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)Repairing Trust in Domain Name Disputes Practices : Insights from a Quarter-Century’s Worth of Squabbles
Boladji Vinny Adjibi, Athanasios Avgeditis, Manos Antonakakis, Michael Bailey and Fabian Monrose
Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium, 2026 (to appear).
From Concealment to Exposure: Understanding the Lifecycle and Infrastructure of APT Domains
Boladji Vinny Adjibi, Athanasios Avgeditis, Manos Antonakakis, Michael Bailey and Fabian Monrose
International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), 2025 (to appear).
Seeing is Believing: Interpreting Behavioral Changes in Audio Deepfake Detectors Arising from Data Augmentation
Boo Fullwood and Fabian Monrose
In 18th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security, 2025 (to appear).
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.
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.
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