Editor

Peter Kacherginsky is a seasoned security practitioner and active member of the blockchain security community. He has presented at conferences including Defcon and the DeFi Security Summit, won multiple CTF competitions and security contests including the IDA Pro Plugin Contest, and authored several open source security tools included in Kali Linux and other major security distributions.

Before entering the cryptocurrency space, Peter worked as a malware reverse engineer, penetration tester, and incident responder, helping secure some of the most critical government and private sector systems. When he first encountered cryptocurrency, he was struck by its potential to provide open, permissionless access to financial infrastructure, especially for people excluded from traditional systems. Blockchain became a deeply personal mission, a rare opportunity to build technology that could meaningfully improve lives on a global scale.

Since then, Peter has applied his expertise in threat research, incident response, pentesting, and adversarial analysis to the emerging and high stakes field of blockchain security. In 2019, he launched the Blockchain Threat Intelligence newsletter after recognizing the absence of a publication dedicated to understanding how real attacks unfold in crypto and what defenders can learn from them. What began as a personal effort to study incidents has grown into a long running weekly publication and a passion project dedicated to documenting, analyzing, and sharing lessons from blockchain security incidents, helping builders, defenders, and users rely on systems that are safer, more resilient, and worthy of trust.