DISCARDED: Tales From the Threat Research Trenches

Selena Larson

Booking Overview

This is a cybersecurity interview show focused on threat intelligence, malware, threat actors, and attack patterns, with external guests typically drawn from senior security, legal, investigative, and industry research roles. PR agencies could credibly pitch threat researchers, cybercrime investigators, security executives, digital-crime attorneys, and authors of major threat reports; booking is likely high difficulty because guests generally have substantial subject-matter authority and institutional credibility.

Metrics

Episodes: 107

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 7.7k subscribers

Instagram: 5.7k followers

Contact Information

pfpt-podcasts@proofpoint.com

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Host

Selena Larson - Intelligence analyst at Proofpoint specializing in cybersecurity and threat intelligence.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Senior cybersecurity, threat intelligence, digital-crime, legal, law-enforcement, or security leadership experience, often representing a major technology or security organization.
Required Achievements:  
Authored or architected major cybersecurity or breach reports, Led cybercrime investigations, takedowns, or disruption initiatives, Held senior roles at prominent technology, security, government, or law-enforcement organizations

Recent Guest Discussions

Sean Farrell - Cybercrime Disruption, Civil Lawsuits, Criminal Referrals, Infrastructure Seizures, Phishing-as-a-service, Ransomware, And Global Law-enforcement Partnerships.

Alex Pinto - Data-breach Trends, Vulnerability Exploitation, Ransomware Taxonomy, Pretexting, Generative AI And Threat Actors, And Third-party Supply-chain Compromises.

Recent Topics

Threat Intelligence, Malware, Threat Actors, Cybersecurity, Ransomware

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
DISCARDED: Tales From the Threat Research Trenches
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OMITB: Trusting the wrong package.

July 07, 2026

Send us fan mail!Hello to all our Cyber Pals! This week, we present a special replay of "Only Malware in the Building," the podcast that our host, Selena Larson, also co-hosts! Enjoy!Welcome in! You’ve entered, Only Malware in the Building. Join us each month to sip tea and solve mysteries about today’s most interesting threats. Your host is ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Selena Larson⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Proofpoint⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ intelligence analyst and host of their podcast ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠DISCARDED⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

From Phishing to Court Cases: How Microsoft Fights Back Against Hackers

June 23, 2026

Send us fan mail!Hello to all our Cyber Pals!Host Selena Larson is joined by Sean Farrell, Assistant General Counsel at Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), to pull back the curtain on how major cyber crime takedowns actually happen and how Microsoft uses civil lawsuits, criminal referrals, and global partnerships to disrupt some of the most damaging cyber crime operations in the world.They discuss:What DCU does and Sean's path from FBI to AWS to MicrosoftHow civil claims like the...

Diving Into the DBIR: Vulnerabilities, AI, and Supply Chain

June 09, 2026

Send us fan mail!Hello to all our Cyber Pals!Host Selena Larson is joined by guest host Sarah Sabotka as they chat with returning guest: Alex Pinto, Associate Director of Threat Intelligence at Verizon Business, and the architect behind the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Alex joins hosts Selena Larson and Sarah Sabatka to break down the most important findings from this year's report — and there's a lot to unpack.From vulnerabilities overtaking credential abuse as the le...

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