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most citedSame Coverage, Less Bloat: Accelerating Binary-only Fuzzing with Coverage-preserving Coverage-guided Tracing

22 citations · 28 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.CR2025

PHASE: Passive Human Activity Simulation Evaluation

Steven Lamp, Jason D. Hiser, Anh Nguyen-Tuong +1

Cybersecurity simulation environments, such as cyber ranges, honeypots, and sandboxes, require realistic human behavior to be effective, yet no quantitative method exists to assess…

cs.CR2023

Zipr: A High-Impact, Robust, Open-source, Multi-platform, Static Binary Rewriter

Jason D. Hiser, Anh Nguyen-Tuong, Jack W. Davidson

Zipr is a tool for static binary rewriting, first published in 2016. Zipr was engineered to support arbitrary program modification with an emphasis on low overhead, robustness, and…

cs.CR2023

Helix++: A platform for efficiently securing software

Jack W. Davidson, Jason D. Hiser, Anh Nguyen-Tuong

The open-source Helix++ project improves the security posture of computing platforms by applying cutting-edge cybersecurity techniques to diversify and harden software automaticall…

cs.CR2022★ 22 cited

Same Coverage, Less Bloat: Accelerating Binary-only Fuzzing with Coverage-preserving Coverage-guided Tracing

Stefan Nagy, Anh Nguyen-Tuong, Jason D. Hiser +2

Coverage-guided fuzzing's aggressive, high-volume testing has helped reveal tens of thousands of software security flaws. While executing billions of test cases mandates fast code…

cs.CR2022★ 6 cited

CELEST: Federated Learning for Globally Coordinated Threat Detection

Talha Ongun, Simona Boboila, Alina Oprea +3

The cyber-threat landscape has evolved tremendously in recent years, with new threat variants emerging daily, and large-scale coordinated campaigns becoming more prevalent. In this…

cs.CR2021

PORTFILER: Port-Level Network Profiling for Self-Propagating Malware Detection

Talha Ongun, Oliver Spohngellert, Benjamin Miller +7

Recent self-propagating malware (SPM) campaigns compromised hundred of thousands of victim machines on the Internet. It is challenging to detect these attacks in their early stages…

cs.CR2021

Collaborative Information Sharing for ML-Based Threat Detection

Talha Ongun, Simona Boboila, Alina Oprea +4

Recently, coordinated attack campaigns started to become more widespread on the Internet. In May 2017, WannaCry infected more than 300,000 machines in 150 countries in a few days a…

cs.CR2021

On Generating and Labeling Network Traffic with Realistic, Self-Propagating Malware

Molly Buchanan, Jeffrey W. Collyer, Jack W. Davidson +6

Research and development of techniques which detect or remediate malicious network activity require access to diverse, realistic, contemporary data sets containing labeled maliciou…