Nov 22, 2024 | [Paper] Our paper entitled “Defending Against Membership Inference Attacks on Iteratively Pruned Deep Neural Networks” will appear in NDSS‘25! |
Aug 13, 2024 | [Paper] Our paper entitled “TokenScout: Early Detection of Ethereum Scam Tokens via Temporal Graph Learning” will appear in ACM CCS‘24! |
Jul 13, 2024 | [Paper] Two papers “Moderating Illicit Online Image Promotion for Unsafe User Generated Content Games Using Large Vision Language Models” and “Unveiling IoT Security in Reality: A Firmware-Centric Journey” will appear in USENIX Security‘24! |
May 13, 2024 | [Paper] Our paper entitled “SoK: Where’s the “up”?! A Comprehensive (bottom-up) Study on the Security of Arm Cortex-M Systems” will appear in USENIX WOOT‘24! |
Apr 18, 2024 | [CTF] Team Cacti advised by Dr. Zhao and Dr. Hu placed 4th in MITRE eCTF 2024! |
Mar 15, 2024 | [Paper] Our papers entitled “Building Your Own Trusted Execution Environments Using FPGA” (open-source repo at here) and “Command Hijacking on Voice-Controlled IoT in Amazon Alexa Platform” will appear in ACM AsiaCCS‘24! |
Feb 15, 2024 | [Paper] Two papers on embedded system security “InsectACIDE: Debugger-Based Holistic Asynchronous CFI for Embedded System” and “Trusted Execution Environments in Embedded and IoT Systems: A CactiLab Perspective” will appear in IEEE RTAS‘24 and SEED‘24, respectively! |
Jan 15, 2024 | [Paper] Our paper entitled “LocCams: An Efficient and Robust Approach for Detecting and Localizing Hidden Wireless Cameras via Commodity Devices” will appear in ACM IMWUT‘24! |
Oct 29, 2023 | [Paper] Our paper entitled “Moderating New Waves of Online Hate with Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models” will appear in IEEE Security and Privacy (Oakland)‘24! |
Aug 10, 2023 | [Paper] Our paper entitled “SHERLOC: Secure and Holistic Control-Flow Violation Detection on Embedded Systems” will appear in ACM CCS‘23! Check out our open-source repo at here! |
Apr 26, 2023 | [CTF] Team Cacti advised by Dr. Zhao and Dr. Hu placed 4th in MITRE eCTF 2023! |
Feb 27, 2023 | [Paper] Our paper entitled “Return-to-Non-Secure Vulnerabilities on ARM Cortex-M TrustZone: Attack and Defense” will appear in DAC‘23! Check out our open-source repo at here! |
Feb 01, 2023 | [Paper] Our paper on “xNIDS: Explaining Deep Learning-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems for Active Intrusion Responses “ will appear in USENIX Security‘23! Check out our open-source repo at here! |
Oct 01, 2022 | [Paper] Our paper entitled “EchoHand: High Accuracy and Presentation Attack Resistant Hand Authentication on Commodity Mobile Devices” will appear in CCS‘22! |
Aug 01, 2022 | [CTF] Team Cacti advised by Dr. Zhao and Dr. Hu placed 13th in Baidu AutoDriving CTF 2022! |
Jul 01, 2022 | [CTF] Team Cacti advised by Dr. Zhao and Dr. Hu placed 5th in MITRE eCTF 2022! |
Jun 01, 2022 | [Student Award] Our high school intern Puhabi Chakraborty from KV NIT Agartala, India won an award at Intel AI for youth program for the year 2021. Read the news at here! |
May 01, 2022 | [Paper] Our paper entitled “Understanding and Detecting Remote Infection on Linux-based IoT Devices” won the best paper award at AsiaCCS‘22! |