PHASE: Passive Human Activity Simulation Evaluation

Cybersecurity simulation environments, such as cyber ranges, honeypots, and sandboxes, require realistic human behavior to be effective, yet no quantitative method exists to assess the behavioral fidelity of synthetic user personas. This paper presents PHASE Passive Human Activity Simulation...

Modeling Behavioral Preferences of Cyber Adversaries Using Inverse Reinforcement Learning

This paper presents a holistic approach to attacker preference modeling from system-level audit logs using inverse reinforcement learning IRL. Adversary modeling is an important capability in cybersecurity that lets defenders characterize behaviors of potential attackers, which enables attributio...

Fileless malware: part deux

In part one of this series, we focused on an introduction to the concepts fileless malware, providing examples of the problems that we in the security industry face when dealing with these types of attacks. In part two, I will be walking through a few demonstrations of fileless malware attacks th...

Automated Android Malware Analysis: CuckooDroid

CuckooDroid is an extension of Cuckoo Sandbox the Open Source software for automating analysis of suspicious files. CuckooDroid brigs to cuckoo the capabilities of execution and analysis of android application. CuckooDroid is an automated, cross-platform, emulation and analysis framework based on...