PD&A Expert Spotlight: Cameron Malin, JD, CISSP

Expert on Cybercrime and Digital Behavior

Cameron Malin, JD, CISSP, is a cyber behavioral profiler who specializes in identifying malicious actors and assessing their behavior in online and digital data. PD&A offers his services for the investigation and litigation of cases involving:

  • Assessing Behavior in Digital Devices

  • Online Behaviors

  • Open-Source Intelligence

  • Social Media Analysis

  • Unauthorized Computer Access/Computer Intrusions

  • Malicious Code (malware), Spyware, Ransomware

  • Online Reputation Damage/Smear Campaigns

  • Cyber Threat Assessment

  • Insider Cyber Threats

  • National Security Cyber Attacks

  • Cyber Espionage

  • Cyber Stalking

  • Cyber Harassment/Bullying

  • “Sextortion”

Prior to joining PD&A, Mr. Malin was a Supervisory Special Agent/Behavioral Profiler in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), where he was the creator and founder of the Cyber Behavioral Analysis Center, a specialized cadre for conducting behavioral analysis of cyber offenders. In this role, he developed the FBI BAU's methods for applying science-based behavioral profiling and assessment to cyber offenders and conducted and participated in over 650 operational behavioral assessments of criminal and national security threat actors.

While serving as a Behavioral Profiler in the FBI BAU, he created and established the BAU's Deception & Influence Group where he developed the FBI BAU's science-based methods for assessing adversary cyber deception campaigns and influence and information operations.

Similarly, he founded the first Five-Eye (FVEY) Behavioral Analysis Consortium to Combat Ransomware, where he led the collaborative development of FVEY best practices for assessing and successfully engaging with ransomware threat actors among leading experts from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Among Mr. Malin’s experiences during his 21 years in the FBI were serving in the Los Angeles Division as Special Agent on a cyber squad, where he was the case agent in a number of high-profile malicious code attack investigations and prosecutions, including the first prosecution of a bot network (“botnet”) defendant, an individual who infected and controlled thousands of infected computers to commit frauds and cyber-attacks.  Further, he served as co-case agent on Operational Phish Phry, the largest cyber investigation and prosecution in history, which resulted in the arrest and prosecution of 100 individuals in the United States and Egypt.

During his tenure in the FBI Los Angeles Division, he also served as a Supervisory Special Agent for a hybrid cyber-crime and national security squad, where he supervised special agents and intelligence analysts responding to all aspects of complex cyber national security and criminal investigations with a nexus to counterintelligence and counterterrorism matters.

Prior to his service with the FBI, Mr. Malin served as an Assistant State Attorney at the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, where he was responsible for the prosecution of matters involving computer intrusions, intellectual property, cyber fraud, and malicious code.  He was appointed as a Special Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of Florida from 2001 to 2002.

Mr. Malin co-authored the authoritative cyber deception book, Deception in the Digital Age: Exploiting and Defending Human Targets Through Computer-Mediated Communications (published by Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc.) and the Malware Forensics book series: Malware Forensics: Investigating and Analyzing Malicious Code, Malware Forensics Field Guide for Windows Systems, and Malware Forensics Field Guide for Linux Systems (all published by Syngress, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc.).  He is a contributing author to the International Handbook of Threat Assessment, 2nd Ed., where he introduced the specialty discipline of Digital Behavioral Criminalistics and the cyber threat model, the Cyber Pathway to Intended Violence. 

His Juris Doctor was awarded in 1998 by the University of Florida.  He earned his Bachelor of Science in Legal Studies (pre-law) from Nova Southeastern University in 1995. He has earned and holds multiple industry-recognized information security certifications, including the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH), GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA), and GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner (GCFE), among others.

To schedule a consultation with Cameron H. Malin or other PD&A experts, call 949-723-2211 or email us at expert@parkdietzassociates.com.

Aaron Cohen