Dakshitaa Babu

Dakshitaa is a security researcher and product evangelist at SquareX, where she leads the security research team. A self-taught cybersecurity researcher mentored by offensive security veteran Vivek Ramachandran, she specializes in web attacks — malicious websites, files, scripts, and extensions capable of bypassing traditional security solutions. Her research directly fuels SquareX's product innovation, ensuring it stays ahead of evolving threats. As a product evangelist, she is the principal author of SquareX's technical collateral. She has contributed to bleeding-edge browser security research presented at BSides SF Adversary Village, Recon Village, and the DEF CON main stage. Her work on email security bypasses, breaking secure web gateways, MV3 extension vulnerabilities, browser syncjacking, polymorphic extensions, and browser-native ransomware has been covered by leading media outlets, including Forbes, TechRadar, Mashable, The Register, Bleeping Computer, and CyberNews.

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