Slips, GSoC2023
Stratosphere IPS
Announcing Google Summer of Code 2023 Projects

Stratosphere is happy to announce the accepted projects in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2023!

Announcing Google Summer of Code 2023 Projects
Stratosphere IPS
Winner of the International Cybercrime Research ...

After evaluating all the works sent by the candidates, at the end of the September 2022, the winner was selected! The award and money prize was given to Estelle Ruellan a master student of criminology from the Université de Montréal!

Winner of the International Cybercrime Research Summer Award 2022
Slips
Stratosphere IPS
Slips in BlackHat US 2022 Arsenal in Las Vegas!

We are happy to announce that Slips will be presented at BlackHat USA 2022 Arsenal in Las Vegas on Thursday, August 11, from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm: https://bit.ly/SlipsBHUSA22.

Slips in BlackHat US 2022 Arsenal in Las Vegas!
Slips
Alya Gomaa
New Slips version 0.9.0 is here!

Our team is excited to share the latest news and features of Slips, our behavioral-based machine learning intrusion detection system. In this blog we introduce version 0.9.0, with support of peer-to-peer threat intelligence sharing.

New Slips version 0.9.0 is here!
Aposemat Project
Stratosphere IPS
The prevalence of DNS over HTTPS By Karel Hynek

Privacy-preserving DNS protocols like DNS over HTTPS (DoH), DNS over TLS (DoT), and DNS over QUIC (DoQ) have been around since 2014 but they have only recently been brought to the attention of the general public following Firefox’s announcement to make DoH a default.

The prevalence of DNS over HTTPS By Karel Hynek

Analysis and understanding of malware of the PyRation family

Analysis and understanding of malware of the PyRation family

This blog post shows the analysis of a malware of the PyRation family by Tomas Nieponice as part of a 3-week winter cybersecurity internship at the Stratosphere Laboratory. The internship was done under the supervision of Assist. prof. Sebastian Garcia, PhD.

"LLM in the Shell: Generative Honeypots" to be presented at ESORICS 2023 Poster Session

"LLM in the Shell: Generative Honeypots" to be presented at ESORICS 2023 Poster Session

We are happy to announce that our researcher, Muris Sladić, will present our latest research, “LLM in the Shell: Generative Honeypots”, at the upcoming ESORICS conference poster session in The Hague, Netherlands, on Monday, September 25, 2023. Whether you plan to attend the conference or want to learn more about this research, check out our paper. Our research proposes a novel use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for dynamic on-the-fly creation and generation of more engaging honeypot environments.

Generating Your Own Blocklists with the Stratosphere AIP Framework

Generating Your Own Blocklists with the Stratosphere AIP Framework

In this blog post, we describe how to run AIP on a cloud instance server, to read from Zeek logs and generate your own blocklist feed of IPs to block. The blog is divided into five parts:  first, what is AIP; second, we describe how to set up a new cloud server in Digital Ocean; third, how to configure the cloud server with Zeek running; fourth, how to prepare the environment and configurations for AIP to run; and fifth, how to run AIP and generate your own blocklists.

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Slips and the AI VPN presented at the 20th DIMVA Tool Arsenal in Hamburg, Germany

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Slips and the AI VPN presented at the 20th DIMVA Tool Arsenal in Hamburg, Germany

The Stratosphere Laboratory focus on applied research at the intersection of machine learning, cybersecurity and helping others. As part of our research and social commitment we develop free software tools that can help the community. In this blog we will recount our experience participating in the 2023 (DIMVA) Tool Arsenal with two of our tools: Slips and the AI VPN.

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