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Welcome to Network Security and Privacy Research Lab, School of Computing, KAIST.
Welcome to Network Security and Privacy Research Lab, School of Computing, KAIST.
카이스트 네트워크 보안 및 프라이버시 연구실입니다.
카이스트 네트워크 보안 및 프라이버시 연구실입니다.
Min Suk Kang (School of Computing, KAIST) is leading NetS&P group.
We are interested in various security and privacy research on blockchain, 5G networks, IoT, and Internet protocols.
최근에 블록체인, 5G 시스템, IoT 시스템, 인터넷 프로토콜/구조 관련 보안/프라이버시 연구를 중점적으로 하고 있습니다.
Eager to invest in "world-class" security and privacy research? Join us!
"세계 최고 수준"의 네트워크 보안/프라이버시 연구를 통해 사회와 학문에 기여하고 싶으신 분들 (학부/석사/박사) 환영합니다.
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We have multiple positions open: PhD/master students and graduate/undergraduate interns.
If you are interested, please send me an email with your cv and schedule a call or a meeting.
News:
(2025/06) Min Suk (together with Se Eun Oh at Ewha Womans University and Seongmin Kim at Sungshin Women’s University) will lead the Global Basic Research Laboratory (KRW 1,500,000K from NRF) on the topic of Tor Security and Privacy.
(2025/05) New paper on Frontrunning Attacks against Blockchain Fair Ordering Systems has been conditionally accepted to ACM CCS 2025! Congrats Eunchan, Tae Ung, and Hocheol!
(2025/03) New paper on Users' Privacy Perception with Video Conferencing Tools has been accepted to PETS 2025! Congrats Hobin and Wonho!
(2025/02) A new master student is joining our group! Welcome Younsoo Kim (KAIST SoC)!
(2025/01) New paper on Novel Denial-of-Service (DoS) Attacks against Tor Onion Services has been accepted to USENIX Security 2025! Congrats Jinseo and Hobin!
(2024/12) New undergrad interns are joining our group. Welcome MoonJung Kim (KAIST SoC), Hoang Ngoc Bao Khue (KAIST SoC), Jongkook Han (KAIST SoC)!
(2024/11) New paper on Fork Sate-Aware Fuzzing for PoW/PoS Blockchains (Forky) has been accepted to ICSE 2025! Congrats Wonhoi and Hocheol (and Muoi and Amin; our former members)!
(2024/09) A new undergrad interns are joining our group. Welcome Yeonjong Jeong (KAIST SoC)!
(2024/09) New paper on DoH Downgrade Attacks and Bypass Strategies has been accepted to CoNEXT 2024! Congrats Jinseo!
(2024/09) A high-severity security bug we discovered in the Zoom platform has been assigned the CVE ID: CVE-2024-45424, and it earned us a $20,000 bug bounty. Congrats Seungwon and Wonho!
(2024/08) Our Eunchan Park has received the President's Award (IITP) for outstanding achievements presented at the '2024 Digital Innovation Talent Symposium,' based on our work on frontrunning attacks against fair-ordering blockchain systems.
(2024/08) New paper on Physical Localization of Uncooperative Cellular Devices has been accepted to MobiCom 2024!
(2024/06) Two new undergrad interns are joining our group. Welcome Ahmad Elmoursi (KAIST SoC), Aya Hamane (EPFL CS)!
(2024/05) Min Suk's work on blockchain technology has been selected as KAIST's Major Achievement in 14 Future Technology Areas.
(2023/03) Three new master students are joining our group! Welcome Dongpyeong Seo (KAIST GSIS), Jaewoo Park (KAIST GSIS), and Daehyun Lim (KAIST SoC)!
(2024/02) Sui Foundation funds our work on secure layer-2 sequencing. Thanks Sui Foundation!
(2023/12) LG funds our work on blockchain layer-2 security. Thanks LG-KAIST 6G Center!
(2023/11) Min Suk is serving as a PC at WiSec 2024.
(2023/09) A new master student is joining our group! Welcome Jinseo Lee (KAIST SoC)!
(2023/04) Min Suk is serving as a PC at NDSS 2024.
(2023/03) Min Suk is appointed as Kwon Oh-Hyun Endowed Assistant Professor for three-year term.
(2023/03) Three new master students are joining our group! Welcome Eunchan Park (KAIST GSIS), Taeung Yoon (KAIST GSIS), and Donghyeok Kim (KAIST SoC)!
(2023/02) Min Suk has been awarded College of Engineering’s Songam Distinguished Research Award.
(2023/01) New paper on Sustainability of Bitcoin Partitioning Attacks has been accepted to FC 2023! Congrats Jaehyun and Seungjin!
(2023/01) Min Suk is serving as a PC at ACM CCS 2023.
(2023/01) Four new undergraduate interns are joining our group! Welcome Jinseo Lee (KAIST SoC), Jaewon In (SNU CS), Dongpyeong Seo (KAIST SoC), and Byungkyu Kong (KAIST SoC)!
(2022/12) New paper on Partitioning Ethereum without Eclipsing It has been accepted to NDSS 2023. Congrats to Seungwon Woo and Tae Ung Yoon!
(2022/12) New paper on Preventing SIM Box Fraud Using Device Fingerprinting has been accepted to NDSS 2023!
(2022/08) Min Suk will be the founding co-director (along with Prateek Saxena at NUS) of the largest international Blockchain Research Center (BRC) in Asia (news: kor1, kor2, eng1, eng2). Thanks Klaytn Foundation!
(2022/07) Four new undergrad interns are joining our group. Welcome Taeung Yoon (Yonsei CS), Harin Kim (KAIST SoC), Seungmin Park (KAIST MS), and Amin Jalilov (KAIST SoC)!
(2022/04) Our alumni Dr. Nitya Lakshmanan will join School of Computing, NUS as a lecturer (teaching faculty member). Congrats Nitya!
(2022/03) Three new master students are joining our group! Welcome Wonhoi Kim (KAIST GSIS), Jaehyun Ha (KAIST GSIS), and Mintae Kim (KAIST SoC)!
(2022/02) Muoi has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Handling Network Attacks Exploiting Routing Information Asymmetries." Congrats Dr. Muoi Tran!
(2022/02) Nitya has successfully defended her PhD thesis titled "Risks and Use of Side Channels in Modern Wireless Systems." Congrats Dr. Nitya Lakshmanan!
(2022/02) Min Suk has been awarded The Soo-Young Lee Teaching Innovation Award (excellent prize).
(2022/02) Our recent work on Privacy Risk of Watching YouTube over Cellular Networks has been accepted to IMWUT/UbiComp 2022. Congrats to Nitya and Byoungjun!
(2022/01) Min Suk is serving as a PC at ACM CCS 2022 and ACM WiSec 2022.
(2022/01) One new undergrad intern is joining our group. Welcome Mintae Kim (Postech ITC)!
(2021/12) Two new undergrad interns are joining our group. Welcome Seohee Lee (KAIST SoC) and Junhyun Jang (KAIST SoC)!
(2021/12) Min Suk gave a talk at Department of Information and Communication Engineering at DGIST on Blockchain Security.
(2021/11) Our recent work on measuring block synchronization in Bitcoin has been accepted to FC 2022. Congrats to Seungjin, Hocheol, Yongwoo, and Muoi!
(2021/10) Min Suk had an interview with Arirang News In-Depth on Cyber Warfare and Ransomware.
(2021/09) We publish our recent findings on weak block synchronization in Bitcoin (Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2021/1282).
(2021/09) Min Suk is giving a talk at CS department at Yonsei University on Blockchain Security.
(2021/09) A new master student is joining our group. Welcome Hocheol Nam (KAIST GSIS)!
(2021/07) Our work on Defending against Network-Sybil Attacks in Bitcoin has been presented at The third workshop on Theory and Practice of Blockchains 2021. See the full presentation YouTube by Muoi Tran!
(2021/07) A new undergrad intern joins our group. Welcome Hobin Kim (KAIST SoC)!
(2021/04) Min Suk is listed as a Rising Star in the ICT field in Korea. See the interview.
(2021/03) Our recent work on Identifying DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) messages using Machine Learning has been accepted to IEEE EuroS&P 2021. Congrats to Levi and Himanshu!
(2021/02) Our recent work on Defending against Network-Sybil Attacks in Bitcoin has been accepted to USENIX Security 2021. Congrats to Muoi and Akshaye!
(2021/02) Min Suk won the NRF Young Researcher Program (2021-2024) on the topic of 5G/6G system side-channel security analysis.
(2021/02) Three new master students are joining our group. Welcome Byoungjun Choi (KAIST GSIS), Yong Woo Oh (KAIST GSIS), and SeungJin Baek (KAIST SoC)!
(2021/01) Three new undergrad interns are joining our group. Welcome JunSeoung Choi (KAIST SoC), Wonhoi Kim (KAIST SoC), and Yonatan Gizachew (KAIST EE)!
(2020/11) Our work is acknowledged in GSMA Mobile Security Hall of Fame and it is referenced CVD-2020-40. Congrats to Nitya!
(2020/10) Min Suk presented at ISEC 2020 on New Trends in Enterprise Network Security in the Post-COVID Era.
(2020/09) Our recent work on Location Privacy Attack in Modern Cellular Networks has been accepted to USENIX Security 2021. Congrats to Nitya!
(2020/09) Min Suk presented at the Graduate School Seminar at UNIST.
(2020/08) Min Suk is joining School of Computing at KAIST from 26 Aug 2020.
(2020/06) CoinDesk covers how the latest Bitcoin Core code tries to address our Erebus attack (but fails to fix it completely).
(2020/06) I will leave NUS and start a new network security & privacy research group at KAIST from August 2020.
(2020/05) Our Erebus attack (a Bitcoin partitioning attack) was presented at the online IEEE S&P 2020: see a 1-min video or a full video (project website)
(2020/03) Our recent work on Amplification DDoS defense utilizing programmable switches is accepted for presentation at IEEE NetSoft 2020. Congrats to Khooi!
(2019/11) I will be serving as a PC at ACM CCS 2020 and IEEE ICDCS 2020.
(2019/10) Muoi Tran (4th-year PhD) has won the 2019 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship. Congrats to Muoi!
(2019/10) Our recent work on DoS against Open vSwitches is accepted for presentation at the Open vSwitch 2019 Fall Conference. Congrats to Levente! paper
(2019/09) I was invited to give a talk on DDoS/Bitcoin attacks at KAIST, DGIST, Postech, Korea Univ, Tsinghua Univ. Talk slides can be found here.
(2019/09) Our paper on a novel Denial-of-Service attack against Open vSwitches has been accepted to ACM CoNEXT 2019. Congrats to Levente!
(2019/09) Institute for Information Industry (III), Taiwan funded our work on 5G security. Thanks III!
(2019/08) Our Erebus Bitcoin attack project webpage has been revamped! Please check this out.
(2019/08) Muoi Tran (4th-year PhD) receives Dean’s Graduate Research Excellence Award. Congrats to Muoi!
(2019/07) I was invited to give a talk on Bitcoin and 5G attacks at III, Taiwan.
(2019/07) Our paper on a Stealthy Partitioning Attack against Bitcoin has been accepted to IEEE S&P 2020. Congrats to Muoi, Inho, Gi Jun, Viet-Anh! paper
(2019/05) Muoi Tran (3rd-year PhD) has been awarded President’s Graduate Fellowship (PGF). Congrats to Muoi!
(2019/03) Our paper on Verifiable In-network Filtering for DDoS Defense has been accepted to IEEE ICDCS 2019. Congrats to Deli and Muoi!
(2019/03) Our paper on Detecting Surveillance Camera Looping Attacks via Wi-Fi has been accepted to ACM WiSec 2019. Congrats to Nitya!
(2018/12) Our paper on Transit-link DDoS Attacks and Defenses has been accepted to IEEE S&P 2019. Congrats to Muoi! (Link to the paper)
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