Clustering Malware's Network Behavior using Simple Sequential Features

Developing malware variants is extremely cheap for attackers because of the availability of various obfuscation tools. These variants can be grouped in malware families, based on information retrieved from their static and dynamic analysis. Dynamic, network-level analysis of malware shows its core behavior since it captures the interaction with...

Investigating Type Declaration Mismatches in Python

Past research provided evidence that developers making code changes sometimes omit to update the related documentation, thus creating inconsistencies that may contribute to faults and crashes. In dynamically typed languages, such as Python, an inconsistency in the documentation may lead to a mismatch in type declarations only visible at runtime....