Nikhil Mittal
Founder And Director at SquareX
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
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Top SchoolNikhil Mittal is a security researcher, founder and director with over 15 years of hands-on experience in penetration testing, red teaming and post-exploitation research, currently leading Altered Security from Bhopal, India. He builds novel attack tooling and frameworks—most notably Kautilya for HID-based attacks and Nishang for PowerShell post-exploitation—blending offensive creativity with practical defense advice for global enterprise clients. A frequent speaker at top infosec conferences (Defcon, BlackHat, CanSecWest and more), he also runs corporate trainings and bespoke red team engagements across the US, Europe and SE Asia. Known for unconventional, “out-of-the-box” approaches, he specializes in assessments of high-security environments that demand novel attack vectors. In spare time he continually researches new methodologies and iterates on his open tooling, combining a hacker’s curiosity with structured client-focused delivery.
20 years of coding experience
Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya
English
Github Skills (29)
3d-rendering10
npm10
rubygems10
supply-chain-security10
rendering10
software-composition-analysis10
security10
pypi10
devsecops9
static-analysis9
csharp9
opengl9
golang9
rendering-engine8
threat-hunting8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
boringtools/git-alerts
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Tool to detect and monitor GitHub org users' public repositories for secrets and sensitive files
Contributions:6 releases, 17 commits, 54 PRs in 1 month
securitygit-repositorymisconfigurationdevsecopsgithub-secrets
c0d3G33k/COVID-Chat-CTF
Jun 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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