Nanda Rani

28 papers A* 1A 1C 2Journal 17Unranked 7
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
AI In Cybersecurity Education - Scalable Agentic CTF Design Principles and Educational Outcomes.
CoRR
Haoran Xi, Minghao Shao, Kimberly Milner, Venkata Sai Charan Putrevu, Nanda Rani, Meet Udeshi, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, Siddharth Garg, Sandeep Kumar Shukla, Farshad Khorrami, Alon Hillel-Tuch, Muhammad Shafique, Ramesh Karri
2026 J jnl
CyberExplorer: Benchmarking LLM Offensive Security Capabilities in a Real-World Attacking Simulation Environment.
CoRR
Nanda Rani, Kimberly Milner, Minghao Shao, Meet Udeshi, Haoran Xi, Venkata Sai Charan Putrevu, Saksham Aggarwal, Sandeep K. Shukla, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Farshad Khorrami, Muhammad Shafique, Ramesh Karri
2026 J jnl
Decoding shadows: Towards Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP)-based Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attribution.
Inf. Secur. J. A Glob. Perspect.
Nanda Rani, Bikash Saha, Vikas Maurya, Sandeep Kumar Shukla
2026 A* conf
Towards Effective Offensive Security LLM Agents: Hyperparameter Tuning, LLM as a Judge, and a Lightweight CTF Benchmark.
AAAI
Minghao Shao, Nanda Rani, Kimberly Milner, Haoran Xi, Meet Udeshi, Saksham Aggarwal, Venkata Sai Charan Putrevu, Sandeep K. Shukla, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Farshad Khorrami, Ramesh Karri, Muhammad Shafique
2025 J jnl
A comprehensive survey of automated Advanced Persistent Threat attribution: Taxonomy, methods, challenges and open research problems.
J. Inf. Secur. Appl.
Nanda Rani, Bikash Saha, Sandeep Kumar Shukla
2025 J jnl
AURA: A Multi-Agent Intelligence Framework for Knowledge-Enhanced Cyber Threat Attribution.
CoRR
Nanda Rani, Sandeep Kumar Shukla
2025 J jnl
CRAKEN: Cybersecurity LLM Agent with Knowledge-Based Execution.
CoRR
Minghao Shao, Haoran Xi, Nanda Rani, Meet Udeshi, Venkata Sai Charan Putrevu, Kimberly Milner, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, Sandeep Kumar Shukla, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Farshad Khorrami, Ramesh Karri, Muhammad Shafique
2025 J jnl
D-CIPHER: Dynamic Collaborative Intelligent Agents with Planning and Heterogeneous Execution for Enhanced Reasoning in Offensive Security.
CoRR
Meet Udeshi, Minghao Shao, Haoran Xi, Nanda Rani, Kimberly Milner, Venkata Sai Charan Putrevu, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, Sandeep Kumar Shukla, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Farshad Khorrami, Ramesh Karri, Muhammad Shafique
2025 J jnl
Generative AI in Financial Institution: A Global Survey of Opportunities, Threats, and Regulation.
CoRR
Bikash Saha, Nanda Rani, Sandeep Kumar Shukla
2025 A conf
MaLAware: Automating the Comprehension of Malicious Software Behaviours using Large Language Models (LLMs).
MSR
Bikash Saha, Nanda Rani, Sandeep Kumar Shukla
2025 J jnl
MaLAware: Automating the Comprehension of Malicious Software Behaviours using Large Language Models (LLMs).
CoRR
Bikash Saha, Nanda Rani, Sandeep Kumar Shukla
2025 — conf
PARAG: Proactive Answering Framework Integrating LLMs with Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
EICC
Bikash Saha, Nanda Rani, Joheen Chakraborty, Divyanshu Singh, Soumyo V. Chakraborty, Sandeep Kumar Shukla
2025 — conf
The Polymorphism Maze: Understanding Diversities and Similarities in Malware Families.
ESORICS (3)
Antonino Vitale, Simone Aonzo, Savino Dambra, Nanda Rani, Lorenzo Ippolito, Platon Kotzias, Juan Caballero, Davide Balzarotti
2025 J jnl
Towards Effective Offensive Security LLM Agents: Hyperparameter Tuning, LLM as a Judge, and a Lightweight CTF Benchmark.
CoRR
Minghao Shao, Nanda Rani, Kimberly Milner, Haoran Xi, Meet Udeshi, Saksham Aggarwal, Venkata Sai Charan Putrevu, Sandeep Kumar Shukla, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Farshad Khorrami, Ramesh Karri, Muhammad Shafique
2024 J jnl
A Comprehensive Survey of Advanced Persistent Threat Attribution: Taxonomy, Methods, Challenges and Open Research Problems.
CoRR
Nanda Rani, Bikash Saha, Sandeep Kumar Shukla
2024 J jnl
ADAPT: Adaptive Camouflage Based Deception Orchestration For Trapping Advanced Persistent Threats.
DTRAP
Venkata Sai Charan Putrevu, Subhasis Mukhopadhyay, Subhajit Manna, Nanda Rani, Ansh Vaid, Hrushikesh Chunduri, Mohan Anand Putrevu, Sandeep K. Shukla
2024 J jnl
Automated Classification of Cybercrime Complaints using Transformer-based Language Models for Hinglish Texts.
CoRR
Nanda Rani, Divyanshu Singh, Bikash Saha, Sandeep Kumar Shukla
2024 J jnl
Chasing the Shadows: TTPs in Action to Attribute Advanced Persistent Threats.
CoRR
Nanda Rani, Bikash Saha, Vikas Maurya, Sandeep Kumar Shukla
2024 — conf
Genesis of Cyber Threats: Towards Malware-based Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Attribution.
TPS-ISA
Nanda Rani, Bikash Saha, Ravi Kumar, Sandeep Kumar Shukla
2024 — conf
MAD: A Meta-Learning Approach to Detect Advanced Persistent Threats using Provenance Data in Industrial IoT.
ACSAC Workshops
Bikash Saha, Nanda Rani, Sandeep Kumar Shukla
2024 J jnl
TTPXHunter: Actionable Threat Intelligence Extraction as TTPs from Finished Cyber Threat Reports.
CoRR
Nanda Rani, Bikash Saha, Vikas Maurya, Sandeep Kumar Shukla
2024 J jnl
TTPXHunter: Actionable Threat Intelligence Extraction as TTPs from Finished Cyber Threat Reports.
Digit. Threat. Res. Pract.
Nanda Rani, Bikash Saha, Vikas Maurya, Sandeep Kumar Shukla
2023 C conf
MalXCap: A Method for Malware Capability Extraction.
ISPEC
Bikash Saha, Nanda Rani, Sandeep Kumar Shukla
2023 — conf
TTPHunter: Automated Extraction of Actionable Intelligence as TTPs from Narrative Threat Reports.
ACSW
Nanda Rani, Bikash Saha, Vikas Maurya, Sandeep Kumar Shukla
2022 C conf
A Generalized Unknown Malware Classification.
SecureComm
Nanda Rani, Ayushi Mishra, Rahul Kumar, Sarbajit Ghosh, Sandeep K. Shukla, Priyanka Bagade
2022 J jnl
Leveraging Machine Learning for Ransomware Detection.
CoRR
Nanda Rani, Sunita Vikrant Dhavale
2022 — conf
RemOD: Operational Drift-Adaptive Intrusion Detection.
SPACE
Vikas Maurya, Nanda Rani, Sandeep Kumar Shukla
2021 — conf
A Survey on Machine Learning-Based Ransomware Detection.
ICMC
Nanda Rani, Sunita Vikrant Dhavale, Amarjit Singh, Atul Mehra