Nicola
Bottura

I'm a security researcher interested in Windows internals, reverse engineering, vulnerability finding, and malware analysis. I earned my Ph.D. in Engineering in Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome, in the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering (DIAG). I currently work for Prisma s.r.l. as R&D working on a commercial malware analysis platform for analyzing environment-sensitive malware based on our research published in this scientific paper. I also do scientific research for the research group led by Prof. Leonardo Querzoni and Prof. Daniele Cono D'Elia, Sapienza Software and Systems Security (Sap4Sec) where I worked with during my Ph.D. program.

My research interests mainly lie in software and system security, in particular Windows internals, reverse engineering, vulnerability finding and malware analysis.

I'm co-inventor of the patent "Methods and systems for analyzing environment-sensitive malware via coverage-guided fuzzing" (IT202200015966A1 and EP4312401B1, soon also US).