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most citedUNIFUZZ: A Holistic and Pragmatic Metrics-Driven Platform for Evaluating Fuzzers

23 citations · 87 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.CR2026

She Spoofed Sea Ships by the Sea Shore: Measuring Large-Scale GPS Spoofing in Global Maritime Traffic

Anna Raymaker, Ryan Von Brock, Ryan Pickren +4

GPS spoofing has emerged as a serious threat to maritime security, yet its global prevalence, persistence, and structure remain largely unmeasured. In this paper, we present the fi…

cs.CR2026

Batten the Hatches: Cybersecurity with Military Mariners

Ryan Von Brock, Anna Raymaker, Animesh Chhotaray +3

Cyberwarfare has become a key component of contemporary geopolitical conflict. However, there has been extremely limited systematic investigation into how cybersecurity is handled…

cs.CR2026

Grid Trouble in Paradise: Uncovering Vulnerable Distributed Energy Resources and Their Grid-Level Risks

Anna Raymaker, Samuel Talkington, Zeezoo Ryu +8

Grid-connected solar distributed energy resources (DERs), such as solar inverters and monitoring platforms, have been deployed at unprecedented scale over the past few years, with…

cs.CR2025

SoK: Kicking CAN Down the Road. Systematizing CAN Security Knowledge

Khaled Serag, Zhaozhou Tang, Sungwoo Kim +7

For decades, the Controller Area Network (CAN) has served as the primary in-vehicle bus (IVB), extending its use to many non-vehicular systems. In recent years, CAN security has be…

cs.CR2025★ 8 cited

A Sea of Cyber Threats: Maritime Cybersecurity from the Perspective of Mariners

Anna Raymaker, Akshaya Kumar, Miuyin Yong Wong +5

Maritime systems, including ships and ports, are critical components of global infrastructure, essential for transporting over 80% of the world's goods and supporting internet conn…

cs.CR2025★ 2 cited

One Video to Steal Them All: 3D-Printing IP Theft through Optical Side-Channels

Twisha Chattopadhyay, Fabricio Ceschin, Marco E. Garza +5

The 3D printing industry is rapidly growing and increasingly adopted across various sectors including manufacturing, healthcare, and defense. However, the operational setup often i…

cs.LG2025

NeuroSep-CP-LCB: A Deep Learning-based Contextual Multi-armed Bandit Algorithm with Uncertainty Quantification for Early Sepsis Prediction

Anni Zhou, Raheem Beyah, Rishikesan Kamaleswaran

In critical care settings, timely and accurate predictions can significantly impact patient outcomes, especially for conditions like sepsis, where early intervention is crucial. We…

cs.SE2025

PROMFUZZ: Leveraging LLM-Driven and Bug-Oriented Composite Analysis for Detecting Functional Bugs in Smart Contracts

Xingshuang Lin, Qinge Xie, Binbin Zhao +6

Smart contracts are fundamental pillars of the blockchain, playing a crucial role in facilitating various business transactions. However, these smart contracts are vulnerable to ex…

cs.CR2024

FirmRCA: Towards Post-Fuzzing Analysis on ARM Embedded Firmware with Efficient Event-based Fault Localization

Boyu Chang, Binbin Zhao, Qiao Zhang +4

While fuzzing has demonstrated its effectiveness in exposing vulnerabilities within embedded firmware, the discovery of crashing test cases is only the first step in improving the…

cs.CR2023

SyzTrust: State-aware Fuzzing on Trusted OS Designed for IoT Devices

Qinying Wang, Boyu Chang, Shouling Ji +8

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) embedded in IoT devices provide a deployable solution to secure IoT applications at the hardware level. By design, in TEEs, the Trusted Operat…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

UVSCAN: Detecting Third-Party Component Usage Violations in IoT Firmware

Binbin Zhao, Shouling Ji, Xuhong Zhang +5

Nowadays, IoT devices integrate a wealth of third-party components (TPCs) in firmware to shorten the development cycle. TPCs usually have strict usage specifications, e.g., checkin…

cs.CR2023★ 2 cited

MINER: A Hybrid Data-Driven Approach for REST API Fuzzing

Chenyang Lyu, Jiacheng Xu, Shouling Ji +6

In recent years, REST API fuzzing has emerged to explore errors on a cloud service. Its performance highly depends on the sequence construction and request generation. However, exi…

cs.CR2022★ 1 cited

One Bad Apple Spoils the Barrel: Understanding the Security Risks Introduced by Third-Party Components in IoT Firmware

Binbin Zhao, Shouling Ji, Jiacheng Xu +8

Currently, the development of IoT firmware heavily depends on third-party components (TPCs) to improve development efficiency. Nevertheless, TPCs are not secure, and the vulnerabil…

cs.CR2022★ 13 cited

MPInspector: A Systematic and Automatic Approach for Evaluating the Security of IoT Messaging Protocols

Qinying Wang, Shouling Ji, Yuan Tian +8

Facilitated by messaging protocols (MP), many home devices are connected to the Internet, bringing convenience and accessibility to customers. However, most deployed MPs on IoT pla…

cs.CV2022

Transfer Attacks Revisited: A Large-Scale Empirical Study in Real Computer Vision Settings

Yuhao Mao, Chong Fu, Saizhuo Wang +7

One intriguing property of adversarial attacks is their "transferability" -- an adversarial example crafted with respect to one deep neural network (DNN) model is often found effec…

cs.CR2020★ 23 cited

UNIFUZZ: A Holistic and Pragmatic Metrics-Driven Platform for Evaluating Fuzzers

Yuwei Li, Shouling Ji, Yuan Chen +9

A flurry of fuzzing tools (fuzzers) have been proposed in the literature, aiming at detecting software vulnerabilities effectively and efficiently. To date, it is however still cha…

cs.CR2019

On Evaluating the Effectiveness of the HoneyBot: A Case Study

Celine Irvene, David Formby, Raheem Beyah

In recent years, cyber-physical system (CPS) security as applied to robotic systems has become a popular research area. Mainly because robotics systems have traditionally emphasize…

cs.CR2019

De-Health: All Your Online Health Information Are Belong to Us

Shouling Ji, Qinchen Gu, Haiqin Weng +4

In this paper, we study the privacy of online health data. We present a novel online health data De-Anonymization (DA) framework, named De-Health. De-Health consists of two phases:…

cs.CR2019

FDI: Quantifying Feature-based Data Inferability

Shouling Ji, Haiqin Weng, Yiming Wu +3

Motivated by many existing security and privacy applications, e.g., network traffic attribution, linkage attacks, private web search, and feature-based data de-anonymization, in th…

cs.CR2019

Adversarial CAPTCHAs

Chenghui Shi, Xiaogang Xu, Shouling Ji +4

Following the principle of to set one's own spear against one's own shield, we study how to design adversarial CAPTCHAs in this paper. We first identify the similarity and differen…

cs.CR2019★ 20 cited

SirenAttack: Generating Adversarial Audio for End-to-End Acoustic Systems

Tianyu Du, Shouling Ji, Jinfeng Li +3

Despite their immense popularity, deep learning-based acoustic systems are inherently vulnerable to adversarial attacks, wherein maliciously crafted audios trigger target systems t…

cs.CR2018★ 6 cited

Checking is Believing: Event-Aware Program Anomaly Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems

Long Cheng, Ke Tian, Danfeng Yao +2

Securing cyber-physical systems (CPS) against malicious attacks is of paramount importance because these attacks may cause irreparable damages to physical systems. Recent studies h…

cs.CR2018★ 11 cited

Blindsight: Blinding EM Side-Channel Leakage using Built-In Fully Integrated Inductive Voltage Regulator

Monodeep Kar, Arvind Singh, Sanu Mathew +5

Modern high-performance as well as power-constrained System-on-Chips (SoC) are increasingly using hardware accelerated encryption engines to secure computation, memory access, and…