Another edition of my security course finished. We moved to the Data Analytics for CyberSec (marcusbotacin.github.io/teaching/dat...) (prev. ML-Based cyberdefense: marcusbotacin.github.io/teaching/ml-1), but the spirit of the course remains the same. Click to check what we achieved this semester!

The video for my talk "Hardware is the New Software: The Next-Gen AntiViruses and how your hardware will self-secure your system!" is available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3p-...

The recording of the talk is available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nke...

Wed. Oct. 29th, 4:30pm ET: "Malware Detection under Concept Drift: Science and Engineering" - Marcus Botacin - Texas A&M ceri.as/marcus

My most recent talk at @HouSecCon "Hardware is the New Software: The Next-Gen AntiViruses and how your hardware will self-secure your system!" See the slides at marcusbotacin.github.io/talks/housec25

[New Paper] "Making Acoustic Side-Channel Attacks on Noisy Keyboards Viable with LLM-Assisted Spectrograms Typo Correction" usenix.org/conference/w... We published this week at @wootsecurity.bsky.social

And I will be talking there!

[New Paper] "Towards Explainable Drift Detection and Early Retrain in ML-Based Malware Detection Pipelines" - My first paper having a student as main author. Congrats to Jayesh for his presentation today at DIMVA! Check the paper here: marcusbotacin.github.io/publication/...

What is taught in a modern software security course? And how much can the students do with the learned concepts? You can find it in this link. Hint: 18 student teams = 18 0-days discovered: marcusbotacin.github.io/teaching/sw-... [thread]

New grant! New collaboration!Take a look on what we will be working on next: engineering.tamu.edu/news/2025/02...

The @satml_conf program is out and our paper "ML-Based Behavioral Malware Detection Is Far From a Solved Problem" is there! Check preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2405.06124 It was amazing to work with great researchers on it!

Proud advisor moment! Congrats Nhat Nguyen for successfully defending his MSc thesis! Nhat is my first advised student to graduate! Thx Dr. Peeples and Dr. Hamilton for participating in the committee. Wait for some cool papers to come on automatic YARA rule generation!

Howdy! I'm a malware researcher. Want to know what I have been working on? Check it here: marcusbotacin.github.io/publications/