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Ax Sharma is a UK-based security researcher and journalist known for malware analyses and cybercrime investigations.
His work on tracing cyber scams, threats, and illicit cryptocurrency operations has frequently been featured by the BBC on TV, iPlayer, YouTube and radio.
Most recently, Ax appeared in multiple episodes of BBC Rip-Off Britain (Season 17) and six episodes of Channel 5‘s Scams: Don’t Get Caught Out!, a prime-time TV series on cybercrime and digital scams.
From dissecting and analysing novel computer viruses for Sonatype including the CursedGrabber family and high profile open source software hijacking incidents to tracking malware campaigns, Ax’s expertise encompasses reverse engineering, open source software security, and threat intelligence monitoring.
Through responsible disclosure, he has previously exposed serious bugs and security vulnerabilities affecting national & global organisations like the HM Government, Yodel, U.S. DHS, P.F. Chang’s, Planet Fitness, Comcast/Arris, Ellucian, and the popular restaurant chain, Buca di Beppo. In early 2018, Ax helped prevent a data breach at Georgia Tech by going public with a serious flaw that was left unpatched for over a year.
To consult Ax for your next big security project or for media source requests, drop him a note here.