The Dynamic Personality of Pakistan
Mr. Rafay Baloch
Rafay Baloch is the most Skilled and dynamic Personality of Pakistan. Rafay Was born in 5 February in 1993) is a Pakistani Ethical Hacker and Security Researcher Know for his discovery of Vulnerabilities in cyber Space and get rewards. He Runs one of the top security blog in Pakistan with more than 25,000 Subscribers. Rafay Holds CPTE, CPTC, CSWAE,CVA, CSS, OSCP, CCNA, R & S CCNP, Route, eWAPT Certifications.
He has been featured and Known by both national and international media and publications like Forbes, BBC, and etc.
Rafay has been active into bug bounty programs and has reported several critical vulnerabilities in several open source web applications as well as in bug bounty Programs.
Rafay found Critical Vulnerabilities in PayPal in 2020: he hacked into PayPal servers by exploiting a remote code execution vulnerability. He was Rewarded 10,000 US Dollar and a job offer to work for them as a security a researcher that he refused as he was still doing his bachelor’s at that time.
Rafay has been awarded 5,000 Dollar by Google and Firefox for exposing a flaw in their web browsers.
The bug discovered by Rafay could allow attackers to use the address bar and divert users to malicious website possibly tricking them into revealing sensitive information.
“Google Security team themselves state that we recognize that the address bar is the only reliable security indicator could be controlled by an attacker it could carry adverse effects. For instance potentially trick users into supplying sensitive information to a malicious website due to the fact that it could easily lead the users to believe that they are visiting is a legitimate website as the address bar points to the correct website,
Browsers vulnerable to such an attack include Google Chrome and Firefox among others “seventy percent of all mobile traffic is affected by this bug” he added.
Speaking to the Express Tribune, Rafay revealed he received 3,000 Dollar from Google and 1,000 Dollar from firefox and another 1,000 dollars in reward from an undisclosed browser for finding the bug.
There are many definitions for “hackers” Ask this question from a phalanx and you’ll get a new answer ever time because “more mouths will have more talks” and his is the reason behind the different definitions of hackers which in my opinion is quite justified for everyone has a right to think differently.(He wrote in his Book “ETHICAL HACKING AND PENETRATION TESTING GUIDE”
Your Academic, University ranking not make you a successful Person your Skill and Practice Make you Successful.
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