RESEARCH

Whirly Labs actively contributes to the security community through published research, vulnerability discovery, and peer-reviewed work. Our research background informs our tools and approach, helping us stay ahead in a rapidly evolving field.
YEAR DESCRIPTION RESOURCES
2025 Exploiting Arbitrary Class Loading on the JVM (BSides Joburg'25) SLIDES VIDEO
2025 Scalable Language Agnostic Taint Tracking Using Explicit Data Dependencies (SOAP'25) PAPER
2024 Attacking Pipelines: Large Scale Exploitation of Workflow Files (BSides Cape Town'24) SLIDES
2023 Learning Type Inference for Enhanced Dataflow Analysis (ESORICS'23) SLIDES PAPER BLOG
2023 Everything is (still) broken (Threat'23) SLIDES
2023 Forging Chains - the Java Blacksmith (BSides Cape Town'23) SLIDES VIDEO