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MimicSat: A Reconfigurable Cyber-Physical Testbed For Small Satellite Systems and Cybersecurity Research
Nisha Vinayaga-Sureshkanth, A H M Nazmus Sakib, Mahsin Bin Akram +2
MimicSat provides a common experimental environment for examining how changes in satellite subsystem behavior propagate to mission outcomes across software-based and hardware-based…
Trust but Verify? Uncovering the Security Debt of Autonomous Coding Agents
A H M Nazmus Sakib, Dipayan Banik, Murtuza Jadliwala
The increasing adoption of autonomous coding agents accelerates software development but also introduces scoped security risks within high-impact file paths that can outpace tradit…
ThermalTap: Passive Application Fingerprinting in VR Headsets via Thermal Side Channels
Mahsin Bin Akram, A H M Nazmus Sakib, OFM Riaz Rahman Aranya +3
Standalone virtual reality (VR) headsets process highly sensitive personal, professional, and health-related data, yet their susceptibility to non-contact physical side channels re…
LLM Ghostbusters: Surgical Package Hallucination Suppression via Adaptive Unlearning
Joseph Spracklen, Pedram Aghazadeh, Farinaz Koushanfar +1
Hallucinations remain an unsolved problem for LLMs, and package hallucinations are a particularly dangerous instance of this phenomenon. Package hallucinations occur during code ge…
Prompt and Circumstances: Evaluating the Efficacy of Human Prompt Inference in AI-Generated Art
Khoi Trinh, Scott Seidenberger, Joseph Spracklen +4
The emerging field of AI-generated art has witnessed the rise of prompt marketplaces, where creators can purchase, sell, or share prompts to generate unique artworks. These marketp…
To WASM or Not to WASM: Evaluation of Browser Fingerprinting Defenses Under WASM based Obfuscation
A H M Nazmus Sakib, Mahsin Bin Akram, Joseph Spracklen +4
Browser fingerprinting defenses have historically focused on detecting JavaScript(JS)-based tracking techniques. However, the widespread adoption of WebAssembly (WASM) introduces a…
Optimus: A Robust Defense Framework for Mitigating Toxicity while Fine-Tuning Conversational AI
Aravind Cheruvu, Shravya Kanchi, Sifat Muhammad Abdullah +4
Customizing Large Language Models (LLMs) on untrusted datasets poses severe risks of injecting toxic behaviors. In this work, we introduce Optimus, a novel defense framework design…
NinjaDoH: A Censorship-Resistant Moving Target DoH Server Using Hyperscalers and IPNS
Scott Seidenberger, Marc Beret, Raveen Wijewickrama +2
We introduce NinjaDoH, a novel DNS over HTTPS (DoH) protocol that leverages the InterPlanetary Name System (IPNS), along with public cloud infrastructure, to create a censorship-re…
An Analysis of Recent Advances in Deepfake Image Detection in an Evolving Threat Landscape
Sifat Muhammad Abdullah, Aravind Cheruvu, Shravya Kanchi +4
Deepfake or synthetic images produced using deep generative models pose serious risks to online platforms. This has triggered several research efforts to accurately detect deepfake…
OverHear: Headphone based Multi-sensor Keystroke Inference
Raveen Wijewickrama, Maryam Abbasihafshejani, Anindya Maiti +1
Headphones, traditionally limited to audio playback, have evolved to integrate sensors like high-definition microphones and accelerometers. While these advancements enhance user ex…
TorMult: Introducing a Novel Tor Bandwidth Inflation Attack
Christoph Sendner, Jasper Stang, Alexandra Dmitrienko +2
The Tor network is the most prominent system for providing anonymous communication to web users, with a daily user base of 2 million users. However, since its inception, it has bee…
Exploiting Out-of-band Motion Sensor Data to De-anonymize Virtual Reality Users
Mohd Sabra, Nisha Vinayaga Sureshkanth, Ari Sharma +2
Virtual Reality (VR) is an exciting new consumer technology which offers an immersive audio-visual experience to users through which they can navigate and interact with a digitally…
Zoom on the Keystrokes: Exploiting Video Calls for Keystroke Inference Attacks
Mohd Sabra, Anindya Maiti, Murtuza Jadliwala
Due to recent world events, video calls have become the new norm for both personal and professional remote communication. However, if a participant in a video call is not careful,…
On the Feasibility of Sybil Attacks in Shard-Based Permissionless Blockchains
Tayebeh Rajab, Mohammad Hossein Manshaei, Mohammad Dakhilalian +2
Bitcoin's single leader consensus protocol (Nakamoto consensus) suffers from significant transaction throughput and network scalability issues due to the computational requirements…
Security and Privacy Challenges in Upcoming Intelligent Urban Micromobility Transportation Systems
Nisha Vinayaga-Sureshkanth, Raveen Wijewickrama, Anindya Maiti +1
Micromobility vehicles are gaining popularity due to their portable nature, and their ability to serve short distance urban commutes better than traditional modes of transportation…
On Incentive Compatible Role-based Reward Distribution in Algorand
Mehdi Fooladgar, Mohammad Hossein Manshaei, Murtuza Jadliwala +1
Algorand is a recent, open-source public or permissionless blockchain system that employs a novel proof-of-stake byzantine consensus protocol to efficiently scale the distributed t…
Light Ears: Information Leakage via Smart Lights
Anindya Maiti, Murtuza Jadliwala
Modern Internet-enabled smart lights promise energy efficiency and many additional capabilities over traditional lamps. However, these connected lights create a new attack surface,…
Side-Channel Inference Attacks on Mobile Keypads using Smartwatches
Anindya Maiti, Murtuza Jadliwala, Jibo He +1
Smartwatches enable many novel applications and are fast gaining popularity. However, the presence of a diverse set of on-board sensors provides an additional attack surface to mal…
Towards Inferring Mechanical Lock Combinations using Wrist-Wearables as a Side-Channel
Anindya Maiti, Ryan Heard, Mohd Sabra +1
Wrist-wearables such as smartwatches and fitness bands are equipped with a variety of high-precision sensors that support novel contextual and activity-based applications. The pres…