About
GRIMLABS is an independent engineering research lab, studying how systems are designed, how they behave, and how they fail — from the substrate up.
Research Areas
Web Security
- Application review: authentication, sessions, and access control
- Server-side injection, deserialization, and request-handling flaws
- Client-side attack surface and browser trust boundaries
- API and business-logic abuse
- Reproducible triage and reporting workflow
Mobile Security
- Static and dynamic analysis of Android and iOS applications
- Reverse engineering of app binaries and bundled native libraries
- Insecure local storage, IPC, and platform permission misuse
- Network interception, certificate pinning, and bypass techniques
- Runtime instrumentation and anti-tampering review
Embedded & Hardware Systems
- Board bring-up, debugging, and datasheet-level verification
- Firmware extraction and analysis on constrained targets
- Circuit analysis, signal integrity, and power/thermal budgeting
- Sensor and actuator driver development
- Hardware attack surface: debug ports, buses, and secure boot
Cryptography & Formal Methods
- Applied cryptography: primitives used correctly, and where they are not
- Formal verification of programs and protocol properties
- Operating system internals: syscalls, schedulers, and memory models
- Mathematical problem work from first principles
- Specification writing and machine-checked correctness arguments