PATENTS

• "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR KERNEL-LEVEL ACTIVE DARKNET MONITORING IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK.” Venkata Sai Charan P, Gowtham R, Sandeep K Shukla, Mohan Anand P, Hrushikesh CNV, Indian Patent No. 202314036144: Indian Patent Office (IPO). 24 November 2022. (GRANTED-506825)

• "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR KERNEL-LEVEL ACTIVE DARKNET MONITORING IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK.” Venkata Sai Charan P, Gowtham R, Sandeep K Shukla, Mohan Anand P, Hrushikesh CNV, US Patent Application No. 18/322,626 : USPTO. 3 January 2023. 

• “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE MASKING-BASED DECEPTION ORCHESTRATION”. Venkata Sai Charan P, Subhasis M, Subhajit M, Rani N, A Vaid, Chunduri H, Anand P. M., & Shukla, S. K. Indian Patent Application No: 202411006680. 2 Feb 2024.
  
  

• “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE MASKING-BASED DECEPTION ORCHESTRATION”. Venkata Sai Charan P, Subhasis M, Subhajit M, Rani N, A Vaid, Chunduri H, Anand P. M., & Shukla, S. K. US Patent Application No: 63/627,859 . 2 Feb 2024 

• "SYSTEM FOR EARLY DETECTION AND TERMINATION OF RANSOMWARE AND METHOD THEREOF." Mohan Anand P, Venkata Sai Charan P, Hrushikesh CNV, Sandeep K Shukla, US Patent Application No.63/517,119 (Provisional) : USPTO. 3 August 2023. 

• "SYSTEM FOR EARLY DETECTION AND TERMINATION OF RANSOMWARE AND METHOD THEREOF." Mohan Anand P, Venkata Sai Charan P, Hrushikesh CNV, Sandeep K Shukla, Indian Patent Application No. 202311051892 (Provisional) : Indian Patent Office (IPO). 2 August 2023. 

Publications

Journals: 

• "DKaaS: DARK-KERNEL as a Service for Active Cyber Threat Intelligence". Charan, P. S., Ratnakaram, G., Chunduri, H., Anand, P. M., & Shukla, S. K. (2023). Computers & Security, 103329.

• "HiPeR - Early Detection of a Ransomware Attack using Hardware Performance Counters". P. Mohan Anand, P.V. Sai Charan, and Sandeep K Shukla. 2023. Digital Threats: Research and Practice. doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3608484

• "ADAPT: Adaptive Camouflage Based Deception Orchestration For Trapping Advanced Persistent Threats". P.V. Sai Charan et al. Digital Threats: Research and Practice (2024). https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3651991

Conference Proceedings: 

• "From Text to MITRE Techniques: Exploring the Malicious Use of Large Language Models for Generating Cyber Attack Payloads". Charan, P. V., Chunduri, H., Anand, P. M., & Shukla, S. K. (2023). arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.15336.

• "A Framework for Advanced Persistent Threat Attribution using Zachman Ontology".  Putrevu, V. S. C., Chunduri, H., Putrevu, M. A., & Shukla, S. (2023, June). In European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity (EICC-23) Conference (pp. 34-41).

• "Early Detection of Ransomware Activity based on Hardware Performance Counters". Mohan Anand Putrevu, Venkata Sai Charan Putrevu, and Sandeep Kumar Shukla. 2023.  In 2023 Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW2023). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 10–17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3579375.3579377 

• "A comprehensive API call analysis for detecting Windows-based ransomware." Anand, P. Mohan, PV Sai Charan, and Sandeep K. Shukla. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR). IEEE, 2022. (Best Student Paper Award)

• "DOTMUG: A Threat Model for Target Specific APT Attacks–Misusing Google Teachable Machine." Charan, PV Sai, et al. In 2022 10th International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security (ISDFS). IEEE, 2022.

• "DARK-KERNEL: Design and Implementation of a Kernel Level Active Darknet Sensor". Venkata Sai Charan Putrevu, Gowtham Ratnakaram, and Sandeep Shukla. 2022. In Proceedings of the 2022 European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference (EICC '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 42–48. https://doi.org/10.1145/3528580.3532838

• "DMAPT: Study of Data Mining and Machine Learning Techniques in Advanced Persistent Threat Attribution and Detection". Charan, PV Sai, P. Mohan Anand, and Sandeep K. Shukla. Data Mining. IntechOpen, 2021.

• "A Multi Class Classification for Detection of IoT Botnet Malware." Chunduri, Hrushikesh, T. Gireesh Kumar, and PV Sai Charan. International Conference on Computing Science, Communication and Security. Springer, Cham, 2021. (Best Paper Award)

• "Detecting Word Based DGA Domains Using Ensemble Models."  Charan, PV Sai, Sandeep K. Shukla, and P. Mohan Anand. International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security. Springer, Cham, 2020.

• "An ensemble approach for algorithmically generated domain name detection using statistical and lexical analysis." Anand, P. Mohan, T. Gireesh Kumar, and PV Sai Charan. Procedia Computer Science 171 (2020): 1129-1136. 

• "Advance persistent threat detection using long short term memory (LSTM) neural networks." Charan, PV Sai, T. Gireesh Kumar, and P. Mohan Anand. " International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Computer Engineering. Springer, Singapore, 2019.

• "Abnormal User Pattern Detection Using Semi-structured Server Log File Analysis." Charan, PV Sai. Smart Intelligent Computing and Applications. Springer, Singapore, 2019. 97-105.

• "Addressing cold start problem in recommendation system using custom built hadoop ecosystem." Charan, PV Sai, P. Ravi Kumar, and P. Mohan Anand. 2018 Second International Conference on Inventive Communication and Computational Technologies (ICICCT). IEEE, 2018.