NDSS Symposium 2026

2026 Awards

2026 Best Paper Award Winners

Peering Inside the Black-Box: Long-Range and Scalable Model Architecture Snooping via GPU Electromagnetic Side-Channel
Rui Xiao, Sibo Feng (Zhejiang University), Soundarya Ramesh (National University of Singapore), Jun Han (KAIST), Jinsong Han (Zhejiang University)

One Email, Many Faces: A Deep Dive into Identity Confusion in Email Aliases
Mengying Wu, Geng Hong, Jiatao Chen (Fudan University), Baojun Liu (Tsinghua University), Mingxuan Liu (Zhongguancun Laboratory), Min Yang (Fudan University)

LOKI: Proactively Discovering Online Scam Websites by Mining Toxic Search Queries
Pujan Paudel, Gianluca Stringhini (Boston University)

OCCUPY+PROBE: Cross-Privilege Branch Target Buffer Side-Channel Attacks at Instruction Granularity
Kaiyuan Rong, Junqi Fang (Tsinghua University, Zhongguancun Laboratory), Haixia Wang (Tsinghua University), Dapeng Ju, Dongsheng Wang (Tsinghua University, Zhongguancun Laboratory)

Fuzzilicon: A Post-Silicon Microcode-Guided x86 CPU Fuzzer
Johannes Lenzen, Mohamadreza Rostami, Lichao Wu, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (Technical University of Darmstadt)

Should I Trust You? Rethinking the Principle of Zone-Based Isolation DNS Bailiwick Checking
Yuxiao Wu (Institute for Network Sciences and Cyberspace, BNRist, Tsinghua University), Yunyi Zhang (Tsinghua University), Chaoyi Lu (Zhongguancun Laboratory), Baojun Liu (Tsinghua University and Zhongguancun Laboratory)

Decompiling the Synergy: An Empirical Study of Human–LLM Teaming in Software Reverse Engineering
Zion Leonahenahe Basque (Arizona State University), Samuele Doria (University of Padua), Ananta Soneji, Wil Gibbs, Adam Doupe, Yan Shoshitaishvili (Arizona State University), Eleonora Losiouk (University of Padua), Ruoyu “Fish” Wang (Arizona State University), Simone Aonzo (EURECOM)

Phishing in Wonderland: Evaluating Learning-Based Ethereum Phishing Transaction Detection and Pitfalls
Ahod Alghuried, David Mohaisen (University of Central Florida)

Indicator of Benignity: An Industry View of False Positive in Malicious Domain Detection and its Mitigation
Daiping Liu (Palo Alto Networks, Inc.), Danyu Sun (University of California, Irvine), Zhenhua Chen, Shu Wang (Palo Alto Networks, Inc.), Zhou Li (University of California, Irvine)

Small Cell, Big Risk: A Security Assessment of 4G LTE Femtocells in the Wild
Yaru Yang, Yiming Zhang (Tsinghua University), Tao Wan (CableLabs & Carleton University), Haixin Duan (Tsinghua University & Quancheng Laboratory), Deliang Chang (QI-ANXIN Technology Research Institute), Yishen Li (Tsinghua University), Shujun Tang (Tsinghua University & QI-ANXIN Technology Research Institute)

2026 Best Reviewers

2026 Distinguished Artifact Award Winners

Unknown Target: Uncovering and Detecting Novel In-Flight Attacks to Collision Avoidance (TCAS)
Giacomo Longo, Giacomo Ratto, Alessio Merlo (CASD – University School of Advanced Defense Studies, Rome, Italy), Enrico Russo (DIBRIS – University of Genova, Genova, Italy)

When Mixnets Fail: Evaluating, Quantifying, and Mitigating the Impact of Adversarial Nodes in Mix Networks
Mahdi Rahimi (KU Leuven)

Consensus in the Known Participation Model with Byzantine Faults and Sleepy Replicas
Chenxu Wang (Shandong University), Sisi Duan (Tsinghua University), Minghui Xu, Feng Li, Xiuzhen Cheng (Shandong University)

2026 Distinguished Evaluators

2026 Best Poster Presentation Award Winner

Select-Then-Compute: Encrypted Label Selection and Analytics over Distributed Datasets using FHE
Nirajan Koirala (University of Notre Dame), Seunghun Paik (Hanyang University), Sam Martin, Helena Berens, Tasha Januszewicz (University of Notre Dame), Jonathan Takeshita (Old Dominion University), Jae Hong Seo (Hanyang University), Taeho Jung (University of Notre Dame)

2026 Best Technical Poster Award Winner

PhantomMotion: Laser-Based Motion Injection Attacks on Wireless Security Surveillance Systems
Yan He, Guanchong Huang, Song Fang (University of Oklahoma)