I am the Julian T. Hightower Chair Professor in Cybersecurity within the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I also hold a courtesy appointment in the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy. My research interests include all aspects of computer and network security.
Academic Positions
Education
M.Sc. in Computer Science
Distributed Computing and Systems Lab
Advisor: Zvi M. Kedem
B.Sc. Computer Science
Recent Publications
(more)The Guardians of Name Street: Studying the Defensive Registrations of the Fortune 500
Boladji Vinny Adjibi, Athanasios Avgeditis, Manos Antonakakis, Michael Bailey and Fabian Monrose
Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium, 2025 (to appear).
Understanding LLMs Ability to Aid Malware Analysts in Bypassing Evasion Techniques
Miuyin Yong, Kevin Valakuzhy, Mustaque Ahamad, Douglas M. Blough and Fabian Monrose
Companion Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), 2024.
Comparing Malware Evasion Theory with Practice: Results from Interviews with Expert Analysts
Miuyin Yong, Matthew Landen, Frank Li, Fabian Monrose and Mustaque Ahamad
USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2024.
CrashTalk: Automated Generation of Precise, Human Readable, Descriptions of Software Security Bugs
Kedrian James, Kevin Valakuzhy, Kevin Snow, Fabian Monrose
ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, 2024.
Towards Practical Fabrication Stage Attacks Using Interrupt-Resilient Hardware Trojans
Athanasios Moschos, Fabian Monrose and Angelos Keromytis
IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, 2024.
Improving Security Tasks Using Compiler Provenance Information Recovered At the Binary-Level
Yufei Du, Omar Alwari, Kevin Snow, Manos Antonakakis and Fabian Monrose
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2023.
Stale TLS Certificates: Investigating Precarious Third-Party Access to Valid TLS Keys
Zane Ma, Aaron Faulkenberry, Thomas Papastergiou, Zakir Durumeric, Michael D. Bailey, Angelos D. Keromytis, Fabian Monrose and Manos Antonakakis
ACM Internet Measurement Conference, 2023.
Beyond the Gates: An Empirical Analysis of HTTP-managed password stealers and operators
Omar Alrawi, Athanasios Avgetidis, Kevin Valakuzhy, Charles Lever, Paul Burbage, Angelos Keromytis, Fabian Monrose, and Manos Antonakakis
USENIX Security Symposium, 2023.
More Carrot or Less Stick: Organically Improving Student Time Management With Practice Tasks and Gamified Assignments
Mac Malone and Fabian Monrose
ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2023.
Securely Autograding Cybersecurity Exercises Using Web Accessible Jupyter Notebooks
Mac Malone, Yicheng Wang and Fabian Monrose
ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium, 2023.
View from Above: Exploring the Malware Ecosystem from the Upper DNS Hierarchy
Aaron Faulkenberry, Athanasios Avgetidis, Zane Ma, Omar Alrawi, Charles Lever, Panagiotis Kintis, Fabian Monrose, Angelos Keromytis, and Manos Antonakakis
ACM Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2022.
Honors and Awards
UNC Computer Science Department
UNC Computer Science Department
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Privacy Enhancing Technologies
NYU-Poly CSAW
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
National Science Foundation
USENIX Security Symposium