SECURITY RESEARCH / AMES, IA
I’m Pratyaksha Beri. I study cybersecurity at Iowa State and spend most of my time on vulnerability research, malware, DFIR, and security agents.
LATEST WRITING
Eight months of testing security agents taught me that more scaffolding is not always better. Here’s where skills and MCP helped, where they hurt, and how I route models now.
Read the full note →A hands-on review of a deliberately compromised Linux host: SQL injection, stored XSS, exposed services, backdoor accounts, and the evidence behind each finding.
↗My first malware analysis: decompiling VajraSpy, tracing its Android workers, and finding how it collects files, messages, contacts, and call logs.
↗PROJECTS
Some are experiments. Some are tools I use. All of them started with a security problem I wanted to understand.
My bug-hunting setup for giving agents the right tools and context without drowning them in either.
A scanner agents can steer: change a payload, rerun a check, and verify a hunch without writing a new script every time.
A simpler way to deploy honeypots and keep track of what they collect.
A UART terminal I built for CyBot, with voice control, configurable serial settings, and activity logs.
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