Offensive Security on Hardware and Operating Systems

Duration: 2025 - 

Description: The objective of this research project is to investigate new mechanisms for searching for and exploiting flaws in computer systems, specifically microarchitectural or operating-system flaws.

Subprojects:

• Investigation of microarchitectural flaws for information leakage and execution control;

• Use of machine learning mechanisms for fuzzing acceleration for attack surface assessment in operating systems and virtualization environments;

• Security as a Service for MEC-enabled applications;

• Investigation of the cyber-physical impact of digital artifacts on critical infrastructures;

• ML-enhanced malware development & detection;

• Vulnerability research in Baseband infrastructure;

• Reverse engineering applied to the interoperability of hardware and computer systems.

Researchers: Diego Leonel Cadette Dutra (Coordenador, Professor); José Luiz Negreira Castro de Oliveira (M.Sc. Student); Jean D'Elboux Diogo (M.Sc. Student); Pedro Kury Kitagawa (Undergraduate student); João Pedro Da Veiga Nunes (Undergraduate student); Davi de Souza Gomes Pereira (Undergraduate student).