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Ali Murtaza Bhutto

Cybersecurity researcher. I work on the security and privacy of LLM and agentic AI systems, with a background in OSINT and digital forensics. MS in Cybersecurity (SZABIST, 2026). I build security tooling, evaluate it, and release the work as open code.

ORCID 0009-0007-2787-943X · LinkedIn · alibhutto101112@gmail.com

Experience

  • Alphasearch: open-source data-acquisition pipelines.
  • OWS: multi-agent system deployment.
  • Complai: multi-framework compliance platform.

Detailed CV: thunderstornX.github.io

Open-source contributions

Changes I wrote and had merged into established security and OSINT tools, each reviewed by the project maintainers.

Project Contribution PR
blacklanternsecurity/bbot SPF IP and CIDR extraction in the DNS target engine #3144
intelowlproject/IntelOwl RDAP analyzer for domain and IP enrichment #3760
MISP/misp-modules RDAP expansion module #785
TheHive-Project/Cortex-Analyzers OpenCVE analyzer #1458
soxoj/maigret Neo4j graph export for OSINT results #2774

Research software

Self-directed projects, released as open source and archived on Zenodo. Independent work, not peer-reviewed.

Project Description DOI
llm-red-team-toolkit Adversarial probe harness for LLM deployments, mapped to the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 10.5281/zenodo.20480444
ai-governance-checker Pre-deployment governance audit for LLM system prompts (OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act) 10.5281/zenodo.20480458
lattice Accountability layer for multi-agent AI using content-addressed, signed claim graphs 10.5281/zenodo.20341934
agentic-osint-agent Autonomous agent for evidence-grounded open-source investigation 10.5281/zenodo.20480446
rag-threat-intel Retrieval-augmented pipeline for threat-intelligence question answering 10.5281/zenodo.20480465
forenix-oss OSINT-to-evidence platform with a cryptographic chain of custody 10.5281/zenodo.20329059

More public, Zenodo-archived projects are on my repositories page.

In progress

A study on the reliability of automated scoring in LLM red-team evaluation, in preparation for a peer-reviewed venue.

Preprints

Master's-level work, self-archived on Zenodo. Not peer-reviewed.

  1. OSINT in Action: a comparative study of OSINT tools for social-media and network intelligence. 10.5281/zenodo.16921792
  2. Navigating the Legal Labyrinth: a framework for ethical and compliant OSINT operations. 10.5281/zenodo.16924934
  3. A Comprehensive Review of Meshtastic and Similar Networks. 10.5281/zenodo.16925037

Tech

Languages: Python, TypeScript, Bash, C, SQL. Infrastructure: Docker, Linux, PostgreSQL, FastAPI, pytest, Git. LLM and agentic: Claude, OpenAI, LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, RAG, Model Context Protocol, and self-hosted open-weight models (Llama, GLM) via Ollama and NVIDIA NIM. Security and OSINT: Burp Suite, Metasploit, Nmap, Nessus, Wireshark, Belkasoft; subfinder, httpx, nuclei, amass, maigret, Spiderfoot, Maltego. Standards: MITRE ATT&CK, STRIDE, OWASP Top 10 and LLM Top 10, NIST CSF, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 27001.

Popular repositories Loading

  1. lattice lattice Public

    Accountability layer for multi-agent AI systems. Content-addressed, cryptographically signed claim DAGs.

    Python 1

  2. rag-threat-intel rag-threat-intel Public

    Sovereign RAG pipeline for vulnerability and threat-intelligence Q&A. Ollama + pgvector + FastAPI; compares 3 chunking strategies.

    Python 1

  3. secure-python-pipeline-template secure-python-pipeline-template Public

    Composable 4-gate DevSecOps pipeline template for Python: Semgrep + Trufflehog + Bandit + pip-audit

    Python

  4. osint-pipeline-demo osint-pipeline-demo Public

    Async Python reference pipeline for high-throughput OSINT data collection: aiohttp + asyncpg + token-bucket rate limiting + SHA-256 dedup. 18x speedup measured.

    Python

  5. sovereign-llm-quickstart sovereign-llm-quickstart Public

    Air-gap-capable on-prem LLM stack: Ollama + Open-WebUI + Nginx (TLS+basic-auth) + FastAPI hash-only audit log. ISO 27001 mapped.

    Python

  6. llm-red-team-toolkit llm-red-team-toolkit Public

    Adversarial probing harness for LLM deployments. 52 probes: OWASP LLM Top 10 (2025) + 8 jailbreaks. Rich-based TUI.

    Python