Publications

Conference Proceedings #

Beyond the Gates: An Empirical Analysis of HTTP-managed Password Stealers and Operators
Thanos Avgetidis, Omar Alrawi, Kevin Valakuzhy, Chaz Lever, Paul Burbage, Angelos Keromytis, Manos Antonakakis
USENIX Security Symposium (SECURITY) 2023

View from Above: Exploring the Malware Ecosystem from the Upper DNS Hierarchy Aaron Faulkenberry, Thanos Avgetidis, Zane Ma, Omar Alrawi, Chaz Lever, Panagiotis Kintis, Manos Antonakakis
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2022

The Circle of Life: A Large-Scale Study of the IoT Malware Lifecycle
Omar Alrawi, Chaz Lever, Kevin Valakuzhy, Ryan Court, Kevin Snow, Fabian Monrose, Manos Antonakakis
USENIX Security Symposium (SECURITY) 2021

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

SoK: Security Evaluation of Home-Based IoT Deployments
Omar Alrawi, Chaz Lever, Manos Antonakakis, Fabian Monrose
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (OAKLAND) 2019

Outguard: Detecting In-Browser Covert Cryptocurrency Mining in the Wild
Amin Kharraz, Zane Ma, Paul Murley, Chaz Lever, Josh Mason, Andrew Miller, Andrew Miller, Nikita Borisov, Manos Antonakakis, Michael Bailey
World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2019

Security in Plain TXT
Adam Portier, Henry Carter, Chaz Lever
Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA) 2019

Understanding the Mirai Botnet
Zane Ma, 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, Joshua Mason, Damian Menscher, Chad Seaman, Nick Sullivan, Kurt Thomas, Yi Zhou
USENIX Security Symposium (SECURITY) 2017

A Lustrum of Malware Network Communication: Evolution and Insights
Chaz Lever, Platon Kotzias, Davide Balzarotti, Juan Caballero, Manos Antonakakis
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (OAKLAND) 2017

Hiding in Plain Sight: A Longitudinal Study of Combosquatting Abuse
Panagiotis Kintis, Najmeh Miramirkanhi, Chaz Lever, Yizheng Chen, Rosa Romero-Gómez, Nikolaos Pitropakis, Nick Nikiforakis, Manos Antonakakis
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2017

Domain-Z: 28 Registration Later
Chaz Lever, Robert Walls, Yacin Nadji, David Dagon, Patrick McDaniel, Manos Antonakakis
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (OAKLAND) 2016

Enabling Network Security Through Active DNS Datasets
Thanos Kountouras, Panagiotis Kintis, Chaz Lever, Yizheng Chen, Yacin Nadji, Dave Dagon, Rodney Joffe, Manos Antonakakis
International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses (RAID) 2016

Whitewash: Outsourcing Garbled Circuit Generation for Mobile Devices
Henry Carter, Chaz Lever, Patrick Traynor
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2014

The Core of the Matter: Analyzing Malicious Traffic in Cellular Carriers
Chaz Lever, Manos Antonakakis, Brad Reaves, Patrick Traynor, Wenke Lee
The Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2013

Workshop Papers #

Graph Mining of Motif Profiles for Computer Network Activity Inference
William Turkett, Errin Fulp, Chaz Lever, Edward Allen, Jr.
Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs (MLG) 2011

Journal Articles #

Dawn of the Dead Domain: Measuring the Exploitation of Residual Trust in Domains
Chaz Lever, Robert Walls, Yacin Nadji, David Dagon, Patrick McDaniel, Manos Antonakakis
IEEE Security and Privacy (S&P Magazine) 2017