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USENIX Security Symposium

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490
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2,136
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August 13-15, 2025
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USA
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300 / 490 papers

  1. 1
    "Hello, is this Anna?": Unpacking the Lifecycle of Pig-Butchering Scams
    Rajvardhan Oak
    ,
    Zubair Shafiq
  2. 2
    "Helps me Take the Post With a Grain of Salt: " Soft Moderation Effects on Accuracy Perceptions and Sharing Intentions of Inauthentic Political Content on X
    Filipo Sharevski
    ,
    Verena Distler
    ,
    Florian Alt
  3. 3
    "I Cannot Write This Because It Violates Our Content Policy": Understanding Content Moderation Policies and User Experiences in Generative AI Products
    Lan Gao
    ,
    Oscar Chen
    ,
    Rachel Lee
    ,
    Nick Feamster
    ,
    Chenhao Tan
    ,
    Marshini Chetty
  4. 4
    "I have no idea how to make it safer": Studying Security and Privacy Mindsets of Browser Extension Developers
    Shubham Agarwal
    ,
    Rafael Mrowczynski
    ,
    Maria Hellenthal
    ,
    Ben Stock
  5. 5
    "I wasn't sure if this is indeed a security risk": Data-driven Understanding of Security Issue Reporting in GitHub Repositories of Open Source npm Packages
    Rajdeep Ghosh
    ,
    Shiladitya De
    ,
    Mainack Mondal
  6. 6
    "I'm regretting that I hit run": In-situ Assessment of Potential Malware
    Brandon Lit
    ,
    Edward Crowder
    ,
    Hassan Khan
    ,
    Daniel Vogel
  7. 7
    "I'm trying to learn...and I'm shooting myself in the foot": Beginners' Struggles When Solving Binary Exploitation Exercises
    James Mattei
    ,
    Christopher Pellegrini
    ,
    Matthew Soto
    ,
    Marina Sanusi Bohuk
    ,
    Daniel Votipka
  8. 8
    "It's not my responsibility to write them": An Empirical Study of Software Product Managers and Security Requirements
    Houda Naji
    ,
    Felix Reichmann
    ,
    Tobias Bruns
    ,
    M. Angela Sasse
    ,
    Alena Naiakshina
  9. 9
    "No, I Can't Be a Security Personnel on Your Phone": Security and Privacy Threats From Sharing Infrastructure in Rural Ghana
    Emmanuel Tweneboah
    ,
    Collins W. Munyendo
    ,
    Yixin Zou
  10. 10
    "Please don't send that bot anything": A Mixed-methods Study of Personal Impersonation Attacks Targeting Digital Payments on Social Media
    Hoang Dai Nguyen
    ,
    Sumit Dhungana
    ,
    Madhulika Itha
    ,
    Phani Vadrevu
  11. 11
    "That's my perspective from 30 years of doing this": An Interview Study on Practices, Experiences, and Challenges of Updating Cryptographic Code
    Alexander Krause
    ,
    Harjot Kaur
    ,
    Jan H. Klemmer
    ,
    Oliver Wiese
    ,
    Sascha Fahl
  12. 12
    "Threat modeling is very formal, it's very technical, and also very hard to do correctly": Investigating Threat Modeling Practices in Open-Source Software Projects
    Harjot Kaur
    ,
    Carson Powers
    ,
    Ronald E. Thompson III
    ,
    Sascha Fahl
    ,
    Daniel Votipka
  13. 13
    "TikTok, Do Your Thing": User Reactions to Social Surveillance in the Public Sphere
    Meira Gilbert
    ,
    Miranda Wei
    ,
    Lindah Kotut
  14. 14
    "We are not Future-ready": Understanding AI Privacy Risks and Existing Mitigation Strategies from the Perspective of AI Developers in Europe
    Alexandra Klymenko
    ,
    Stephen Meisenbacher
    ,
    Patrick Gage Kelley
    ,
    Sai Teja Peddinti
    ,
    Kurt Thomas
    ,
    Florian Matthes
  15. 15
    "You go now! No trouble!" Understanding the Offboarding Process in Companies from an IT Security Perspective
    Christina Detsika
    ,
    Timo Jagusch
    ,
    Nora Weidner
    ,
    Larissa Weir
    ,
    Florin Martius
    ,
    Christian Tiefenau
  16. 16
    'Hey mum, I dropped my phone down the toilet': Investigating Hi Mum and Dad SMS Scams in the United Kingdom
    Sharad Agarwal
    ,
    Emma Harvey
    ,
    Enrico Mariconti
    ,
    Guillermo Suarez-Tangil
    ,
    Marie Vasek
  17. 17
    19th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies, WOOT 2025, Seattle, WA, USA, August 11-12, 2025
    Jiska Classen
    ,
    Alyssa Milburn
  18. 18
    34th USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX Security 2025, Seattle, WA, USA, August 13-15, 2025
    Lujo Bauer
    ,
    Giancarlo Pellegrino
  19. 19
    A Comprehensive Formal Security Analysis of OPC UA
    Vincent Diemunsch
    ,
    Lucca Hirschi
    ,
    Steve Kremer
  20. 20
    A Crack in the Bark: Leveraging Public Knowledge to Remove Tree-Ring Watermarks
    Junhua Lin
    ,
    Marc Juarez
  21. 21
    A First Look at Governments' Enterprise Security Guidance
    Kimberly Ruth
    ,
    Raymond Buernor Obu
    ,
    Ifeoluwa Shode
    ,
    Gavin Li
    ,
    Carrie Gates
    ,
    Grant Ho
    ,
    Zakir Durumeric
  22. 22
    A Formal Analysis of Apple's iMessage PQ3 Protocol
    Felix Linker
    ,
    Ralf Sasse
    ,
    David A. Basin
  23. 23
    A Framework for Abusability Analysis: The Case of Passkeys in Interpersonal Threat Models
    Alaa Daffalla
    ,
    Arkaprabha Bhattacharya
    ,
    Jacob Wilder
    ,
    Rahul Chatterjee
    ,
    Nicola Dell
    ,
    Rosanna Bellini
    ,
    Thomas Ristenpart
  24. 24
    A Framework for Designing Provably Secure Steganography
    Guorui Liao
    ,
    Jinshuai Yang
    ,
    Weizhi Shao
    ,
    Yongfeng Huang
  25. 25
    A limited technical background is sufficient for attack-defense tree acceptability
    Nathan Daniel Schiele
    ,
    Olga Gadyatskaya
  26. 26
    A Mixed-Methods Study of Open-Source Software Maintainers On Vulnerability Management and Platform Security Features
    Jessy Ayala
    ,
    Yu-Jye Tung
    ,
    Joshua Garcia
  27. 27
    A Stakeholder-Based Framework to Highlight Tensions when Implementing Privacy Features
    Julia Netter
    ,
    Tim Nelson
    ,
    Skyler Austen
    ,
    Eva Lau
    ,
    Colton Rusch
    ,
    Malte Schwarzkopf
    ,
    Kathi Fisler
  28. 28
    A Tale of Two Worlds, a Formal Story of WireGuard Hybridization
    Pascal Lafourcade
    ,
    Dhekra Mahmoud
    ,
    Sylvain Ruhault
    ,
    Abdul Rahman Taleb
  29. 29
    A Thorough Security Analysis of BLE Proximity Tracking Protocols
    Xiaofeng Liu
    ,
    Chaoshun Zuo
    ,
    Qinsheng Hou
    ,
    Pengcheng Ren
    ,
    Jianliang Wu
    ,
    Qingchuan Zhao
    ,
    Shanqing Guo
  30. 30
    Abusability of Automation Apps in Intimate Partner Violence
    Shirley Zhang
    ,
    Paul Chung
    ,
    Jacob Vervelde
    ,
    Nishant Korapati
    ,
    Rahul Chatterjee
    ,
    Kassem Fawaz
  31. 31
    Achilles: A Formal Framework of Leaking Secrets from Signature Schemes via Rowhammer
    Junkai Liang
    ,
    Zhi Zhang
    ,
    Xin Zhang
    ,
    Qingni Shen
    ,
    Yansong Gao
    ,
    Xingliang Yuan
    ,
    Haiyang Xue
    ,
    Pengfei Wu
    ,
    Zhonghai Wu
  32. 32
    Activation Approximations Can Incur Safety Vulnerabilities in Aligned LLMs: Comprehensive Analysis and Defense
    Jiawen Zhang
    ,
    Kejia Chen
    ,
    Lipeng He
    ,
    Jian Lou
    ,
    Dan Li
    ,
    Zunlei Feng
    ,
    Mingli Song
    ,
    Jian Liu
    ,
    Kui Ren
    ,
    Xiaohu Yang
  33. 33
    Addressing Sensitivity Distinction in Local Differential Privacy: A General Utility-Optimized Framework
    Xingyu He
    ,
    Youwen Zhu
    ,
    Rongke Liu
    ,
    Gaoning Pan
    ,
    Changyu Dong
  34. 34
    Addressing the Address Books' (Interdependent) Privacy Issues
    Kavous Salehzadeh Niksirat
    ,
    Lev Velykoivanenko
    ,
    Samuel Mätzler
    ,
    Stephan Mulders
    ,
    Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux
    ,
    Marc-Olivier Boldi
    ,
    Mathias Humbert
    ,
    Kévin Huguenin
  35. 35
    Adopting AI to Protect Industrial Control Systems: Assessing Challenges and Opportunities from the Operators' Perspective
    Clement Fung
    ,
    Eric Zeng
    ,
    Lujo Bauer
  36. 36
    AGNNCert: Defending Graph Neural Networks against Arbitrary Perturbations with Deterministic Certification
    Jiate Li
    ,
    Binghui Wang
  37. 37
    AidFuzzer: Adaptive Interrupt-Driven Firmware Fuzzing via Run-Time State Recognition
    Jianqiang Wang
    ,
    Qinying Wang
    ,
    Tobias Scharnowski
    ,
    Li Shi
    ,
    Simon Wörner
    ,
    Thorsten Holz
  38. 38
    Aion: Robust and Efficient Multi-Round Single-Mask Secure Aggregation Against Malicious Participants
    Yizhong Liu
    ,
    Zixiao Jia
    ,
    Xiao Chen
    ,
    Song Bian
    ,
    Runhua Xu
    ,
    Dawei Li
    ,
    Yuan Lu
  39. 39
    AirTag-Facilitated Stalking Protection: Evaluating Unwanted Tracking Notifications and Tracker Locating Features
    Dañiel Gerhardt
    ,
    Matthias Fassl
    ,
    Carolyn Guthoff
    ,
    Adrian Dabrowski
    ,
    Katharina Krombholz
  40. 40
    AKMA+: Security and Privacy-Enhanced and Standard-Compatible AKMA for 5G Communication
    Yang Yang
    ,
    Guomin Yang
    ,
    Yingjiu Li
    ,
    Minming Huang
    ,
    Zilin Shen
    ,
    Imtiaz Karim
    ,
    Ralf Sasse
    ,
    David A. Basin
    ,
    Elisa Bertino
    ,
    Jian Weng
    ,
    HweeHwa Pang
    ,
    Robert H. Deng
  41. 41
    ALERT: Machine Learning-Enhanced Risk Estimation for Databases Supporting Encrypted Queries
    Longxiang Wang
    ,
    Lei Xu
    ,
    Yufei Chen
    ,
    Ying Zou
    ,
    Cong Wang
  42. 42
    Am I Infected? Lessons from Operating a Large-Scale IoT Security Diagnostic Service
    Takayuki Sasaki
    ,
    Tomoya Inazawa
    ,
    Youhei Yamaguchi
    ,
    Simon Parkin
    ,
    Michel van Eeten
    ,
    Katsunari Yoshioka
    ,
    Tsutomu Matsumoto
  43. 43
    An Industry Interview Study of Software Signing for Supply Chain Security
    Kelechi G. Kalu
    ,
    Tanmay Singla
    ,
    Chinenye Okafor
    ,
    Santiago Torres-Arias
    ,
    James C. Davis
  44. 44
    Analyzing the AI Nudification Application Ecosystem
    Cassidy Gibson
    ,
    Daniel Olszewski
    ,
    Natalie Grace Brigham
    ,
    Anna Crowder
    ,
    Kevin R. B. Butler
    ,
    Patrick Traynor
    ,
    Elissa M. Redmiles
    ,
    Tadayoshi Kohno
  45. 45
    APPATCH: Automated Adaptive Prompting Large Language Models for Real-World Software Vulnerability Patching
    Yu Nong
    ,
    Haoran Yang
    ,
    Long Cheng
    ,
    Hongxin Hu
    ,
    Haipeng Cai
  46. 46
    Approve Once, Regret Forever: On the Exploitation of Ethereum's Approve-TransferFrom Ecosystem
    Nicola Ruaro
    ,
    Fabio Gritti
    ,
    Dongyu Meng
    ,
    Robert McLaughlin
    ,
    Ilya Grishchenko
    ,
    Christopher Kruegel
    ,
    Giovanni Vigna
  47. 47
    Approximation Enforced Execution of Untrusted Linux Kernel Extensions
    Hao Sun
    ,
    Zhendong Su
  48. 48
    Arbitrary-Threshold Fully Homomorphic Encryption with Lower Complexity
    Yijia Chang
    ,
    Songze Li
  49. 49
    Are CAPTCHAs Still Bot-hard? Generalized Visual CAPTCHA Solving with Agentic Vision Language Model
    Xiwen Teoh
    ,
    Yun Lin
    ,
    Siqi Li
    ,
    Ruofan Liu
    ,
    Avi Sollomoni
    ,
    Yaniv Harel
    ,
    Jin Song Dong
  50. 50
    Ares: Comprehensive Path Hijacking Detection via Routing Tree
    Yinxiang Tao
    ,
    Chengwan Zhang
    ,
    Changqing An
    ,
    Shuying Zhuang
    ,
    Jilong Wang
    ,
    Congcong Miao