Daniele Lain

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Research Area

Teaching

  • System Security: 2019–2024 (TA, Head TA)
  • Information Security Lab: 2020–2021 (TA)
  • Information Security: 2019–2021 (TA)
  • Introduction to Information Security (CAS/DAS): 2018–2022 (TA)

Talks

Phishing in Organizations: Findings from a Large-Scale and Long-Term Study

Publications

ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS'25)
Best Paper Award
ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec '19)

Running Theses

Automated Generation of Evasive Managed-Code Malware for Understanding EDR Detection Mechanics (Master Thesis)
Student: Aaron Häusler
Supervisors: Daniel Hulliger (CYD), Nicolas Dutly, and Daniele Lain
Intent-Inferred Dynamic Sandboxing for Agentic Systems (Semester Project)
Student: Lana Benički
Supervisors: Nicolas Dutly and Daniele Lain

Supervised Theses

Context Confusion In Computer Using Agents (SA)
Student: Lea Holter
Supervisors: Friederike Groschupp and Daniele Lain
Simulating Page Fault Attacks in User Space (MA)
Student: Max Eichenberger
Supervisors: Moritz Schneider and Daniele Lain
Binary Similarity Techniques for Malware Detection (MA)
Student: Adalsteinn Jonsson
Supervisors: Daniele Lain, Patrick Schaller, and Martin Strohmeier (CYD)
AlgoLeak (MA)
Student: Stefano Boschetto
Supervisors: Daniele Lain, Ivan Puddu, and Moritz Schneider
SGX VS ML (MA)
Student: Nicolas Dutly
Supervisors: Daniele Lain, Ivan Puddu, and Moritz Schneider
Evading Machine Learning Malware Detection Models (BA)
Student: Adrian Kress
Supervisors: Moritz Schneider and Daniele Lain
Hunting 1-days (MA)
Student: Leonardo Nodari
Supervisors: Moritz Schneider and Daniele Lain
Learning From Diffs and Commits (MA)
Student: Ali El Wahsh
Supervisors: Moritz Schneider, Aritra Dhar, and Daniele Lain
Analysis of Android App Network Traffic using Java/Smali Hybrid-Patching. Bachelor Thesis (MA)
Student: Lukas Baege
Supervisors: Daniele Lain and Patrick Schaller
Privacy Mechanisms for Distributed Fingerprint-based Authentication. Master thesis (MA)
Student: Swe Geng
Supervisors: Aritra Dhar and Daniele Lain