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Android apps rely heavily on Data Manipulation Functionalities (DMFs) for handling app-specific data through CRUDS operations, making their correctness vital for reliability. However, detecting Data Manipulation Errors (DMEs) is challenging…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xiangyang Xiao , Huaxun Huang , Rongxin Wu

Many modern software systems are enabled by deep learning libraries such as TensorFlow and PyTorch. As deep learning is now prevalent, the security of deep learning libraries is a key concern. Fuzzing deep learning libraries presents two…

In modern software development, vulnerability detection is crucial due to the inevitability of bugs and vulnerabilities in complex software systems. Effective detection and elimination of these vulnerabilities during the testing phase are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Christopher Scherb , Luc Bryan Heitz , Hermann Grieder

The astonishing spread of Android OS, not only in smartphones and tablets but also in IoT devices, makes this operating system a very tempting target for malware threats. Indeed, the latter are expanding at a similar rate. In this respect,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-21 ElMouatez Billah Karbab , Mourad Debbabi , Saed Alrabaee , Djedjiga Mouheb

Dynamic symbolic execution is a widely used technique for automated software testing, designed for execution paths exploration and program errors detection. A hybrid approach has recently become widespread, when the main goal of symbolic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Daniil Kuts

Fuzz testing is one of the most effective techniques for finding software vulnerabilities. While modern fuzzers can generate inputs and monitor executions automatically, the overall workflow, from analyzing a codebase, to configuring…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Max Bazalii , Marius Fleischer

Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained widespread use in various applications due to their powerful capability to generate human-like text. However, prompt injection attacks, which involve overwriting a model's original instructions with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Jiahao Yu , Yangguang Shao , Hanwen Miao , Junzheng Shi

SpecFuzz is the first tool that enables dynamic testing for speculative execution vulnerabilities (e.g., Spectre). The key is a novel concept of speculation exposure: The program is instrumented to simulate speculative execution in software…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Oleksii Oleksenko , Bohdan Trach , Mark Silberstein , Christof Fetzer

Ethereum is a distributed, peer-to-peer blockchain infrastructure that has attracted billions of dollars. Perhaps due to its success, Ethereum has become a target for various kinds of attacks, motivating researchers to explore different…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ismael Medeiros , Fausto Carvalho , Alexandre Ferreira , Rodrigo Bonifácio , Fabiano Cavalcanti Fernandes

Due to its open-source nature, the Android operating system has consistently been a primary target for attackers. Learning-based methods have made significant progress in the field of Android malware detection. However, traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Xingyuan Wei , Zijun Cheng , Ning Li , Qiujian Lv , Ziyang Yu , Degang Sun

Autonomous vehicles (AVs), equipped with numerous sensors such as camera, LiDAR, radar, and ultrasonic sensor, are revolutionizing the transportation industry. These sensors are expected to sense reliable information from a physical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Jianzhi Lou , Qiben Yan , Qing Hui , Huacheng Zeng

Modern self-driving perception systems have been shown to improve upon processing complementary inputs such as LiDAR with images. In isolation, 2D images have been found to be extremely vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Yet, there have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 James Tu , Huichen Li , Xinchen Yan , Mengye Ren , Yun Chen , Ming Liang , Eilyan Bitar , Ersin Yumer , Raquel Urtasun

Detecting semantic backdoors in classification models--where some classes can be activated by certain natural, but out-of-distribution inputs--is an important problem that has received relatively little attention. Semantic backdoors are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Arpad Berta , Gabor Danner , Istvan Hegedus , Mark Jelasity

Nowadays automated dynamic analysis frameworks for continuous testing are in high demand to ensure software safety and satisfy the security development lifecycle (SDL) requirements. The security bug hunting efficiency of cutting-edge hybrid…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Alexey Vishnyakov , Daniil Kuts , Vlada Logunova , Darya Parygina , Eli Kobrin , Georgy Savidov , Andrey Fedotov

In this paper, we propose an effective and easily deployable approach to detect the presence of stealthy sensor attacks in industrial control systems, where (legacy) control devices critically rely on accurate (and usually non-encrypted)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Suman Sourav , Binbin Chen

Fuzzing has proven to be a highly effective approach to uncover software bugs over the past decade. After AFL popularized the groundbreaking concept of lightweight coverage feedback, the field of fuzzing has seen a vast amount of scientific…

In the past few years, several attacks against the vulnerabilities of EOSIO smart contracts have caused severe financial losses to this prevalent blockchain platform. As a lightweight test-generation approach, grey-box fuzzing can open up…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Jianfei Zhou , Tianxing Jiang , Shuwei Song , Ting Chen

Security is one of the major concerns in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks (IWSNs). To assure the security in clustered IWSNs, this paper presents a secure clustering protocol with fuzzy trust evaluation and outlier detection (SCFTO).…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Liu Yang , Yinzhi Lu , Simon X. Yang , Tan Guo , Zhifang Liang

To demonstrate and address the underlying maliciousness, we propose a theoretical hypothesis and analytical approach, and introduce a new black-box jailbreak attack methodology named IntentObfuscator, exploiting this identified flaw by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Shang Shang , Xinqiang Zhao , Zhongjiang Yao , Yepeng Yao , Liya Su , Zijing Fan , Xiaodan Zhang , Zhengwei Jiang

Deep learning (DL) techniques are proven effective in many challenging tasks, and become widely-adopted in practice. However, previous work has shown that DL libraries, the basis of building and executing DL models, contain bugs and can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Jiazhen Gu , Xuchuan Luo , Yangfan Zhou , Xin Wang