Ransomware is a malware category that exploits security mechanisms such as cryptography
in order to hijack user files and related resources and demands money in exchange for the …

VirusTotal provides malware labels from a large set of anti-malware engines, and is heavily
used by researchers for malware annotation and system evaluation. Since different engines …

Recently, malware has increasingly become a critical threat to embedded systems, while the
conventional software solutions, such as antivirus and patches, have not been so successful …

To improve software reliability, many rule-based techniques have been proposed to infer
programming rules and detect violations of these rules as bugs. These rule-based …

Smart contract transactions are increasingly interleaved by cross-contract calls. While many
tools have been developed to identify a common set of vulnerabilities, the cross-contract …

Websites attract millions of visitors due to the convenience of services they offer, which
provide for interesting targets for cyber attackers. Most of these websites use JavaScript (JS) …

Context: JavaScript (JS) is an often-used programming language by millions of web pages
and is also affected by thousands of malicious attacks. Objective: In this investigation, we …

To protect web users from malicious JavaScript code, various malware detectors have been
proposed, which analyze and classify code as malicious or benign. State-of-the-art detectors …

Machine learning is increasingly being applied to malicious JavaScript detection in
response to the growing number of Web attacks and the attendant costly manual …

Active automata learning is slowly becoming a standard tool in the toolbox of the software
engineer. As systems become ever more complex and development becomes more …