Inside the Mind of an Attacker — Atticus D'mello on Bypassing Social Media's Security Controls | BrisSEC 2026
Recorded live on the floor at BrisSEC 2026 in Brisbane, David Savva-Willett sits down with Atticus D'mello, higher degree research student, vulnerability researcher, and emerging cybersecurity specialist with Safety Net Cyber, to unpack his BrisSEC talk Inside the Mind of an Attacker.
Atticus walks us through how he and his team approached one of the most under-discussed problems in consumer cybersecurity: how attackers bypass account creation limits on the world's biggest social media platforms to spin up anonymous accounts at scale. Working with nothing more than a laptop and a typical home…
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