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 🙉🙊🙈 #shifting

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

These days, I own licenses for the many apps I love, and I stay fit by crafting new tools, doing independent research, reverse engineering, investigating private APIs, tracking threat actors, playing with frontier AI and cyber models, all from one of the most beautiful corners of France 🏡

I’m also available for hire: independent, resourceful, technically skilled, but not a technician at heart, I am a problem solver, through conventional or innovative solutions.

Else, I love crunchy unstable electro and live underground bass music, there’s a radio button on your top right, and I believe QWERTY and 88-key keyboards make wonderful musical instruments.

You’re welcome to reach out via Keybase, LinkedIn, Mastodon, or Twitter, to follow this blog by RSS or Atom, and to listen to the radio. If you made it this far, thanks! Peace ✌️