Below you will find just some of the cyber security research published by Imperial academics in 2024. If you are an Imperial academic and wish for your paper to be added, please contact Soteris Demetriou.

  • Stevanoski, Bozhidar, Ana-Maria Cretu, and Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye. "Querycheetah: Fast automated discovery of attribute inference attacks against query-based systems." In Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pp. 3451-3465. 2024. Distinguished Paper Award
  • Ali, Mir Masood, Peter Snyder, Chris Kanich, and Hamed Haddadi. 2024. “Unbundle-Rewrite-Rebundle: Runtime Detection and Rewriting of Privacy-Harming Code in JavaScript Bundles.” ACM CCS 24.
  • Lepipas, Anastasios, Anastasia Borovykh, and Soteris Demetriou. “Username Squatting on Online Social Networks: A Study on X.” ACSAC 2024. https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09209.
  • Ling, Cong, Jingbo Liu, and Andrew Mendelsohn. 2024. “On the spinor genus and the distinguishing lattice isomorphism problem.” ASIACRYPT 2024. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-96-0894-2_11.
  • Capraru, Richard, Emil C. Lupu, Soteris Demetriou, Jian-Gang Wang, and Boon Hee Soong. 2024. “Rain-Reaper: Unmasking LiDAR-based Detector Vulnerabilities in Rain.” IROS 2024. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10801716/.
  • Woszczyk, Dominika, Ranya Aloufi, and Soteris Demetriou. 2024. “Prosody-Driven Privacy-Preserving Dementia Detection,.” Interspeech 2024. https://www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_2024/woszczyk24_interspeech.pdf.
  • Meeus, M, I Shilov, S Jain, M Faysse, M Rei, and YA de Montjoye. 2024. “SoK: Membership Inference Attacks on LLMs are Rushing Nowhere (and How to Fix It).” IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML). https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10992321/. Best Paper Award
  • Belkhiter, Y., G. Zizzo, and S. Maffeis. 2024. “HarmLevelBench: Evaluating Harm-Level Compliance and the Impact of Quantization on Model Alignment.” SafeGenAI@NeurIPS 2024. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.06835.
  • Christodoulou, P., G. Zizzo, and S. Maffeis. 2024. “MED: Exploring LLM Memorization on Encrypted Data.” SafeGenAI@NeurIPS 2024. https://openreview.net/forum?id=PyjNg6Y5WG.
  • You, Chengzeng, Zhongyuan Hau, Binbin Xu, and Soteris Demetriou. 2024. “Adversarial 3D Virtual Patches using Integrated Gradients.” IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW) 2024. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10579517. Distinguished Paper Award

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