twistedmock Open to work

Offensive Security Researcher · Bug Bounty Hunter

Mahmud Hasan Sizan

I find vulnerabilities in the applications of companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, SpaceX and GitHub — most of it inside private, invitation-only bug bounty programs. Six years on HackerOne: top-1,000 all-time, HackerOne Clear, 131 paid bounties. I work AI-augmented: my own harnesses, built around Claude and Codex, run reconnaissance, triage and reporting at a scale one hunter couldn't reach by hand.

Open to penetration testing, red teaming and vulnerability research roles  ·  remote worldwide or relocating  ·  GMT+6

twistedmock@wearehackerone.com ↗ CV — PDF ↓

A bug in every wave.

Move to disturb the water

01 The record

Six years of it, and the numbers hold up.

Reputation, rank, signal and impact are checkable on my public HackerOne profile; report, severity and bounty counts come from my HackerOne account.

0Reputation
0Global rank top 1,000 all-time
0Reports resolved + 80 triaged
0Critical & high findings 27 critical
0Programs that thanked me of 182 reported to
0Paid bounties 36 programs
0Signal 80th percentile
0Impact top 16% for severity
  • HackerOne ClearBackground-checked. Most researchers are not.
  • 9-month streakValid reports every month, Jan – Sep 2026.
  • Milestone Level IIIAll three tiers cleared, 2025–26 cycle.
  • 18 badgesSix of them distinct OWASP categories.

02 Highlights

The findings I can point to.

Most of my work is under private-program terms and can't be written up. These are the results that are on the record — dated, and linked to the source where one exists.

  1. Two bounties from Goldman Sachs.3 May and 24 April 2026 — the second co-authored with fellow Bangladeshi hunter refat0g.
    HackerOne ↗
  2. Named in Apple's security acknowledgements — for the third time.Web server security. Listed by name on Apple's own page.
    Apple ↗
  3. Top-1,000 all-time on HackerOne, at #747.3,824 reputation, 105 resolved reports, signal in the 80th percentile, impact in the 84th.
    HackerOne ↗
  4. Ongoing
    Ranked #1 of every hunter on a private HackerOne program.Forty-eight valid reports and 1,075 reputation on a single program. It can't be named, as its terms require — it is the best evidence of what I do.
  5. Apple security acknowledgements, twice in two months.July 2025 and August 2025.
    Apple ↗
  6. Acknowledged by UNESCO.A reflected cross-site scripting flaw on unesco.org resources, reported 19 June 2025 — listed by name on UNESCO's disclosure page.
    UNESCO ↗
  7. Bugcrowd
    Public hall of fame at SpaceX, Atlassian, Twilio and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.Sixty-four valid findings on a second platform; three more programs private.
    Bugcrowd ↗
  8. Telekom
    Named in Deutsche Telekom's security acknowledgements.A server-side request forgery, credited on Telekom's public acknowledgements page.
    Telekom ↗
  9. Four Adobe findings resolved inside six weeks.The densest run on any named program — five valid reports in total.
  10. GitHub report resolved; GitHub Security Researcher.Resolved 28 September 2021, with the badge that came with it.
    GitHub ↗
  11. Joined HackerOne.Everything above happened in the six years since.

03 Every wave

The organisations that put their name to my findings.

Every mark below is a program that accepted at least one of my reports as valid — the public ones, on both platforms — or an organisation that lists me by name on its own acknowledgements page. Rendered in a single ink, so no logo shouts over another — and every mark links to the program's own page.

HackerOne

public programs

Bugcrowd

public programs

Hall of fame

named on the vendor's own page · click to check

And these are only the ones I'm allowed to name. Most of my work is in private programs whose names are withheld, as their terms require.

04 What I find

Ten OWASP Top 10 classes, from injection to SSRF.

Not a skills list. Six carry HackerOne's own badge — issued only on a valid report of that class; the other four are on my record as resolved or triaged reports.

  • BadgeInjectionSQL and command injection — untrusted input reaching an interpreter.
  • BadgeBroken AuthenticationSession and identity flaws — the class that ends in account takeover.
  • BadgeXML External EntitiesParsers coaxed into reading files and reaching internal services.
  • BadgeBroken Access ControlIDOR and privilege escalation — the object is there, the check is not.
  • BadgeSecurity MisconfigurationDefaults left in place, surfaces left open, secrets left reachable.
  • BadgeCross-Site ScriptingStored, reflected and DOM-based execution in another user's session.
  • ValidSensitive Data ExposureInformation disclosure — my most frequent class: PII, tokens and internals reachable without authorisation.
  • ValidServer-Side Request ForgeryThe server made to fetch on my behalf — into metadata endpoints and internal services.
  • ValidOpen RedirectTrust in a link, redirected — the first step of many phishing and token-theft chains.
  • ValidInsecure DesignBusiness-logic flaws — flows that work as built and fail as intended.

Where some of my resolved-or-triaged reports landed, in HackerOne's own weakness classes:

  • 45Information disclosure
  • 37Access control
  • 31Authentication
  • 22Cross-site scripting
  • 14Open redirect
  • 6SSRF
  • 4Insecure design
  • 3Injection

05 Tools

Reconnaissance at this scale needs tools nobody ships.

qshodan

Rust · github ↗

Extracts hosts from Shodan and defeats the platform's hard ceiling of 1 000 results per query by recursively subdividing the search — country, then city, then port — until every bucket fits under the limit. Validates, strips reserved ranges, deduplicates.

qport

Rust · github ↗

A port scanner that never touches the target. Resolves open ports out of Shodan's InternetDB at ~500 requests a second with rotating user agents, so an entire estate can be mapped without a single packet reaching the asset owner.

AI-augmented pentesting

Claude · Codex · personal harnesses

I run offensive work through harnesses I built around Claude and Codex — agents wired to my own reconnaissance tooling that map an estate, triage what comes back, draft proofs of concept and write the report, with me steering every exploitation step. It is how one hunter keeps up with an attack surface that never stops growing.

  • Claude
  • Codex
  • Agent harnesses
  • Tool use
  • Recon automation
  • Triage
  • Reporting

Attack Surface Monitoring

SaaS · in development

Continuous external attack-surface mapping, folding Crunchbase, Shodan, Censys, Whoxy and crt.sh into one picture with custom reconnaissance on top.

  • Rust
  • Python
  • Bash
  • Shodan
  • Censys
  • crt.sh
  • Whoxy

06 Languages

Four languages.

Fluent in English and Bengali; conversational Hindi and Urdu — speaking and listening.

  • EnglishFluent · IELTS Academic 8.0 (2024)Working language — reports, interviews, client calls.
  • বাংলাBengali · NativeMother tongue.
  • हिन्दीHindi · ConversationalSpeaking and listening — basic communication.
  • اردوUrdu · ConversationalSpeaking and listening — basic communication.

07 Say hello

Open to offensive-security work — penetration testing, attack-surface assessment, red teaming, vulnerability research. Remote, or relocating.

Available now  ·  full-time or contract  ·  remote worldwide or relocating  ·  GMT+6

That's my HackerOne researcher address — it forwards straight to my inbox, not a queue, and the handle is the same one on every profile below.