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SoK: Rethinking Jailbreaking in the Era of Agentic AI: Attacks, Defenses, and Practical Consideration
Md Jueal Mia, Yanzhao Wu, Selcuk Uluagac +1
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving from conversational assistants into agentic AI systems that reason, plan, invoke tools, maintain persistent memory, communicate wi…
Exploring Jamming and Hijacking Attacks for Micro Aerial Drones
Yassine Mekdad, Abbas Acar, Ahmet Aris +4
Recent advancements in drone technology have shown that commercial off-the-shelf Micro Aerial Drones are more effective than large-sized drones for performing flight missions in na…
Augmenting Security and Privacy in the Virtual Realm: An Analysis of Extended Reality Devices
Derin Cayir, Abbas Acar, Riccardo Lazzeretti +3
In this work, we present a device-centric analysis of security and privacy attacks and defenses on Extended Reality (XR) devices, highlighting the need for robust and privacy-aware…
A Survey on Decentralized Identifiers and Verifiable Credentials
Carlo Mazzocca, Abbas Acar, Selcuk Uluagac +3
Digital identity has always been considered the keystone for implementing secure and trustworthy communications among parties. The ever-evolving digital landscape has gone through…
Ransomware Detection Using Federated Learning with Imbalanced Datasets
Aldin Vehabovic, Hadi Zanddizari, Nasir Ghani +5
Ransomware is a type of malware which encrypts user data and extorts payments in return for the decryption keys. This cyberthreat is one of the most serious challenges facing organ…
SHATTER: Control and Defense-Aware Attack Analytics for Activity-Driven Smart Home Systems
Nur Imtiazul Haque, Maurice Ngouen, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman +2
Modern smart home control systems utilize real-time occupancy and activity monitoring to ensure control efficiency, occupants' comfort, and optimal energy consumption. Moreover, ad…
Resisting Deep Learning Models Against Adversarial Attack Transferability via Feature Randomization
Ehsan Nowroozi, Mohammadreza Mohammadi, Pargol Golmohammadi +3
In the past decades, the rise of artificial intelligence has given us the capabilities to solve the most challenging problems in our day-to-day lives, such as cancer prediction and…
Real or Virtual: A Video Conferencing Background Manipulation-Detection System
Ehsan Nowroozi, Yassine Mekdad, Mauro Conti +3
Recently, the popularity and wide use of the last-generation video conferencing technologies created an exponential growth in its market size. Such technology allows participants i…
D-LNBot: A Scalable, Cost-Free and Covert Hybrid Botnet on Bitcoin's Lightning Network
Ahmet Kurt, Enes Erdin, Kemal Akkaya +2
While various covert botnets were proposed in the past, they still lack complete anonymization for their servers/botmasters or suffer from slow communication between the botmaster…
A Literature Review on Blockchain-enabled Security and Operation of Cyber-Physical Systems
Alvi Ataur Khalil, Javier Franco, Imtiaz Parvez +2
Blockchain has become a key technology in a plethora of application domains owing to its decentralized public nature. The cyber-physical systems (CPS) is one of the prominent appli…
A Novel Framework for Threat Analysis of Machine Learning-based Smart Healthcare Systems
Nur Imtiazul Haque, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, Md Hasan Shahriar +2
Smart healthcare systems (SHSs) are providing fast and efficient disease treatment leveraging wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs) and implantable medical devices (IMDs)-based int…
A Cost-efficient IoT Forensics Framework with Blockchain
Suat Mercan, Mumin Cebe, Ege Tekiner +3
IoT devices have been adopted widely in the last decade which enabled collection of various data from different environments. The collected data is crucial in certain applications…
LNBot: A Covert Hybrid Botnet on Bitcoin Lightning Network for Fun and Profit
Ahmet Kurt, Enes Erdin, Mumin Cebe +2
While various covert botnets were proposed in the past, they still lack complete anonymization for their servers/botmasters or suffer from slow communication between the botmaster…
Peek-a-Boo: I see your smart home activities, even encrypted!
Abbas Acar, Hossein Fereidooni, Tigist Abera +6
A myriad of IoT devices such as bulbs, switches, speakers in a smart home environment allow users to easily control the physical world around them and facilitate their living style…
Block4Forensic: An Integrated Lightweight Blockchain Framework for Forensics Applications of Connected Vehicles
Mumin Cebe, Enes Erdin, Kemal Akkaya +2
Today's vehicles are becoming cyber-physical systems that do not only communicate with other vehicles but also gather various information from hundreds of sensors within them. Thes…