Kevin McSheehan | |
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Born | [1] | July 7, 1986
Occupation(s) | Cybersecurity researcher and programmer |
Known for | Cybersecurity, ethical hacking, software engineering |
Kevin McSheehan (born July 7, 1986) is an American cybersecurity researcher and ethical hacker from Plymouth, New Hampshire. His hometown is Lebanon, Maine. McSheehan is best known for finding cybersecurity vulnerabilities in social media and cryptocurrency software.
He has discovered several CVSS High and Critical exploits. Most notably, patching the Central Intelligence Agency's Russian spy funnel on X.[2][3][4] In 2023, he discovered a Peer-to-peer denial of service attack on Bitcoin,[5] along with Remote code execution on Slack.[6]
In 2015, he created software that would reveal Google, Microsoft, and other email services account names through a vulnerability with the Google Maps Engine.[7]
As an entrepreneur, he founded the penetration testing startup Envadr and co-invented[8] an economic model for an experimental stablecoin.