Ben Campbell
Security Consultant at F-Secure Corporation
Northampton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarBen Campbell is a Security Consultant based in Northampton, UK with 14 years’ experience focused on offensive security, vulnerability research, and exploitation. He combines deep low-level Windows expertise—evident from substantial contributions to Metasploit’s railgun and Meterpreter modules—with pragmatic backend work across PowerShell and Ruby tooling for post-exploitation and phishing frameworks. At F-Secure since 2019 he applies that hands-on exploit knowledge to real-world engagements, incident response and secure-by-design recommendations. Ben’s open-source track record includes fixes for Windows UAC bypasses, Active Directory reconnaissance enhancements, and SQLi handling in the w3af scanner, showing both breadth and attention to defensive improvements. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex platform internals into reliable tooling and test cases that improve detection and remediation. A less obvious strength is his comfort straddling high-level exploitation strategy and C-level calling-convention tweaks on x64 Windows, making him effective across the full attack lifecycle.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (57)
metasploit10
ruby-rails10
scanner10
penetration-testing10
python10
sendmail10
vulnerability-scanners10
wp-api10
meta10
web-application-security10
r10
vulnerability10
send-email10
windows10
databases10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
rapid7/meterpreter
Feb 2013 - May 2015
THIS REPO IS OBSOLETE. USE https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-payloads INSTEAD
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:53 commits, 1 PR, 29 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily worked on the `railgun` extension, focusing on Windows API interaction via the `railgun` feature which allows calling Windows API functions. The commits included code changes in `railgun.c` and `railgun.h`, indicating modifications and improvements to how Windows API calls are made. The user also modified source files related to network functionality and implemented some basic host resolution functionality.
metasploit
rapid7/metasploit-framework
Jun 2012 - Apr 2018
Metasploit Framework
Role in this project:Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:1156 commits, 53 PRs, 15 pushes in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the Metasploit Framework by adding and modifying code related to exploiting and analyzing security vulnerabilities. Their work included creating specifications and test cases for WinSCP related functionality, as well as fixing bugs related to UAC bypass vulnerabilities in Windows. Furthermore, they implemented changes to various Windows local exploits, restricting them to specific Windows versions and adding a proxy awareness feature. This work indicates a focus on vulnerability research and exploitation.
metasploit
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