Welcome to the (preliminary) homepage of the Slingshot Project!

Publications

• To Catch a ratter: Monitoring the behavior of amateur DarkComet RAT operators in the wild
  Brown Farinholt, Mohammad Rezaeirad, Paul Pearce, Hitesh Dharamdasani, Haikuo Yin, Stevens Le Blond, Damon McCoy, Kirill Levchenko
  Oakland 2017
  
  
• A broad view of the ecosystem of socially engineered exploit documents [ Data set (pw protected) ]
  Stevens Le Blond, Cédric Gilbert, Utkarsh Upadhyay, Manuel Gomez Rodriguez, David Choffnes
  NDSS 2017
  
  
• A look at targeted attacks through the lense of an NGO [ Data set (pw protected) ]
  Stevens Le Blond, Adina Uritesc, Cédric Gilbert, Zheng Leong Chua, Prateek Saxena, Engin Kirda
  Usenix Security 2014
  [ Slashdot, Ars Technica ]

Academic services

Media coverage

• 08/14: Slashdot: A look at advanced targeted attacks through the lens of a human-rights NGO
• 08/14: Ars Technica: New study: Activists pose easy target for nation-state attackers
• 08/14: Threat Post: Study confirms Uyghur remain in crosshairs of targeted attacks

Members

Current

• David Choffnes, Northeastern University
• Cédric Gilbert
• Stevens Le Blond, EPFL (lead)

Former

• Zheng Leong Chua, National University of Singapore
• Engin Kirda, Northeastern University
• Prateek Saxena, National University of Singapore
• Adina Uritesc, MPI-SWS