CS Assistant Professor at Texas A&M @TAMUEngineering; PhD @SECRET_UFPR @UFPR; CE/CS Master @Unicamp_IC; #Malware Research; Also: @MarcusBotacin@infosec.exchange
Joined April 2015
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10 Oct 2022
[Big News] I started as CS Assistant Professor @ Texas A&M @TAMUEngineering I'm looking for new collaborators and new students to keep researching malware and systems security. Get in touch! engineering.tamu.edu/cse/pro…
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May 21
[New Paper] "When GANs meet LLMs" - GANs automatically generating prompts for adversarial malware generation. Check it here: marcusbotacin.github.io/publ…
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Feb 11
We had the pleasure of hosting @EdwardRaffML @CrowdStrike at the Botacin's Lab to discuss #malware #research with our PhD students. A pic to record this great time!
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12 Dec 2025
Another semester, another edition of my course on detecting threats (mostly malware) with ML comes to an end. Check the latest news here.
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12 Dec 2025
and Payload encoding for malware evasion@Obfuscation (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obfusc…) (see the full list on the links above)
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4 Dec 2025
I'm serving in the Editorial Board of Computers & Security. Submit your papers! sciencedirect.com/journal/co…
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13 Nov 2025
The recording of my talk "Hardware is the New Software: The Next-Gen AntiViruses and how your hardware will self-secure your system!" is available at: youtube.com/watch?v=P3p--1cs…
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31 Oct 2025
It was a great opportunity! Thanks all. Check the slides at marcusbotacin.github.io/talk…
28 Oct 2025
Wed. Oct. 29th, 4:30pm ET: "Malware Detection under Concept Drift: Science and Engineering" - Marcus Botacin - Texas A&M ceri.as/marcus
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17 Aug 2025
[New Paper] "Making Acoustic Side-Channel Attacks on Noisy Keyboards Viable with LLM-Assisted Spectrograms Typo Correction" usenix.org/conference/woot25… We published this week at @wootsecurity
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17 Aug 2025
[New Paper] "Making Acoustic Side-Channel Attacks on Noisy Keyboards Viable with LLM-Assisted Spectrograms Typo Correction" usenix.org/conference/woot25… We published this week at @wootsecurity
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28 Oct 2025
Wed. Oct. 29th, 4:30pm ET: "Malware Detection under Concept Drift: Science and Engineering" - Marcus Botacin - Texas A&M ceri.as/marcus
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1 Oct 2025
Today's 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/talk…
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