Security Researcher and Offensive Security Engineer building open-source frameworks for AI/LLM security, protocol analysis, reverse engineering, protocol fuzzing, and stateful application testing.

My work focuses on designing offensive tooling, reproducible security research platforms, and implementation-driven research for modern software and AI systems.

📍 Chennai, India

• AI & LLM Security
• Offensive Security Engineering
• Stateful Application Security
• WebSocket & Protocol Security
• Coverage-Guided Fuzzing
• Reverse Engineering
• Exploit Development
• Adversarial Machine Learning

Evolutionary AI Red Teaming Framework for systematic security evaluation of Large Language Models.

Highlights

• Evolutionary prompt mutation
• Genetic algorithms
• Differential model testing
• OWASP LLM Top 10 attack modules
• Behavioral clustering
• Multi-model evaluation

Stateful WebSocket Security Assessment Platform for modern realtime applications.

Highlights

• Stateful replay engine
• Identity-aware testing
• Browser-assisted validation
• WebSocket interception
• Race condition analysis
• Authorization testing
• Evidence generation

Coverage-guided protocol fuzzing framework for binary and custom protocols.

Highlights

• Grammar-aware mutation
• Distributed fuzzing
• Coverage-guided execution
• Crash triage
• Corpus management
• Protocol parser framework

Cross-platform reverse engineering framework for binary analysis.

Highlights

• Static analysis
• CFG recovery
• Intermediate Representation
• SSA
• Native decompiler
• Embedded debugger
• Plugin SDK

• PoCSmith — AI-assisted Proof-of-Concept generation
• LockRoot — Secure credential vault
• SQL Tamper Framework — Intelligent SQL payload transformation
• Keikaku — Custom interpreted runtime
• RedLang — LLVM-based systems programming language

SSRN

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6373439

DOI

https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6373439

Zenodo

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18909538

Citation

Regaan R. Basilisk: An Evolutionary AI Red-Teaming Framework for Systematic Security Evaluation of Large Language Models. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2026.

@article{regaan2026basilisk,
  title={Basilisk: An Evolutionary AI Red-Teaming Framework for Systematic Security Evaluation of Large Language Models},
  author={Regaan, R},
  journal={SSRN Electronic Journal},
  year={2026},
  doi={10.2139/ssrn.6373439}
}

Figshare

https://figshare.com/articles/preprint/WSHawk_Stateful_Security_Assessment_of_WebSocket_Applications_through_Adaptive_Payload_Mutation_and_Browser-Assisted_Validation/32955467

DOI (Figshare)

https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32955467.v1

Zenodo

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21290858

Citation

Regaan, R. (2026). WSHawk: Stateful Security Assessment of WebSocket Applications through Adaptive Payload Mutation and Browser-Assisted Validation (Version 4.0.1). ROT Independent Security Research Lab. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21290858

@article{regaan2026wshawk,
  author = {Regaan, R},
  title = {WSHawk: Stateful Security Assessment of WebSocket Applications through Adaptive Payload Mutation and Browser-Assisted Validation},
  year = {2026},
  month = {7},
  doi = {10.6084/m9.figshare.32955467.v1},
  url = {https://figshare.com/articles/preprint/WSHawk_Stateful_Security_Assessment_of_WebSocket_Applications_through_Adaptive_Payload_Mutation_and_Browser-Assisted_Validation/32955467}
}

• Go
• C
• C++
• Python
• TypeScript

• AI & LLM Security
• Web Security
• WebSocket Security
• Protocol Analysis
• Reverse Engineering
• Coverage-Guided Fuzzing
• Exploit Development
• Offensive Tooling

• Linux Internals
• LLVM
• TCP/IP
• Binary Analysis
• Virtual Machines

• Docker
• Redis
• PostgreSQL
• GitHub Actions

• Adversarial Machine Learning
• Prompt Evolution
• Model Evaluation
• LLM Security Testing

• Build systems that mirror real offensive workflows.
• Prioritize reproducibility over isolated findings.
• Treat evidence as a first-class output.
• Favor implementation-backed research over theoretical discussion.
• Release practical open-source tooling for the security community.

• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

🌐 Website

https://regaan.rothackers.com

🏢 Research Lab

https://rothackers.com

💻 GitHub

https://github.com/regaan

💼 LinkedIn

https://linkedin.com/in/regaan

𝕏 X (Twitter)

https://x.com/regaan_sec

All research is performed in authorized environments for defensive security evaluation, education, and responsible disclosure.