1. Mistrust Plugins You Must: A Large-Scale Study Of Malicious Plugins In WordPress Marketplaces
    R. Pai Kasturi, J. Fuller, Y Sun, O Chabklo, A Rodriguez, J Park, B. Saltaformaggio.
    In Proc. 31st USENIX Security Symposium (Security ’22), Boston, MA, 2022.
    (Acceptance rate: TBD)
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  2. C3PO: Large-Scale Study Of Covert Monitoring of C&C Servers via Over-Permissioned Protocol Infiltration
    J. Fuller, R. Pai Kasturi, A. Sikder, B. Arik, H. Xu, V. Verma, E. Asdar, and B. Saltaformaggio.
    In Proc. 28th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2021.
    (Acceptance rate: 22.3%)
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  3. Forecasting Malware Capabilities From Cyber Attack Memory Images
    O. Alrawi, M. Ike, M. Pruett, R. Pai Kasturi, S. Barua, T. Hirani, B. Hill, B. Saltaformaggio.
    In Proc. 30th USENIX Security Symposium (Security ’21), Virtual Conference, 2021.
    (Acceptance rate: 18.8%)
    [PDF] IISP 2020 Demo Day Finale Research Track Winner
  4. Towards Measuring Supply Chain Attacks on Package Managers for Interpreted Languages
    R. Duan, O. Alrawi, R. Pai Kasturi, R. Elder, B. Saltaformaggio, W. Lee.
    In Proc. 28th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS’21), Virtual Conference, 2021.
    (Acceptance rate: 15.2%)
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  5. TARDIS: Rolling Back The Clock On CMS-Targeting Cyber Attacks
    R. Pai Kasturi, Y. Sun, R. Duan, O. Alrawi, E. Asdar, V. Zhu, Y. Kwon, B. Saltaformaggio.
    In Proc. 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P ’20), Virtiual Conference, 2020.
    (Acceptance rate: 12.3%)
    [PDF] [Video: 1 Min. Preview] [Video: Conf. Presentation]
    IISP 2019 Cybersecurity Summit Commercialization Research Track Winner
  6. The Betrayal At Cloud City: An Empirical Analysis Of Cloud-Based Mobile Backends
    O. Alrawi*, C. Zuo*, R. Duan, R. Pai Kasturi, Z. Lin, B. Saltaformaggio.
    In Proc. 28th USENIX Security Symposium (Security ’19), Santa Clara, CA, 2019.
    (Acceptance rate: 15.7%) *Authors contributed equally.
    [PDF] CSAW’19 Applied Research Competition Finalist