10 papers
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…
Exploring Side-Channel Protections in Hardware Implementations of PQC ML-KEM Verification
Davis Ranney, Yashaswini I Makaram, A. Adam Ding +1
As ML-KEM is adopted as a post-quantum cryptographic standard, resilience against physical side-channel attacks has become essential. Among the constituent steps, the decapsulation…
MetaSeal: Defending Against Image Attribution Forgery Through Content-Dependent Cryptographic Watermarks
Tong Zhou, Ruyi Ding, Gaowen Liu +5
The rapid growth of digital and AI-generated images has amplified the need for secure and verifiable methods of image attribution. While digital watermarking offers more robust pro…
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…
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…
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…