Hesperus Is Phosphorus: Mapping Threat Actor Naming Taxonomies at Scale

This paper studies the problem of Threat Actor TA naming convention inconsistency across leading Cyber Threat Intelligence CTI vendors. The current decentralized and proprietary nomenclature creates confusion and significant obstacles for researchers, including difficulties in integrating and...

SoK: Potentials and Challenges of Large Language Models for Reverse Engineering

Reverse Engineering RE is central to software security, enabling tasks such as vulnerability discovery and malware analysis, but it remains labor-intensive and requires substantial expertise. Earlier advances in deep learning start to automate parts of RE, particularly for malware detection and...

When Machine Learning Meets Vulnerability Discovery: Challenges and Lessons Learned

In recent years, machine learning has demonstrated impressive results in various fields, including software vulnerability detection. Nonetheless, using machine learning to identify software vulnerabilities presents new challenges, especially regarding the scale of data involved, which was not a...

Rapid7’s Data-Centric Approach to AI in Belfast

Authored by Stuart Millar and Ryan Wilson. Rapid7 has expanded significantly in Belfast since establishing a presence back in 2014, resulting in the company's largest R&D hub outside the US with over 350 people spread across eight floors in our Chichester Street office. There is a wide range of...