Lawrence Amer is a Red Team and ethical hacking specialist with 11 years of hands-on experience in offensive security, advanced penetration testing, and privacy research, praised by major tech firms including Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and Sony. He has led Red Team engagements and built tooling at firms like PwC DarkLab and KPMG Nederland, and now operates at Resillion, blending advisory SME work with active adversary simulation. An active open-source contributor, he helped develop the 0xsp-Mongoose framework—adding Windows privilege-escalation detection, DNS-based C2 and interactive agent communications—to replicate advanced attacker tactics. Known in the bug-bounty community via HackerOne and Synack, he combines practical exploit development with repeatable testing frameworks. Based in Utrecht, he brings a curious, hacker-first mindset tempered by enterprise delivery and a knack for turning research findings into operational security controls.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
faculty of Science and Arts English Department, faculty of Science and Arts English Department at Damascus University
a unique framework for cybersecurity simulation and red teaming operations, windows auditing for newer vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and privilege escalations attacks, replicate the tactics and techniques of an advanced adversary in a network.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 110 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Lawrence focused on developing and integrating security-related features within the 0xsp-mongoose framework. Their contributions included adding a web application for agent communication and implementing vulnerability detection for Windows systems, specifically related to privilege escalation exploits (CVE-2020-1472). Additionally, the user enhanced the agent with interactive communication capabilities and implemented DNS-based command and control functionality.
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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Lawrence Amer - Red Team & Ethical Hacker at Resillion