The third season of Channel 10’s hit collection Hunted has been run and received, with a crew from CyberCX among the many detectives and intelligence brokers in pursuit of the fugitives at each step.
For the uninitiated, the fundamental premise of Hunted sees pairs of ‘fugitives’ try to evade seize for 21 days for a share within the prize cash, whereas a crack-team of ‘hunters’ undertake trendy surveillance strategies in an effort to trace them down.
For its third season, the present welcomed again a five-person crew of digital consultants from cybersecurity providers and consulting agency CyberCX, together with Sydney-based cyber intelligence lead Leah Pinto in her first look at Hunted HQ.
“What a wild trip the Hunted Australia expertise has been,” stated Pinto, a former member of the NSW Police Power who crossed to CyberCX from Accenture in 2022. “I couldn’t have hoped for a greater crew to be on the journey with. Each member was hand-picked for his or her experience, specialising in analysis, open-source intelligence, moral hacking and digital forensics.”
Pinto was joined this 12 months by one other new face in Luke Burns, a safety guide and ‘moral hacker’ out of Brisbane, together with fellow Melbourne-based penetration tester Vikki Grouios, who introduced a decade price of expertise between PwC and CyberCX to her third look on the present. The pair defined the distinction between so-called ‘white hats’ and malicious on-line actors.
“The moral half is available in as cybersecurity consultants work with organisations and repair points to forestall them being exploited by actual criminals,” Grouios acknowledged, with Burns including; “I feel most of the people undoubtedly underestimate cybersecurity and what moral hackers are able to, as folks simply aren’t conscious of how weak their digital footprint might be.”
Additionally making their third appearances have been authentic crew members Jay Banerji, a digital forensics and incident response managing investigator at the moment primarily based out of Melbourne – who, like some real-life Matrix character additionally teaches karate – and Darwin-based open-source intelligence specialist Carter Smith, an knowledgeable within the collation and evaluation of publicly out there knowledge.
Carla Coslovich stated some of the rewarding facets of her first season because the hunters’ intelligence lead was working with the CyberCX crew; “Their expertise and skill to ‘discover issues’ was excellent, and incorporating my world of intelligence and the cyber crew’s experience created a platform whereby data was reworked into significant intelligence inside minutes.”
Talking forward of the season, CyberCX CEO John Paitaridis acknowledged; “We’re proud to see our cyber consultants returning to Hunted. They assist enterprise and authorities organisations sort out threats from cyber criminals, malicious insiders, and nation state actors every day. The unusual fugitives are going to have a tough time outsmarting our crew of mission-driven and extremely decided consultants.”