Motivation-achievement cycles in learning: A literature review and research agenda

TV Vu, L Magis-Weinberg, BRJ Jansen… - Educational Psychology …, 2022 - Springer
The question of how learners' motivation influences their academic achievement and vice
versa has been the subject of intensive research due to its theoretical relevance and …

Research directions in software supply chain security

L Williams, G Benedetti, S Hamer, R Paramitha… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Reusable software libraries, frameworks, and components, such as those provided by open-
source ecosystems and third-party suppliers, accelerate digital innovation. However, recent …

Lastpymile: identifying the discrepancy between sources and packages

DL Vu, F Massacci, I Pashchenko, H Plate… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Open source packages have source code available on repositories for inspection (eg on
GitHub) but developers use pre-built packages directly from the package repositories (such …

Bad snakes: Understanding and improving python package index malware scanning

DL Vu, Z Newman, JS Meyers - 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Open-source, community-driven package repositories see thousands of malware packages
each year, but do not currently run automated malware detection systems. In this work, we …

A needle is an outlier in a haystack: hunting malicious pypi packages with code clustering

W Liang, X Ling, J Wu, T Luo… - 2023 38th IEEE/ACM …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the most popular Python software repository, PyPI has become an indispensable part of
the Python ecosystem. Regrettably, the open nature of PyPI exposes end-users to …

A benchmark comparison of python malware detection approaches

DL Vu, Z Newman, JS Meyers - arxiv preprint arxiv:2209.13288, 2022 - arxiv.org
While attackers often distribute malware to victims via open-source, community-driven
package repositories, these repositories do not currently run automated malware detection …

1+ 1> 2: Integrating Deep Code Behaviors with Metadata Features for Malicious PyPI Package Detection

X Sun, X Gao, S Cao, L Bo, X Wu… - Proceedings of the 39th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
PyPI, the official package registry for Python, has seen a surge in the number of malicious
package uploads in recent years. Prior studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of …

[PDF][PDF] An analysis of malicious behaviors of open-source packages using dynamic analysis

DL Vu, TC Nguyen, NC Debnath - researchgate.net
There has been an increasing number of malicious open-source packages in recent years.
A recent backdoor attack on the Linux xz utility has shown the importance of security checks …