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Marcus Botacin

Computer Eng. @UNICAMP, 2015 MSc, CS @UNICAMP, 2017
competition

Adversarial Machine Learning, Malware Detection, and the 2021’s MLSEC Competition

Another year, another edition of the Machine Learning Security Evasion Competition (MLSEC) took place! If you don’t know what we are talking about, it is a competition promoted by some well-known Internet companies (CUJO AI, Microsoft, MRG Effitas, VMRay, and Nvidia) in which one has (i) to develop machine learning-based Read more…

By Fabrício Ceschin and Marcus Botacin, 1 year ago
malware

Book Review: Using Science in CyberSecurity

In this post, I present my impressions of this book I recently read. Why Am I Reading It? To start, I think it’s important to give some context, as things cannot be interpreted absolutely. In the book’s preface, the authors state that the book is targeting a wide audience, from Read more…

By Marcus Botacin, 1 year1 year ago
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Adversarial Malware in Machine Learning Detectors: Our MLSEC 2020’s SECRETs

If you read any of the SECRET papers, it is not a SECRET for you that using Machine Learning (ML) to detect malware is a challenging endeavor. In one of these papers, we presented the results of our participation in a machine learning-based malware detection evasion challenge dating back 2019. Read more…

By Fabrício Ceschin and Marcus Botacin, 2 years2 years ago
malware

An Obfuscation Tour

Obfuscation is often used by malware samples to hide their SECRETs, but we know how to uncover them. Want to know as well? Check our guide here.

By Marcus Botacin, 3 years2 years ago
ransomware

Ransomware in Times of Coronavirus

The world is lockedown, but SECRET’s finding keep being unlocked. This time we uncovered a wave of ransomware threats. Check it out here.

By Marcus Botacin, 3 years2 years ago
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