About me
I'm a PhD candudate at Georgia Tech in the COEUS lab, which resides in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
My research focuses on operational solutions for problems facing the threat intelligence ecosystem.
Contact
Email: tillson@gatech.edu or me@tillsongalloway.com
Publications
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Beyond the Stars: Multimodal Detection of Scams on GitHub
Tillson Galloway, Kevin Valakuzhy, Manos Antonakakis, Fabian Monrose
35th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2026 -
Actively Understanding the Dynamics and Risks of the Threat Intelligence Ecosystem
Tillson Galloway, Allen Chang, Omar Alrawi, Thanos Avgetidis, Manos Antonakakis, Fabian Monrose
Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium, February 2026 -
From Concealment to Exposure: Understanding the Lifecycle and Infrastructure of APT Domains (cite)
Athanasios Avgetidis, Aaron Faulkenberry, Vinny Adjibi, Tillson Galloway, Panagiotis Kintis, Omar Alrawi, Zane Ma, Fabian Monrose, Angelos D Keromytis, Roberto Perdisci, Manos Antonakakis
2025 Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), October 2025 -
Practical Attacks Against DNS Reputation Systems (cite)
Tillson Galloway, Kleanthis Karakolios, Zane Ma, Roberto Perdisci, Angelos Keromytis, Manos Antonakakis
45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2024
Talks
- GenAI Attacks in 2025 - A Year in Review, BSides Charleston, 2025
- New Frontiers in Github Secret Snatching, DEFCON 30 Recon Village, 2022
Awards
- First Place, Obsidian Security CTF ($10K prize), BlackHat 2025
- First Place, Vectra AI CTF ($3.5K prize), BlackHat 2024
- Best Cybersecurity Startup ($25K investment prize), Georgia Tech Klaus Startup Challenge 2023
- First Place / Best Pitch ($1K prize), Georgia Tech Ideas2Serve 2020
- First Place, Clemson CUHackit 2019
- Recipient, Apple Worldwide Developers Confererence Student Scholarship 2014-2016
CVEs
- CVE-2023-36720 (Microsoft Windows, Windows CVSS score 7.5)
- CVE-2023-36888 (Microsoft Edge for Android, CVSS score 6.3)