Annual Computer Security Applications Conference

It's a wrap folks! #ACSAC2025 is officially over. It was a blast having all you here in Hawai'i! Thanks a lot to all presenters, panelists, and attendees for making the conference a success! 👏👏👏
We hope to see everyone in one year in LA for #ACSAC2026!

If you join us for the social event today, remember that the busses for the visit to the Bishop Museum board at 12:40! Be down in the lobby in time to be on the bus by the time it leaves 🚌

Big congrats to the #ACSAC2025 student CTF winners:

1st place: Sebastian "gehaxelt" Neef (TU Berlin)
2nd place: Kyounghwan "kbhetrr" Kim (Pusan National University)
3rd place: Florian "holsec" Holzbauer (University of Vienna)

Great work! Thanks to all participants 👏👏👏

The #ACSAC2025 best case study award goes to: "Systematic Probing of AI Risks: Methods and Real-World Case Study" by Raja Sekhar Rao Dheekonda. Congratulations 👏👏👏

The #ACSAC2025 Closing Plenary is starting now in Alohilani II on the 6th floor. Meet us there to see the Case Study Presentations Award, CTF Award, infos about next year's conference, and of course win big in the traditional great prize giveaway!

This concludes the technical paper sessions for this year. Thanks a lot to all presenters and attendees!

There is now a break. Then the #ACSAC2025 program continues with the last three technical paper sessions: Privacy Abuse and Privacy Enhancing Technologies (Yellowtail II), Generative AI (for) Security (Stingray), and Network Security and Privacy (Bluefin).

The #ACSAC2025 main conference program will continue at 8:30 with three technical paper sessions: System Security II (Yellowtail II), Privacy and Payment Security (Stingray), and Machine Learning Security II (Bluefin).

If you have still waited to pick up your #ACSAC2025 badge, the registration desk is open today 7:30-10:00. You can find it in Yellowtail I on the 3rd floor.

Thanks a lot to everyone who presented or visited the posters! You helped make the #ACSAC2025 posters & works-in-progress reception a great success! 🙌 See you tomorrow for the third day of the main conference!

The Posters & Works in Progress Reception will start in just 5 minutes. Join in for light refreshments and a deep discussions in Alohilani I on the sixth floor. You can find on overview of all posters being presented here: www.openconf.org/acs...

This brings the technical paper, panel, and case study sessions to a close on this second day of #ACSAC2025. But the conference day is not over yet: The Posters & Works in Progress Reception with Light Refreshments will start at 18:00. See you there!

After a 30-minutes break, the #ACSAC2025 program continues at 15:30 with the following sessions: IoT and Smart-Home Security (Stingray), Machine Learning Security I (Bluefin), and the case studies on Security for Real-World Challenges (Yellowtail II).

There is now lunch 12:00-13:30. Then #ACSAC2025 will continue at 13:30 with the following sessions: Microarchitectural Attacks and Side-Channels (Stingray), Authentication and Privacy II (Bluefin), and the case studies on Agentic AI Security and Applications (Yellowtail II).

👏👏👏 2nd place goes to XMap by Xiang Li, Zixuan Xie, Lu Sun, Yuqi Qiu, Zuyao Xu, Zheli Liu
👏👏👏 3rd place goes to HAL by Julian Speith, Jörn Langheinrich, Marc Fyrbiak, Max Hoffmann, Sebastian Wallat, Simon Klix, Nils Albartus, René Walendy, Steffen Becker, and Christof Paar

Congratulations to the three Cybersecurity Artifacts Impact Awards and Presentations winners! 🎉👏👏👏🎉 1st place goes to FIRMADYNE by Daming D. Chen, Manuel Egele, Maverick Woo, David Brumley 👏👏👏

There will now be a 30-minutes break. At 10:30, the program of #ACSAC2025 will continue with the following sessions: Cyber-Physical Systems (Stingray), Web Security and Censorship (Bluefin), and the panel "Cybersecurity Research Funding in New Era" (Yellowtail II).

Congratulations to the winners of #ACSAC2025's third test of time award: "Cujo: Efficient Detection and Prevention of Drive-By-Download Attacks" by Konrad Rieck, Tammo Krueger, and Andreas Dewald published in ACSAC 2010. 👏👏👏

Congratulations to the winners of #ACSAC2025's second test of time award: "Address Space Layout Permutation (ASLP): Towards Fine-Grained Randomization of Commodity Software" by Chongkyung Kil, Jinsuk Jun, Christopher Bookholt, Jun Xu, and Peng Ning published in ACSAC 2006. 👏👏👏

Congratulations to the winners of #ACSAC2025's first test of time award: "Paranoid Android: Versatile Protection for Smartphones" by Georgis Portokalidis, Philip Homburg, Kostas Anagnostakis, and Herbert Bos published in ACSAC 2010. 👏👏👏

The Cybersecurity Artifacts Impact Awards and Presentations have begun, come and join us for these great talks in Alohilani II (6th floor)

The second day of #ACSAC2025 is about to start with the Cybersecurity Artifacts Impact Awards and Presentations at 8:30, followed immediately by the Test of Time Awards. Both will be in Alohilani II on the 6th floor.

If you have yet to pick up your #ACSAC2025 badge, the registration desk is open today at the same times as yesterday: 7:30-12:00 and 13:00-16:00. You can find it in Yellowtail I on the 3rd floor.

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the conference dinner Pā'ina Waikīkī Lū'au! It was great fun having everyone there 🙌 See you tomorrow at 8:30 for the second day of #ACSAC2025 starting with the Cybersecurity Artifacts Impact Awards and Presentations!

The technical program of #ACSAC2025's first day of main conference has come to a close! But the conference day is far from over. The conference dinner Pā'ina Waikīkī Lū'au at the Waikiki Beach Marriott will open for seating at 5:15pm. We are looking forward to seeing you there!

After a break, the conference program continues at 15:30 with the following sessions: Virtualization and Cloud Security (Stingray), Malware and Intrusion Detection (Bluefin), and the panel "Trust Me ... I’m an AI!" (Yellowtail II).

After the lunch break (12:00-13:30 in Alohilani I), the conference program continues at 13:30 with the following sessions: System Security I (Stingray), Authentication and Privacy I (Bluefin), and the case studies on Malware Detection with AI/ML (Yellowtail II).

After a break, the conference program continues at 10:30 with the following sessions: Application Security (Stingray), Reverse Engineering and Vulnerability Detection (Bluefin), and the panel Federal Agency Priorities and Activities in Advancing AI (Yellowtail II).

Congratulations to this year's distinguished artifact reviewer: Kunlin Li of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)! 👏👏👏

The first #ACSAC2025 Distinguished Paper Award goes to: "MoEvil: Poisoning Experts to Compromise the Safety of Mixture-of-Experts LLMs" by Jaehan Kim, Seung Ho Na, Minkyoo Song, Seungwon Shin, Sooel Son. Congratulations! 👏👏👏