🚨 Excited to share that our paper “Byte by Byte: Unmasking Browser Fingerprinting at the Function Level Using V8 Bytecode Transformers” has been accepted at ACM CCS 2025! 🎉
📄 Read the paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09950
ALT As part of my internship at Google, we developed ByteDefender, the first system that applies Transformer models directly to V8 bytecode to detect browser fingerprinting at the JavaScript function level. ByteDefender delivers: 🔹 Function-level precision — isolates fingerprinting functions without breaking legitimate functionality. 🔹 Robustness — resilient against code obfuscation and URL-based evasion. 🔹 Practicality — adds only ~4% overhead to page load time in real-world tests. 🔹 Accuracy — 98.9% function-level detection. This was a wonderful collaboration with Dylan Cutler (Google) and Igor Bilogrevic(Google).
ByteDefender delivers:
🔹 Function-level precision — isolates fingerprinting functions without breaking legitimate functionality.
🔹 Robustness — resilient against code obfuscation and URL-based evasion.
🔹 Practicality — adds only ~4% overhead to page load.
🔹 Accuracy — 98.9%
🎊 We're incredibly honored to receive🌟The Best Paper Award🌟at IMC 2023!!! It's truly a testament to the hard work, dedication, and collaboration of our amazing team.
I'll be presenting our work this Thursday (26th). If you're around, please stop by and join the discussion.
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I’m incredibly excited to be back at CISPA!
Now, I’m looking for PhD students in the areas of Web Security & Privacy, and Web Measurement; with a specific focus on JavaScript (in)security and browser extensions.
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I'm excited to share that I've started my research internship with @Google's Privacy Sandbox team! 🌐🔒
I'm grateful for this incredible opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge efforts aimed at enhancing privacy in Google Chrome.
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Today, we [@Penelope_nb @levanhieu @haddiamjad @Shaoor_Munir] presented 4 projects at the Ad Filtering Dev Summit. Checkout the talks at youtube.com/watch?v=-KkMWUaa… #AFDS2023 #AdFiltering
Great to see familiar faces from @ProperData and making new connections in Boston.
Symposium #3!
Earlier this week at our 3rd Symposium hosted @Northeastern. Many thanks to @KhouryCollege’s @proffnes for hosting and to the events team for a successful two days of engaging conversation and discussions. Until next year's in-person meeting!
More at: tinyurl.com/properdata23symp
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Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap. trib.al/RqdwzRI
Just had an amazing hike in beautiful Switzerland to warm up for the great @PET_Symposium! 🏔🇨🇭 Can't wait to learn, connect, and share experiences at my first in person PETS conference. If you are attending, let's catch up!
#pets2023
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.@vekariayash and I discussing dark pooling and brand safety at @adexchanger #progio
Check out our slide at: web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~zubair/f… work w/@rishabn_
Thank you @CybersecPrivacyGT for featuring my research talk at #CybersecurityConference! I'm honored to have presented my work at Georgia Tech.
This week, #CSI2023 participant Pouneh Bahrami told us how she collaborated with @zubair_shafiq and @umaarr6 to explore new online advertising and tracking techniques, specifically browser fingerprinting, by using machine learning and web measurements. A great talk!
@Penelope_nb
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(3) @JelenaVicic, Pouneh Bahrami, Patrick Ryle, @vekariayash, @yugdesai508, @sachindhke, @alexgamerog explored search biases in TikTok related to the Ukraine-Russia war; (4) @rachelhulvey, @gunyeoplee, Kang Lee discussed the coalition building in the Clean Network Initiative.
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What a good looking bunch! The second Cybersecurity Summer Institute has begun! Together with @sppgatech, we have brought together a fantastic group of Ph.D. candidates and early career researchers from across disciplines and countries to study the complex issues of cybersecurity
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I’m incredibly excited to join CISPA as a faculty in a few months!!
Now, I’m looking for PhD students and postdoc in the areas of Web Security & Privacy, and Web Measurement; with a specific focus on JavaScript (in)security and browser extensions.
RTs are very appreciated :)
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Privacy events for this summer you might want to attend:
➡️1-2 June, 2023, Annual Privacy Forum (APF), Lyon, France
➡️25-30 June, 2023, Interdisciplinary Summer school on Privacy, Berg en Dal / Nijmegen, The Netherlands
➡️10-15 July 2023, PET Symposium at Lausanne, Switherland
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@acm_ccs - many great talks so far!
👇👇👇Here's a list of available papers that I find very interesting (and keeping it here for myself!) I'll update thread, bc the conference is still going on with so many great papers!
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Ke presented Ibex, an improvement on RTP protocol. Ibex is an ad system that reduces the amount of data
collected on users while still allowing advertisers to bid on real-time ad auctions and measure the effectiveness of their ad campaigns.
👉 eprint.iacr.org/2022/1174
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@soundarya05 presented TickTock, a novel technique to detect microphone status in laptops. While webcam attacks are somewhat defended with widely available commercial webcam privacy covers, unfortunately,
there are no adequate solutions to thwart the attacks on mics!
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