threat Research Unit (TRU) Researcher - Acronis
Darrel is a cyber security researcher specialising in threat intelligence, threat hunting, and malware analysis. With a strong background in investigating ransomware and emerging cyber threats, he has built his career around analysing threat actor activity and delivering actionable security insights. Having started his cyber security journey at Trend Micro and now continuing his work at Acronis, Darrel is passionate about advancing threat research and helping organisations stay ahead of an increasingly complex threat landscape.
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Date: Thursday 30 July 2026
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm (AEST). Please take into consideration your time zone.
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