John Scott-Railton

John Scott-Railton is a Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab (at The University of Toronto). His work focuses on targeted malware operations and online disinformation. His greatest hits include a collaboration that uncovered the first iPhone zero-day in the wild, as well as the abuse of government-grade spyware like NSO's Pegasus, FinFisher and Hacking Team around the globe. Other investigations include exposing Dark Basin, an Indian mercenary hacking operation, the discovery ISIS-led malware operations, and China's "Great Cannon," the Government of China's nation-scale DDoS tool. John also tracks Russian and Iranian disinformation campaigns, and the manipulation of news aggregators. John has been a fellow at Google Ideas and Jigsaw at Alphabet, and he consults on cybersecurity and operations in high risk and denied environments.