Cooper Quintin
Fellow
Cooper Quintin is a fellow at the Citizen Lab and a security researcher and senior public interest technologist with the EFF Threat Lab. He has worked on projects including Privacy Badger, Canary Watch, and analysis of state sponsored malware campaigns such as Dark Caracal. Cooper has given talks about security research at prestigious security conferences including Black Hat, DEFCON, Enigma Conference, and ReCon about issues ranging from IMSI Catcher detection to fem tech privacy issues to newly discovered APTs. He has also been published or quoted in publications including: New York Times, Reuters, NPR, CNN, and Al Jazeera. Cooper has provided security training to activists, non profit workers, and vulnerable populations around the world.
Publications
Something to Remember Us By
Device Confiscated by Russian Authorities Returned with Monokle-Type Spyware Installed
Our analysis of spyware covertly implanted on a phone returned to a Russian programmer after he was released from custody, finds that the spyware placed on his device allows the operator to track a target device’s location, record phone calls, keystrokes, and read messages from encrypted messaging apps, among other capabilities.
