John Wilson

John is a Senior Fellow responsible for Threat Research at Fortra where he heads up the Fortra Cyber Intelligence Team. John researches business email compromise scams and conducts “active defense” engagements with threat actors. His team has identified and reported more than 12,000 bank accounts used by fraudsters to launder money and has referred several cases to law enforcement for further investigation. He assisted Microsoft and the FS-ISAC with the B54 Citadel botnet takedown in 2012. In 2023 John worked with the Health-ISAC and Microsoft to take down illegal instances of Fortra's Cobalt Strike adversary simulation tool. John holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT.