Veronica Valeros
@verovaleros
Woman. Hacker. Artist. Researcher at CTU in Prague. BlackHat Trainer. BlackHat Review Board. Making good things happen. Intelligence and Security Studies Master student at LJMU. Argentinean in Czechia.
The Methods of Deception is our first podcast mini series aimed at restoring our curiosity. A narrated journey that should trigger in you more questions. Every living thing that has ever been hunted has faced the same problem: how not to be seen, not to be caught. thelostsignalpodcast.podbean.com
The Methods of Deception is our first podcast mini series aimed at restoring our curiosity. A narrated journey that should trigger in you more questions. Every living thing that has ever been hunted has faced the same problem: how not to be seen, not to be caught. thelostsignalpodcast.podbean.com
🚀 Registrations are OPEN for our Introduction to Security 2026 course! A free, hands-on, 14-week cybersecurity course to learn how to attack and defend real systems in your own cyber range. cybersecurity.bsy.fel.cvut.cz #infosec #mooc #training #cybersecurity
Most malware traffic analysis fails when the answer isn’t obvious. Our signature training at Black Hat Asia with @eldraco.bsky.social, teaches a repeatable methodology for analyzing network traffic that holds up in complex cases. Join us blackhat.com/asia-26/trai... ! #blackhat #training
Join us with @eldraco.bsky.social at @blackhatevents.bsky.social USA for hands-on, intensive Advanced Malware Traffic Analysis training. This 2-day course dives into real-world network traffic and teaches you practical skills for detecting modern threats. Limited seats! bit.ly/BHADVNET
Our latest paper is on Arxiv: ARACNE: An LLM-Based Autonomous Shell Pentesting Agent arxiv.org/pdf/2502.18528 #cybersecurity #agents #llm #autonomousagents #pentesting
My latest work has been published: "CTU Hornet 65 Niner: A network dataset of geographically distributed low-interaction honeypots" The dataset has a unique value for studying the nature of Internet attacks over time and their changes and characteristics. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
2/100 Autocracy Inc. by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social is a great and insightful read. #bookclub
My tool Nuggit (v0.1.7) now has a docker image. Nuggit: Small bits of insights from GitHub repositories github.com/verovaleros/... #38c3
Just picked up my @thinkstcanary.canary.tools stickers ! Thank you team, this brightened my day 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽
Just super happy with my postcard printing. Now i need a postcard exchange or something 😅
I really like the effect this has on the print. It’s so cool. #art
Trying new stuff on my crafty Sunday. Learning to design in layers, with primary colors, and then printing each layer. Like an attempt of risograph, kind off. #art
In my free time I do 3d printing and painting the prints! This is a design of my brother (ig:@valerosfilm). 🫶🏽
[5] Notebooklm (notebooklm.google.com). This is also a new-ish tool for me, which is starting to replace a collection of other tools (GPT, chatPDF, etc). It can let you upload a collection of papers or articles, and you can converse with all of them together. It's great to remember who said what.
[4] Zotero (www.zotero.org) is my go-to tool to collect, store, and organize my research papers. If there is one tool I can't live without, it is this one.
[3] Elicit (elicit.com). It is a great tool for exploring research questions and having a side-by-side comparison of publications, their summaries, and a customizable number of columns that can include limitations, future work, methods, etc.
[2] Research Rabbit (researchrabbitapp.com). It is a fantastic tool for discovering related work, exploring authors' publications and collaborations, and pivoting through papers.
[1] Explain Paper (www.explainpaper.com). This is a new tool for me, but it is so useful already. It lets you select from a paper, and it uses AI to explain the selected text with selective complexity, from 5 years old to high school to expert.
Slowly building my own index card system for cool tools and repos that I want to keep at hand. I created a simple tool for this, Nuggit, that creates some basic tl;dr of the tool. The HTML output can be printed, and the best part is... I can annotate it! github.com/verovaleros/...
I am surprised at how many coders do not know about the community standards checklist that GitHub has in place at <RepositoryName>/community. It really makes a difference to have a clear description, readme and licensing at least. Is your tool really #FreeSoftware or shall we take your word for it?
Every year we dress for Halloween in our class to surprise our students and bring some fun! This year I disguised as Cousin Itt from Addams Family! It was fun, messy, hairy and hot.. ! Brought with me my 3d printed & painted Thing, to give us a hand (pun intended) 🎃
Sticker making for our students at the Introduction to Security class. Limited edition. 🎃