Lorenzo Santina
Fondatore
Pavone Canavese, Piedmont, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolLorenzo Santina is a founder and embedded systems security engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in reverse engineering and exploitation of IoT firmware and router platforms. Based in Piedmont, Italy, he holds a summa cum laude master's in Computer Science from Università di Torino and applies that deep academic grounding to practical POC development for high-profile vulnerabilities like the Mikrotik Winbox and Vault 7-related exploits. Lorenzo has contributed to major open-source projects including OpenWrt/LEDE and Routersploit, blending low-level exploit development with upstream fixes to hostapd and wireless stack features. He pairs firmware extraction and protocol analysis skills with hands-on tooling to automate credential recovery and vulnerability validation. As founder of NSA Innovation he combines entrepreneurial initiative with a track record of turning complex reverse-engineering research into reproducible proofs-of-concept. Colleagues will notice his uncommon mix of formal networking theory and pragmatic exploit engineering across both research and production code.
12 years of coding experience
Laurea Magistrale LM in scienze e tecnologie informatiche, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, 110/110 e Lode con Menzione, Laurea Magistrale LM in scienze e tecnologie informatiche, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, 110/110 e Lode con Menzione at Università degli Studi di Torino
Github Skills (43)
istore10
assembly10
penetration-testing10
python10
scripting10
routers10
firmware10
net10
configuration-management10
hostapd10
wireless10
router10
networking10
security10
routeros10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
BigNerd95/Chimay-Red
May 2017 - Sep 2022
Working POC of Mikrotik exploit from Vault 7 CIA Leaks
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:78 commits, 4 PRs, 73 pushes in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Lorenzo's primary focus was on exploiting vulnerabilities in Mikrotik RouterOS, specifically a stack clash vulnerability. They developed and implemented proof-of-concept (POC) exploits, including a crash POC and a stack clash POC. Their contributions involved analyzing the target system, crafting malicious payloads, and understanding the underlying architecture to achieve code execution. The user also developed tools to extract firmware binaries and user credentials.
leakssecuritymikrotikvaultpoc
openwrt/openwrt
Nov 2017 - Dec 2022
This repository is a mirror of https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git It is for reference only and is not active for check-ins. We will continue to accept Pull Requests here. They will be merged via staging trees then into openwrt.git.
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 13 comments in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Lorenzo contributed to the OpenWrt project by addressing specific issues and implementing new features related to hostapd and wireless network management. Their work involved fixing syntax errors in shell scripts and adding support for IEEE 802.11v and other features like ft_psk_generate_local and ft_over_ds within the hostapd configuration. The user's commits focused on modifying configuration files and shell scripts to enhance wireless network capabilities, including the addition of new configuration options and flags.
mergedopenwrtinspull-requestsstaging
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