Manesh Babu
Mahesh Babu is a former VP of Information Security turned company builder and now leads growth at Kodem, venture‑backed application security startup. At HSBC he built and scaled global application security and identity & access management platforms that safeguard billions of transactions. His career began at Purdue University’s Information Assurance & Security Research Center, where he researched secure software engineering and biometrics. Mahesh blends academic rigor with enterprise and startup execution to help organizations stay ahead of modern threats.
Session
This talk is a follow-up to our September research on denial-of-service and permission escape in Claude Code. We now examine how LLM-powered coding agents can be weaponized end-to-end, including paths to remote code execution. Using Claude Code as a primary case study, and extending to VS Code extension exploits and recent Cursor incidents, we show how agent autonomy, extension APIs, and execution boundaries collapse into a practical RCE surface.