ITASEC 2022
Italian Conference on Cybersecurity 2022

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 58 papers submitted for peer-review to the conference. Out of these, 35 papers have been selected for presention at the conference and 17 papers are included in this volume.

• Reinforcement Learning Agents for Simulating Normal and Malicious Actions in Cyber Range Scenarios 1-16
  Alessandro Santorsola, Aldo Migliau, Sabino Caporusso
• On Identifying Repeated Patterns of OT Attacks with LOGistICS 17-29
  Stefano Bistarelli, Emanuele Bosimini, Francesco Santini
• “Safe Prescription”: A Decentralized Blockchain Protocol to Manage Medical Prescriptions 30-51
  Claudio Cilli, Giulio Magnanini, Marco Silipigni, Fabrizio Vanettoni
• Ontology for Cybersecurity Governance of ICT Systems 52-63
  Fabio De Rosa, Nicolò Maunero, Luca Nicoletti, Paolo Prinetto, Martina Trussoni
• A Secure Canary-Based Hardware Approach Against ROP 64-75
  Mahboobe Sadeghipour Roodsari, Ebrahim Nouri, Fatemeh Sheikhshoaei, Paolo Prinetto, Zainalabedin Navabi
• ThePhish: an Automated Open-Source Phishing Email Analysis Platform 76-101
  Emanuele Galdi, Gaetano Perrone, Simon Pietro Romano
• Detection of Network Covert Channels in IoT Ecosystems Using Machine Learning 102-113
  Massimo Guarascio, Marco Zuppelli, Nunziato Cassavia, Giuseppe Manco, Luca Caviglione
• An Investigation on Voice Mimicry Attacks to a Speaker Recognition System 114-123
  Donato Impedovo, Annalisa Longo, Tonino Palmisano, Lucia Sarcinella, Davide Veneto
• A Study on Malware Detection and Classification Using the Analysis of API Calls Sequences Through Shallow Learning and Recurrent Neural Networks 124-134
  Angelo Cannarile, Francesco Carrera, Stefano Galantucci, Andrea Iannacone, Giuseppe Pirlo
• A Natural Language Processing Approach for Financial Fraud Detection 135-149
  Javier Fernández Rodríguez, Michele Papale, Michele Carminati, Stefano Zanero
• Explaining Machine Learning DGA Detectors from DNS Traffic Data 150-168
  Giorgio Piras, Maura Pintor, Luca Demetrio, Battista Biggio
• Robust Machine Learning for Malware Detection over Time 169-180
  Daniele Angioni, Luca Demetrio, Maura Pintor, Battista Biggio
• Machine Learning Techniques for Italian Phishing Detection 181-194
  Leonardo Ranaldi, Michele Petito, Marco Gerardi, Francesca Fallucchid, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
• Cyber Security Strategies for the Protection of Electrical Substations 195-206
  Roberto Setola, Francesco Morelli
• A Behavior-Based Intrusion Detection System Using Ensemble Learning Techniques 207-218
  Vincenzo Agate, Felice Maria D’Anna, Alessandra De Paola, Pierluca Ferraro, Giuseppe Lo Re, Marco Morana
• C-OSINT: COVID-19 Open Source Artificial INTelligence Framework 219-235
  Leonardo Ranaldi, Aria Nourbakhsh, Francesca Fallucchid, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
• A Novel Genetic Algorithm Approach for Firewall Policy Optimization 236-248
  Antonio Coscia, Vincenzo Dentamaro, Stefano Galantucci, Donato Impedovo, Antonio Maci