5 papers
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…
MalTree: Tracing Malware Evolution from Embeddings at Scale
Akash Amalan, Georgios Smaragdakis, Tom J. Viering
Malware detection remains largely reactive: machine learning models trained on known samples degrade as threats evolve. Understanding evolutionary relationships among malware famil…
Keys on Doormats: Exposed API Credentials on the Web
Nurullah Demir, Yash Vekaria, Georgios Smaragdakis +1
API (Application Programming Interface) keys allow applications to authenticate themselves to third-party services. Inadvertent public exposure of these credentials can pose signif…
Coding Malware in Fancy Programming Languages for Fun and Profit
Theodoros Apostolopoulos, Vasilios Koutsokostas, Nikolaos Totosis +2
The continuous increase in malware samples, both in sophistication and number, presents many challenges for organizations and analysts, who must cope with thousands of new heteroge…
Bitcoin Battle: Burning Bitcoin for Geopolitical Fun and Profit
Kris Oosthoek, Kelvin Lubbertsen, Georgios Smaragdakis
This study empirically analyzes the transaction activity of Bitcoin addresses linked to Russian intelligence services, which have liquidated over 7 Bitcoin (BTC), i.e., equivalent…