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  1. Behavior Nets: Context-Aware Behavior Modeling for Code Injection-Based Windows Malware

    Article • ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, August 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Andrea Continella

  2. SoK: Hardening Techniques in the Mobile Ecosystem — Are We There Yet?

    Article • June 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Andrea Continella

  3. Toward Automatically Generating User-Specific Recovery Procedures After Windows Malware Infections

    Article • June 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Andrea Continella

  4. frameD: Toward Automated Identification of Embedded Frameworks in Firmware Images

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Andrea Continella

  5. Large-Scale Security Analysis of Real-World Backend Deployments Speaking IoT-Focused Protocols

    Article • September 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Andrea Continella

  6. ERAFL: Efficient Resource Allocation for Federated Learning Training in Smart Homes

    Article • May 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Andrea Continella

  7. ReplicaWatcher: Training-less Anomaly Detection in Containerized Microservices

    Article • January 2024, Internet Society

    Andrea Continella

  8. Shimware: Toward Practical Security Retrofitting for Monolithic Firmware Images

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Andrea Continella

  9. Mobile apps and children’s privacy: a traffic analysis of data sharing practices among children’s mobile iOS apps

    Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, August 2023, BMJ

    Andrea Continella

  10. AoT - Attack on Things: A security analysis of IoT firmware updates

    Article • July 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Andrea Continella

  11. Columbus: Android App Testing Through Systematic Callback Exploration

    Article • May 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Andrea Continella

  12. HoneyKube: Designing and Deploying a Microservices-based Web Honeypot

    Article • May 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Andrea Continella

  13. Operationalizing Cybersecurity Research Ethics Review: From Principles and Guidelines to Practice

    Article • January 2023, Internet Society

    Andrea Continella

  14. Are hackers using my smart lamp?

    Article • December 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Luca Morgese Zangrandi, Andrea Continella

  15. Detecting Anomalous Misconfigurations in AWS Identity and Access Management Policies

    Article • November 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Andrea Continella

  16. Contextualizing System Calls in Containers for Anomaly-Based Intrusion Detection

    Article • November 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Andrea Continella

  17. DEEPCASE: Semi-Supervised Contextual Analysis of Security Events

    Article • May 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Andrea Continella

  18. A Systematical and longitudinal study of evasive behaviors in windows malware

    Article • Computers & Security, February 2022, Elsevier

    Andrea Continella

  19. Reversing and Fuzzing the Google Titan M Chip

    Article • November 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Andrea Continella

  20. SyML: Guiding Symbolic Execution Toward Vulnerable States Through Pattern Learning

    Article • October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Stefano Zanero, Andrea Continella

  21. Toward a secure crowdsourced location tracking system

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Andrea Continella

  22. Bran: Reduce Vulnerability Search Space in Large Open Source Repositories by Learning Bug Symptoms

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Andrea Continella

  23. An I/O Request Packet (IRP) Driven Effective Ransomware Detection Scheme using Artificial Neural Network

    Article • August 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Andrea Continella

  24. SYMBION: Interleaving Symbolic with Concrete Execution

    Article • June 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Andrea Continella

  25. Karonte: Detecting Insecure Multi-binary Interactions in Embedded Firmware

    Article • May 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Andrea Continella

  26. HeadPrint

    Article • March 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Thomas Hupperich, Andrea Continella

  27. FlowPrint: Semi-Supervised Mobile-App Fingerprinting on Encrypted Network Traffic

    Article • January 2020, Internet Society

    Andrea Continella

  28. LeakDoctor

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, March 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Andrea Continella

  29. Data sharing practices of medicines related apps and the mobile ecosystem: traffic, content, and network analysis

    Article • BMJ, March 2019, BMJ

    Andrea Continella

  30. Victim-Aware Adaptive Covert Channels

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Andrea Continella

  31. There's a Hole in that Bucket!

    Article • December 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Andrea Continella

  32. Security Evaluation of a Banking Fraud Analysis System

    Article • ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, August 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Stefano Zanero, Andrea Continella

  33. Extended Abstract: Toward Systematically Exploring Antivirus Engines

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Andrea Continella

  34. SysTaint

    Article • January 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Andrea Continella, Stefano Zanero

  35. GroupDroid

    Article • December 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Andrea Continella

  36. Prometheus: Analyzing WebInject-based information stealers

    Article • Journal of Computer Security, May 2017, IOS Press

    Stefano Zanero, Andrea Continella

  37. Obfuscation-Resilient Privacy Leak Detection for Mobile Apps Through Differential Analysis

    Article • January 2017, Internet Society

    Andrea Continella

  38. Measuring and Defeating Anti-Instrumentation-Equipped Malware

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Andrea Continella

  39. ShieldFS

    Article • December 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Andrea Continella

  40. GASOLINE: a Cytoscape app for multiple local alignment of PPI networks

    Article • F1000Research, September 2014, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Andrea Continella