One of the main challenges in security today is defending against malware attacks. As
trends and anecdotal evidence show, preventing these attacks, regardless of their …

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 …

Online scan engines such as VirusTotal are heavily used by researchers to label malicious
URLs and files. Unfortunately, it is not well understood how the labels are generated and …

In recent years, the emerging Internet-of-Things (IoT) has led to concerns about the security
of networked embedded devices. There is a strong need to develop suitable and …

Malware remains an important security threat, as miscreants continue to deliver a variety of
malicious programs to hosts around the world. At the heart of all the malware delivery …

Both the operational and academic security communities have used dynamic analysis
sandboxes to execute malware samples for roughly a decade. Network information derived …

Smart home IoT devices have increasingly become a favorite target for the cybercriminals
due to their weak security designs. To identify these vulnerable devices, existing …

Many users implicitly assume that software can only be exploited after it is installed.
However, recent supply-chain attacks demonstrate that application integrity must be ensured …

The current generation of low-and medium interaction honeypots uses off-the-shelf libraries
to provide the transport layer. We show that this architecture is fatally flawed because the …

Malware detection is an essential task in cyber security. As the trend of malicious attacks
grows, unknown malware detection with high accuracy becomes more and more …