Some awards you're happy to receive, while others make you stop for a moment. Receiving the 2026 Péter Szőr Award this week at Virus Bulletin in Seville for our research, BPFdoor in Telecom Networks: Sleeper Cells in the Backbone , was of the latter kind. Virus Bulletin created the award to honor Péter's life and work, and it recognizes outstanding technical security research: the rigorous, the deep, and the useful – exactly what he was known for himself. And as far as recognitions in our industry go, it's hard to top. I'm extremely proud. What the Pèter Szőr Award means to us I knew Péter, and early in my career, I learned from him. This was back when malware analysis meant staring at assem