Radu Caragea Vulnerability Researcher, Bitdefender
Radu Caragea is a Vulnerability Researcher from Bitdefender specializing in “unorthodox” methods of malware analysis and cryptography. His interests also include exploitation and virtual machine introspection.
He is a self-proclaimed “CTF maniac”, founding and catalyzing the Hexcellents academic security research group in the Politehnica University of Bucharest, where he is pursuing a MSc in Computer & Network Security, leading the CTF team to win various national events, qualify for the Codegate Finals in Seoul, Korea in 2014 and maintain presence within the top 40 teams worldwide in 2013. Recently, he is playing in the PwnThyBytes team and carrying out his teaching duties as a trainer for the Romanian team in the European Cyber Security Challenge competition.