Mike Esparza

From the high desert and the great American southwest! UTEP Miner. Former SOC. Current MDR & DFIR | He/Him

[Mike Esparza @shaqnatomy]

@JohnHultquist @economicsnoah @joshrogin @rachel_cheung1 I clicked the original message and went to look for this screenshot. of course you got to it first 🤣

[Mike Esparza @shaqnatomy]

@dez_ best of luck, Joe! Thanks for everything. we'll catch you on the other side.

[Joe Desimone @dez_]

We open sourced the tool used to detect the Axios supply chain compromise! I built it Friday after a red eye home from RSAC. Also, wrote up the full story, including the hectic moments after that first critical alert
https://t.co/HAm8eMr8vO

[Mike Esparza @shaqnatomy]

@dez_ @vxunderground Yes

[Mike Esparza @shaqnatomy]

@RobbyBerger The G.O.A.T

[Devon Kerr @_devonkerr_]

This was a cool project for a few reasons. First, some of us have been working with Texas A&M since Endgame and it’s a partnership with a ton of history! Also it is a blast for us to work with other experts to achieve successes!

[Mike Esparza @shaqnatomy]

CTF winners at #Predict2025 ! Great training day, excited for the breakouts.

[Mike Esparza @shaqnatomy]

Tapping this sign all day every day for the folks in the back that have trouble seeing.

[solst/ICE of Astarte @IceSolst]

I made a tier list of cybersecurity & hacking tools

[Florian Roth ⚡️ @cyb3rops]

Today’s a good day to recommend this exceptional book by @KimZetter: Countdown to Zero Day. Easily in my top 2 cybersecurity books, right after The Cuckoo’s Egg by Clifford Stoll.

There’s even an audiobook version for your next commute or evening walk.

Amazon
📘 https://t.co/RSYqDSUqFA

Google
📖 https://t.co/ntGOzd4rkd

Audible
🎧 https://t.co/8u5EuVDprZ

[frankie @frankieats]

finally completed a very important task i’ve been avoiding for several months. it took 8 minutes and zero effort on my part and i felt immediate and immense relief. i probably won’t learn from this

[LP @jotunvillur]

A good SOC analyst is worth every dollar and then some. Don’t forget this finding when people start talking about automating away the SOC (again).

[Austin Baker @BakedSec]

"The nation-state supply chain plot was foiled, not by the NSA or FBI, but Steve from the build team when his test build process took 837ms instead of 214ms like it always had."
It's Mission Impossible, but with a firmware engineer to hunt down the upstream latency root cause.

[Mike Esparza @shaqnatomy]

@stiltznet I’ll be there. Would love to meet and chat!

[eversinc33 🤍🔪⋆｡˚ ⋆ @eversinc33]

@offbeat @kaganisildak @vxunderground Yea yea, EDR bypass this, VEH that, but have you every ran mimikatz while surfing in 1.6.? 😎😎

[Mike Esparza @shaqnatomy]

@dnlongen Yep. Least priv, phish resistant MFA & updated investigation guides to inform the analysts. I’m curious as to what kind of risk calculus the MFA vendors are putting into their logic.

[Mike Esparza @shaqnatomy]

@SalgadoPhoto_ Your 2024 calendar!

[Mike Esparza @shaqnatomy]

@UTEPMGolf Are those hats available to the public?