Vulnerability Discovery

Recent Courses

Summer 2025

Winter 2024/2025

Publications

Peer-Reviewed

Large-Scale Security Analysis of Real-World Backend Deployments Speaking IoT-Focused Protocols

Carlotta Tagliaro, Martina Komsic, Andrea Continella, Kevin Borgolte, Martina Lindorfer

Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), September 2024

Are You Sure You Want To Do Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure?

Ting-Han Chen, Carlotta Tagliaro, Martina Lindorfer, Kevin Borgolte, Jeroen van der Ham-de Vos

Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity (WTMC), July 2024

IoTFlow: Inferring IoT Device Behavior at Scale through Static Mobile Companion App Analysis

David Schmidt, Carlotta Tagliaro, Kevin Borgolte, Martina Lindorfer

Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2023

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Detecting Orphaned Web Pages at Internet-Scale

Stijn Pletinckx, Kevin Borgolte, Tobias Fiebig

Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2021

Cyber Grand Shellphish

Antonio Bianchi, Kevin Borgolte, Jacopo Corbetta, Francesco Disperati, Andrew Dutcher, John Grosen, Paul Grosen, Aravind Machiry, Christopher Salls, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Nick Stephens, Giovanni Vigna, Ruoyu Wang

Phrack (Volume 15, Issue 70), October 2021

Authors listed alphabetically.

Cloud Strife: Mitigating the Security Risks of Domain-Validated Certificates

Kevin Borgolte, Tobias Fiebig, Shuang Hao, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna

Proceedings of the 2018 Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW), July 2018

Extended abstract. Co-located with IETF 102.

Enumerating Active IPv6 Hosts for Large-scale Security Scans via DNSSEC-signed Reverse Zones

Kevin Borgolte, Shuang Hao, Tobias Fiebig, Giovanni Vigna

Proceedings of the 39th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P), May 2018

Mechanical Phish: Resilient Autonomous Hacking

Yan Shoshitaishvili, Antonio Bianchi, Kevin Borgolte, Amat Cama, Jacopo Corbetta, Francesco Disperati, Andrew Dutcher, John Grosen, Paul Grosen, Aravind Machiry, Christopher Salls, Nick Stephens, Ruoyu Wang, Giovanni Vigna

IEEE Security & Privacy, March 2018

Cloud Strife: Mitigating the Security Risks of Domain-Validated Certificates

Kevin Borgolte, Tobias Fiebig, Shuang Hao, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna

Proceedings of the 25th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2018