Ashley Shen

Knife Cutting the Edge: Dissecting a Modular Gateway Implant for Domestic Surveillance

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Chi-en “Ashley” Shen is a Security Research Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco Talos, specializing in emerging threat research—ranging from nation-state attacks to financially motivated crimes and spyware campaigns. Before joining Cisco, she worked at Google’s Threat Analysis Group, where she hunted zero-day exploits and tracked botnets. Prior to that, she was part of Mandiant’s Global Research Team, where she co-authored the APT41 report and published research on ICEFOG campaigns. In Taiwan, Ashley co-founded Team T5 and served as a senior threat analyst with a focus on targeted attacks in APAC. A passionate advocate for women in cybersecurity, Ashley co-founded HITCON GIRLS, the first security community for women in Taiwan, and she currently organizes Rhacklette, a security community for FINTA in Switzerland. She has presented her research at a range of conferences, including Black Hat, HITB, HITCON, FIRST, Pivotcon and CODE BLUE. In her free time, she supports the community by offering training sessions and serving on the review boards for Black Hat, HITCON, and HITB.