Best Practices for Integrating LLMs with Malware Analysis Tools

:::info Authors: (1) Constantinos Patsakis, Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, 80 Karaoli & Dimitriou str., 18534 Piraeus, Greece and Information Management Systems Institute of Athena Research Centre, Greece; (2) Fran Casino, Information Management Systems Institute of Athena Research Centre, Greece and Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili; (3) Nikolaos Lykousas, … Read more

Model Performance and Pitfalls in Automated Malware Deobfuscation

:::info Authors: (1) Constantinos Patsakis, Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, 80 Karaoli & Dimitriou str., 18534 Piraeus, Greece and Information Management Systems Institute of Athena Research Centre, Greece; (2) Fran Casino, Information Management Systems Institute of Athena Research Centre, Greece and Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili; (3) Nikolaos Lykousas, … Read more

AI Detectives and the Case of the Disguised Droppers

:::info Authors: (1) Constantinos Patsakis, Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, 80 Karaoli & Dimitriou str., 18534 Piraeus, Greece and Information Management Systems Institute of Athena Research Centre, Greece; (2) Fran Casino, Information Management Systems Institute of Athena Research Centre, Greece and Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili; (3) Nikolaos Lykousas, … Read more

Extracting Hidden Malware Payloads with AI-Powered LLMs

:::info Authors: (1) Constantinos Patsakis, Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, 80 Karaoli & Dimitriou str., 18534 Piraeus, Greece and Information Management Systems Institute of Athena Research Centre, Greece; (2) Fran Casino, Information Management Systems Institute of Athena Research Centre, Greece and Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili; (3) Nikolaos Lykousas, … Read more

The Pros and Cons of LLMs in Cybersecurity Practice

:::info Authors: (1) Constantinos Patsakis, Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, 80 Karaoli & Dimitriou str., 18534 Piraeus, Greece and Information Management Systems Institute of Athena Research Centre, Greece; (2) Fran Casino, Information Management Systems Institute of Athena Research Centre, Greece and Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili; (3) Nikolaos Lykousas, … Read more

Why Static Analysis Struggles Against Modern Malware

:::info Authors: (1) Constantinos Patsakis, Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, 80 Karaoli & Dimitriou str., 18534 Piraeus, Greece and Information Management Systems Institute of Athena Research Centre, Greece; (2) Fran Casino, Information Management Systems Institute of Athena Research Centre, Greece and Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili; (3) Nikolaos Lykousas, … Read more

5 Ways To Fortify Your Code Against Memory Leaks

Ever laugh about “leaky abstractions” with your dev buddies at a conference? Yeah, it’s hilarious, until you’re the one stuck debugging a memory leak at 3 a.m., cursing your code and chugging energy drinks. If you’ve been there, you know that sinking feeling when your app starts choking, and you’re scrambling to figure out why. … Read more

How We Built a Semantic Search Engine for React Components Using AI

At 21st.dev, we’re building what we call “the NPM for Design Engineers” — a marketplace and hub for reusable UI building blocks. One of our core challenges has been creating an effective search system that transcends lexical matching limitations to understand the semantic topology of UI components. In this article, we’ll dissect our implementation of … Read more

The Best TV Series Set In Post-Apocalyptic Wastelands

Post-apocalyptic wastelands play a key role in the movie/TV industry. Humankind is battling to survive in the aftermath of some cataclysmic event, usually at our hands. Navigating familiar tropes like the quest for power, love, and relationships becomes secondary to the battle for survival. The small screen allows for a longer continuity, allowing for better … Read more

The Future of Malware Analysis: LLMs and Automated Deobfuscation

:::info Authors: (1) Constantinos Patsakis, Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, 80 Karaoli & Dimitriou str., 18534 Piraeus, Greece and Information Management Systems Institute of Athena Research Centre, Greece; (2) Fran Casino, Information Management Systems Institute of Athena Research Centre, Greece and Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili; (3) Nikolaos Lykousas, … Read more

Revealing Medium Effects on Jet Hadronization with Hybrid Simulations

:::info Authors: (1) Cameron Parker, Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University (E-mail: cameron.parker@tamu.edu); (2) JETSCAPE Collaboration. ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Vacuum Systems 3. Medium Effects 4. Conclusion and References 3. Medium Effects In this section we use a simplified event pipeline. Since … Read more

What Happens When Jets Meet Plasma? – Spoiler: Bayesian Magic

:::info Authors: (1) Cameron Parker, Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University (E-mail: cameron.parker@tamu.edu); (2) JETSCAPE Collaboration. ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Vacuum Systems 3. Medium Effects 4. Conclusion and References 1. Introduction JETSCAPE is a modular, task-based framework for simulating all aspects of … Read more

TnT-LLM Implementation Details: Pipeline Design, Robustness, and Efficiency

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 Method and 3.1 Phase 1: Taxonomy Generation 3.2 Phase 2: LLM-Augmented Text Classification 4 Evaluation Suite and 4.1 Phase 1 Evaluation Strategies 4.2 Phase 2 Evaluation Strategies 5 Experiments and 5.1 Data 5.2 Taxonomy Generation 5.3 LLM-Augmented Text Classification 5.4 Summary of Findings and … Read more

The TechBeat: Evaluating TnT-LLM Text Classification: Human Agreement and Scalable LLM Metrics (4/22/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Embeddings 101: Unlocking Semantic Relationships in Text By @riteshmodi [ 14 Min read ] Text embeddings power AI language understanding. Learn … Read more

TnT-LLM: Presenting Prompt Templates

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 Method and 3.1 Phase 1: Taxonomy Generation 3.2 Phase 2: LLM-Augmented Text Classification 4 Evaluation Suite and 4.1 Phase 1 Evaluation Strategies 4.2 Phase 2 Evaluation Strategies 5 Experiments and 5.1 Data 5.2 Taxonomy Generation 5.3 LLM-Augmented Text Classification 5.4 Summary of Findings and … Read more

Additional Results: Cross-Lingual Taxonomy Evaluation and In-Depth Classification Analysis

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 Method and 3.1 Phase 1: Taxonomy Generation 3.2 Phase 2: LLM-Augmented Text Classification 4 Evaluation Suite and 4.1 Phase 1 Evaluation Strategies 4.2 Phase 2 Evaluation Strategies 5 Experiments and 5.1 Data 5.2 Taxonomy Generation 5.3 LLM-Augmented Text Classification 5.4 Summary of Findings and … Read more

TnT-LLM Generated Taxonomies: User Intent and Conversation Domain Labels

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 Method and 3.1 Phase 1: Taxonomy Generation 3.2 Phase 2: LLM-Augmented Text Classification 4 Evaluation Suite and 4.1 Phase 1 Evaluation Strategies 4.2 Phase 2 Evaluation Strategies 5 Experiments and 5.1 Data 5.2 Taxonomy Generation 5.3 LLM-Augmented Text Classification 5.4 Summary of Findings and … Read more

From Repos to Risks: How Hardcoded Secrets in GitHub Source Code Create Security Risks

While developers, DevOps, and DevSecOps teams work tirelessly to ship secure code, the steps that enable collaboration can lead to security risks. In the “old days,” programmers wrote code locally on a desktop or laptop. To gain access to source code, malicious actors needed to be physically present to compromise a device. Today, all they … Read more

TnT-LLM: Democratizing Text Mining with Automated Taxonomy and Scalable Classification

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 Method and 3.1 Phase 1: Taxonomy Generation 3.2 Phase 2: LLM-Augmented Text Classification 4 Evaluation Suite and 4.1 Phase 1 Evaluation Strategies 4.2 Phase 2 Evaluation Strategies 5 Experiments and 5.1 Data 5.2 Taxonomy Generation 5.3 LLM-Augmented Text Classification 5.4 Summary of Findings and … Read more

Are Altcoins Dead Or Thriving Under The Fog Of Memes and Global Volatility?

Expert Analysis by Valentin Preobrazhenskiy Most of the altcoins outside of the top 30 are close to All all-time low Altcoins have significantly underperformed Bitcoin (BTC), with nearly a 100% gap since December 2023, according to TradingView’s Altcoin Index. The picture worsens when excluding the top 30 altcoins, with many tokens trading at all-time lows, … Read more

TnT-LLM: High-Quality Automated Text Mining and Efficient LLM-Augmented Classification

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 Method and 3.1 Phase 1: Taxonomy Generation 3.2 Phase 2: LLM-Augmented Text Classification 4 Evaluation Suite and 4.1 Phase 1 Evaluation Strategies 4.2 Phase 2 Evaluation Strategies 5 Experiments and 5.1 Data 5.2 Taxonomy Generation 5.3 LLM-Augmented Text Classification 5.4 Summary of Findings and … Read more

LLM-Augmented Text Classification: Distilling GPT-4 Labels into Efficient Classifiers

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 Method and 3.1 Phase 1: Taxonomy Generation 3.2 Phase 2: LLM-Augmented Text Classification 4 Evaluation Suite and 4.1 Phase 1 Evaluation Strategies 4.2 Phase 2 Evaluation Strategies 5 Experiments and 5.1 Data 5.2 Taxonomy Generation 5.3 LLM-Augmented Text Classification 5.4 Summary of Findings and … Read more

TnT-LLM for Automated Taxonomy Generation: Outperforming Clustering Baselines

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 Method and 3.1 Phase 1: Taxonomy Generation 3.2 Phase 2: LLM-Augmented Text Classification 4 Evaluation Suite and 4.1 Phase 1 Evaluation Strategies 4.2 Phase 2 Evaluation Strategies 5 Experiments and 5.1 Data 5.2 Taxonomy Generation 5.3 LLM-Augmented Text Classification 5.4 Summary of Findings and … Read more

TnT-LLM for User Intent and Conversational Domain Labeling in Bing Copilot

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 Method and 3.1 Phase 1: Taxonomy Generation 3.2 Phase 2: LLM-Augmented Text Classification 4 Evaluation Suite and 4.1 Phase 1 Evaluation Strategies 4.2 Phase 2 Evaluation Strategies 5 Experiments and 5.1 Data 5.2 Taxonomy Generation 5.3 LLM-Augmented Text Classification 5.4 Summary of Findings and … Read more

GSR Leads $100M Private Placement Into Upexi, Inc. To Back Solana-Based Treasury Strategy

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, April 21st, 2025/Chainwire/–GSR, a leading crypto trading and investment firm, today announced it has anchored a $100 million private investment in public equity (PIPE) into Upexi, Inc. (NASDAQ:UPXI), a brand owner specializing in the development, manufacturing, and distribution of consumer products. The investment follows Upexi’s announcement of a strategic shift toward … Read more

Becoming a Product Manager: A Student’s Journey

Transitioning into product management after an established career in another field is difficult, but trying to get it as a first job out of college can be even more of a challenge. When hiring product managers, many companies look for proven leadership, strong technical abilities, and a track record of impact in a professional setting. … Read more