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Computer-Use Agents (CUAs) with full system access enable powerful task automation but pose significant security and privacy risks due to their ability to manipulate files, access user data, and execute arbitrary commands. While prior work…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Tri Cao , Bennett Lim , Yue Liu , Yuan Sui , Yuexin Li , Shumin Deng , Lin Lu , Nay Oo , Shuicheng Yan , Bryan Hooi

Using head-mounted Virtual Reality (VR) displays to simulate driving is critical to studying driving behavior and designing driver assistance systems. But existing VR driving simulators are often limited to tracking only eye movements. The…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Nishanth Chidambaram , Weichen Liu , Manas Satish Bedmutha , Nadir Weibel , Chen Chen

Vision-Language Model (VLM) based Web Agents represent a significant step towards automating complex tasks by simulating human-like interaction with websites. However, their deployment in uncontrolled web environments introduces significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Haowei Wang , Junjie Wang , Xiaojun Jia , Rupeng Zhang , Mingyang Li , Zhe Liu , Yang Liu , Qing Wang

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in developing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) capable of processing both textual and visual inputs. These models have demonstrated impressive performance, leading to their widespread adoption in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Hanene F. Z. Brachemi Meftah , Wassim Hamidouche , Sid Ahmed Fezza , Olivier Déforges

The current amount of IoT devices and their limitations has come to serve as a motivation for malicious entities to take advantage of such devices and use them for their own gain. To protect against cyberattacks in IoT devices, Machine…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Vitalina Holubenko , Paulo Silva , Carlos Bento

Machine learning (ML), driven by prominent paradigms such as centralized and federated learning, has made significant progress in various critical applications ranging from autonomous driving to face recognition. However, its remarkable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Zheng Li , Siyuan Wu , Ruichuan Chen , Paarijaat Aditya , Istemi Ekin Akkus , Manohar Vanga , Min Zhang , Hao Li , Yang Zhang

Cache side-channel attacks lead to severe security threats to the settings that a CPU is shared across users, e.g., in the cloud. The existing attacks rely on sensing the micro-architectural state changes made by victims, and this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Junpeng Wan , Yanxiang Bi , Zhe Zhou , Zhou Li

This paper introduces a new attack on recent messaging systems that protect communication metadata. The main observation is that if an adversary manages to compromise a user's friend, it can use this compromised friend to learn information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Sebastian Angel , David Lazar , Ioanna Tzialla

With the rising interest in Virtual Reality and the fast development and improvement of available devices, new features of interactions are becoming available. One of them that is becoming very popular is hand tracking, as the idea to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons , Tanja Kojić , Danish Ali , Sebastian Möller

Enterprises are constantly under attack from sophisticated adversaries. These adversaries use a variety of techniques to first gain access to the enterprise, then spread laterally inside its networks, establish persistence, and finally…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Sumanth Rao

This paper reports on a study exploring user experiences with suspicious emails and associated warnings when accessed through virtual reality (VR) headsets in realistic settings. A group of (n=20) Apple Vision Pro and another group of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Filipo Sharevski , Jennifer Vander Loop , Sarah Ferguson

Social Virtual Reality (VR) emerges as a promising platform bringing immersive, interactive, and engaging mechanisms for collaborative activities in virtual spaces. However, interpersonal communication in social VR is still limited with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yu Zhang , Yi Wen , Siying Hu , Zhicong Lu

A Webview embeds a full-fledged browser in a mobile application and allows the application to expose a custom interface to JavaScript code. This is a popular technique to build so-called hybrid applications, but it circumvents the usual…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Claudio Rizzo , Lorenzo Cavallaro , Johannes Kinder

The significant advancements in embodied vision navigation have raised concerns about its susceptibility to adversarial attacks exploiting deep neural networks. Investigating the adversarial robustness of embodied vision navigation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Meng Chen , Jiawei Tu , Chao Qi , Yonghao Dang , Feng Zhou , Wei Wei , Jianqin Yin

Threat hunting is a proactive methodology for exploring, detecting and mitigating cyberattacks within complex environments. As opposed to conventional detection systems, threat hunting strategies assume adversaries have infiltrated the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Ángel Casanova Bienzobas , Alfonso Sánchez-Macián

Metaverse, as an evolving paradigm of the next-generation Internet, aims to build a fully immersive, hyper spatiotemporal, and self-sustaining virtual shared space for humans to play, work, and socialize. Driven by recent advances in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Yuntao Wang , Zhou Su , Ning Zhang , Rui Xing , Dongxiao Liu , Tom H. Luan , Xuemin Shen

Honeypots are deception systems that emulate vulnerable services to collect threat intelligence. While deploying many honeypots increases the opportunity to observe attacker behaviour, in practise network and computational resources limit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Federico Mirra , Matteo Boffa , Idilio Drago , Danilo Giordano , Marco Mellia

The convergence of artificial AI and XR technologies (AI XR) promises innovative applications across many domains. However, the sensitive nature of data (e.g., eye-tracking) used in these systems raises significant privacy concerns, as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Ripan Kumar Kundu , Istiak Ahmed , Khaza Anuarul Hoque

Virtual Reality (VR) is expected to be one of the killer-applications in 5G networks. However, many technical bottlenecks and challenges need to be overcome to facilitate its wide adoption. In particular, VR requirements in terms of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Mohammed S. Elbamby , Cristina Perfecto , Mehdi Bennis , Klaus Doppler

Virtual Reality (VR) has emerged as a transformative technology across industries, yet its security weaknesses, including vulnerabilities, are underinvestigated. This study investigates 334 VR projects hosted on GitHub, examining 1,681…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Yifan Xu , Jinfu Chen , Zhenyu Qi , Huashan Chen , Junyi Wang , Pengfei Hu , Feng Liu , Sen He