ANTHONY DESTIO

Aspiring Cybersecurity Professional and Ethical Hacker // LGR

Techincal Projects

APT Simulation: Red Team Lead

Simulated Volt Typhoon threat actors targeting Windows AD. Cracked NTLM hashes via Hashcat. Compromised DC via lateral movement using CrackMapExec.

Security Homelab (Project Pi)

Engineered a Pi-hole DNS sinkhole for network-wide filtering and architected a private Ollama LLM environment to ensure zero-data leakage.

Experience

Verizon // Software Developer

Designed and implemented Python scripts to add noise to images such as salt-and-pepper and gaussian noise. Collaborated with a cross-functional intern team to troubleshoot and optimize code efficiency.

Capture the Flag Competitions

National Cyber League

Fall 2024 – Individual 94th Percentile | Team: 99th Percentile.

Fall 2025 – Individual 95th Percentile | Team: 99th Percentile.

Department of Energy Cyberforce CTF Chicago 2025

Raymond James 2025 CTF (UTampa Team Captain)

NCAE Cyber Games 2025

NCL Rankings

99th
TEAM PERCENTILE
95th
INDIVIDUAL PERCENTILE

Equipped Tools

NMAP
BURP
HASHCAT
WIRESHARK
PYTHON
JAVA
BASH
OSINT
METASPLOIT

Education and Certifications

University of Tampa
B.S. Cybersecurity '27

CompTIA Security+
Jan 2026

Leadership

ROOT@UT President (Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Club)

Lead weekly sessions on solving Hack The Box machines and National Cyber League (NCL) challenges.

Compete on the university’s CTF team, consistently achieving top rankings in team and individual categories.

Worked with sponsor EC-Council, to create and solve 5 different CTF’s both red and blue team related, that were used to give members more hands-on experiences by hosting our own CTF competition.