Marco Alecci

Publications

2026

  • Conference ISSTA 2026

    Secrets Unlocked: Evaluating LLMs for Secrets Detection in Android Apps

    Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis [ISSTA] - Main Track

    Marco Alecci, Jordan Samhi, Tegawende F. Bissyande, Jacques Klein

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  • Conference MobiSys 2026

    GeoTwins: Uncovering Hidden Geographic Disparities in Android Apps

    Proceedings of the 24th edition of the ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services [MobiSys] - Main Track

    Marco Alecci, Pedro J. R. Jimenez, Jordan Samhi, Tegawende F. Bissyande, Jacques Klein

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  • Journal TOSEM 2026

    TaskFlow: LLMs for Android Taint Specification

    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology [TOSEM]

    Marco Alecci, Jordan Samhi, Marc Miltenberger, Steven Arzt, Tegawende F. Bissyande, Jacques Klein

  • Conference ICSE 2026

    Replacing Training with Reasoning: Reinterpreting Classic ML Pipelines with LLMs

    Proceedings of the 48th edition of the International Conference on Software Engineering [ICSE] - NIER Track

    Marco Alecci, Jordan Samhi, Tegawende F. Bissyande, Jacques Klein

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2025

  • Conference ASE 2025

    RAML: Toward Retrieval-Augmented Localization of Malicious Payloads in Android Apps

    Proceedings of the 40th edition of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering [ASE] - NIER Track

    Tiezhu Sun, Marco Alecci, Yewei Song, Xunzhu Tang, Kisub Kim, Jordan Samhi, Tegawende F. Bissyande, Jacques Klein

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  • Conference ESORICS 2025

    DUMB and DUMBer: Is Adversarial Training Worth It in the Real World?

    Proceedings of the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security [ESORICS] - Main Track

    Francesco Marchiori, Marco Alecci, Luca Pajola, Mauro Conti

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  • Conference ICSME 2025

    MalLoc: Toward Fine-grained Android Malicious Payload Localization via LLMs

    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution [ICSME] - NIER Track

    Tiezhu Sun, Marco Alecci, Yewei Song, Xunzhu Tang, Jordan Samhi, Tegawende F. Bissyande, Jacques Klein

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  • Conference FSE 2025

    Toward LLM-driven GDPR Compliance Checking for Android Apps

    Proceedings of the 33rd edition of the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering [FSE] - IVR Track

    Marco Alecci, Nicolas Sannier, Marcello Ceci, Sallam Abualhaija, Jordan Samhi, Domenico Bianculli, Tegawende F. Bissyande, Jacques Klein

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  • Conference FSE 2025

    Do You Have 5 min? Improving Call Graph Analysis with Runtime Information

    Proceedings of the 33rd edition of the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering [FSE] - IVR Track

    Jordan Samhi, Marc Miltenberger, Marco Alecci, Steven Arzt, Tegawende F. Bissyande, Jacques Klein

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  • Journal TOSEM 2025

    DamFlow: Preventing a Flood of Irrelevant Data Flows in Android Apps

    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology [TOSEM]

    Marco Alecci, Jordan Samhi, Marc Miltenberger, Steven Arzt, Tegawende F. Bissyande, Jacques Klein

2024

  • Conference MSR 2024

    AndroZoo: A Retrospective with a Glimpse into the Future

    Proceedings of the 21st edition of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories [MSR] - Data and Tool Track

    Marco Alecci, Pedro J. R. Jimenez, Kevin Allix, Tegawende F. Bissyande, Jacques Klein

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  • Conference ICSE 2024

    Revisiting Android App Categorization

    Proceedings of the 46th edition of the International Conference on Software Engineering [ICSE] - Main Track

    Marco Alecci, Jordan Samhi, Tegawende F. Bissyande, Jacques Klein

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  • Journal TDSC 2024

    Improving Logic Bomb Identification in Android Apps via Context-Aware Anomaly Detection

    IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing [TDSC]

    Marco Alecci, Jordan Samhi, Li Li, Tegawende F. Bissyande, Jacques Klein

2023

  • Conference RAID 2023

    Your Attack Is Too DUMB: Formalizing Attacker Scenarios for Adversarial Transferability

    Proceedings of the International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses [RAID] - Main Track

    Marco Alecci, Mauro Conti, Francesco Marchiori, Luca Martinelli, Luca Pajola

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  • Conference RAID 2023

    Beware of Pickpockets: A Practical Attack against Blocking Cards

    Proceedings of the International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses [RAID] - Main Track

    Marco Alecci, Luca Attanasio, Alessandro Brighente, Mauro Conti, Eleonora Losiouk, Hideki Ochiai, Federico Turrin

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2021

  • Workshop CLEF 2021

    Development of an IR System for Argument Search

    Proceedings of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum - Working Notes [CLEF] - Touché Lab on Argument Retrieval

    Marco Alecci, Tommaso Baldo, Luca Martinelli, Elia Ziroldo

2020

  • Preprint arXiv 2020

    Mascara: A Novel Attack Leveraging Android Virtualization

    arXiv [arXiv]

    Marco Alecci, Riccardo Cestaro, Mauro Conti, Ketan Kanishka, Eleonora Losiouk