Ashkan Hosseini

Principal Software Engineer

About Me

Hi! My name is Ashkan and I’m a Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, working at the intersection of cybersecurity and machine learning. Before joining Palo Alto Networks, I worked as a consultant at Mandiant. I received my M.S. from Columbia University in 2017, and my B.A. in computer science and mathematics from UC Berkeley in 2015.

Publications

  • Payload Trends in Malicious OneNote Samples
    Ashkan Hosseini, Ashutosh Chitwadgi
    Unit 42 Palo Alto Networks 2023
  • 2020 Phishing Trends With PDF Files
    Ashkan Hosseini, Ashutosh Chitwadgi
    Unit 42 Palo Alto Networks 2021
  • Ten Process Injection Techniques: A Technical Survey Of Common And Trending Process Injection Techniques
    Ashkan Hosseini
    Endgame Security 2017
  • Smart Locks: Lessons for Securing Commodity Internet of Things Devices
    Grant Ho, Derek Leung, Pratyush Mishra, Ashkan Hosseini, David Wagner, and Dawn Song
    ACM AsiaCCS 2016
  • Android Permissions Remystified: A Field Study on Contextual Integrity
    Primal Wijesekera, University of British Columbia; Arjun Baokar, Ashkan Hosseini, Serge Egelman, and David Wagner
    USENIX Security 2015