Cybersecurity student and researcher operating across bug bounty, SOC analysis, AI red-teaming, and blockchain smart contract auditing. Terminal-native. Declarative by design. Relentless by default.
PRIYANSH
Cybersecurity student, SOC analyst, and penetration tester with a hacker's mindset and a strategist's discipline. My work spans bug bounty hunting, AI red-teaming with Garak/PyRIT, and blockchain smart contract auditing on Immunefi and Code4rena. Environments are declarative, terminal-native, and operationally compartmentalized by design.
For anyone running pentesting, bug bounty, or blockchain workflows off a daily-driver Android phone - no custom ROM, no root, no bootloader unlock. Just discipline.
How I automated asset discovery and vulnerability scanning into a single declarative NixOS-managed pipeline that runs on every scope update.
A practical walkthrough of multi-turn prompt injection, role-play escalation, and token smuggling techniques tested against GPT-4o and Llama 3.
Deep dive into reentrancy patterns in Solidity, how Slither and Foundry fuzz tests catch them, and a real Code4rena finding walkthrough.
Lessons from building correlation rules, tuning Sigma detections, and using Python to auto-enrich alerts with threat intel feeds.
How I use Home Manager and WireGuard to enforce a network kill-switch, compartmentalised identities, and reproducible security tooling.
Step-by-step breakdown of chaining an open redirect with a blind SSRF to reach the EC2 metadata endpoint and escalate to credential theft.
Priyansh Khandal is a cybersecurity researcher, SOC analyst, and penetration tester specializing in bug bounty hunting, AI red-teaming, crypto investigations, and blockchain smart contract auditing.
Priyansh specializes in SOC Alert Triage, Vulnerability Assessment & Bug Bounties, AI Red-Teaming (using tools like Garak and PyRIT), Smart Contract Auditing (EVM reentrancy, flash loan attacks), and Declarative Security Environments with NixOS.
You can reach Priyansh directly via email at [email protected] or connect on LinkedIn and GitHub (@rootwithkhandal).
Detailed technical writeups are published on the Researches page (/researches), and open-source tools/projects are hosted on the Projects page (/projects) and GitHub.
Priyansh Khandal · Security Researcher