Cyber attacks are currently blooming, as the attackers reap significant profits from them and
face a limited risk when compared to committing the “classical” crimes. One of the major …

Network covert channels are increasingly used to endow malware with stealthy behaviors,
for instance to exfiltrate data or to orchestrate nodes of a botnet in a cloaked manner …

Modern malware is becoming hard to spot since attackers are increasingly adopting new
techniques to elude signature-and rule-based detection mechanisms. Among the others …

Air-gap covert channels are special types of covert communication channels that enable
attackers to exfiltrate data from isolated, network-less computers. Various types of air-gap …

The “arm race” against malware developers requires to collect a wide variety of performance
measurements, for instance to face threats leveraging information hiding and …

Covert channels enable stealthy communications over innocent appearing carriers. They
are increasingly applied in the network context. However, little work is available that exploits …

Interconnected and always on devices are continuously and rapidly growing in number and,
according to a study from Cisco, will be three times the number of humans on earth in 2021 …

The ability of creating covert channels within network traffic is now largely exploited by
malware to elude detection, remain unnoticed while exfiltrating data or coordinating an …

At present, computer science studies generally offer courses addressing mobile
development and they use mobile technologies for illustrating theoretical concepts such as …

Owing to their hidden natures, covert channels can be utilized such that trojan applications
can communicate stealthily with each other or exchange stolen private information without …