Our paper "Loom: A Balanced String-Based Transformer for Android Malware Detection" will be presented at the 28th International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2026) in October!

... on the selected tokens. Evaluated on a cleaned public benchmark (PublicAMD) and a new AndroZoo-derived dataset (AndroAMD), Loom reaches F1 =0.97 on both, outperforming all string-, image-, graph-, and transformer-based baselines.

I am very happy to receive Nordea's Scientific Prize 2026! It is the result of many research and teaching collaborations, and especially of the hard-working group members I have the pleasure of working with. Many thanks to all of you and have a great summer ;-) !

On Tuesday, I gave a keynote at BSides Ume on "Software Supply Chain Attacks" where I presented two examples of what could go wrong in the software supply chain.

Thanks to Mattias Wadenstein for the invitation and the organisation of this event! For more details about these two attacks, you can visit the Github pages: github.com/software-engineer… github.com/software-engineer…

Last week, I was invited to give a talk on software security at the Juristkonferens 2026, a yearly event aimed at gathering legal professionals working at universities in Sweden.

Another interesting aspect that was mentioned is the homogeneity of software used at universities such as software handling emails. If a vulnerability (technical or legal) is found and exploited it could expose data for all institutions relying on this software.