Head of Research at afine, specializing in 🍎 macOS security. Passionate about 🛠️ Vulnerability Research, 🎯 Exploit Development, and 🔍 Reverse Engineering. My work focuses on macOS internals and advancing research in offensive security.

While research is my primary focus, I also work as an Offensive Security Engineer, identifying 👾 security flaws and developing 🤖 tools to enhance security operations. This includes 🖥️ Desktop Application Security, 🕸️ Web Application Security, 💠 Active Directory, and creating 🦠 malware to bypass 🛡️ EDRs.

I created some tools helpful for Offensive Security work, but there are two that I am the proudest of:

• Snake&Apple - The code repository for the Snake&Apple article series documents my macOS security research.
• Crimson - This was my first big thing. Currently, I am not focusing on this tool. However, it is still powerful. My friends and I are using it to this day. This is also a great place to start your journey with Application Security.

As part of my daily work and free-time research, I am looking for bugs 🐛. I have caught many of them so far, and some have even received a public CVE. I am particularly proud of CVE-2023-35359: Windows - Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability.

In 2024, I wrote only on Medium. Now I am writing on Patreon. Sometimes I post Proof of Concepts as short recordings on my YouTube channel. You can subscribe to me using the banners below to receive notifications of the latest blogs or videos.

I have participated in multiple Capture the Flag (CTF) events, completed various courses, and obtained certifications through multiple platforms. Below are links that demonstrate some of these small accomplishments:

• Certs - OSCE³, eWPTxv2, OSCP, various OpenSecurityTraining2 certs
• Pentesterlab - various web hacking courses & CTFs.
• RPISEC/MBE - Modern Binary Exploitation - CSCI 4968
• HTB - CTFs & Pro Labs
• CS50 - Harvard University - Introduction to Computer Science

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