Security researcher. Founder of VULONE. Attribution across the underground.

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Anonymous

Nobody stays anonymous for longvulone.com, the index--:-- --Every handle leaves a trace35 forums. 40 million records. One record of who was whoThe underground forgets less than it thinksNobody stays anonymous for longvulone.com, the index--:-- --Every handle leaves a trace35 forums. 40 million records. One record of who was whoThe underground forgets less than it thinks

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About Who I am and what VULONE does

The personal site and record of Walless Al Essa, security researcher and founder of VULONE.

A brief note from the author

dear reader (and, I suspect, dear watcher),

this site is the quiet half of what I do. the loud half is vulone.com, where handles are matched to the people who wore them: the same email reused, the same server, the same voice in a private message sent years apart.

what you will find here is slower. notes on how identity survives a takedown, and why the underground forgets less than it thinks.

read carefully.
the names are real.

with care,
walless (al essa)

About the author

“A handle is a costume. The person underneath keeps the same habits.”“Nothing online is ever gone. Only misfiled.”“Anonymity is a claim, not a property.”“The record remembers what the writer forgot.”“A handle is a costume. The person underneath keeps the same habits.”“Nothing online is ever gone. Only misfiled.”“Anonymity is a claim, not a property.”“The record remembers what the writer forgot.”

I am a security researcher and the founder of VULONE. I follow names through the wreckage of forums and prove which handles belong to the same hands.

I build the tooling that does it at scale: dozens of breached boards, tens of millions of records, one index of who was who.

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I take on a small number of attribution engagements. Describe the case and reach out. ↓

Contact

I am most reachable via email. The platform itself lives at vulone.com.

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