Barak Hoffer

11 papers Journal 9Unranked 2
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 — conf
NewCAS
Barak Hoffer, Shahar Kvatinsky
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Barak Hoffer, Shahar Kvatinsky
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Marcel Khalifa, Barak Hoffer, Orian Leitersdorf, Robert Hanhan, Ben Perach, Leonid Yavits, Shahar Kvatinsky
2023 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Very Large Scale Integr. Syst.
Marcel Khalifa, Barak Hoffer, Orian Leitersdorf, Robert Hanhan, Ben Perach, Leonid Yavits, Shahar Kvatinsky
2022 J jnl
Adv. Intell. Syst.
Wei Wang, Barak Hoffer, Tzofnat Greenberg-Toledo, Yang Li, Minhui Zou, Eric Herbelin, Ronny Ronen, Xiaoxin Xu, Yulin Zhao, Jianguo Yang, Shahar Kvatinsky
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Wei Wang, Barak Hoffer, Tzofnat Greenberg-Toledo, Yang Li, Minhui Zou, Eric Herbelin, Ronny Ronen, Xiaoxin Xu, Yulin Zhao, Jianguo Yang, Shahar Kvatinsky
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Wei Wang, Loai Danial, Yang Li, Eric Herbelin, Evgeny Pikhay, Yakov Roizin, Barak Hoffer, Zhongrui Wang, Shahar Kvatinsky
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Barak Hoffer, Shahar Kvatinsky
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Wei Wang, Loai Danial, Eric Herbelin, Barak Hoffer, Batel Oved, Tzofnat Greenberg-Toledo, Evgeny Pikhay, Yakov Roizin, Shahar Kvatinsky
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Barak Hoffer, Nicolás Wainstein, Christopher M. Neumann, Eric Pop, Eilam Yalon, Shahar Kvatinsky
2019 — conf
ICECS
Jeffry Louis, Barak Hoffer, Shahar Kvatinsky

Nicolò Altamura is a security engineer and computer science researcher specializing in software protection, reverse engineering, program analysis, and binary deobfuscation. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Verona, graduating with honors, and works at emproof, focusing on software protection and the challenges of analyzing and understanding compiled software.

His research explores the relationship between program analysis and code obfuscation, with particular emphasis on how software transformations affect the ability of automated tools to recover program behavior. His interests span static analysis, binary analysis, decompilation, reverse engineering, and techniques for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code.

In 2025, he co-authored Assessing the Effectiveness of the Tigress Obfuscator Against MOPSA and BinaryNinja, published at CheckMATE. The paper evaluates the effectiveness of obfuscation techniques and their impact on source-level static analysis and binary-level decompilation.

Beyond academic research, Nicolò develops and contributes to tools for reverse engineering and software analysis. His projects include obfuscation_analysis, a Binary Ninja plugin for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code; Pocket, an obfuscator for mixed Boolean-arithmetic expressions; and ptxNinja, a tool for reverse engineering NVIDIA GPU code represented in the PTX virtual instruction set.

His research also extends to binary datasets and software evolution. In 2026, he co-authored ASSEMBLAGE-DEEPHISTORY: A Cross-Build Binary Dataset with Temporal Coverage, a research work addressing the availability of binary data across multiple software builds and points in time, supporting research into binary analysis and changes between program versions.

Across his research, engineering work, and open-source contributions, Nicolò focuses on advancing the understanding, analysis, and protection of software against increasingly sophisticated obfuscation and reverse-engineering challenges.

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