Peter Kacherginsky
Founder at BlockThreat
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Kacherginsky is a founder and seasoned security researcher with 12+ years of experience specializing in blockchain, cryptocurrency, and reverse engineering. He built and led Coinbase’s Unit 0x team, developing novel onchain threat-hunting techniques, smart contract analysis tooling, and operational intelligence that materially improved incident response and product security. Earlier, he led reverse engineering at Mandiant’s FLARE team where he created widely used tools like FLARE VM and FakeNet-NG and contributed durable IDA Pro enhancements. Peter combines deep low-level skills (assembly, exploit development, malware analysis) with practical automation and detection engineering, and he regularly publishes technical research and trains developer and security teams. As founder of BlockThreat he now advises organizations on blockchain risk, provides vCISO services, and educates the ecosystem via a public newsletter and talks. A less obvious strength is his track record of turning research prototypes into production-ready tooling and processes that scale across enterprise security teams.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at San Francisco State University
English, Russian
Github Skills (21)
udp10
python10
network-analysis10
windows10
ip10
chocolatey10
automation10
pyqt10
malware10
ida10
tcp10
traffic-analysis10
powershell10
network-traffic10
automations10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mandiant/flare-fakenet-ng
Jul 2016 - Dec 2017
FakeNet-NG - Next Generation Dynamic Network Analysis Tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 70 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the `fakenet-ng` project by implementing and refactoring Windows-specific diverter functionality. They focused on integrating the WinDivert library, handling network traffic interception, and incorporating features like DNS and gateway configuration. Additionally, the user addressed bug fixes within the diverter, SMTP and HTTP listeners, and added support for new listeners like FTP and IRC.
next-generationdynamic-networknetworksuspendednetwork-analysis
mandiant/flare-vm
Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
A collection of software installations scripts for Windows systems that allows you to easily setup and maintain a reverse engineering environment on a VM.
Role in this project:Automation Engineer
Automation EngineerContributions:31 commits, 6 PRs, 32 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on automating the installation of malware analysis tools within a Windows virtual machine environment. They developed and modified PowerShell scripts (flarevm_malware.ps1) to install and configure various security-related software packages using Chocolatey. The user's contributions significantly enhanced the functionality and maintainability of the FLARE VM project, streamlining the setup process for malware analysis. They also updated the installation scripts, adding packages and modifying the installation process.
fireeye-flaremalware-analysisreverse-engineeringflare
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