🎧COSIC reveals hundreds of millions of earbuds & speakers need a patch to prevent wireless hacking & tracking. Flaws in 17 models using #Google’s #FastPair let attackers hijack devices, eavesdrop, and track users.
Watch our demo: youtube.com/watch?v=-j45Sh…
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Today Prof. Bart Preneel leads the annual COSIC meeting, bringing our whole research group together for updates on publishing, managing research data, AI and projects.
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Belgium faces a record wave of cyberattacks, from town halls to supermarket freezers. In @destandaard, Prof. Bart Preneel links it to powerful AI models: “Anything can be a target.” #Cybersecurity
standaard.be/binnenland/cyb… (paywall)

How secure are satellite and other non-terrestrial networks? "Security of NTNs: Bridging Standardization and Academic Research" (Yoshizawa, McMenamy, Braeken) is accepted in Computer Networks. #6G

“Last week we saw a cyberattack on Ahold Delhaize and French refrigerators; now there’s a PHP leak. It is highly likely that things like this will happen every week for the next two years.”
~ Bart Preneel (Security specialist)

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Post-quantum crypto must be secure not only on paper, but also in real hardware and software. That's the aim of #EQUIP, a new 3-year #HorizonEurope project in which COSIC joins @PqShield, Tampere Uni, @CryptoExperts , TU Graz and TECHNIKON. #PQC
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[New] Radical isogenies on every model (Thomas Decru) ia.cr/2026/2661

[Revised] The Generalised Tate Pairing over any field (Jonathan Komada Eriksen) ia.cr/2026/1325

Welcome to the new postdoc in Frederik Vercauteren's team: Simon Pohmann!
His current research is on both theoretical and implementation aspects of lattice-based cryptography, in particular Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE).
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"I chose to join COSIC because of its size and its reputation for excellence, and because I want to continue the collaboration with researchers at COSIC (and Belfort Labs) that began during my PhD."
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Why are cybercriminals increasingly targeting refrigeration and freezer systems? In @radio1be's De Wereld Vandaag, Bart Preneel explains how these attacks can cause significant economic damage and create uncertainty among the public. Listen here: vrt.be/vrtmax/luister…

Why are cybercriminals increasingly targeting refrigeration and freezer systems? In @radio1be's De Wereld Vandaag, Bart Preneel explains how these attacks can cause significant economic damage and create uncertainty among the public. Listen here: vrt.be/vrtmax/luister…

Yesterday Artemii Ovchinnikov successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Efficient Design Methods for Low-Cost Masking: Trade-offs in Hardware Side-Channel Security”. Congratulations, Dr. Ovchinnikov! 🎓

The #PHP flaw is patched, but not everywhere yet. Prof. Bart Preneel warns that #AI is exposing vulnerabilities much faster:
“It may well be that we’ll have something like this every week for the next two years.”
#CyberSecurity #PHP2Shell nieuwsblad.be/economie/techn…

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On 3 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫, researchers, industry experts, and practitioners come together to exchange insights and accelerate innovation in cybersecurity.
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Varesh Mishra gave a talk on "Secure End-to-End Federated Aggregation over Encrypted
Model Updates" at the European Conference on EDGE AI Technologies and Applications in Malta.
#EEAI @EdgeAI_

Aysajan Abidin presented "Trustworthy Edge AI: A Protocol Perspective" at the European Conference on EDGE AI Technologies and Applications (#EEAI, @EdgeAI_) in Malta.
edge-ai-tech.eu/conference-hom…

#ePrint A Compact Digital Signature Scheme Based on the Module-LWR problem*: H Okada, A Takayasu, K Fukushima, S Kiyomoto, T Takagi ia.cr/2021/1699

[Revised] Can We Tolerate Small Side-Channel Leakages: The Role of Registers in Glitch-Stopping Circuits (Artemii Ovchinnikov and Jelle Biesmans and Kris Myny and Ventzislav Nikov and Svetla Nikova) ia.cr/2026/1011

[New] Verifiable Computation on Encrypted Data from Homomorphic Encryption over Random Encodings (Jiayi Kang and Erik Pohle and Jannik Spiessens) ia.cr/2026/2422

[New] RM-KLPT: Algebraic Pathfinding for Superspecial Abelian Surfaces with Maximal Real Multiplication (Mingjie Chen and Thomas Decru and Peter Kutas and Mickael Montessinos and Sebastian A. Spindler and Nicolas Swanson) ia.cr/2026/2427