Brendan D. Saltaformaggio

Associate Professor @ Georgia Tech


Welcome to Brendan Saltaformaggio's home page. I am an Associate Professor in the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I also hold a courtesy appointment in the School of Computer Science. For more information about me please see the links on this page.

Research Interests

Computer Systems Security and Cyber Forensics with focuses on memory forensics, binary analysis and instrumentation, vetting of untrusted software, and mobile/IoT security.

Selected Recent Publications

Hiding in Plain Sight: An Empirical Study of Web Application Abuse in Malware.
M. Yao, J. Fuller, R. Pai Kasturi, S. Agarwal, A. Sikder, B. Saltaformaggio.
In Proc. 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (Security '23), Anaheim, CA, 2023.

Mistrust Plugins You Must: A Large-Scale Study Of Malicious Plugins In WordPress Marketplaces.
R. Pai Kasturi, J. Fuller, Y. Sun, O. Chabklo, A. Rodriguez, J. Park, B. Saltaformaggio.
In Proc. 31st USENIX Security Symposium (Security '22), Boston, MA, 2022.

C3PO: Large-Scale Study Of Covert Monitoring of C&C Servers via Over-Permissioned Protocol Infiltration.
J. Fuller, R. Pai Kasturi, A. Sikder, B. Arik, H. Xu, V. Verma, E. Asdar, B. Saltaformaggio.
In Proc. 28th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'21), Virtual Conference, 2021.