Oleksii Starov

28 papers A* 11A 1B 2C 1Journal 5Unranked 8

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	J	`jnl`	Deep Dive into the Abuse of DL APIs To Create Malicious AI Models and How to Detect Them. CoRR Mohamed Nabeel, Oleksii Starov
2025	—	`conf`	ScanWars: (A Multi-network Approach to Detecting and Analyzing) The Rise of Scanning Activity. eCrime Beliz Kaleli, Tony Li, Fang Liu, Oleksii Starov, Manuel Egele, Gianluca Stringhini
2024	—	`conf`	Automated Generation of Behavioral Signatures for Malicious Web Campaigns. ISC (2) Shaown Sarker, William Melicher, Oleksii Starov, Anupam Das, Alexandros Kapravelos
2022	A	`conf`	PhishInPatterns: measuring elicited user interactions at scale on phishing websites. IMC Karthika Subramani, William Melicher, Oleksii Starov, Phani Vadrevu, Roberto Perdisci
2021	A*	`conf`	Catching Transparent Phish: Analyzing and Detecting MITM Phishing Toolkits. CCS Brian Kondracki, Babak Amin Azad, Oleksii Starov, Nick Nikiforakis
2021	A*	`conf`	Fingerprinting in Style: Detecting Browser Extensions via Injected Style Sheets. USENIX Security Symposium Pierre Laperdrix, Oleksii Starov, Quan Chen, Alexandros Kapravelos, Nick Nikiforakis
2021	—	`conf`	Innocent Until Proven Guilty (IUPG): Building Deep Learning Models with Embedded Robustness to Out-Of-Distribution Content. SP (Workshops) Brody Kutt, William Hewlett, Oleksii Starov, Yuchen Zhou
2020	B	`conf`	Short Paper - Taming the Shape Shifter: Detecting Anti-fingerprinting Browsers. DIMVA Babak Amin Azad, Oleksii Starov, Pierre Laperdrix, Nick Nikiforakis
2020	B	`conf`	Web Runner 2049: Evaluating Third-Party Anti-bot Services. DIMVA Babak Amin Azad, Oleksii Starov, Pierre Laperdrix, Nick Nikiforakis
2019	—	`conf`	Detecting Malicious Campaigns in Obfuscated JavaScript with Scalable Behavioral Analysis. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops Oleksii Starov, Yuchen Zhou, Jun Wang
2019	A*	`conf`	Everyone is Different: Client-side Diversification for Defending Against Extension Fingerprinting. USENIX Security Symposium Erik Trickel, Oleksii Starov, Alexandros Kapravelos, Nick Nikiforakis, Adam Doupé
2019	A*	`conf`	Unnecessarily Identifiable: Quantifying the fingerprintability of browser extensions due to bloat. WWW Oleksii Starov, Pierre Laperdrix, Alexandros Kapravelos, Nick Nikiforakis
2018	A*	`conf`	Betrayed by Your Dashboard: Discovering Malicious Campaigns via Web Analytics. WWW Oleksii Starov, Yuchen Zhou, Xiao Zhang, Najmeh Miramirkhani, Nick Nikiforakis
2018	—	`conf`	PrivacyMeter: Designing and Developing a Privacy-Preserving Browser Extension. ESSoS Oleksii Starov, Nick Nikiforakis
2017	A*	`conf`	Dial One for Scam: A Large-Scale Analysis of Technical Support Scams. NDSS Najmeh Miramirkhani, Oleksii Starov, Nick Nikiforakis
2017	A*	`conf`	Extended Tracking Powers: Measuring the Privacy Diffusion Enabled by Browser Extensions. WWW Oleksii Starov, Nick Nikiforakis
2017	A*	`conf`	Hindsight: Understanding the Evolution of UI Vulnerabilities in Mobile Browsers. CCS Meng Luo, Oleksii Starov, Nima Honarmand, Nick Nikiforakis
2017	A*	`conf`	XHOUND: Quantifying the Fingerprintability of Browser Extensions. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Oleksii Starov, Nick Nikiforakis
2016	J	`jnl`	Are You Sure You Want to Contact Us? Quantifying the Leakage of PII via Website Contact Forms. Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol. Oleksii Starov, Phillipa Gill, Nick Nikiforakis
2016	J	`jnl`	Dial One for Scam: Analyzing and Detecting Technical Support Scams. CoRR Najmeh Miramirkhani, Oleksii Starov, Nick Nikiforakis
2016	A*	`conf`	Measuring and Mitigating AS-level Adversaries Against Tor. NDSS Rishab Nithyanand, Oleksii Starov, Phillipa Gill, Adva Zair, Michael Schapira
2016	A*	`conf`	No Honor Among Thieves: A Large-Scale Analysis of Malicious Web Shells. WWW Oleksii Starov, Johannes Dahse, Syed Sharique Ahmad, Thorsten Holz, Nick Nikiforakis
2015	J	`jnl`	Measuring and mitigating AS-level adversaries against Tor. CoRR Rishab Nithyanand, Oleksii Starov, Adva Zair, Phillipa Gill, Michael Schapira
2015	—	`conf`	On the Privacy Practices of Just Plain Sites. WPES@CCS Amirhossein Aleyasen, Oleksii Starov, Alyssa Phung Au, Allan M. Schiffman, Jeff Shrager
2015	J	`jnl`	On the Privacy Practices of Just Plain Sites. CoRR Amirhossein Aleyasen, Oleksii Starov, Alyssa Phung Au, Allan M. Schiffman, Jeff Shrager
2013	C	`conf`	Cloud Testing for Mobile Software Systems - Concept and Prototyping. ICSOFT Oleksii Starov, Sergiy Vilkomir, Vyacheslav S. Kharchenko
2013	—	`conf`	Evaluation of t-wise Approach for Testing Logical Expressions in Software. ICST Workshops Sergiy Vilkomir, Oleksii Starov, Ranjan Bhambroo
2013	—	`conf`	Integrated TaaS platform for mobile development: Architecture solutions. AST@ICSE Oleksii Starov, Sergiy Vilkomir

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.

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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