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ataberk-xyz

About

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I'm Ataberk, a smart contract auditor and offensive security engineer with 7+ years across Web3 and traditional security. I started out in penetration testing (web apps, internal/external networks, Active Directory) and moved into blockchain security, auditing Solidity and Move smart contracts.

Most recently I was Principal Smart Contract Auditor at Hacken (2023–2026), where I led the auditor team and owned audit delivery across Solidity and Move engagements. Before that I was Lead Offensive Security Engineer at Halborn. Lately I've been building tools like gossipcat-ai.

More detail on my LinkedIn or GitHub.

Certifications

  • Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
  • Offensive Security Web Expert (OSWE)
  • Certified Red Team Professional (CRTP)
  • Recognition

  • CVE-2019-1068: n-day research on a Microsoft SQL Server stack overflow (analyzed the bug and wrote a working exploit). Writeup.
  • T-Mobile Hall of Fame: XSS, SQLi, and RCE findings.
  • Mail.ru Hall of Fame: Cross-Site Scripting findings.
  • HackingWars CTF #1: finished 1st of 324, hosted by Prodaft.
  • Open source

  • gossipcat-ai: a multi-agent code-review orchestrator (TypeScript / MCP) where agents cross-verify each other's findings against real code to filter hallucinations.
  • other stuff

    Past member of CanYouPwn.me. On the offensive side I'm comfortable with AD attack vectors like Kerberoasting and NTLM relaying; on the building side, Solidity and Move auditing plus AI-assisted tooling (Claude Code, Cursor).