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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!