Conference Publications

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LeakLess: Selective Data Protection against Memory Leakage Attacks for Serverless Platforms
Maryam Rostamipoor, Seyedhamed Ghavamnia, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS). February 2025, San Diego, CA.

Safeslab: Mitigating Use-After-Free Vulnerabilities via Memory Protection Keys
Marius Momeu, Simon Schnückel, Kai Angnis, Michalis Polychronakis, Vasileios P. Kemerlis. In Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). October 2024, Salt Lake City, UT. [source code]

GFWeb: Measuring the Great Firewall’s Web censorship at scale
Nguyen Phong Hoang, Jakub Dalek, Masashi Crete-Nishihata, Nicolas Christin, Vinod Yegneswaran, Michalis Polychronakis, Nick Feamster. In Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium. August 2024, Philadelphia, PA. [data set]

ISLAB: Immutable Memory Management Metadata for Commodity Operating System Kernels
Marius Momeu, Fabian Kilger, Christopher Roemheld, Simon Schnückel, Sergej Proskurin, Michalis Polychronakis, Vasileios P. Kemerlis. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), pp. 1159–1172. July 2024, Singapore. [source code]

C2C: Fine-grained Configuration-driven System Call Filtering
Seyedhamed Ghavamnia, Tapti Palit, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), pp. 1243–1257. November 2022, Los Angeles, LA. [source code]

Decap: Deprivileging Programs by Reducing Their Capabilities
Md Mehedi Hasan, Seyedhamed Ghavamnia, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), pp. 395–408. October 2022, Limassol, Cyprus. [source code]

Measuring the Accessibility of Domain Name Encryption and Its Impact on Internet Filtering
Nguyen Phong Hoang, Michalis Polychronakis, Phillipa Gill. In Proceedings of the 23rd Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), pp. 518–536. March 2022. [data set]

How Great is the Great Firewall? Measuring China’s DNS Censorship
Nguyen Phong Hoang, Arian Akhavan Niaki, Jakub Dalek, Jeffrey Knockel, Pellaeon Lin, Bill Marczak, Masashi Crete-Nishihata, Phillipa Gill, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 30th USENIX Security Symposium, pp. 3381–3398. August 2021.

Domain Name Encryption Is Not Enough: Privacy Leakage via IP-based Website Fingerprinting
Nguyen Phong Hoang, Arian Akhavan Niaki, Phillipa Gill, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 21st Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PoPETs), pp. 420–440. July 2021. [data set]

DynPTA: Combining Static and Dynamic Analysis for Practical Selective Data Protection
Tapti Palit, Jarin Firose Moon, Fabian Monrose, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P), pp. 1919–1937. May 2021, San Francisco, CA. [source code]

Cookie Swap Party: Abusing First-Party Cookies for Web Tracking
Quan Chen, Panagiotis Ilia, Michalis Polychronakis, Alexandros Kapravelos. In Proceedings of the 30th Web Conference (WWW), pp. 2117–2129. April 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Understanding the Growth and Security Considerations of ECS
Athanasios Kountouras, Panagiotis Kintis, Athanasios Avgetidis, Thomas Papastergiou, Chaz Lever, Michalis Polychronakis, Manos Antonakakis. In Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS). February 2021.

A Flexible Framework for Expediting Bug Finding by Leveraging Past (Mis-)Behavior to Discover New Bugs
Sanjeev Das, Kedrian James, Jan Werner, Manos Antonakakis, Michalis Polychronakis, Fabian Monrose. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), pp. 345–359. December 2020.

Confine: Automated System Call Policy Generation for Container Attack Surface Reduction
Seyedhamed Ghavamnia, Tapti Palit, Azzedine Benameur, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), pp. 443–458. October 2020. [source code]

Temporal System Call Specialization for Attack Surface Reduction
Seyedhamed Ghavamnia, Tapti Palit, Shachee Mishra, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 29th USENIX Security Symposium, pp. 1749–1766. August 2020. [source code]

Saffire: Context-sensitive Function Specialization and Hardening against Code Reuse Attacks
Shachee Mishra and Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE European Symposium on Security & Privacy (EuroS&P), pp. 17–33. June September 2020, Genova, Italy.

Assessing the Privacy Benefits of Domain Name Encryption
Nguyen Phong Hoang, Arian Akhavan Niaki, Nikita Borisov, Phillipa Gill, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), pp. 290–304. June October 2020, Taipei, Taiwan. [data set]

xMP: Selective Memory Protection for Kernel and User Space
Sergej Proskurin, Marius Momeu, Seyedhamed Ghavamnia, Vasileios P. Kemerlis, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P), pp. 603–617. May 2020, San Francisco, CA. [source code]

Mitigating Data Leakage by Protecting Memory-resident Sensitive Data
Tapti Palit, Fabian Monrose, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 35th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), pp. 598–611. December 2019, San Juan, Puerto Rico. [source code]

The SEVerESt Of Them All: Inference Attacks Against Secure Virtual Enclaves
Jan Werner, Joshua Mason, Manos Antonakakis, Michalis Polychronakis, Fabian Monrose. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), pp. 73–85. July 2019, Auckland, New Zealand.

SoK: The Challenges, Pitfalls, and Perils of Using Hardware Performance Counters for Security
Sanjeev Das, Jan Werner, Manos Antonakakis, Michalis Polychronakis, Fabian Monrose. In Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P), pp. 362–380. May 2019, San Francisco, CA.

Master of Web Puppets: Abusing Web Browsers for Persistent and Stealthy Computation
Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Panagiotis Ilia, Michalis Polychronakis, Evangelos P. Markatos, Sotiris Ioannidis and Giorgos Vasiliadis. In Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS). February 2019, San Diego, CA.

Shredder: Breaking Exploits through API Specialization
Shachee Mishra and Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), pp. 1–16. December 2018, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

An Empirical Study of the I2P Anonymity Network and its Censorship Resistance
Nguyen Phong Hoang, Panagiotis Kintis, Manos Antonakakis, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 18th Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), pp. 379–392. October 2018, Boston, MA.

Compiler-assisted Code Randomization
Hyungjoon Koo, Yaohui Chen, Long Lu, Vasileios P. Kemerlis and Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 39th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P), pp. 472–488. May 2018, San Francisco, CA. [source code]

Security Risks in Asynchronous Web Servers: When Performance Optimizations Amplify the Impact of Data-oriented Attacks
Micah Morton, Jan Werner, Panagiotis Kintis, Kevin Z. Snow, Manos Antonakakis, Michalis Polychronakis, Fabian Monrose. In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE European Symposium on Security & Privacy (EuroS&P), pp. 167–182. April 2018, London, UK.

A Large-scale Analysis of Content Modification by Open HTTP Proxies
Georgios Tsirantonakis, Panagiotis Ilia, Sotiris Ioannidis, Elias Athanasopoulos, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS). February 2018, San Diego, CA.

Protecting COTS Binaries from Disclosure-guided Code Reuse Attacks
Mingwei Zhang, Michalis Polychronakis, R. Sekar. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), pp. 128–140. December 2017, Orlando, FL.

Defeating Zombie Gadgets by Re-randomizing Code Upon Disclosure
Micah Morton, Hyungjoon Koo, Forrest Li, Kevin Z. Snow, Michalis Polychronakis, Fabian Monrose. In Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS), pp. 143–160. July 2017, Bonn, Germany.

Spotless Sandboxes: Evading Malware Analysis Systems using Wear-and-Tear Artifacts
Najmeh Miramirkhani, Mahathi Priya Appini, Nick Nikiforakis and Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P), pp. 1009–1024. May 2017, San Jose, CA.

kR^X: Comprehensive Kernel Protection against Just-In-Time Code Reuse
Marios Pomonis, Theofilos Petsios, Angelos D. Keromytis, Michalis Polychronakis, Vasileios P. Kemerlis. In Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), pp. 420–436. April 2017, Belgrade, Serbia. [source code]

Revisiting Browser Security in the Modern Era: New Data-only Attacks and Defenses
Roman Rogowski, Micah Morton, Forrest Li, Kevin Z. Snow, Fabian Monrose, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE European Symposium on Security & Privacy (EuroS&P). April 2017, Paris, France.

Return to the Zombie Gadgets: Undermining Destructive Code Reads via Code Inference Attacks
Kevin Z. Snow, Roman Rogowski, Jan Werner, Hyungjoon Koo, Fabian Monrose, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P), pp. 954–968. May 2016, San Jose, CA.

Juggling the Gadgets: Binary-level Code Randomization using Instruction Displacement
Hyungjoon Koo and Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), pp. 23–34. May 2016, Xi'an, China. [source code]

No-Execute-After-Read: Preventing Code Disclosure in Commodity Software
Jan Werner, George Baltas, Rob Dallara, Nathan Otternes, Kevin Snow, Fabian Monrose, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), pp. 35–46. May 2016, Xi'an, China.

Using Diversity to Harden Multithreaded Programs Against Exploitation
David M. Tagatac, Salvatore J. Stolfo, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing (HPSC). April 2016, New York, NY.

DynaGuard: Armoring Canary-based Protections against Brute-force Attacks
Theofilos Petsios, Vasileios P. Kemerlis, Michalis Polychronakis, Angelos D. Keromytis. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), pp. 351–360. December 2015, Los Angeles, CA. [source code]

GPU-Disasm: A GPU-based x86 Disassembler
Evangelos Ladakis, Giorgos Vasiliadis, Michalis Polychronakis, Sotiris Ioannidis, Georgios Portokalidis. In Proceedings of the 18th Information Security Conference (ISC), pp. 472–489. September 2015, Trondheim, Norway.

The Devil is in the Constants: Bypassing Defenses in Browser JIT Engines
Michalis Athanasakis, Elias Athanasopoulos, Michalis Polychronakis, Georgios Portokalidis, Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS). February 2015, San Diego, CA.

IntFlow: Improving the Accuracy of Arithmetic Error Detection Using Information Flow Tracking
Kangkook Jee, Theofilos Petsios, Marios Pomonis, Michalis Polychronakis, Angelos D. Keromytis. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), pp. 416–425. December 2014, New Orleans, LA. [source code]

PixelVault: Using GPUs for securing cryptographic operations
Giorgos Vasiliadis, Elias Athanasopoulos, Michalis Polychronakis, Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), pp. 1131–1142. November 2014, Scottsdale, AZ.

Dynamic Reconstruction of Relocation Information for Stripped Binaries
Vasilis Pappas, Michalis Polychronakis, Angelos D. Keromytis. In Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), pp. 68–87. September 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden.

ret2dir: Rethinking Kernel Isolation
Vasileios P. Kemerlis, Michalis Polychronakis, Angelos D. Keromytis. In Proceedings of the 23rd USENIX Security Symposium, pp. 957–972. August 2014, San Diego, CA. (1st place winner, NYU CSAW 2014 Applied Research Competition) [source code]

Size Does Matter - Why Using Gadget-Chain Length to Prevent Code-reuse Attacks is Hard
Enes Göktaş, Elias Athanasopoulos, Herbert Bos, Michalis Polychronakis, Georgios Portokalidis. In Proceedings of the 23rd USENIX Security Symposium, pp. 417–432. August 2014, San Diego, CA.

GASPP: A GPU-Accelerated Stateful Packet Processing Framework
Giorgos Vasiliadis, Lazaros Koromilas, Michalis Polychronakis, Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), pp. 321–332. June 2014, Philadelphia, PA.

On the Effectiveness of Traffic Analysis Against Anonymity Networks Using Flow Records
Sambuddho Chakravarty, Marco V. Barbera, Georgios Portokalidis, Michalis Polychronakis, Angelos D. Keromytis. In Proceedings of the 15th Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), pp. 247–257. March 2014, Los Angeles, CA.

K-Subscription: Privacy-preserving Microblogging Browsing through Obfuscation
Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Antonis Papadogiannakis, Michalis Polychronakis, Apostolis Zarras, Thorsten Holz, Evangelos P. Markatos. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), pp. 49–58. December 2013, New Orleans, LA.

PRIDE: Practical Intrusion Detection in Resource Constrained Wireless Mesh Networks
Amin Hassanzadeh, Zhaoyan Xu, Radu Stoleru, Guofei Gu, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information & Communications Security (ICICS), pp. 213–228. November 2013, Beijing, China.

Scap: Stream-Oriented Network Traffic Capture and Analysis for High-Speed Networks
Antonis Papadogiannakis, Michalis Polychronakis, Evangelos P. Markatos. In Proceedings of the 13th Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), pp. 441–454. October 2013, Barcelona, Spain.

Rise of the Planet of the Apps: A Systematic Study of the Mobile App Ecosystem
Thanasis Petsas, Antonis Papadogiannakis, Michalis Polychronakis, Evangelos P. Markatos, Thomas Karagiannis. In Proceedings of the 13th Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), pp. 227–290. October 2013, Barcelona, Spain.

Server-side Code Injection Attacks: A Historical Perspective
Jakob Fritz, Corrado Leita, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), pp. 41–61. October 2013, Saint Lucia.

CloudFence: Data Flow Tracking as a Cloud Service
Vasilis Pappas, Vasileios P. Kemerlis, Angeliki Zavou, Michalis Polychronakis, Angelos D. Keromytis. In Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), pp. 411–431. October 2013, Saint Lucia.

Transparent ROP Exploit Mitigation using Indirect Branch Tracing
Vasilis Pappas, Michalis Polychronakis, Angelos D. Keromytis. In Proceedings of the 22nd USENIX Security Symposium, pp. 447–462. August 2013, Washington, DC. (1st place winner, NYU CSAW 2013 Applied Research Competition)

Cloudopsy: an Autopsy of Data Flows in the Cloud
Angeliki Zavou, Vasilis Pappas, Vasileios P. Kemerlis, Michalis Polychronakis, Georgios Portokalidis, Angelos D. Keromytis. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), pp. 366–375. July 2013, Las Vegas, NV.

Privacy-Preserving Social Plugins
Georgios Kontaxis, Michalis Polychronakis, Angelos D. Keromytis and Evangelos P. Markatos. In Proceedings of the 21st USENIX Security Symposium, pp. 631–646. August 2012, Bellevue, WA. [source code]

ARC: Protecting against HTTP Parameter Pollution Attacks Using Application Request Caches
Elias Athanasopoulos, Vasileios P. Kemerlis, Michalis Polychronakis, Evangelos P. Markatos. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), pp. 400–417. June 2012, Singapore.

Tolerating Overload Attacks Against Packet Capturing Systems (Short Paper)
Antonis Papadogiannakis, Michalis Polychronakis, Evangelos P. Markatos. In Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), pp. 197–202. June 2012, Boston, MA.

Smashing the Gadgets: Hindering Return-Oriented Programming Using In-Place Code Randomization
Vasilis Pappas, Michalis Polychronakis, Angelos D. Keromytis. In Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P), pp. 601–615. May 2012, San Francisco, CA. [source code]

Parallelization and Characterization of Pattern Matching using GPUs
Giorgos Vasiliadis, Michalis Polychronakis, Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), pp. 216–225. November 2011, Austin, TX.

ROP Payload Detection Using Speculative Code Execution
Michalis Polychronakis and Angelos D. Keromytis. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (MALWARE), pp. 58–65. October 2011, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. (Best Paper Award)

MIDeA: A Multi-Parallel Intrusion Detection Architecture
Giorgos Vasiliadis, Michalis Polychronakis, Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), pp. 297–308. October 2011, Chicago, IL.

SudoWeb: Minimizing Information Disclosure to Third Parties in Single Sign-On Platforms
Georgios Kontaxis, Michalis Polychronakis, Evangelos P. Markatos. In Proceedings of the 14th Information Security Conference (ISC), pp. 197–212. October 2011, Xi'an, China. (Best Student Paper Award) [source code]

Detecting Traffic Snooping in Tor Using Decoys
Sambuddho Chakravarty, Georgios Portokalidis, Michalis Polychronakis, Angelos D. Keromytis. In Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium On Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), pp. 222–241. September 2011, Menlo Park, CA.

Comprehensive Shellcode Detection using Runtime Heuristics
Michalis Polychronakis, Kostas G. Anagnostakis, Evangelos P. Markatos. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), pp. 287–296. December 2010, Austin, TX.

GPU-assisted Malware
Giorgos Vasiliadis, Michalis Polychronakis, Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (MALWARE), pp. 1–6. October 2010, Nancy, France.

RRDtrace: Long-term Raw Network Traffic Recording using Fixed-size Storage
Antonis Papadogiannakis, Michalis Polychronakis, Evangelos P. Markatos. In Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), pp. 101–110. August 2010, Miami, FL.

Regular Expression Matching on Graphics Hardware for Intrusion Detection
Giorgos Vasiliadis, Michalis Polychronakis, Spiros Antonatos, Evangelos P. Markatos, Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium On Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), pp. 265–283. September 2009, Saint-Malo, France.

Topnet: A Network-aware top(1)
Antonis Theocharides, Demetres Antoniades, Michalis Polychronakis, Elias Athanasopoulos, Evangelos P. Markatos. In Proceedings of the 22nd USENIX Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA), pp. 145–157. November 2008, San Diego, CA.

Gnort: High Performance Network Intrusion Detection Using Graphics Processors
Giorgos Vasiliadis, Spiros Antonatos, Michalis Polychronakis, Evangelos P. Markatos and Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium On Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), pp. 116–134. September 2008, Boston, MA.

LOBSTER: A European Platform for Passive Network Traffic Monitoring
Demetres Antoniades, Michalis Polychronakis, Antonis Papadogiannakis, Panos Trimintzios, Sven Ubik, Vladimir Smotlacha, Arne Øslebø, Evangelos P. Markatos. In proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities (TRIDENTCOM). March 2008, Innsbruck, Austria.

Improving the Performance of Passive Network Monitoring Applications using Locality Buffering
Antonis Papadogiannakis, Demetres Antoniades, Michalis Polychronakis, Evangelos P. Markatos. In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), pp. 151–157. October 2007, Istanbul, Turkey.

Emulation-based Detection of Non-self-contained Polymorphic Shellcode
Michalis Polychronakis, Kostas G. Anagnostakis, Evangelos P. Markatos. In Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), pp. 87–106. September 2007, Queensland, Australia.

Network-level Polymorphic Shellcode Detection using Emulation
Michalis Polychronakis, Kostas G. Anagnostakis, Evangelos P. Markatos. In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA), pp. 57–73. July 2006, Berlin, Germany. (Most Influential DIMVA Paper 2004-2008 Award)

DiMAPI: An Application Programming Interface for Distributed Network Monitoring
Panos Trimintzios, Michalis Polychronakis, Antonis Papadogiannakis, Michalis Foukarakis, Evangelos P. Markatos, Arne Øslebø. In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), pp. 382–393. April 2006, Vancouver, Canada.

STRIDE: Polymorphic Sled Detection through Instruction Sequence Analysis
Periklis Akritidis, Evangelos P. Markatos, Michalis Polychronakis, Kostas G. Anagnostakis. In Proceedings of the 20th IFIP International Information Security Conference (IFIP/SEC), pp. 375–392. May/June 2005, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan.

Piranha: Fast and memory-efficient Pattern Matching for Intrusion Detection
Spiros Antonatos, Michalis Polychronakis, Periklis Akritidis, Kostas G. Anagnostakis, Evangelos P. Markatos. In Proceedings of the 20th IFIP International Information Security Conference (IFIP/SEC), pp. 393–408. May/June 2005, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan.

Design of an Application Programming Interface for IP Network Monitoring
Michalis Polychronakis, Kostas G. Anagnostakis, Evangelos P. Markatos, Arne Øslebø. In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), pp. 483–496. April 2004, Seoul, Korea.

Performance Analysis of Content Matching Intrusion Detection Systems
Spiros Antonatos, Kostas G. Anagnostakis, Evangelos P. Markatos, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the IEEE/IPSJ Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT), pp. 208–215. January 2004, Tokyo, Japan.

E2xB: A Domain-specific String Matching Algorithm for Intrusion Detection
Kostas G. Anagnostakis, Evangelos P. Markatos, Spiros Antonatos, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 18th IFIP International Information Security Conference (IFIP/SEC), pp. 217–228. May 2003, Athens, Greece.

ExB: Exclusion-based Signature Matching for Intrusion Detection
Evangelos P. Markatos, Spiros Antonatos, Michalis Polychronakis, Kostas G. Anagnostakis. In Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Communications and Computer Networks (CCN), pp. 146–152. November 2002, Cambridge, MA.

Workshop Publications

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SGXPecial: Specializing SGX Interfaces against Code Reuse Attacks
Shachee Mishra and Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 14th European Workshop on System Security (EuroSec). April 2021, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

K-resolver: Towards Decentralizing Encrypted DNS Resolution
Nguyen Phong Hoang, Ivan Lin, Seyedhamed Ghavamnia, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Measurements, Attacks, and Defenses for the Web (MADWeb). February 2020, San Diego, CA.

Measuring I2P Censorship at a Global Scale
Nguyen Phong Hoang, Sadie Doreen, Michalis Polychronakis. Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI). August 2019, Santa Clara, CA.

Configuration-Driven Software Debloating
Hyungjoon Koo, Seyedhamed Ghavamnia, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on System Security (EuroSec). March 2019, Dresden, Germany.

Is Privacy Possible Without Anonymity? The Case for Microblogging Services
Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Antonis Papadogiannakis, Michalis Polychronakis, Evangelos P. Markatos. In Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on System Security (EuroSec). March 2019, Dresden, Germany.

Rage Against the Virtual Machine: Hindering Dynamic Analysis of Mobile Malware
Thanasis Petsas, Giannis Voyatzis, Elias Athanasopoulos, Michalis Polychronakis, Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the 7th European Workshop on System Security (EuroSec). April 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

You Can Type, but You Can’t Hide: A Stealthy GPU-based Keylogger
Evangelos Ladakis, Lazaros Koromilas, Giorgos Vasiliadis, Michalis Polychronakis, Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the 6th European Workshop on System Security (EuroSec). April 2013, Prague, Czech Republic.

Combining Static and Dynamic Analysis for the Detection of Malicious Documents
Zacharias Tzermias, Giorgos Sykiotakis, Michalis Polychronakis, Evangelos P. Markatos. In Proceedings of the 4th European Workshop on System Security (EuroSec). April 2011, Salzburg, Austria.

Improving the Accuracy of Network Intrusion Detection Systems Under Load Using Selective Packet Discarding
Antonis Papadogiannakis, Michalis Polychronakis, Evangelos P. Markatos. In Proceedings of the 3rd European Workshop on System Security (EuroSec), pp. 15–21. April 2010, Paris, France.

Realistic Passive Packet Loss Measurement for High-Speed Networks
Ales Friedl, Sven Ubik, Alexandros Kapravelos, Michalis Polychronakis, Evangelos P. Markatos. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA). May 2009, Aachen, Germany.

An Empirical Study of Real-World Polymorphic Code Injection Attacks
Michalis Polychronakis, Kostas G. Anagnostakis, Evangelos P. Markatos. In Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Workshop on Large-scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET). April 2009, Boston, MA.

Deep Packet Anonymization
Michael Foukarakis, Demetres Antoniades, Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the European Workshop on System Security (EuroSec). March 2009, Nuremberg, Germany.

Ghost Turns Zombie: Exploring the Life Cycle of Web-based Malware
Michalis Polychronakis, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Niels Provos. In Proceedings of the 1st USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET). April 2008, San Francisco, CA.

Monitoring three national research networks for eight weeks: Observations and implications
Demetris Antoniades, Michalis Polychronakis, Nick Nikiforakis, Evangelos P. Markatos, Yiannis Mitsos. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services (E2EMON), pp. 153–156. April 2008, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

Journal Publications

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Confine: Fine-grained System Call Filtering for Container Attack Surface Reduction
Maryam Rostamipoor, Seyedhamed Ghavamnia, Michalis Polychronakis. In Computers & Security, vol. 132, September 2023.

Mitigating Data Leakage by Protecting Memory-resident Sensitive Data
Tapti Palit, Fabian Monrose, Michalis Polychronakis. In Digital Threats: Research and Practice, vol. 1, no. 4, December 2020.

Defending Against Web Application Attacks: Approaches, Challenges and Implications
Dimitris Mitropoulos and Angelos D. Keromytis and Panagiotis Louridas and Michalis Polychronakis. In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), vol. 16, no. 2, pp 188–203, March 2019.

Kernel Protection against Just-in-Time Code Reuse
Marios Pomonis, Theofilos Petsios, Angelos D. Keromytis, Michalis Polychronakis, Vasileios P. Kemerlis. In ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 5:1–5:28, January 2019.

Measurement, Modeling, and Analysis of the Mobile App Ecosystem
Thanasis Petsas, Antonis Papadogiannakis, Michalis Polychronakis, Thomas Karagiannis and Evangelos P. Markatos. In ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (TOMPECS), vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 7:1–7:33, March 2017.

Design and Implementation of a Stateful Network Packet Processing Framework for GPUs
Giorgos Vasiliadis and Lazaros Koromilas and Michalis Polychronakis and Sotiris Ioannidis. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 610–623, February 2017.

PRIDE: A Practical Intrusion Detection System for Resource Constrained Wireless Mesh Networks
Amin Hassanzadeh and Zhaoyan Xu and Radu Stoleru and Guofei Gu and Michalis Polychronakis. In Computers & Security, vol. 62, pp. 114–132, September 2016.

Detection and analysis of eavesdropping in anonymous communication networks
Sambuddho Chakravarty, Georgios Portokalidis, Michalis Polychronakis, Angelos D. Keromytis. In International Journal of Information Security (IJIS), vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 205–220, June 2015.

GPU-assisted Malware
Giorgos Vasiliadis, Michalis Polychronakis, Sotiris Ioannidis. In International Journal of Information Security (IJIS), vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 289–297, June 2015.

Stream-Oriented Network Traffic Capture and Analysis for High-Speed Networks
Antonis Papadogiannakis, Michalis Polychronakis, Evangelos P. Markatos. In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 32, no. 10, pp. 1849–1863, October 2014.

RAPID: Traffic-agnostic intrusion detection for resource-constrained wireless mesh networks
Amin Hassanzadeh, Radu Stoleru, Michalis Polychronakis, Geoffrey Xie. In Computers & Security, vol. 46, pp. 1–17, July 2014.

Minimizing Information Disclosure to Third Parties in Social Login Platforms
Georgios Kontaxis, Michalis Polychronakis, Evangelos P. Markatos. In Internationa Journal of Information Security (IJIS), vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 321–332, October 2012.

Improving the Performance of Passive Network Monitoring Applications with Memory Locality Enhancements
Antonis Papadogiannakis, Giorgos Vasiliadis, Demetres Antoniades, Michalis Polychronakis, Evangelos P. Markatos. In Computer Communications, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 129–140, January 2012.

Shadow Honeypots
Kostas G. Anagnostakis, Stelios Sidiroglou, Periklis Akritidis, Michalis Polychronakis, Angelos D. Keromytis, Evangelos P. Markatos. In International Journal of Computer and Network Security (IJCNS), vol. 2, no. 9, pp. 1–16, September 2010.

Network-level Polymorphic Shellcode Detection using Emulation
Michalis Polychronakis, Kostas G. Anagnostakis, Evangelos P. Markatos. In Journal in Computer Virology, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 257–274, February 2007.

PhD Thesis

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Generic Detection of Code Injection Attacks using Network-level Emulation
Computer Science Department, University of Crete. October 2009.