Christian David Varela — Cybersecurity Researcher
Remain coherent for the word human to include us all and not exclude anyone.
Christian David Varela
Cybersecurity Engineer & AI Safety Researcher
Raised in the rainforests of Costa Rica, I developed an early respect for complex systems, a perspective I now apply to the digital world. As a thinker, doer, and lifelong learner, I connect theoretical AI safety research with practical, frontline cybersecurity offense and defense. My goal is simple: ensure the technologies of tomorrow are safe, trustworthy, and aligned with our values. Fueled by sheer curiosity, I thrive right at the intersection of human nature and machine intelligence.
Research / Computer Use Agents
Doppelganger Screens
If an agent can't tell the difference between a real screen and a fake one, smarter models won't help. Control needs to be built into the pipeline to the model, not just the model itself.
Research / Adversarial ML
YOLO26 Threat Mapping
A public model file is part of your supply chain, and the model itself is an attack surface. Three papers.
Infrastructure / AI Security
Kybernos
Zero-trust gateway for AI agents. Every tool call authenticated, authorized, validated, and audited before it runs.
Threat Intelligence
HunterEngine
Deterministic threat-enrichment engine. Maps phishing and insider lures to MITRE ATT&CK, generates YARA + STIX 2.1.
AI Security / RAG
ragulator
Proof of concept for LLM-mediated document access control: regex pre-filter, threat and intent analysis, clearance and need-to-know gates.
Applied Cryptography
CertForge
Forge mutual-TLS client certificates by recovering RSA CA keys. A CTF and crypto-teaching toolkit.
Digital Forensics
ForensiCLI
A configuration-driven, multi-evidence forensic examination runner. Wraps the standard open-source forensic toolchain behind one interface.
Digital Forensics
PST-Forensic-Toolkit
A three-stage pipeline for forensic examination of Microsoft Outlook PST files: extract to CSV, load into SQLite, generate an automated report.
Digital Forensics
forensic-system-carver
A command-line pipeline for extracting and correlating artifacts from a disk image. Hashes the evidence, sweeps for target strings, recovers files.
→ Everything else is on GitHub: github.com/dreamsudo