Publications

For a complete list of my publications, please visit my Google Scholar profile.

2026

Exploitgym: Can ai agents turn security vulnerabilities into real attacks?

Zhun Wang, Nico Schiller, Hongwei Li, Srijiith Sesha Narayana, Milad Nasr, Nicholas Carlini, Xiangyu Qi, Eric Wallace, Elie Bursztein, Luca Invernizzi, Kurt Thomas, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Wenbo Guo, Jingxuan He, Thorsten Holz, Dawn Song

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026

47 citations
Machine LearningSecurity

TypeSeg: Content-Type Segmentation for Mixed Text

Martin Dallinger, Yanick Fratantonio, Luca Invernizzi

ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security (AISec), 2026

Spotlight TalkMachine LearningSecurity

TRIAGE-CPG: A Cross-Model Study of Budgeted Static Malware Triage with Large Language Models

Paul-Andrei Sava, Alexander Küchler, Daniel Kowatsch, Bernhard Grill, Yanick Fratantonio, Luca Invernizzi

ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security (AISec), 2026

Machine LearningSecurity

From Payload to Plugin: Web-Scale Ecosystem Attribution of JavaScript Injection Campaigns

Ravindu De Silva, Nicholas Shao, Yigitcan Kaya, Mingxuan Yao, Yanick Fratantonio, Luca Invernizzi, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna

ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2026

Security

Honeyval: A Comprehensive Evaluation Framework for LLM-powered HTTP Honeypots

Mark Vero, Fabian Kaczmarczyck, Ivan Petrov, Ilia Shumailov, Jamie Hayes, Niels Heinen, Tianqi Fan, Luca Invernizzi, Martin Vechev

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026

Machine LearningSecurity

2025

Evaluating the robustness of a production malware detection system to transferable adversarial attacks

Milad Nasr, Yanick Fratantonio, Luca Invernizzi, Ange Albertini, Loua Farah, Alex Petit-Bianco, Andreas Terzis, Kurt Thomas, Elie Bursztein, Nicholas Carlini

ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2025

3 citations
Machine LearningSecurity

Google announces Sec-Gemini v1, a new experimental cybersecurity model

E Burzstein, M Tishchenko, Sec-Gemini Team

Google Online Security Blog, 2025

3 citations
Machine LearningSecurity

2024

Gemini 1.5: Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context

Machel Reid, Nikolay Savinov, Denis Teplyashin, Dmitry Lepikhin, Timothy Lillicrap, et al. (606 authors)

arXiv, 2024

4904 citations
Machine Learning

Magika: AI-Powered Content-Type Detection

Yanick Fratantonio, Luca Invernizzi, Loua Farah, Kurt Thomas, Marina Zhang, Ange Albertini, Francois Galilee, Giancarlo Metitieri, Julien Cretin, Alex Petit-Bianco, David Tao, Elie Bursztein

International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2024

19 citations
Machine LearningSecurity

Give and take: An end-to-end investigation of giveaway scam conversion rates

Enze Liu, George Kappos, Eric Mugnier, Luca Invernizzi, Stefan Savage, David Tao, Kurt Thomas, Geoffrey M Voelker, Sarah Meiklejohn

ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2024

18 citations
Security

Sedpack - Scalable and efficient dataset library

Karel Král, Jean-Michel Picod, Luca Invernizzi, Elie Bursztein

Open Tools Interfaces and Metrics for Implementation Security Testing (OPTIMIST 2024), 2024

Machine LearningHardwareSecurity

2023

Generalized power attacks against crypto hardware using long-range deep learning

Elie Bursztein, Luca Invernizzi, Karel Král, Daniel Moghimi, Jean-Michel Picod, Marina Zhang

arXiv, 2023

37 citations
Machine LearningHardware

2022

Hybrid Post-Quantum Signatures in Hardware Security Keys

Diana Ghinea, Fabian Kaczmarczyck, Jennifer Pullman, Julien Cretin, Stefan Kölbl, Rafael Misoczki, Picod Jean-Michel, Luca Invernizzi, Elie Bursztein

ACNS Workshop on Secure Cryptographic Implementation, 2022

44 citations
🏆 Best Paper AwardHardwareSecurity

2020

CoinPolice: Detecting Hidden Cryptojacking Attacks with Neural Networks

Ivan Petrov, Luca Invernizzi, Elie Bursztein

arXiv, 2020

40 citations
Machine LearningSecurity

Spotlight: Malware Lead Generation at Scale

Fabian Kaczmarczyck, Bernhard Grill, Luca Invernizzi, Jennifer Pullman, Cecilia M. Procopiuc, David Tao, Borbala Benko, Elie Bursztein

Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2020

12 citations
Security

2019

Protecting accounts from credential stuffing with password breach alerting

Kurt Thomas, Jennifer Pullman, Kevin Yeo, Ananth Raghunathan, Patrick Gage Kelley, Luca Invernizzi, Borbala Benko, Tadek Pietraszek, Sarvar Patel, Dan Boneh, Elie Bursztein

USENIX Security Symposium, 2019

244 citations
🏆 Best Paper AwardSecurityPrivacy

Five years of the right to be forgotten

Theo Bertram, Elie Bursztein, Stephanie Caro, Hubert Chao, Rutledge Chin Feman, Peter Fleischer, Albin Gustafsson, Jess Hemerly, Chris Hibbert, Luca Invernizzi, Lanah Kammourieh Donnelly, Jason Ketover, Jay Laefer, Paul Nicholas, Yuan Niu, Harjinder Obhi, David Price, Andrew Strait, Kurt Thomas, Al Verney

ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2019

69 citations
Privacy

Serverless Cybersecurity Training

Luca Invernizzi, Elie Bursztein

TDCommons, 2019

Security

2018

Tracking ransomware end-to-end

Danny Yuxing Huang, Maxwell Matthaios Aliapoulios, Vector Guo Li, Luca Invernizzi, Elie Bursztein, Kylie McRoberts, Jonathan Levin, Kirill Levchenko, Alex C Snoeren, Damon McCoy

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2018

359 citations
Security

Three years of the Right to be Forgotten

Theo Bertram, Elie Bursztein, Stephanie Caro, Hubert Chao, Rutledge Chin Feman, Peter Fleischer, Albin Gustafsson, Jess Hemerly, Chris Hibbert, Luca Invernizzi, LK Donnelly, J Ketover, Jay Laefer, Paul Nicholas, Yuan Niu, Harjinder Obhi, David Price, Andrew Strait, Kurt Thomas, Al Verney

ArXiv, 2018

26 citations
Privacy

2017

Understanding the mirai botnet

Manos Antonakakis, Tim April, Michael Bailey, Matt Bernhard, Elie Bursztein, Jaime Cochran, Zakir Durumeric, J Alex Halderman, Luca Invernizzi, Michalis Kallitsis, Deepak Kumar, Chaz Lever, Zane Ma, Joshua Mason, Damian Menscher, Chad Seaman, Nick Sullivan, Kurt Thomas, Yi Zhou

USENIX security symposium (USENIX Security 17), 2017

3773 citations
Security

Data Breaches, Phishing, or Malware?: Understanding the Risks of Stolen Credentials

Kurt Thomas, Frank Li, Ali Zand, Jacob Barrett, Juri Ranieri, Luca Invernizzi, Yarik Markov, Oxana Comanescu, Vijay Eranti, Angelika Moscicki, et al

ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2017

435 citations
SecurityPrivacy

Gossip: Automatically identifying malicious domains from mailing list discussions

Cheng Huang, Shuang Hao, Luca Invernizzi, Jiayong Liu, Yong Fang, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna

ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), 2017

23 citations
Machine LearningSecurity

2016

Cloak of Visibility: Detecting When Machines Browse A Different Web

Luca Invernizzi, Kurt Thomas, Alexandros Kapravelos, Oxana Comanescu, Jean-Michel Picod, Elie Bursztein

IEEE Security and Privacy (S&P), 2016

154 citations
SecurityMachine Learning

2015

What the app is that? deception and countermeasures in the android user interface

Antonio Bianchi, Jacopo Corbetta, Luca Invernizzi, Yanick Fratantonio, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2015

247 citations
Security

Baredroid: Large-scale analysis of android apps on real devices

Simone Mutti, Yanick Fratantonio, Antonio Bianchi, Luca Invernizzi, Jacopo Corbetta, Dhilung Kirat, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna

Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2015

104 citations
Security

Detecting malware infestations in large-scale networks

Luca Invernizzi, Stanislav Miskovic, Ruben Torres, Sabyasachi Saha, Christopher Kruegel, Antonio Nucci, Sung-Ju Lee, Giovanni Vigna

US Patent, 2015

60 citations
Security

2014

Nazca: Detecting Malware Distribution in Large-Scale Networks

Luca Invernizzi, Stanislav Miskovic, Ruben Torres, Christopher Kruegel, Sabyasachi Saha, Giovanni Vigna, Sung-Ju Lee, Marco Mellia

Annual Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS), 2014

205 citations
🏆 UCSB Computer Science Outstanding Publication AwardSecurity

Ten Years of {iCTF}: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Giovanni Vigna, Kevin Borgolte, Jacopo Corbetta, Adam Doupe, Yanick Fratantonio, Luca Invernizzi, Dhilung Kirat, Yan Shoshitaishvili

USENIX Summit on Gaming Games and Gamification in Security Education (3GSE 14), 2014

96 citations
Security

Do you feel lucky? A large-scale analysis of risk-rewards trade-offs in cyber security

Yan Shoshitaishvili, Luca Invernizzi, Adam Doupe, Giovanni Vigna

Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACSAC), 2014

18 citations
Security

Eyes of a human, eyes of a program: Leveraging different views of the web for analysis and detection

Jacopo Corbetta, Luca Invernizzi, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna

Research in Attacks Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), 2014

14 citations
Security

2012

You are what you include: large-scale evaluation of remote javascript inclusions

Nick Nikiforakis, Luca Invernizzi, Alexandros Kapravelos, Steven Van Acker, Wouter Joosen, Christopher Kruegel, Frank Piessens, Giovanni Vigna

ACM conference on Computer and communications security, 2012

444 citations
Security

EVILSEED: A Guided Approach to Finding Malicious Web Pages

Luca Invernizzi, UC Santa Barbara, Stefano Benvenuti, Marco Cova, Paolo Milani Comparetti, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna

IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P) and AT&T NYU CSAW best security paper '12 finalist, 2012

266 citations
Security

Message In A Bottle: Sailing Past Censorship

Luca Invernizzi, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna

Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) and in HotPETS12 (workshop), 2012

49 citations
Censorship

2011

A geometric approach to trajectory design for an autonomous underwater vehicle: Surveying the bulbous bow of a ship

Ryan N Smith, Dario Cazzaro, Luca Invernizzi, Giacomo Marani, Song K Choi, Monique Chyba

Acta Applicandae Mathematicae, 2011

9 citations
Robotics

2010

Geometric control for autonomous underwater vehicles: overcoming a thruster failure

Michael Andonian, Dario Cazzaro, Luca Invernizzi, Monique Chyba, Sergio Grammatico

IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2010

16 citations
Robotics

Trajectory design for autonomous underwater vehicles for basin exploration

Monique Chyba, D Cazzaro, L Invernizzi, M Andonian

International Conference on Computer and IT Applications in the Maritime Industries (COMPIT), 2010

7 citations
Robotics

Open Source

These are some of the projects I contributed to. For a better overview of my open source projects, please visit my GitHub Profile .

2024

WaseFire

WaseFire is a platform to build secure firmware in a usable way.

HardwareSecurity

2023

UniSim

Package for efficiently computing similarity, performing fuzzy matching, deduplicating datasets, and clustering data.

Machine LearningSecurity

2019

Keras Tuner

Tom O’Malley, Elie Bursztein, James Long, François Chollet, Haifeng Jin, Luca Invernizzi, G de Marmiesse, Y Fu, J Podivìn, F Schäfer

1235 citations
Machine Learning