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cs.CR2026

VulnGym: Evaluating Vulnerability Management Strategies against Advanced Persistent Threats

Sofia Della Penna, Lorenzo Parracino, Luciano Pianese +2

Enterprise networks are continuously targeted by Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), attack campaigns exploiting software vulnerabilities to compromise critical assets over time. A…

cs.CR2026

AI-Generated PowerShell Malware: An Experimental Framework and Dataset

Luciano Pianese, Vittorio Orbinato, Pietro Liguori +1

Generative AI has emerged as a significant cybersecurity threat, with several recent attack campaigns leveraging LLMs to generate code for malicious purposes via scripting language…

cs.CR2025

Elevating Cyber Threat Intelligence against Disinformation Campaigns with LLM-based Concept Extraction and the FakeCTI Dataset

Domenico Cotroneo, Roberto Natella, Vittorio Orbinato

The swift spread of fake news and disinformation campaigns poses a significant threat to public trust, political stability, and cybersecurity. Traditional Cyber Threat Intelligence…

cs.CR2025

CTI-HAL: A Human-Annotated Dataset for Cyber Threat Intelligence Analysis

Sofia Della Penna, Roberto Natella, Vittorio Orbinato +2

Organizations are increasingly targeted by Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), which involve complex, multi-stage tactics and diverse techniques. Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) so…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Can Neural Decompilation Assist Vulnerability Prediction on Binary Code?

D. Cotroneo, F. C. Grasso, R. Natella +1

Vulnerability prediction is valuable in identifying security issues efficiently, even though it requires the source code of the target software system, which is a restrictive hypot…

cs.CR2024

The Power of Words: Generating PowerShell Attacks from Natural Language

Pietro Liguori, Christian Marescalco, Roberto Natella +2

As the Windows OS stands out as one of the most targeted systems, the PowerShell language has become a key tool for malicious actors and cybersecurity professionals (e.g., for pene…

cs.CR2023★ 9 cited

Laccolith: Hypervisor-Based Adversary Emulation with Anti-Detection

Vittorio Orbinato, Marco Carlo Feliciano, Domenico Cotroneo +1

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) represent the most threatening form of attack nowadays since they can stay undetected for a long time. Adversary emulation is a proactive approac…

cs.CR2022★ 2 cited

Automatic Mapping of Unstructured Cyber Threat Intelligence: An Experimental Study

Vittorio Orbinato, Mariarosaria Barbaraci, Roberto Natella +1

Proactive approaches to security, such as adversary emulation, leverage information about threat actors and their techniques (Cyber Threat Intelligence, CTI). However, most CTI sti…

cs.CR2021

A next-generation platform for Cyber Range-as-a-Service

Vittorio Orbinato

In the last years, Cyber Ranges have become a widespread solution to train professionals for responding to cyber threats and attacks. Cloud computing plays a key role in this conte…