About Me, Myself, and I

I’d love to spare you the agony of a biography, but you might want to know I started with computers on a Macintosh SE running System 7, programming musical keyboards, then drifted into pirating, debugging, reversing, and developing software 🏴‍☠️

As a security researcher, I notably discovered RSPlug aka the DNSChanger variant for Mac, uncovered the Flashback botnet (named after the popular track by Laurent Garnier), exposed the Hacking Team implant, dissected adware like IronCore or GuiInject, miners like Pwnet or CpuMeaner, and even suggested the Shlayer name. Then I vanished into the reality distortion field. I shipped meaningful work, outlasted some turbulence, and left with unfinished business.

Posterity is already kind enough to include me with fG! in Phrack #69, MISC-067 🇫🇷, and more recently with Patrick Wardle in The Art of Mac Malware 🙏

These days, I own licenses for the many software I love to use, and I’m back to independent research: reverse engineering, threat intelligence, and crafting tools (to be continued).

I also love crunchy unstable electro and live underground bass music: while I traded 88 keys for a QWERTY, I still believe machines make wonderful musical instruments.

You’re welcome to reach out via Keybase or LinkedIn and to follow this blog. If you made it this far, thanks! Peace ✌️