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Differential Area Analysis for Ransomware: Attacks, Countermeasures, and Limitations
Marco Venturini, Francesco Freda, Emanuele Miotto +2
Crypto-ransomware attacks have been a growing threat over the last few years. The goal of every ransomware strain is encrypting user data, such that attackers can later demand user…
Devils in the Clouds: An Evolutionary Study of Telnet Bot Loaders
Yuhui Zhu, Zhenxiang Chen, Qiben Yan +6
One of the innovations brought by Mirai and its derived malware is the adoption of self-contained loaders for infecting IoT devices and recruiting them in botnets. Functionally dec…
Security and Privacy in Virtual Reality: A Literature Survey
Alberto Giaretta
Virtual reality (VR) is a multibillionaire market that keeps growing, year after year. As VR is becoming prevalent in households and small businesses, it is critical to address the…
A Machine Learning-based Approach to Detect Threats in Bio-Cyber DNA Storage Systems
Federico Tavella, Alberto Giaretta, Mauro Conti +1
Data storage is one of the main computing issues of this century. Not only storage devices are converging to strict physical limits, but also the amount of data generated by users…
UniquID: A Quest to Reconcile Identity Access Management and the Internet of Things
Alberto Giaretta, Stefano Pepe, Nicola Dragoni
The Internet of Things (IoT) has caused a revolutionary paradigm shift in computer networking. After decades of human-centered routines, where devices were merely tools that enable…
Adding Salt to Pepper: A Structured Security Assessment over a Humanoid Robot
Alberto Giaretta, Michele De Donno, Nicola Dragoni
The rise of connectivity, digitalization, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing our society and shaping its future development. During this technological a…
Community Targeted Phishing: A Middle Ground Between Massive and Spear Phishing through Natural Language Generation
Alberto Giaretta, Nicola Dragoni
Looking at today phishing panorama, we are able to identify two diametrically opposed approaches. On the one hand, massive phishing targets as many people as possible with generic…
AntibIoTic: Protecting IoT Devices Against DDoS Attacks
Michele De Donno, Nicola Dragoni, Alberto Giaretta +1
The 2016 is remembered as the year that showed to the world how dangerous Distributed Denial of Service attacks can be. Gauge of the disruptiveness of DDoS attacks is the number of…
The Internet of Hackable Things
Nicola Dragoni, Alberto Giaretta, Manuel Mazzara
The Internet of Things makes possible to connect each everyday object to the Internet, making computing pervasive like never before. From a security and privacy perspective, this t…