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Robert Simmons is a Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher for ThreatConnect, Inc. His expertise is using automation and open source software to improve information security.

Robert Simmons is a Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher for ThreatConnect, Inc. With an expertise in building automated malware analysis systems based on open source tools, he has been tracking malware and phishing attacks and picking them apart for years. Robert is also the author of PlagueScanner, an open source virus scanner framework.

Robert, also known as Utkonos, has a background in biology, linguistics, and Russian area studies. He has lived extensively in Russia and Ukraine and has been known to swear profusely and constantly in Russian.