Tag Archives: security

ICS-Sniper: A Targeted Blackhole Attack on Encrypted ICS Traffic

Gargi Mitra, Chanyuan Liu, Pritam Dash, Yingao (Elaine) Yao, Alain Zhiyanov, Aastha Mehta, Karthik Pattabiraman. To appear in the Proceedings of the Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), 2027. (Acceptance rate: TBD). [ PDF (coming soon) | Talk ] (arXIV version)
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RVDebloater: Mode-based Adaptive Firmware Debloating for Robotic Vehicles

Mohsen Salehi and Karthik Pattabiraman. Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec), 2026. (Acceptance Rate: 32% for full papers). [ PDF | Talk ] (Code) Artifacts Available
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Requalizer: A Co-designed Information Flow Control and Quality of Service Management Framework

Kumseok Jung, Sathish Gopalakrishnan, Karthik Pattabiraman, To appear in the Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/Usenix International Middleware Conference (Middleware), 2026. (Acceptance rate: 20%). [ PDF | Talk ] (Code)
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ReSect: A Tool for Automated Analysis of Reentrancy Exploit Transactions on Blockchains

Yuqi Liu, Rui Xi, and Karthik Pattabiraman. Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2026. (Acceptance rate: 20%). [ PDF | Talk] (Code) Code Reproducible, Dataset Reproducible
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ARMOR: Attack-Resilient Reinforcement Learning Control for UAVs

Pritam Dash, Ethan Chan, Nathan P. Lawrence, Karthik Pattabiraman, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’26). (Acceptance Rate: 38%) [ PDF | Poster ] (Code) (arXIV version)

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Systems-Theoretic and Data-Driven Security Analysis in ML-enabled Medical Devices

Gargi Mitra, Mohammadreza Hallajiyan, Inji Kim, Athish Pranav Dharmalingam, Mohammed ElNawawy, Sharear Iqbal, Karthik Pattabiraman, Homa Alemzadeh. Springer Nature, 2026. (Invited) (arXIV version)
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Feed-Forward Controller-Based Recovery for Robotic Vehicles from Physical Attacks

Pritam Dash, Guanpeng Li, Zitao Chen, Mehdi Karimibiuki, Karthik Pattabiraman. To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). [ PDF ]
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Turnstile: Hybrid Information Flow Control Framework for Managing Privacy in Internet-of-Things Applications

Kumseok Jung, Mohanna Shahrad, Gargi Mitra, and Karthik Pattabiraman, Proceedings of the ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), 2026. (Acceptance Rate: 16.9%). [PDF | Talk] (Code) Artifacts Available, Functional and Results Reproduced.
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Anonymity Unveiled: A Practical Framework for Auditing Data Use in Deep Learning Models

Zitao Chen and Karthik Pattabiraman, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2025. (Acceptance Rate: 14.5%) [ PDF | Talk ] (Code) Artifacts Available, Functional and Results Reproduced

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RAVAGE: Robotic Autonomous Vehicles’ Attack Generation Engine

Pritam Dash and Karthik Pattabiraman, Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2025. (Acceptance Rate: 20.1%) [ PDF | Talk ]. (Code) Artifacts available, reviewed and reproducible.
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