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- Professor - Term Appoint, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
I'm interested in all aspects of network and system security. To solve practical security problems, I use networking and system techniques, as well as applied cryptography, machine learning, probability/statistics, information theory, etc.
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Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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Zheng, J., Li, Q. i., Gu, G., Cao, J., Yau, D., & Wu, J.
(2018).
Realtime DDoS Defense Using COTS SDN Switches via Adaptive Correlation Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
13(7), 1838-1853.
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Hausheer, D., Hohlfeld, O., Schmid, S., & Gu, G.
(2018).
Security and performance of software-defined networks and functions virtualization. 138, 15-17.
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Han, W., Li, Z., Ni, M., Gu, G., & Xu, W.
(2018).
Shadow Attacks Based on Password Reuses: A Quantitative Empirical Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
15(2), 309-320.
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Xue, L., Ma, X., Luo, X., Chan, E., Miu, T., & Gu, G.
(2018).
LinkScope: Toward Detecting Target Link Flooding Attacks. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
13(10), 2423-2438.
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Yoon, C., Lee, S., Kang, H., Park, T., Shin, S., Yegneswaran, V., Porras, P., & Gu, G.
(2017).
Flow Wars: Systemizing the Attack Surface and Defenses in Software-Defined Networks. IEEE ACM Transactions on Networking.
25(6), 3514-3530.
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Nan, Y., Yang, Z., Yang, M., Zhou, S., Zhang, Y., Gu, G., Wang, X., & Sun, L.
(2017).
Identifying User-Input Privacy in Mobile Applications at a Large Scale. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
12(3), 647-661.
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Zhang, Y., Yang, M., Gu, G., & Chen, H.
(2016).
Rethinking Permission Enforcement Mechanism on Mobile Systems. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
11(10), 2227-2240.
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Hassanzadeh, A., Xu, Z., Stoleru, R., Gu, G., & Polychronakis, M.
(2016).
PRIDE: A practical intrusion detection system for resource constrained wireless mesh networks. Computers and Security.
62, 114-132.
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Shin, S., Wang, H., & Gu, G.
(2015).
A First Step Toward Network Security Virtualization: From Concept To Prototype. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
10(10), 2236-2249.
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Yu, S., Gu, G., Barnawi, A., Guo, S., & Stojmenovic, I.
(2015).
Malware Propagation in Large-Scale Networks. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
27(1), 170-179.
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Qian, C., Luo, X., Le, Y. u., & Gu, G.
(2015).
VulHunter: Toward Discovering Vulnerabilities in Android Applications. 35(1), 44-53.
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Zhang, Y., Yang, M., Yang, Z., Gu, G., Ning, P., & Zang, B.
(2014).
Permission Use Analysis for Vetting Undesirable Behaviors in Android Apps. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
9(11), 1828-1842.
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Yang, R., Bi, J., & Gu, G.
(2014).
Guest editorial: Software defined networking. China Communications.
11(2), i-ii.
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Yang, C., Harkreader, R., & Gu, G.
(2013).
Empirical Evaluation and New Design for Fighting Evolving Twitter Spammers. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
8(8), 1280-1293.
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Shin, S., Xu, Z., & Gu, G.
(2013).
EFFORT: A new hostnetwork cooperated framework for efficient and effective bot malware detection. Computer Networks.
57(13), 2628-2642.
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Yang, C., Song, Y., & Gu, G.
(2012).
Active User-Side Evil Twin Access Point Detection Using Statistical Techniques. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
7(5), 1638-1651.
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Ma, W., Duan, P. u., Liu, S., Gu, G., & Liu, J.
(2012).
Shadow attacks: automatically evading system-call-behavior based malware detection. Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques.
8(1-2), 1-13.
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Wang, T., Wei, T., Gu, G., & Zou, W.
(2011).
Checksum-Aware Fuzzing Combined with Dynamic Taint Analysis and Symbolic Execution. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security.
14(2), 15-28.
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Dagon, D., Gu, G., & Lee, C. P.
(2008).
A Taxonomy of Botnet Structures. Advances in Information Security.
36, 143-164.
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Zheng, J., Li, Q. i., Gu, G., Cao, J., Yau, D., & Wu, J.
(2018).
Realtime DDoS Defense Using COTS SDN Switches via Adaptive Correlation Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
13(7), 1838-1853.
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chapter
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Zhang, J., Notani, J., & Gu, G.
(2015).
Characterizing Google Hacking: A First Large-Scale Quantitative Study. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.
International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks.
(pp. 602-622).
Springer Nature.
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Yang, C., & Gu, G.
(2013).
Security in Wireless Local Area Networks. Wireless Network Security.
(pp. 39-58).
Springer Nature.
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Gu, G.
(2011).
Botnet Detection in Enterprise Networks. van Tilborg, H., & Jajodia, S. (Eds.),
Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security.
(pp. 166-168).
Springer Nature.
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Dagon, D., Gu, G., & Lee, C. P.
A Taxonomy of Botnet Structures. Lee, W., Wang, C., & Dagon, D. (Eds.),
Botnet Detection.
(pp. 143-164).
Springer US.
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Zhang, J., Notani, J., & Gu, G.
(2015).
Characterizing Google Hacking: A First Large-Scale Quantitative Study. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.
International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks.
(pp. 602-622).
Springer Nature.
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conference paper
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Xue, L., Liu, Y., Li, T., Zhao, K., Li, J., Yu, L. e., ... Gu, G.
(2022).
SAID: State-aware Defense Against Injection Attacks on In-vehicle Network. 1921-1938.
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Yu, L. e., Liu, Y., Jing, P., Luo, X., Xue, L., Zhao, K., ... Wu, S.
(2022).
Towards Automatically Reverse Engineering Vehicle Diagnostic Protocols. 1939-1956.
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Zhang, M., Li, G., Wang, S., Liu, C., Chen, A., Hu, H., ... Wu, J.
(2020).
Poseidon: Mitigating Volumetric DDoS Attacks with Programmable Switches
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Ahn, G. J., Gu, G., Hu, H., & Shin, S.
(2019).
SDN-NFV security 2019 preface. III.
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Altaweel, A., Stoleru, R., Gu, G., & Maity, A. K.
(2019).
CollusiveHijack: A New Route Hijacking Attack and Countermeasures in Opportunistic Networks. 73-81.
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Wang, H., Yang, G., Chinprutthiwong, P., Xu, L., Zhang, Y., & Gu, G.
(2018).
Towards Fine-grained Network Security Forensics and Diagnosis in the SDN Era. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
3-16.
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Li, H., Hu, H., Gu, G., Ahn, G., & Zhang, F.
(2018).
vNIDS. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
17-34.
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Shin, S., Xu, Z., Kim, Y., & Gu, G.
(2018).
CloudRand: Building Heterogeneous and Moving-target Network Interfaces. Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN.
1-11.
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Skowyra, R., Xu, L., Gu, G., Dedhia, V., Hobson, T., Okhravi, H., & Landry, J.
(2018).
Effective Topology Tampering Attacks and Defenses in Software-Defined Networks. 374-385.
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Mendoza, A., & Gu, G.
(2018).
Mobile Application Web API Reconnaissance: Web-to-Mobile Inconsistencies & Vulnerabilities. Proceedings / IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy; sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy in cooperation with the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IARC....
756-769.
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Yang, G., Huang, J., Gu, G., & Mendoza, A.
(2018).
Study and Mitigation of Origin Stripping Vulnerabilities in Hybrid-postMessage Enabled Mobile Applications. Proceedings / IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy; sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy in cooperation with the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IARC....
742-755.
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Zhang, M., Li, G., Xu, L., Bi, J., Gu, G., & Bai, J.
(2018).
Control Plane Reflection Attacks in SDNs: New Attacks and Countermeasures. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.
161-183.
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Zhang, J., Jang, J., Gu, G., Stoecklin, M. P., & Hu, X.
(2018).
Error-Sensor: Mining Information from HTTP Error Traffic for Malware Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.
467-489.
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Ahn, G. J., Hu, H., Gu, G., & Shin, S.
(2017).
SDN-NFV Security 2017 Preface. iii.
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Xu, L., Huang, J., Hong, S., Zhang, J., & Gu, G.
(2017).
Attacking the Brain: Races in the SDN Control Plane. 451-468.
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Wang, H., Srivastava, A., Xu, L., Hong, S., & Gu, G.
(2017).
Bring Your Own Controller: Enabling Tenant-defined SDN Apps in IaaS Clouds. IEEE Infocom. Proceedings.
1-9.
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Gu, G., Hu, H., Keller, E., Lin, Z., & Porter, D. E.
(2017).
Building a Security OS With Software Defined Infrastructure. 1-8.
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Altaweel, A., Stoleru, R., & Gu, G.
(2017).
EvilDirect: A New Wi-Fi Direct Hijacking Attack and Countermeasures. 1-11.
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Yang, C., Zhang, J., & Gu, G.
(2017).
Understanding the Market-Level and Network-Level Behaviors of the Android Malware Ecosystem. International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems.
2452-2457.
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Yang, G., Mendoza, A., Zhang, J., & Gu, G.
(2017).
Precisely and Scalably Vetting JavaScript Bridge in Android Hybrid Apps. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.
143-166.
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Ahn, G. J., Gu, G., Hu, H., & Shin, S.
(2016).
SDN-NFV security 2016 preface. iii.
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Shin, S., Xu, L., Hong, S., & Gu, G.
(2016).
Enhancing Network Security Through Software Defined Networking (SDN). 1-9.
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Zhang, J., Hu, X., Jang, J., Wang, T., Gu, G., & Stoecklin, M.
(2016).
Hunting for Invisibility: Characterizing and Detecting Malicious Web Infrastructures through Server Visibility Analysis. IEEE Infocom. Proceedings.
1-9.
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Hong, S., Baykov, R., Xu, L., Nadimpalli, S., & Gu, G.
(2016).
Towards SDN-Defined Programmable BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Security
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Zhang, Y., Yang, M., Gu, G., & Chen, H.
(2015).
FineDroid: Enforcing Permissions with System-Wide Application Execution Context. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.
3-22.
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Wang, H., Xu, L., & Gu, G.
(2015).
FloodGuard: A DoS Attack Prevention Extension in Software-Defined Networks. 239-250.
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Hong, S., Xu, L., Wang, H., & Gu, G.
(2015).
Poisoning Network Visibility in Software-Defined Networks: New Attacks and Countermeasures
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Zhang, J., Saha, S., Gu, G., Lee, S., & Mellia, M.
(2015).
Systematic Mining of Associated Server Herds for Malware Campaign Discovery. International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems.
630-641.
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Yang, C., Yang, G., Gehani, A., Yegneswaran, V., Tariq, D., & Gu, G.
(2015).
Using Provenance Patterns to Vet Sensitive Behaviors in Android Apps. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.
58-77.
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Mendoza, A., Singh, K., & Gu, G.
(2015).
What is Wrecking Your Data Plan? A Measurement Study of Mobile Web Overhead. IEEE Infocom. Proceedings.
2740-2748.
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Cao, Y., Yang, C., Rastogi, V., Chen, Y., & Gu, G.
(2015).
Abusing Browser Address Bar for Fun and Profit - An Empirical Investigation of Add-On Cross Site Scripting Attacks. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.
582-601.
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Yang, C., Zhang, J., & Gu, G.
(2014).
A taste of tweets. 86-95.
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Xu, Z., Nappa, A., Baykov, R., Yang, G., Caballero, J., & Gu, G.
(2014).
AUTOPROBE. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
179-190.
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Yang, C., Xu, Z., Gu, G., Yegneswaran, V., & Porras, P.
(2014).
DroidMiner: Automated Mining and Characterization of Fine-grained Malicious Behaviors in Android Applications. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.
163-182.
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Xu, Z., Zhang, J., Gu, G., & Lin, Z.
(2014).
GoldenEye: Efficiently and Effectively Unveiling Malwares Targeted Environment. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.
22-45.
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Wang, Y., Xu, Z., Zhang, J., Xu, L., Wang, H., & Gu, G.
(2014).
SRID: State Relation Based Intrusion Detection for False Data Injection Attacks in SCADA. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.
401-418.
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Yang, Y. R., Bi, J., & Gu, G.
(2014).
Welcome Message from the Control, Operation, and Application in SDN Protocols Workshop Co-Chairs. Proceedings - International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP.
xxvii-xxvii.
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Shin, S., Yegneswaran, V., Porras, P., & Gu, G.
(2013).
AVANT-GUARD: Scalable and vigilant switch flow management in software-defined networks. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
413-424.
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Hassanzadeh, A., Xu, Z., Stoleru, R., Gu, G., & Polychronakis, M.
(2013).
PRIDE: Practical Intrusion Detection in Resource Constrained Wireless Mesh Networks. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.
213-228.
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Yang, Z., Yang, M., Zhang, Y., Gu, G., Ning, P., & Wang, X. S.
(2013).
AppIntent. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
1043-1054.
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Shin, S., & Gu, G.
(2013).
Attacking software-defined networks: a first feasibility study. 165-166.
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Xu, Z., Zhang, J., Gu, G., & Lin, Z.
(2013).
Autovac: Towards Automatically Extracting System Resource Constraints and Generating Vaccines for Malware Immunization. International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems.
112-123.
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Amleshwaram, A. A., Reddy, N., Yadav, S., Gu, G., & Yang, C.
(2013).
CATS: Characterizing Automation of Twitter Spammers. International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks : [proceedings]. International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks.
1-10.
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Shin, S., Porras, P., Yegneswaran, V., Fong, M., Gu, G., & Tyson, M.
(2013).
FRESCO: Modular Composable Security Services for Software-Defined Networks
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Son, S., Shin, S., Yegneswaran, V., Porras, P., & Gu, G.
(2013).
Model Checking Invariant Security Properties in OpenFlow. 2013 National Conference on Communications, NCC 2013.
1974-1979.
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Vikram, S., Yang, C., & Gu, G.
(2013).
NOMAD: Towards Non-Intrusive Moving-Target Defense against Web Bots. 55-63.
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Zhang, Y., Yang, M., Xu, B., Yang, Z., Gu, G., Ning, P., Wang, X. S., & Zang, B.
(2013).
Vetting undesirable behaviors in android apps with permission use analysis. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
611-622.
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Zhang, J., Yang, C., Xu, Z., & Gu, G.
(2012).
PoisonAmplifier: A Guided Approach of Discovering Compromised Websites through Reversing Search Poisoning Attacks. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.
230-253.
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Shin, S., Gu, G., Reddy, N., & Lee, C. P.
(2012).
A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Conficker. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
676-690.
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Porras, P., Shin, S., Yegneswaran, V., Fong, M., Tyson, M., & Gu, G.
(2012).
A security enforcement kernel for OpenFlow networks. 121-126.
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Yang, C., Harkreader, R., Zhang, J., Shin, S., & Gu, G.
(2012).
Analyzing spammers' social networks for fun and profit: a case study of cyber criminal ecosystem on twitter. 71-80.
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Xu, Z., Zhang, J., Gu, G., & Lin, Z.
(2012).
Automatic generation of vaccines for malware immunization. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
1037-1039.
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Hand, S., Lin, Z., Gu, G., & Thuraisingham, B.
(2012).
Bin-Carver: Automatic recovery of binary executable files. Digital Investigation.
s108-s117.
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Shin, S., & Gu, G.
(2012).
CloudWatcher: Network Security Monitoring Using OpenFlow in Dynamic Cloud Networks (or: How to Provide Security Monitoring as a Service in Clouds?). Proceedings - International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP.
1-6.
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Yang, C., Yegneswaran, V., Porras, P., & Gu, G.
(2012).
Detecting money-stealing apps in alternative Android markets. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
1034-1036.
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Shin, S., Xu, Z., & Gu, G.
(2012).
EFFORT: Efficient and Effective Bot Malware Detection. IEEE Infocom. Proceedings.
2846-2850.
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Xu, Z., Chen, L., Gu, G., & Kruegel, C.
(2012).
PeerPress. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
581-592.
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Zheng, C., Zhu, S., Dai, S., Gu, G., Gong, X., Han, X., & Zou, W.
(2012).
SmartDroid: an automatic system for revealing UI-based trigger conditions in android applications. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
93-104.
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Shin, S., Lin, R., & Gu, G.
(2011).
Cross-Analysis of Botnet Victims: New Insights and Implications. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.
242-261.
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Yang, C., Harkreader, R. C., & Gu, G.
(2011).
Die Free or Live Hard? Empirical Evaluation and New Design for Fighting Evolving Twitter Spammers. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.
318-337.
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Zhang, J., Luo, X., Perdisci, R., Gu, G., Lee, W., & Feamster, N.
(2011).
Boosting the scalability of botnet detection using adaptive traffic sampling. 124-134.
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Vikram, S., Fan, Y., & Gu, G.
(2011).
SEMAGE: a new image-based two-factor CAPTCHA. 237-246.
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Chen, K. Z., Gu, G., Zhuge, J., Nazario, J., & Han, X.
(2011).
WebPatrol: automated collection and replay of web-based malware scenarios. 186-195.
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Shin, S., & Gu, G.
(2010).
Conficker and beyond: a large-scale empirical study. Proceedings - Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, ACSAC.
151-160.
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Wang, T., Wei, T., Gu, G., & Zou, W.
(2010).
TaintScope: A Checksum-Aware Directed Fuzzing Tool for Automatic Software Vulnerability Detection. Proceedings / IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy; sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy in cooperation with the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IARC....
497-512.
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Song, Y., Yang, C., & Gu, G.
(2010).
Who Is Peeping at Your Passwords at Starbucks? To Catch an Evil Twin Access Point. 323-332.
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Gu, G., Yegneswaran, V., Porras, P., Stoll, J., & Lee, W.
(2009).
Active Botnet Probing to Identify Obscure Command and Control Channels. Proceedings - Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, ACSAC.
241-253.
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Gu, G., Crdenas, A. A., & Lee, W.
(2008).
Principled reasoning and practical applications of alert fusion in intrusion detection systems. 136-147.
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Dagon, D., Gu, G., Lee, C. P., & Lee, W.
(2007).
A Taxonomy of Botnet Structures. Proceedings - Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, ACSAC.
325-338.
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Gu, G., Chen, Z., Porras, P., & Lee, W.
(2007).
Misleading and Defeating Importance-Scanning Malware Propagation. 250-259.
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Gu, G., Fogla, P., Lee, W., & Blough, D.
(2006).
DSO: Dependable Signing Overlay. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.
33-49.
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Shi, W., Fryman, J. B., Gu, G., Lee, H., Zhang, Y., & Yang, J.
(2006).
InfoShield: A Security Architecture for Protecting Information Usage in Memory. Proceedings - International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture.
225-234.
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Perdisci, R., Gu, G., & Lee, W.
(2006).
Using an Ensemble of One-Class SVM Classifiers to Harden Payload-based Anomaly Detection Systems. Proceedings / IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining.
488-498.
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Shi, W., Lee, H., Gu, G., Falk, L., Mudge, T. N., & Ghosh, M.
(2005).
An Intrusion-Tolerant and Self-Recoverable Network Service System Using A Security Enhanced Chip Multiprocessor. 263-273.
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Guofei Gu, .., Sharif, M., Xinzhou Qin, .., Dagon, D., Wenke Lee, .., & Riley, G.
(2004).
Worm Detection, Early Warning and Response Based on Local Victim Information. Proceedings - Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, ACSAC.
136-145.
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Xue, L., Liu, Y., Li, T., Zhao, K., Li, J., Yu, L. e., ... Gu, G.
(2022).
SAID: State-aware Defense Against Injection Attacks on In-vehicle Network. 1921-1938.
Research
principal investigator on
- Hyper-converged Programmable Secure Communication in the Blob Computing Era awarded by United States Department of the Navy - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2019 - 2022
- Community-Building Workshop on Programmable System Security in a Software-Defined World awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2018 - 2020
- EAGER: USBRCCR: Securing Networks in the Programmable Data Plane Era awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2017 - 2020
- SDI-CSCS: Collaborative Research: S2OS: Enabling Infrastructure-Wide Programmable Security with SDI awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2017 - 2020
- Collaborative Research: CICI: Secure and Resilient Architecture: S3D: A New SDN-Based Security Framework for the Science DMZ awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2016 - 2020
- NeTS: Small: Detecting Races in SDN Control Plane awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2016 - 2020
- TWC:Medium:Collaborative: HIMALAYAS: Hierarchical Machine Learning Stack for Fine-Grained Analysis of Malware Domain Groups awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2013 - 2018
- REU: CAREER: Coordination-and Correlation-Based Botnet Defense awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2010 - 2017
- Go Ahead of Malware's Infections and Controls : Towards New Techniques for Proactive Cyber Defense awarded by United States Air Force - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2013 - 2016
- Go Ahead of Malware's Infections and Controls : Towards New Techniques for Proactive Cyber Defense awarded by United States Air Force - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2013 - 2016
- Go Ahead of Malware's Infections and Controls : Towards New Techniques for Proactive Cyber Defense awarded by United States Air Force - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2013 - 2016
co-principal investigator on
- The Texas A&M Cyber Leader Scholarship Program: Developing Cyber Leader-Scholars for the Nation awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2018 - 2022
- SaTC: CORE: Small: Adversarial Learning via Modeling Interpretation awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2018 - 2021
- NETS: Small: Exploiting Social Communication Channels Against Cyber Criminals awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2012 - 2016
Teaching
teaching activities
- CSCE313 Hnr-intro To Computer System Instructor
- CSCE465 Comp & Net Security Instructor
- CSCE491 Hnr-research Instructor
- CSCE665 Adv Network & Security Instructor
- CSCE684 Professional Internship Instructor
- CSCE685 Directed Studies Instructor
- CSCE691 Research Instructor
Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
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Harkreader, Robert Chandler (2012-10). Playing Hide-and-Seek with Spammers: Detecting Evasive Adversaries in the Online Social Network Domain.
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Nadimpalli, Srinath (2015-05). Universal Skeptic Binder-Droid - Towards Arresting Malicious Communication of Colluding Apps in Android.
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Ruia, Atin (2015-05). Flowcache: A Cache Based Approach for Improving SDN Scalability.
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Shardul Vikram (2012-02). Using Novel Image-based Interactional Proofs and Source Randomization for Prevention of Web Bots.
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Shin, Seung Won (2013-07). Protecting Networked Systems from Malware Threats.
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Wang, Haopei (2018-08). Towards Robust, Accountable and Multitenancy-Friendly Control Plane in Software-Defined Networks.
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Xu, Zhaoyan (2014-05). Analysis and Defense of Emerging Malware Attacks.
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Yan, Xu (2015-05). Where Does Your Intent Go and How It Behaves? A Robustness Study of Intent Reachability and Handling in Android Systems.
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Yang, Chao (2014-06). Analyzing and Detecting Malicious Activities in Emerging Communication Platforms.
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Zhang, Jialong (2016-11). Understanding and Detecting Malicious Cyber Infrastructures.
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology - (Atlanta, Georgia, United States) 2008
- M.S. in Computer Science, Fudan University - (Shanghai, Shanghai, China) 2003
- B.E. in Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications - (Nanjing, China) 2000
awards and honors
Contact
first name
- Guofei
has last name
- Gu
mailing address
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Texas A&M University
Computer Science & Engineering
3112 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3112
USA
Other
- guofei@tamu.edu