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Marcus Botacin
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CS Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University, USA
CS PhD @ SECRET UFPR , Brazil
CE/CS Master @ UNICAMP, Brazil
#Malware Research; #Reverse Engineering #Antivirus #Forensics #Debugging
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Website: marcusbotacin.github.io
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Marcus Botacin @marcusbotacin.bsky.social · Nov 23
Howdy! I'm a malware researcher. Want to know what I have been working on? Check it here: marcusbotacin.github.io/publications/
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The video for my talk "Hardware is the New Software: The Next-Gen AntiViruses and how your hardware will self-secure your system!" is available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3p-...
Hardware is the New Software - Marcus Botacin
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November 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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The recording of the talk is available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nke...
October 31, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Reposted by Marcus Botacin
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Wed. Oct. 29th, 4:30pm ET: "Malware Detection under Concept Drift: Science and Engineering" - Marcus Botacin - Texas A&M ceri.as/marcus
October 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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My most recent talk at @HouSecCon "Hardware is the New Software: The Next-Gen AntiViruses and how your hardware will self-secure your system!" See the slides at marcusbotacin.github.io/talks/housec25
Hardware is the New Software: The Next-Gen AntiViruses and how your hardware will self-secure your system!
My talk about hardware AVs. Slides
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October 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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[New Paper] "Making Acoustic Side-Channel Attacks on Noisy Keyboards Viable with LLM-Assisted Spectrograms Typo Correction" usenix.org/conference/w... We published this week at @wootsecurity.bsky.social
Making Acoustic Side-Channel Attacks on Noisy Keyboards Viable with LLM-Assisted Spectrograms' "Typo" Correction | USENIX
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August 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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And I will be talking there!
July 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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[New Paper] "Towards Explainable Drift Detection and Early Retrain in ML-Based Malware Detection Pipelines" - My first paper having a student as main author. Congrats to Jayesh for his presentation today at DIMVA! Check the paper here: marcusbotacin.github.io/publication/...
Towards Explainable Drift Detection and Early Retrain in ML-Based Malware Detection Pipelines
My student paper about explaining concept drift events and anticipating retraining points in malware detection pipelines.
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July 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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What is taught in a modern software security course? And how much can the students do with the learned concepts? You can find it in this link. Hint: 18 student teams = 18 0-days discovered: marcusbotacin.github.io/teaching/sw-... [thread]
CSCE 413: Software Security
What to expect from this course?
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May 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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New grant! New collaboration!Take a look on what we will be working on next: engineering.tamu.edu/news/2025/02...
“ChatGPT” for Computer Security
A researcher in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering is developing a security-focused large language model to defend against malware.
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March 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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The @satml_conf program is out and our paper "ML-Based Behavioral Malware Detection Is Far From a Solved Problem" is there! Check preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2405.06124 It was amazing to work with great researchers on it!
ML-Based Behavioral Malware Detection Is Far From a Solved Problem
Malware detection is a ubiquitous application of Machine Learning (ML) in security. In behavioral malware analysis, the detector relies on features extracted from program execution traces. The researc...
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March 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Proud advisor moment! Congrats Nhat Nguyen for successfully defending his MSc thesis! Nhat is my first advised student to graduate! Thx Dr. Peeples and Dr. Hamilton for participating in the committee. Wait for some cool papers to come on automatic YARA rule generation!
March 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Howdy! I'm a malware researcher. Want to know what I have been working on? Check it here: marcusbotacin.github.io/publications/
Publications
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November 23, 2024 at 1:25 AM