Marcus Botacin

Educational Background

- Malware
- Antivirus
- Reverse engineering
- Forensics
- Hardware-assisted security

Honorable Mention - Top-3 Best Ph.D. Thesis in Computer Security, Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), 2022
Best Ph.D. Thesis of the Informatics Department - Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), 2022
Honorable Mention - Top-3 Best Papers - Main Track - Brazilian Security Symposium, SBC, 2019
Best Master Dissertation in Computer Security, Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), 2018
Best Master Dissertation of the Institute of Computing, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), 2018
Travel Grant (Student/Diversity, USENIX Enigma Conference (USENIX), 2019

Marcus Botacin, Hojjat Aghakhani, Stefano Ortolani, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna, Daniela Oliveira, Paulo Lício De Geus, André Grégio. "One Size Does Not Fit All: A Longitudinal Analysis of Brazilian Financial Malware", ACM Transactions On Privacy and Security (TOPS), 2021.
Marcus Botacin, Fabricio Ceschin, Ruimin Sun. Daniela Oliveira, André Grégio. "Challenges and Pitfalls in Malware Research", Elsevier Computers & Security, 2021.
Marcus Botacin, Anatoli Kalysch, André Grégio. "The Internet Banking [in]Security Spiral: Past, Present, and Future of Online Banking Protection Mechanisms Based on a Brazilian Case Study", ACM International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), 2019.
Marcus Botacin, Paulo Lício De Geus, André Grégio. "Enhancing Branch Monitoring for Security Purposes: From Control Flow Integrity to Malware Analysis and Debugging", ACM Transactions On Privacy and Security (TOPS), 2018.
Marcus Botacin, Paulo Lício De Geus, André Grégio. "Who Watches the Watchmen: A Security-focused Review on Current State-of-the-art Techniques, Tools, and Methods for Systems and Binary Analysis on Modern Platforms", ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2018.