Giulio De Pasquale- PhD Student

Hello everyone, I’m Giulio!

I’m a PhD candidate in Computer Security at King’s College London under the supervision of Professor Lorenzo Cavallaro. My main interests include reverse engineering, automated program analysis and obfuscation techniques but I also love to wear the magical sysadmin hat! I play Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions whenever I can and I have had the pleasure to be part of Mhackeroni, Tower of Hanoi and Shellphish. As part of Mhackeroni, we were able to rank 5th at DEFCON CTF 27 in 2019!

I love listening to music and I am a keen fan of Subsonica. I started playing drums around 2009 but I had to stop when I moved out to college… so I decided to start playing bass guitar (only in 2018, though)!

Finally, it’s possible to find me online playing Rocket League, Counter Strike: Global Offensive and, when nostalgia hits hard, either World of Warcraft or DooM (1993). I also hang out in VR from time to time…

Interests. Computer security, drums, reverse engineering and videogames (VR!)

Projects

These are some of my open source projects:

Pasticciotto: a PoliCTF '17 reversing challenge [code] Pasticciotto is a polimorphic Virtual Machine which can be embedded in an application to protect proprietary code. It was developed for the PoliCTF ’17 as a reverse engineering challenge.
Injectopi: Windows injection techniques [code] Injectopi is a set of tutorials that illustrates multiple code injection techniques in the Microsoft Windows environment.

Publications

2016

ShieldFS: A Self-healing, Ransomware-aware Filesystem, In Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC). [PDF] Andrea Continella, Alessandro Guagnelli, Giovanni Zingaro, Giulio De Pasquale, Alessandro Barenghi, Stefano Zanero, Federico Maggi