Bio

Mohan is an independent security researcher and his areas of expertise are web exploitation, source code review, and mobile application testing. He plays CTFs every weekend with team zer0pts, a top team in the world and his notable CTF achievements are he stood top 3 in BountyCon CTF in the APAC region and qualified for GoogleCTF finals with zer0pts team. Along with the CTFs, he actively contributes to the vulnerability disclosure programs. His achievements include top 100 in GoogleVRP program in 2020 and Hall of Fames in numerous companies like Microsoft, Valve, Elastic, and Discord. Working as an independent researcher, his recent research is finding prototype pollution in the wild with a team of top-class security researchers and they were successful in uncovering nearly 50 vulnerabilities. He also recently worked on a new attack vector on electron apps which is yet to be published.