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6 papers

cs.CR2026

SLAC: Access-Driven CPU-to-GPU Side-channel Attacks via System-Level Cache on Apple Silicon

Tianhong Xu, Saion K. Roy, Ruyi Ding +2

Modern heterogeneous System-on-Chip designs integrate CPU cores and a GPU that share a last-level cache (LLC) or system-level cache (SLC). This sharing exposes a new cross-domain a…

cs.CR2025

MoEcho: Exploiting Side-Channel Attacks to Compromise User Privacy in Mixture-of-Experts LLMs

Ruyi Ding, Tianhong Xu, Xinyi Shen +2

The transformer architecture has become a cornerstone of modern AI, fueling remarkable progress across applications in natural language processing, computer vision, and multimodal…

cs.CR2025

EXAM: Exploiting Exclusive System-Level Cache in Apple M-Series SoCs for Enhanced Cache Occupancy Attacks

Tianhong Xu, Aidong Adam Ding, Yunsi Fei

Cache occupancy attacks exploit the shared nature of cache hierarchies to infer a victim's activities by monitoring overall cache usage, unlike access-driven cache attacks that foc…

cs.CR2025

USBSnoop -- Revealing Device Activities via USB Congestions

Davis Ranney, Yufei Wang, A. Adam Ding +1

The USB protocol has become a ubiquitous standard for connecting peripherals to computers, making its security a critical concern. A recent research study demonstrated the potentia…

cs.CR2025

MACPruning: Dynamic Operation Pruning to Mitigate Side-Channel DNN Model Extraction

Ruyi Ding, Cheng Gongye, Davis Ranney +2

As deep learning gains popularity, edge IoT devices have seen proliferating deployment of pre-trained Deep Neural Network (DNN) models. These DNNs represent valuable intellectual p…

cs.CR2025

Graph in the Vault: Protecting Edge GNN Inference with Trusted Execution Environment

Ruyi Ding, Tianhong Xu, Aidong Adam Ding +1

Wide deployment of machine learning models on edge devices has rendered the model intellectual property (IP) and data privacy vulnerable. We propose GNNVault, the first secure Grap…