News - Networked Systems and Security Research Lab

30-03-2025 Paper ‘G-DCAP: Stealthy Adversarial Attacks on Multi-Sensor IoT Systems’ accepted in IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT 2025). Congratulations to Ravin and Naveen!
06-03-2025 Paper ‘Detecting and Characterising Mobile App Metamorphosis in Google Play Store’ accepted in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). Congratulations to Dishanika and Bhanuka!
20-02-2025 Paper ‘Out-of-Distribution Data: An Acquaintance of Adversarial Examples – A Survey’ accepted in ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR). Congratulations to Naveen and Ravin!
13-02-2025 Dr. Suranga was quoted in Capital Brief in the article “Australia’s DeepSeek Ban ‘Challenging to Enforce’ Due to Open-Source Code“.
06-02-2025 Paper ‘BERTDetect: A Neural Topic Modelling Approach for Android Malware Detection’ accepted in TempWeb 2025. Congratulations to Nishavi and Jiarui!
31-01-2025 Paper ‘Quantifying and Exploiting Adversarial Vulnerability: Gradient-Based Input Pre-Filtering for Enhanced Performance in Black-Box Attacks’ accepted in ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS). Congratulations to Naveen, Bhanuka, and Yasod!
21-01-2025 Short paper ‘A Framework to Assess Multilingual Vulnerabilities of LLMs’ accepted to The Web Conference (WWW). Congratulations to Likai, Niruth, Yasod, Jiarui, Shixuan.
15-01-2025 Paper ‘ExCeL: Combined Extreme and Collective Logit Information for Out-of-Distribution Detection’ accepted in Transactions on Machine Learning Research. Congratulations Naveen !!
07-01-2025 Paper ‘LLMs are One-Shot URL Classifiers and Explainers’ accepted in Elsevier Computer Networks. Congratulations to Fariza and Nishavi!
10/12/2024 Dishanika’s talk, titled “Betrayed By Apps: Detecting Mobile App Content Rating Malpractices At-Scale”, was accepted for the 2025 Australian Cyber Conference – Canberra Edition, which will be held from 17-19 March 2024. Congratulations Dishanika !!
28/11/2024 Naveen received the Faculty Career Advancement Award to continue his research in OOD robustness of Deep Neural Networks. Congratulations Naveen !!
22/11/2024 – Research poster accepted to the ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2025. Congratulations, Akila!
02/11/2024 – Fariza Rashid won the Best Cybersecurity Application Prize at the 2024 School of Computer Science Research Showcase. Congratulations!
28/10/2024 Research Paper Accepted to IEEE/CVF WACV. Congratulations, Naveen.
27/10/2024 Mohit Malik joined NSS Labs as a PhD student, conducting research in AI Governance. Welcome aboard, Mohit.
11/10/2024 – Our paper received the Best Paper Award at the 49th IEEE Local Computer Networks Conference. Congratulations to Niruth and Yasiru!
08/10/2024 – Congratulations to Thilni for winning the Best Paper Award at the Engineering Excellence Awards 2024, presented by The Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka (NSW Chapter)
19/09/2024 Cyber & Pizza – In collaboration with SYNCS, NSS Labs hosted a workshop on Open Source Intelligence.
16/09/2024 Pasindu Marasinge joined NSS Labs as a PhD student, conducting research in multi-objective optimization for industry processes. Welcome aboard, Pasindu.
13/09/2024 Research Paper Accepted to IEEE BuildSec. Congratulations, Bhanuka and Dishanika.
05/09/2024 Cyber & Pizza – In collaboration with SYNCS, NSS Labs hosted a workshop on Digital forensics.
22/08/2024 Dr. Suranga Seneviratne was interviewed by ABC News about recent Booking.com scams.
21/08/2024 The NSS Labs team conducted a cyber competition for Bonnyrigg High School.
15/08/2024 Bhanuka Silva’s talk, titled “Even Large Language Models Can’t Understand Privacy Policies: Towards Building LLM-Based Solutions to Make Privacy Policies More User-Friendly,” was accepted for the 2024 Australian Cyber Conference – Melbourne Edition, which will be held from 26-28 November 2024.
07/08/2024 Dr. Suranga Seneviratne was interviewed by SBS News about the risks of software updates from third-party companies.
05/08/2024 Dr. Charika De Alvis receives a two-year fellowship from NIPG scheme.
05/08/2024 NSS Labs received funding from the NISDRG Scheme.
31/07/2024 Gaurav Verma joined NSS Labs as a PhD student, conducting research in Wireless/IoT Security. Welcome aboard, Gaurav.
2024-06-27 Dr Suranga Seneviratne was interviewed by SBS on seasonal trends of scam messages.
2024-06-19 Research Paper Accepted to AINTEC. Congratulations Yasod and Thilini.
2024-05-30 Dr. Suranga Seneviratne gave an invited talk to ISC2 Colombo Chapter on Security and Privacy risks of AI.
2024-05-28 Naveen gave a talk to Axiata Digital Labs on “Beyond the Known: Advances in Out-of-Distribution Detection in Deep Learning”.
2024-05-24 Cyber & Pizza is back again. Dr Suranga Seneviratne and Yasod Ginige, in collaboration with SYNCS, hosted the second workshop in the series on practical pen-testing.
2024-05-15 Dr. Suranga Seneviratne was featured in this year’s USYD alumni magazine.
2024-05-06 Fariza received a university-level “Grant in Aid” travel scholarship to attend Oxford ML Summer School and visit the University of Southampton. Congratulations, Fariza.
2024-05-06 Research paper accepted for IEEE Internet of Things Journal. Congratulations, Ravin and Sandani.
2024-04-18 Dr. Suranga Seneviratne and Yasod Ginige, in collaboration with SYNCS, conducted a workshop on Web Application Security for USYD undergraduates and postgraduates.
2024-04-04 Research paper accepted for Elsevier Computer Networks. Congratulations, Fariza.
2024-03-26 Fariza gave a talk on “Robust URL classification with Unsupervised Domain Adaptation” at the 2024 Australian Cyber Conference – Canberra Edition.
2024-02-03 PhD student Nishavi Ranaweera attended the Pingala Interactions in Computing, Mysore, India organised by ACM India.
2024-02-01 Dr Suranga Seneviratne was interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald on recently published scam numbers by Scamwatch/ACCC and the future trends in scams with artificial intelligence.
2024-01-08 Yasod Ginige joined the group funded by the NSW Connectivity Innovation Network as a PhD student. Welcome Yasod.
2023-12-29 Fariza Rashid’s talk, titled ‘Robust URL Classification with Unsupervised Domain Adaptation,’ got accepted as a breakout talk at the 2024 Australian Cyber Conference – Canberra Edition, which will be held from March 25 to 27, 2024.
2023-11-23 Dr. Suranga Seneviratne gave a key note titled “Security and Privacy: The Next Frontier in AI” at the USYD-Vin University Cybersecurity and AI Summit.
2023-08-21 Research paper accepted for Elsevier Computer Networks. Congratulations, Thilini and Yasod.
2023-08-17 Research poster accepted for ACM MSWiM, 2023. Congratulations, Oshan and Fariza.
2023-08-08 Dr Suranga Seneviratne gave an invited talk to the NBN Security Forum on Encrypted Traffic Analytics and Defences.
2023-08-02 Opinion piece by Dr Suranga Seneviratne on online scams and generative AI was published in the Sydney Morning Herald.
2023-07-25 Dr Suranga Seneviratne gave a talk to Axiata Digital Labs on Explainable AI Methods
2023-05-25 The first PhD student from NSS Lab graduated at USYD – Congratulations Dr Thilini Dahanayaka !!
2023-05-12 NSS Lab received funding from the NSW Connectivity Innovation Network to conduct research in AI-driven Red and Blue Teaming to conduct research in from the NSW connectivity innovation network.
2023-04-22 Research Poster Accepted to Asia CCS 2023. Congratulations Yian Wang and Thilini Dahanayaka !!
2023-04-11 Dr Suranga Seneviratne joined the SBS Settlement Guide Podcast to discuss the increasing risks of identity theft in Australia.
2023-03-20 Opinion piece by Dr Suranga Seneviratne and Prof Carol Hsu on how the proposed SMS sender ID regulation will help to fight scams in Australia was published in The Conversation.
2022-12-20 NSS Research Group received to build a Cyber Range/Offensive Security lab in the School of Computer Science from the Provost’s CAPEX funding scheme.
2022-11-18 Dr Suranga Seneviratne delivered a keynote on “Misinformation Detection in Social Networks” at the Axiata Digital Labs AI Summit.