Danish Tariq is a Security Engineer by profession and a Security researcher by passion. He has been working in Cyber Security for over 10 years and it all started out of a curiosity to break things and look deep down into those things (physical or virtual) back in his teenage years. His major expertise is Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Assessments.
● Featured Speaker at BlackHat MEA 2022, 2023, 2025, ThreatCon, MCTTP, and HITB
● Ex Top-Rated Freelancer on Upwork (Information Security)
● Ex OWASP Leader & Moderator at OWASP Global AppSec APAC 2022
● Seasoned Bug Bounty Hunter, recognized by industry giants for vulnerability discoveries where he helped many companies by finding vulnerabilities at different levels. Companies include Microsoft, Apple, Nokia, Blackberry, Adobe, etc.
● Featured in "The Register" for an initial workaround for the NPM dependency attacks.
● Certified Ethical Hacker, Certified Vulnerability Assessor (CVA), Certified AppSec Practitioner, Certified Network Security Specialist (CNSS), IBM Cyber Security Analyst
● Recent security research and CVEs include - CVE-2022-2848 & CVE-2022-25523