publications

publications by categories in reversed chronological order. generated by jekyll-scholar.

2023

IEEE S&P Mag

Lorenzo Cavallaro, Johannes Kinder, Feargus Pendlebury, and Fabio Pierazzi , Are Machine Learning Models for Malware Detection Ready for Prime Time? , IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, 2023

@article{CavKinPen+23,
  author = {Cavallaro, Lorenzo and Kinder, Johannes and Pendlebury, Feargus and Pierazzi, Fabio},
  journal = {IEEE Security \&
                     Privacy Magazine},
  title = {Are Machine Learning Models for Malware Detection Ready for Prime Time?},
  year = {2023},
  volume = {21},
  number = {2},
  pages = {53-56},
  doi = {10.1109/MSEC.2023.3236543}
}

CCS Poster

Shae McFadden, Zeliang Kan, Lorenzo Cavallaro, and Fabio Pierazzi , Poster: RPAL-Recovering Malware Classifiers from Data Poisoning using Active Learning , In Proc. of ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2023

@inproceedings{mcfadden2023rpal,
  title = {Poster: RPAL-Recovering Malware Classifiers from Data Poisoning using Active Learning},
  author = {McFadden, Shae and Kan, Zeliang and Cavallaro, Lorenzo and Pierazzi, Fabio},
  booktitle = {Proc. of {ACM} Conference on Computer and Communications Security ({CCS})},
  year = {2023},
}

Theo Chow, Zeliang Kan, Lorenz Linhardt, Lorenzo Cavallaro, Daniel Arp, and Fabio Pierazzi , Drift Forensics of Malware Classifiers , In Proc. of the ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security (AISec), 2023

@inproceedings{chow2023driftforensics,
  title = {Drift Forensics of Malware Classifiers},
  author = {Chow, Theo and Kan, Zeliang and Linhardt, Lorenz and Cavallaro, Lorenzo and Arp, Daniel and Pierazzi, Fabio},
  booktitle = {Proc. of the {ACM} Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security ({AISec})},
  year = {2023},
}

DLSP

Zhi Chen, Zhenning Zhang, Zeliang Kan, Limin Yang, Jacopo Cortellazzi, Feargus Pendlebury, Fabio Pierazzi, Lorenzo Cavallaro, and Gang Wang , Is It Overkill? Analyzing Feature-Space Concept Drift in Malware Detectors , In IEEE Deep Learning Security and Privacy Workshop (DLSP), 2023

@inproceedings{chen2023overkill,
  title = {Is It Overkill? Analyzing Feature-Space Concept Drift in Malware Detectors},
  author = {Chen, Zhi and Zhang, Zhenning and Kan, Zeliang and Yang, Limin and Cortellazzi, Jacopo and Pendlebury, Feargus and Pierazzi, Fabio and Cavallaro, Lorenzo and Wang, Gang},
  booktitle = {{IEEE} Deep Learning Security and Privacy Workshop ({DLSP})},
  year = {2023},
}

Limin Yang, Zhi Chen, Jacopo Cortellazzi, Feargus Pendlebury, Kevin Tu, Fabio Pierazzi, Lorenzo Cavallaro, and Gang Wang , Jigsaw Puzzle: Selective backdoor attack to subvert malware classifiers , In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2023

Bib PDF Supp Slides

@inproceedings{yang2023jigsaw,
  title = {Jigsaw Puzzle: Selective backdoor attack to subvert malware classifiers},
  author = {Yang, Limin and Chen, Zhi and Cortellazzi, Jacopo and Pendlebury, Feargus and Tu, Kevin and Pierazzi, Fabio and Cavallaro, Lorenzo and Wang, Gang},
  booktitle = {{IEEE} Symposium on Security and Privacy ({S\&P})},
  year = {2023},
}

IEEE SatML

Giovanni Apruzzese, Hyrum S Anderson, Savino Dambra, David Freeman, Fabio Pierazzi, and Kevin Roundy , Position: “Real Attackers Don’t Compute Gradients”: Bridging the Gap Between Adversarial ML Research and Practice , In IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML), 2023

Bib PDF Website

@inproceedings{apruzzese2023real,
  title = {Position: “Real Attackers Don't Compute Gradients”: Bridging the Gap Between Adversarial ML Research and Practice},
  author = {Apruzzese, Giovanni and Anderson, Hyrum S and Dambra, Savino and Freeman, David and Pierazzi, Fabio and Roundy, Kevin},
  booktitle = {{IEEE} Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning ({SaTML})},
  pages = {339--364},
  year = {2023},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

2022

IMC (Short)

Jide Edu, Cliona Mulligan, Fabio Pierazzi, Jason Polakis, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, and Jose Such , Exploring the security and privacy risks of chatbots in messaging services , In ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) – Short Paper, 2022

@inproceedings{edu2022exploring,
  title = {Exploring the security and privacy risks of chatbots in messaging services},
  author = {Edu, Jide and Mulligan, Cliona and Pierazzi, Fabio and Polakis, Jason and Suarez-Tangil, Guillermo and Such, Jose},
  booktitle = {{ACM} Internet Measurement Conference ({IMC}) -- Short Paper},
  pages = {581--588},
  year = {2022},
}

Daniel Arp, Erwin Quiring, Feargus Pendlebury, Alexander Warnecke, Fabio Pierazzi, Christian Wressnegger, Lorenzo Cavallaro, and Konrad Rieck , Dos and don’ts of machine learning in computer security , In Proc. of USENIX Security Symposium, 2022

Distinguished Paper Award

arXiv Bib Website

@inproceedings{ArpQuiPen+22,
  title = {Dos and don'ts of machine learning in computer security},
  author = {Arp, Daniel and Quiring, Erwin and Pendlebury, Feargus and Warnecke, Alexander and Pierazzi, Fabio and Wressnegger, Christian and Cavallaro, Lorenzo and Rieck, Konrad},
  booktitle = {Proc. of {USENIX} Security Symposium},
  year = {2022},
  note = {Distinguished Paper Award},
}

Federico Barbero, Feargus Pendlebury, Fabio Pierazzi, and Lorenzo Cavallaro , Transcending Transcend: Revisiting malware classification in the presence of concept drift , In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2022

@inproceedings{barbero2022transcending,
  title = {Transcending Transcend: Revisiting malware classification in the presence of concept drift},
  author = {Barbero, Federico and Pendlebury, Feargus and Pierazzi, Fabio and Cavallaro, Lorenzo},
  booktitle = {{IEEE} Symposium on Security and Privacy ({S\&P})},
  pages = {805--823},
  year = {2022},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

2021

Zeliang Kan, Feargus Pendlebury, Fabio Pierazzi, and Lorenzo Cavallaro , Investigating labelless drift adaptation for malware detection , In Proc. of the ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security (AISec), 2021

@inproceedings{kan2021investigating,
  title = {Investigating labelless drift adaptation for malware detection},
  author = {Kan, Zeliang and Pendlebury, Feargus and Pierazzi, Fabio and Cavallaro, Lorenzo},
  booktitle = {Proc. of the {ACM} Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security ({AISec})},
  pages = {123--134},
  year = {2021},
}

Giuseppina Andresini, Feargus Pendlebury, Fabio Pierazzi, Corrado Loglisci, Annalisa Appice, and Lorenzo Cavallaro , INSOMNIA: Towards concept-drift robustness in network intrusion detection , In Proc. of the ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security (AISec), 2021

@inproceedings{andresini2021insomnia,
  title = {{INSOMNIA}: Towards concept-drift robustness in network intrusion detection},
  author = {Andresini, Giuseppina and Pendlebury, Feargus and Pierazzi, Fabio and Loglisci, Corrado and Appice, Annalisa and Cavallaro, Lorenzo},
  booktitle = {Proc. of the {ACM} Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security ({AISec})},
  pages = {111--122},
  year = {2021},
}

arXiv

Raphael Labaca-Castro, Luis Muñoz-González, Feargus Pendlebury, Gabi Dreo Rodosek, Fabio Pierazzi, and Lorenzo Cavallaro , Realizable Universal Adversarial Perturbations for Malware , arXiv, 2021

arXiv

2020

IEEE TIFS

Fabio Pierazzi, Stefano Cristalli, Danilo Bruschi, Michele Colajanni, Mirco Marchetti, and Andrea Lanzi , Glyph: Efficient ML-based detection of heap spraying attacks , IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2020

@article{pierazzi2020glyph,
  title = {Glyph: Efficient ML-based detection of heap spraying attacks},
  author = {Pierazzi, Fabio and Cristalli, Stefano and Bruschi, Danilo and Colajanni, Michele and Marchetti, Mirco and Lanzi, Andrea},
  journal = {{IEEE} Transactions on Information Forensics and Security ({TIFS})},
  volume = {16},
  pages = {740--755},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

Fabio Pierazzi, Feargus Pendlebury, Jacopo Cortellazzi, and Lorenzo Cavallaro , Intriguing properties of adversarial ml attacks in the problem space , In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2020

Bib PDF Website

@inproceedings{pierazzi2020intriguing,
  title = {Intriguing properties of adversarial ml attacks in the problem space},
  author = {Pierazzi, Fabio and Pendlebury, Feargus and Cortellazzi, Jacopo and Cavallaro, Lorenzo},
  booktitle = {{IEEE} Symposium on Security and Privacy ({S\&P})},
  pages = {1332--1349},
  year = {2020},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

ACM TMIS

Fabio Pierazzi, Ghita Mezzour, Qian Han, Michele Colajanni, and VS Subrahmanian , A data-driven characterization of modern Android spyware , ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS), 2020

@article{pierazzi2020data,
  title = {A data-driven characterization of modern Android spyware},
  author = {Pierazzi, Fabio and Mezzour, Ghita and Han, Qian and Colajanni, Michele and Subrahmanian, VS},
  journal = {ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS)},
  volume = {11},
  number = {1},
  pages = {1--38},
  year = {2020},
}

2019

Feargus Pendlebury, Fabio Pierazzi, Roberto Jordaney, Johannes Kinder, and Lorenzo Cavallaro , TESSERACT: Eliminating experimental bias in malware classification across space and time , In Proc. of USENIX Security Symposium, 2019

@inproceedings{pendlebury2019tesseract,
  title = {TESSERACT: Eliminating experimental bias in malware classification across space and time},
  author = {Pendlebury, Feargus and Pierazzi, Fabio and Jordaney, Roberto and Kinder, Johannes and Cavallaro, Lorenzo},
  booktitle = {Proc. of {USENIX} Security Symposium},
  year = {2019},
}

2018

CCS-Poster

Feargus Pendlebury, Fabio Pierazzi, Roberto Jordaney, Johannes Kinder, and Lorenzo Cavallaro , POSTER: Enabling Fair ML Evaluations for Security , In Proc. of ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2018

Bib PDF Supp Code

  title = {POSTER: Enabling Fair ML Evaluations for Security},
  author = {Pendlebury, Feargus and Pierazzi, Fabio and Jordaney, Roberto and Kinder, Johannes and Cavallaro, Lorenzo},
  booktitle = {Proc. of {ACM} Conference on Computer and Communications Security ({CCS})},
  year = {2018},
}

2017

IEEE TDSC

Tanmoy Chakraborty, Fabio Pierazzi, and VS Subrahmanian , EC2: Ensemble clustering and classification for predicting android malware families , IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2017

@article{chakraborty2017ec2,
  title = {{EC2}: Ensemble clustering and classification for predicting android malware families},
  author = {Chakraborty, Tanmoy and Pierazzi, Fabio and Subrahmanian, VS},
  journal = {{IEEE} Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing ({TDSC})},
  volume = {17},
  number = {2},
  pages = {262--277},
  year = {2017},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

IEEE CyCon

Fabio Pierazzi, Giovanni Apruzzese, Michele Colajanni, Alessandro Guido, and Mirco Marchetti , Scalable architecture for online prioritisation of cyber threats , In The 9th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon), 2017

@inproceedings{pierazzi2017scalable,
  title = {Scalable architecture for online prioritisation of cyber threats},
  author = {Pierazzi, Fabio and Apruzzese, Giovanni and Colajanni, Michele and Guido, Alessandro and Marchetti, Mirco},
  booktitle = {The 9th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon)},
  pages = {1--18},
  year = {2017},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

IEEE TETC

Giovanni Apruzzese, Fabio Pierazzi, Michele Colajanni, and Mirco Marchetti , Detection and threat prioritization of pivoting attacks in large networks , IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), 2017

@article{apruzzese2017detection,
  title = {Detection and threat prioritization of pivoting attacks in large networks},
  author = {Apruzzese, Giovanni and Pierazzi, Fabio and Colajanni, Michele and Marchetti, Mirco},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC)},
  volume = {8},
  number = {2},
  pages = {404--415},
  year = {2017},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

IEEE TIFS

Sushil Jajodia, Noseong Park, Fabio Pierazzi, Andrea Pugliese, Edoardo Serra, Gerardo I Simari, and VS Subrahmanian , A probabilistic logic of cyber deception , IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2017

@article{jajodia2017probabilistic,
  title = {A probabilistic logic of cyber deception},
  author = {Jajodia, Sushil and Park, Noseong and Pierazzi, Fabio and Pugliese, Andrea and Serra, Edoardo and Simari, Gerardo I and Subrahmanian, VS},
  journal = {{IEEE} Transactions on Information Forensics and Security ({TIFS})},
  volume = {12},
  number = {11},
  pages = {2532--2544},
  year = {2017},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

2016

IEEE CyCon

Mirco Marchetti, Fabio Pierazzi, Alessandro Guido, and Michele Colajanni , Countering Advanced Persistent Threats through security intelligence and big data analytics , In The 8th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon), 2016

@inproceedings{marchetti2016countering,
  title = {Countering Advanced Persistent Threats through security intelligence and big data analytics},
  author = {Marchetti, Mirco and Pierazzi, Fabio and Guido, Alessandro and Colajanni, Michele},
  booktitle = {The 8th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon)},
  pages = {243--261},
  year = {2016},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

ComNet

Mirco Marchetti, Fabio Pierazzi, Michele Colajanni, and Alessandro Guido , Analysis of high volumes of network traffic for advanced persistent threat detection , Elsevier Computer Networks, 2016

@article{marchetti2016analysis,
  title = {Analysis of high volumes of network traffic for advanced persistent threat detection},
  author = {Marchetti, Mirco and Pierazzi, Fabio and Colajanni, Michele and Guido, Alessandro},
  journal = {Elsevier Computer Networks},
  volume = {109},
  pages = {127--141},
  year = {2016},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
}

CoSe

Fabio Pierazzi, Sara Casolari, Michele Colajanni, and Mirco Marchetti , Exploratory security analytics for anomaly detection , Elsevier Computers & Security, 2016

@article{pierazzi2016exploratory,
  title = {Exploratory security analytics for anomaly detection},
  author = {Pierazzi, Fabio and Casolari, Sara and Colajanni, Michele and Marchetti, Mirco},
  journal = {Elsevier Computers \& Security},
  volume = {56},
  pages = {28--49},
  year = {2016},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
}

2015

IEEE NCCA

Fabio Pierazzi, Andrea Balboni, Alessandro Guido, and Mirco Marchetti , The network perspective of cloud security , In IEEE Fourth Symposium on Network Cloud Computing and Applications (NCCA), 2015

@inproceedings{pierazzi2015network,
  title = {The network perspective of cloud security},
  author = {Pierazzi, Fabio and Balboni, Andrea and Guido, Alessandro and Marchetti, Mirco},
  booktitle = {IEEE Fourth Symposium on Network Cloud Computing and Applications (NCCA)},
  pages = {75--82},
  year = {2015},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

2014

IEEE ISCC

Luca Ferretti, Fabio Pierazzi, Michele Colajanni, Mirco Marchetti, and Marcello Missiroli , Efficient detection of unauthorized data modification in cloud databases , In IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), 2014

@inproceedings{ferretti2014efficient,
  title = {Efficient detection of unauthorized data modification in cloud databases},
  author = {Ferretti, Luca and Pierazzi, Fabio and Colajanni, Michele and Marchetti, Mirco and Missiroli, Marcello},
  booktitle = {IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)},
  year = {2014},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

LSAUC-HPCS

Marcello Missiroli, Fabio Pierazzi, and Michele Colajanni , Security and privacy of location-based services for in-vehicle device systems , In LSAUC Workshop, International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS), 2014

@inproceedings{missiroli2014security,
  title = {Security and privacy of location-based services for in-vehicle device systems},
  author = {Missiroli, Marcello and Pierazzi, Fabio and Colajanni, Michele},
  booktitle = {LSAUC Workshop, International Conference on High Performance Computing \& Simulation (HPCS)},
  year = {2014},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

IEEE TCC

Luca Ferretti, Fabio Pierazzi, Michele Colajanni, and Mirco Marchetti , Scalable architecture for multi-user encrypted SQL operations on cloud database services , IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 2014

@article{ferretti2014scalable,
  title = {Scalable architecture for multi-user encrypted SQL operations on cloud database services},
  author = {Ferretti, Luca and Pierazzi, Fabio and Colajanni, Michele and Marchetti, Mirco},
  journal = {{IEEE} Transactions on Cloud Computing ({TCC})},
  volume = {2},
  number = {4},
  pages = {448--458},
  year = {2014},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

IEEE TCC

Luca Ferretti, Fabio Pierazzi, Michele Colajanni, and Mirco Marchetti , Performance and cost evaluation of an adaptive encryption architecture for cloud databases , IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 2014

@article{ferretti2014performance,
  title = {Performance and cost evaluation of an adaptive encryption architecture for cloud databases},
  author = {Ferretti, Luca and Pierazzi, Fabio and Colajanni, Michele and Marchetti, Mirco},
  journal = {{IEEE} Transactions on Cloud Computing ({TCC})},
  pages = {143--155},
  year = {2014},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

2013

SECURWARE

Luca Ferretti, Fabio Pierazzi, Michele Colajanni, Mirco Marchetti, and others , Security and confidentiality solutions for public cloud database services , In The Seventh International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies, 2013

Best Paper Award

@inproceedings{ferretti2013security,
  title = {Security and confidentiality solutions for public cloud database services},
  author = {Ferretti, Luca and Pierazzi, Fabio and Colajanni, Michele and Marchetti, Mirco and others},
  booktitle = {The Seventh International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies},
  pages = {36--42},
  year = {2013},
  note = {Best Paper Award},
}