Antonio Bianchi

Associate Professor at Purdue. Former DefconCTF organizer. Hiring interns/PhDs/PostDocs in Mobile Security/Authentication/IoT/Trustzone/Binary Analysis

[Zion Leonahenahe Basque @mahal0z]

POV: You are a security researcher looking to advance the state of the art and science in offensive security. Submit to WOOT and show us all the hacks you're cooking up 🧑‍🍳

[Antonio Bianchi @anton00b]

The USENIX WOOT Conference has two submission deadlines this year!

- Cycle 1: December 12, 2025 (in less than 1 month!)
- Cycle 2: March 3, 2026

WOOT still has a SoK track and an "Up-and-coming track" (~Industry)

Check the CFP for details:
https://t.co/49FRaHuK9d

[Antonio Bianchi @anton00b]

I am happy to share that our paper deepSURF (led by my student George Androutsopoulos) has been accepted to IEEE S&P 2026!

We combined program analysis and LLMs to uncover memory safety bugs in Rust’s unsafe code.

Check code/paper:
https://t.co/p5jreh8rDo
#RUST
#Security

[Arjun Arunasalam @ArjunArunasalam]

Excited to share that our research on LLM agents and dark patterns was accepted to IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2026. Work lead by @BrandonLeeCS and Devin Ersoy, in collaboration with @ZBerkayCelik and @anton00b.

[PurSec Lab @PurSecLab]

PurSec Lab members presented 4 papers at this year's @USENIXSecurity #usesec25!

[Adam Doupé @adamdoupe]

As promised, the 2024 ACSAC CTF is now LIVE and playable on @pwncollege , complete with game-used challenge interface and the ability to win the sweet 🌴 award for solving all the challenges

[Antonio Bianchi @anton00b]

Interested in graduate studies? Consider applying for a PhD in CS at Purdue.

I am seeking motivated students with interests in software/systems security, binary/program analysis, and mobile security.

The deadline for Fall'25 is Dec. 20.

You can reach me at: [email protected]

[Antonio Bianchi @anton00b]

@anton00b @machiry_msidc @__Han_Dai__ @silverf3lix @3agl31 @Tr3x__

[Antonio Bianchi @anton00b]

As part of the Shellphish team, we qualified for the DARPA/ARPA-H AIxCC Final Event and got a $2,000,000 gift!

Thank you to all the Purdue's students and faculties involved and to the entire Shellphish team!

#aixcc @LifeAtPurdue @shellphish

https://t.co/OWuxDn8PWo

[DARPA @DARPA]

AI Cyber Challenge Semifinal Competition results are in! Congratulations to the top seven scoring teams who will advance to finals, and to all the competitors who worked to help safeguard the code that underpins critical infrastructure. More: https://t.co/LktjU8rBB5

[Shellphish @shellphish]

WE QUALIFIED FOR AIxCC FINALS!!!!

[Joseph Menn @josephmenn]

I wrote about ace hacking team @shellphish and the DARPA quest to make AI patch software flaws for us. See it in the @washingtonpost.

[Shellphish @shellphish]

In our testing, ARTIPHISHELL finds and successfully patches all the OSS challenge problems (such as nginx, Jenkins, and THE LINUX KERNEL) as well as several OSS-Fuzz programs!

[Shellphish @shellphish]

ARTIPHISHELL was made possible through the $1M @DARPA AIxCC Small Business Track prize (and a dangerous amount of caffeine)

[Shellphish @shellphish]

Whatever happens in the competition, it was a crazy journey, made possible through the blood, sweat, tears and red noses of the @shellphish team as well as support from @ASU, @ucsantabarbara, and @LifeAtPurdue, not to mention the Shellphish Support Syndicate

[Shellphish @shellphish]

Introducing ARTIPHISHELL! An LLM-Based Cyber Reasoning System made by @shellphish that autonomously finds and patches vulnerabilities for the @DARPA AIxCC competition (https://t.co/4dcUPR6SnI)

[PurSec Lab @PurSecLab]

@PurSecLab is proud to lead the initiative to secure cyber physical systems under the DARPA firefly program. Stay tuned for exciting tools we’re baking in-house for this initiative!

[Antonio Bianchi @anton00b]

Patching a binary in 1 tweet :)

from patcherex2 import *

p = Patcherex("add")

asm_str = """
add edi, edi
add edi, 5
"""

p.patches.append(InsertInstructionPatch(0x114d,asm_str))
p.apply_patches()

p.binfmt_tool.save_binary()

[Antonio Bianchi @anton00b]

I am happy to announce Patcherex2 (https://t.co/8R3ygd5wOO), an easy-to-use, Python-based binary patching tool, designed to be extensible and compatible with multiple architectures.

The code was mainly written by my student @__Han_Dai__ at @PurdueCS, for the DARPA AMP program.

[Hyungsub Kim @BenjaminKim0920]

Thrilled to announce I'll be joining the CS Department at Indiana University, Bloomington (@IUBloomington, @IULuddy) as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2024. Huge thanks to my mentors and beloved family members for their unwavering support. Super excited about this new chapter!