Liam Amarku

Meet Liam.

Yeah, I'm Liam Amarku.

I work with Symantec and I've been there since 2004.

And I work in the security response department and analyze malware.

I've seen you before.

Have you been on TV?

I have been on TV.

So I was part of the team at Symantec that analyzed Stuxnet, the virus that was infecting equipment at uranium enrichment plants in Natanz in Iran.

That's right.

We were the team that discovered what Stuxnet did, what the payload was, how it worked, how it had spread, who it was targeting.

Yeah, and then because of that,

I was in a documentary that was shortlisted for an Oscar in 2016 called Zero Days by Academy award-winning director Alex Gibney.

So if you want to know what I do in my job, you can see it all there.

And then also Kim Zetter wrote a book about it as well.

And that whole story and my work and my team's work was featured in that book as well.

Yeah, so our customers at Symantec, they'll get malware on their machines and then they'll send it to us for analysis.

So I got this file that I wanted to analyze for this customer.

And when I started looking at it, something felt off about it compared to the other malware that we would look at regularly.

It just, it wasn't running the mill.

There was something different about it.