Mikhail Sosonkin

Mikhail Sosonkin is a security researcher who served as Synack's Director of Research and Development, focusing on the security of low-level systems and automating reverse engineering, fuzzing, and application analysis. He holds a computer science degree from NYU, where he has also taught application security, and a software engineering master's from Oxford. His Exploits Explained contribution covers a persistent XSS vulnerability delivered through image metadata. He has since worked at AWS, OpenAI, and Cruise.