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07/03/2023
Tales from the Git: Automating the detection of secrets on code and assessing developers' passwords choices
Typical users are known to use and reuse weak passwords. Yet, as cyberse...
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03/22/2023
Man vs the machine: The Struggle for Effective Text Anonymisation in the Age of Large Language Models
The collection and use of personal data are becoming more common in toda...
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02/20/2023
Hello Me, Meet the Real Me: Audio Deepfake Attacks on Voice Assistants
The radical advances in telecommunications and computer science have ena...
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12/18/2022
From NEA and NIA to NESAS and SCAS: Demystifying the 5G Security Ecosystem
Despite the numerous pompous statements regarding 5G, it is indisputable...
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11/19/2022
AiCEF: An AI-assisted Cyber Exercise Content Generation Framework Using Named Entity Recognition
Content generation that is both relevant and up to date with the current...
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08/23/2021
An Empirical Assessment of Endpoint Security Systems Against Advanced Persistent Threats Attack Vectors
Advanced persistent threats pose a significant challenge for blue teams ...
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05/25/2021
The Cynicism of Modern Cybercrime: Automating the Analysis of Surface Web Marketplaces
Cybercrime is continuously growing in numbers and becoming more sophisti...
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05/23/2021
Who Watches the New Watchmen? The Challenges for Drone Digital Forensics Investigations
The technological advance of drone technology has augmented the existing...
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05/02/2021
Python and Malware: Developing Stealth and Evasive Malware Without Obfuscation
With the continuous rise of malicious campaigns and the exploitation of ...
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04/12/2021
EtherClue: Digital investigation of attacks on Ethereum smart contracts
Programming errors in Ethereum smart contracts can result in catastrophi...
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03/30/2021
Analysis and Correlation of Visual Evidence in Campaigns of Malicious Office Documents
Many malware campaigns use Microsoft (MS) Office documents as droppers t...
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11/12/2020
Analysing the fall 2020 Emotet campaign
In this report, we analyse the latest campaign of Emotet that had a sign...
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08/06/2020
Intercepting Hail Hydra: Real-Time Detection of Algorithmically Generated Domains
A crucial technical challenge for cybercriminals is to keep control over...
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05/26/2020
SoK: Blockchain Solutions for Forensics
As the digitization of information-intensive processes gains momentum in...
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04/16/2020
Large-scale analysis of grooming in modern social networks
Social networks are evolving to engage their users more by providing the...
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12/12/2019
Exploiting Statistical and Structural Features for the Detection of Domain Generation Algorithms
Nowadays, malware campaigns have reached a high level of sophistication,...
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12/07/2019
Unravelling Ariadne's Thread: Exploring the Threats of Decentalised DNS
The current landscape of the core Internet technologies shows considerab...
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09/16/2019
Encrypted and Covert DNS Queries for Botnets: Challenges and Countermeasures
There is a continuous increase in the sophistication that modern malware...
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07/16/2019
Blockchain Mutability: Challenges and Proposed Solutions
Blockchain's evolution during the past decade is astonishing: from bitco...
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05/28/2019
Hydras and IPFS: A Decentralised Playground for Malware
Modern malware can take various forms, and has reached a very high level...
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05/28/2019
HEDGE: Efficient Traffic Classification of Encrypted and Compressed Packets
As the size and source of network traffic increase, so does the challeng...
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01/24/2018
Knock-Knock: The unbearable lightness of Android Notifications
Android Notifications can be considered as essential parts in Human-Smar...
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06/13/2017