Adversaries are often able to penetrate networks and compromise systems by exploiting
vulnerabilities in people and systems. The key to the success of these attacks is information …

Modern websites owe most of their aesthetics and functionalities to Content Management
Systems (CMS) plugins, which are bought and sold on widely popular marketplaces. Driven …

The remediation of ongoing cyber attacks relies upon timely malware analysis, which aims
to uncover malicious functionalities that have not yet executed. Unfortunately, this requires …

Compromising a website that is routinely visited by employees of a targeted organization
has become a popular technique for nation-state level adversaries to penetrate an …

Free content websites (FCWs) are a critical part of the Internet, and understanding them is
essential for their wide use. This study statistically explores the distribution of free content …

Lateral movement plays a vital role in a network attack campaign. After breaking into the
intranet, perpetrators penetrate to their final target through this procedure. In order to protect …

Lateral movement plays a vital role in a network attack campaign. After breaking into the
intranet, perpetrators penetrate to their final target through this procedure. In order to protect …

Malicious hosts have come to play a significant and varied role in today's cyber attacks.
Some of these hosts are equipped with a technique called cloaking, which discriminates …

Obfuscation techniques are frequently used in malicious programs to evade detection.
However, current effective methods often require much memory space during training. This …

I would like to thank Professor Alexandra Boldyreva, Professor Mustaque Ahamad and
Professor Angelos D. Keromytis for taking time to serve on my thesis committee. Their …