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Linux Containers, such as those managed by Docker, are an increasingly popular way to package and deploy complex applications. However, the fundamental security primitive of network access control for a distributed microservice deployment…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Cornelius Diekmann , Johannes Naab , Andreas Korsten , Georg Carle

With the increasing popularity of AArch64 processors in general-purpose computing, securing software running on AArch64 systems against control-flow hijacking attacks has become a critical part toward secure computation. Shadow stacks keep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Zhuojia Shen , John Criswell

EIP-7702 introduces a delegation-based authorization mechanism that allows an externally owned account (EOA) to authenticate a single authorization tuple, after which all subsequent calls are routed to arbitrary delegate code. We show that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Minfeng Qi , Qin Wang , Ruiqiang Li , Tianqing Zhu , Shiping Chen

HAL is an open-source framework for gate-level netlist analysis, an integral step in hardware reverse engineering. It provides analysts with an interactive GUI, an extensible plugin system, and APIs in both C++ and Python for rapid…

Broken Access Control (BAC) remains one of the most critical and widespread vulnerabilities in web applications, allowing attackers to access unauthorized resources or perform privileged actions. Despite its severity, BAC is underexplored…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 I Putu Arya Dharmaadi , Mohannad Alhanahnah , Van-Thuan Pham , Fadi Mohsen , Fatih Turkmen

In modern server CPUs, the Last-Level Cache (LLC) serves not only as a victim cache for higher-level private caches but also as a buffer for low-latency DMA transfers between CPU cores and I/O devices through Direct Cache Access (DCA).…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Haneul Park , Jiaqi Lou , Sangjin Lee , Yifan Yuan , Kyoung Soo Park , Yongseok Son , Ipoom Jeong , Nam Sung Kim

Intrusion detection into computer networks has become one of the most important issues in cybersecurity. Attackers keep on researching and coding to discover new vulnerabilities to penetrate information security system. In consequence…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Sergio Hidalgo-Espinoza , Kevin Chamorro-Cupueran , Oscar Chang-Tortolero

Recent research has shown that hardware fuzzers can effectively detect security vulnerabilities in modern processors. However, existing hardware fuzzers do not fuzz well the hard-to-reach design spaces. Consequently, these fuzzers cannot…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Chen Chen , Rahul Kande , Nathan Nguyen , Flemming Andersen , Aakash Tyagi , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Jeyavijayan Rajendran

In this technical report, we present HW2VEC [11], an open-source graph learning tool for hardware security, and its implementation details (Figure 1). HW2VEC provides toolboxes for graph representation extraction in the form of Data Flow…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Yasamin Moghaddas , Tommy Nguyen , Shih-Yuan Yu , Rozhin Yasaei , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

Timing-based side and covert channels in processor caches continue to be a threat to modern computers. This work shows for the first time a systematic, large-scale analysis of Arm devices and the detailed results of attacks the processors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Shuwen Deng , Nikolay Matyunin , Wenjie Xiong , Stefan Katzenbeisser , Jakub Szefer

The increasing sophistication of cyber threats demands novel approaches to characterize adversarial strategies, particularly those targeting critical infrastructure and IoT ecosystems. This paper presents a longitudinal analysis of attacker…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tonia Haikal , Eman Hammad , Shereen Ismail

We constructed a newly large-scale and comprehensive C/C++ vulnerability dataset named MegaVul by crawling the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database and CVE-related open-source projects. Specifically, we collected all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Chao Ni , Liyu Shen , Xiaohu Yang , Yan Zhu , Shaohua Wang

Hardware aliasing occurs when the same logical address can access different physical memory locations. This is a problem for software on some embedded systems and more generally when hardware becomes faulty in irretrievable locations, such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Peter T. Breuer

Being on a mushrooming spree since at least 2013, malware can take a large toll on any system. In a perpetual cat-and-mouse chase with defenders, malware writers constantly conjure new methods to hide their code so as to evade detection by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Efstratios Chatzoglou , Georgios Karopoulos , Georgios Kambourakis , Zisis Tsiatsikas

Hardware-based Trusted execution environments (TEEs) offer an isolation granularity of virtual machine abstraction. They provide confidential VMs (CVMs) that host security-sensitive code and data. AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX enable CVMs and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Benedict Schlüter , Supraja Sridhara , Mark Kuhne , Andrin Bertschi , Shweta Shinde

Command and Control (C2) communication is a key component of any structured cyber-attack. As such, security operations actively try to detect this type of communication in their networks. This poses a problem for legitimate pentesters that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Gonçalo Xavier , Carlos Novo , Ricardo Morla

According to Gartner, more than 70% of organizations will have integrated AI models into their workflows by the end of 2025. In order to reduce cost and foster innovation, it is often the case that pre-trained models are fetched from model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Mohamed Nabeel , Oleksii Starov

Personal AI agents like OpenClaw run with elevated privileges on users' local machines, where a single successful prompt injection can leak credentials, redirect financial transactions, or destroy files. This threat goes well beyond…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Bowen Wei , Yunbei Zhang , Jinhao Pan , Kai Mei , Xiao Wang , Jihun Hamm , Ziwei Zhu , Yingqiang Ge

Cloud environments face frequent DDoS threats due to centralized resources and broad attack surfaces. Modern cloud-native DDoS attacks further evolve rapidly and often blend multi-vector strategies, creating an operational dilemma:…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Haodong Chen , Ziheng Zhang , Jinghui Jiang , Qiang Su , Qiao Xiang

Modern cyber attackers use advanced zero-day exploits, highly targeted spear phishing, and other social engineering techniques to gain access and also use evasion techniques to maintain a prolonged presence within the victim network while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Bibek Bhattarai , H. Howie Huang