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Measuring and Evaluating the Performance of Generative AI Models for Scam Detection
Cem Topcuoglu, Seyed Ali Akhavani, Harel Berger +5
Online scams continue to cause substantial financial and personal harm. As a result, detection systems based on Large Language Models (LLMs) have been integrated into security prod…
WAFFLED: Exploiting Parsing Discrepancies to Bypass Web Application Firewalls
Seyed Ali Akhavani, Bahruz Jabiyev, Ben Kallus +3
Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) have been introduced as essential and popular security gates that inspect incoming HTTP traffic to filter out malicious requests and provide defens…
PriveShield: Enhancing User Privacy Using Automatic Isolated Profiles in Browsers
Seyed Ali Akhavani, Engin Kirda, Amin Kharraz
Online tracking is a widespread practice on the web with questionable ethics, security, and privacy concerns. While web tracking can offer personalized and curated content to Inter…
Design and Realization of a Benchmarking Testbed for Evaluating Autonomous Platooning Algorithms
Michael Shaham, Risha Ranjan, Engin Kirda +1
Autonomous vehicle platoons present near- and long-term opportunities to enhance operational efficiencies and save lives. The past 30 years have seen rapid development in the auton…
AIM: Automatic Interrupt Modeling for Dynamic Firmware Analysis
Bo Feng, Meng Luo, Changming Liu +2
The security of microcontrollers, which drive modern IoT and embedded devices, continues to raise major concerns. Within a microcontroller (MCU), the firmware is a monolithic piece…
Experience Report on the Challenges and Opportunities in Securing Smartphones Against Zero-Click Attacks
Narmeen Shafqat, Cem Topcuoglu, Engin Kirda +1
Zero-click attacks require no user interaction and typically exploit zero-day (i.e., unpatched) vulnerabilities in instant chat applications (such as WhatsApp and iMessage) to gain…