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A Data-Driven Analysis of Infostealer Malware Victims
Arttu Paju, Juha Nurmi, David Arroyo +7
Infostealer malware infects devices worldwide and harvests their most sensitive contents: credentials, browser sessions, private keys, and access certificates. Yet its impact on vi…
Exploring the connection between coding habits and cognitive styles in malware developers
Vasilis Vouvoutsis, Constantinos Patsakis, Fran Casino
Malware research primarily studies the results, the methods, and the impact. Even from an offensive security perspective, what is examined is the method, not the development strate…
Analysing Multidisciplinary Approaches to Fight Large-Scale Digital Influence Operations
David Arroyo, Rafael Mata Milla, Marc Almeida Ros +4
Crime as a Service (CaaS) has evolved from isolated criminal incidents to a broad spectrum of illicit activities, including social media manipulation, foreign information manipulat…
Inside LockBit: Technical, Behavioral, and Financial Anatomy of a Ransomware Empire
Felipe Castaño, Constantinos Patsakis, Francesco Zola +1
LockBit has evolved from an obscure Ransomware-as-a-Service newcomer in 2019 to the most prolific ransomware franchise of 2024. Leveraging a recently leaked MySQL dump of the gang'…
The potential of LLM-generated reports in DevSecOps
Nikolaos Lykousas, Vasileios Argyropoulos, Fran Casino
Alert fatigue is a common issue faced by software teams using the DevSecOps paradigm. The overwhelming number of warnings and alerts generated by security and code scanning tools,…
Outside the Comfort Zone: Analysing LLM Capabilities in Software Vulnerability Detection
Yuejun Guo, Constantinos Patsakis, Qiang Hu +2
The significant increase in software production driven by automation and faster development lifecycles has resulted in a corresponding surge in software vulnerabilities. In paralle…