Although malicious software (malware) has been around since the early days of computers,
the sophistication and innovation of malware has increased over the years. In particular, the …

As the Internet of Things (IoT) technology advances, billions of multidisciplinary smart
devices act in concert, rarely requiring human intervention, posing significant challenges in …

Is Android malware classification a solved problem? Published F1 scores of up to 0.99
appear to leave very little room for improvement. In this paper, we argue that results are …

Hardware Performance Counters (HPCs) have been available in processors for more than a
decade. These counters can be used to monitor and measure events that occur at the CPU …

In the year passed, rarely a month passes without a ransomware incident being published in
a newspaper or social media. In addition to the rise in the frequency of ransomware attacks …

Malicious software, popularly known as malware, is widely acknowledged as a serious
threat to modern computing systems. Software-based solutions, such as anti-virus software …

Recent progress in machine learning has led to promising results in behavioral malware
detection. Behavioral modeling identifies malicious processes via features derived by their …

Antiviruses (AVs) are computing-intensive applications that rely on constant monitoring of
OS events and on applying pattern matching procedures on binaries to detect malware. In …

Sharing microarchitectural components between co-resident programs leads to potential
information leaks, with devastating implications on security. Over the last decade, multiple …

To overcome the performance overheads incurred by the traditional software-based
malware detection techniques, Hardware-assisted Malware Detection (HMD) using machine …