Kareem is a Senior Consultant for the Verizon Threat Research Advisory Center (VTRAC). His focus is in SMS Mobile Fraud, Dark Web Hunting, Threat Intelligence, and Identity Protection. Kareem comes from a background in Military Intelligence with over 15 years of experience as a Language Enabled Intelligence Analyst who has led and supported an array of strategic and tactical operations both in the US and overseas. For the past several years, Kareem has been working in the cyber realm for both the government and private sectors as a specialist in cyber counterterrorism and counterintelligence. His work involves the monitoring and threat profiling of cyber extremists, cyber criminals, hackers, hacktivists, and marketplaces on both the surface and dark web. Kareem is a graduate of Schiller International University in Madrid Spain with a degree in International Business.