Daniel Feichter is 37 years old, from Austria, and goes by the pseudonym VirtualAllocEx on Twitter and elsewhere. He originally comes from a background in electronics and communications engineering, and started as a junior penetration tester in 2018. He found his purpose in ethical hacking and can't imagine doing anything else since. At the end of 2021, he decided to start his own company called RedOps to live out his research spirit and focus even more on his main area of interest.
His focus is on continuing to learn about Windows Internals, endpoint security, malware development, and reverse engineering. He regularly shares his research in the form of blog posts, conference talks, and workshops. He has spoken and taught at conferences such as DEFCON 30 (Adversary Village), DEFCON 31 (Red Team Village), SANS Hackfest, BSides Munich, etc. When not in front of the computer, he enjoys spending time with his family and friends and has been practicing taekwondo regularly for more than ten years.
