Tal Skverer

Tal Skverer is the Research Team Lead at Astrix Security where he challenges cloud platforms' defenses and mitigations. Tal found the 0-day vulnerability in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), now dubbed "GhostToken," that allowed a malicious app to become invisible and unremovable. He has spoken at many industry conferences, including DEF CON where he unveiled GhostToken. At his previous job (Argus), he hacked vehicle computers on a daily basis and is also known for being one of the researchers that broke PokemonGo's anti-cheating system in 2016. Tal holds an MSc in Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute and has a decade of experience in reverse engineering, malware analysis, embedded security, web hacking, cryptography, and pentesting.