I am a Ph.D. student at Univesity at Buffalo. I currently study system security problems in embedded systems. I am a member of CyberspACe securiTy and forensIcs lab (CactiLab) at UB.
News
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May 13, 2024 - [Paper] Our paper entitled “SoK: Where’s the “up”?! A Comprehensive (bottom-up) Study on the Security of Arm Cortex-M Systems” will appear in USENIX WOOT‘24!
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Apr 18, 2024 - [CTF] For the second consecutive year, Team Cacti has secured 4th place in the 2024 eCTF competition.
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Apr 26, 2023 - [CTF] As a team leader of UB Cacti, we placed 4th in MITRE eCTF 2023!
Selected Publications
SoK: Where's the "up"?! A Comprehensive (bottom-up) Study on the Security of Arm Cortex-M Systems
Tan, Xi and Ma, Zheyuan and Pinto, Sandro and Guan, Le and Zhang, Ning and Xu, Jun and Lin, Zhiqiang and Hu, Hongxin and Zhao, Ziming
18th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies2024Trusted Execution Environments in Embedded and IoT Systems: A CactiLab Perspective
Ziming Zhao and Md Armanuzzaman and Xi Tan and Zheyuan Ma
IEEE International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design (SEED)2024Is the Canary Dead? On the Effectiveness of Stack Canaries on Microcontroller Systems
Tan, Xi and Mohan, Sagar and Armanuzzaman, Md and Ma, Zheyuan and Liu, Gaoxiang and Eastman, Alex and Hu, Hongxin and Zhao, Ziming
Proceedings of the 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC)2024Return-to-Non-Secure Vulnerabilities on ARM Cortex-M TrustZone: Attack and Defense
Ma, Zheyuan and Tan, Xi and Ziarek, Lukasz and Zhang, Ning and Hu, Hongxin and Zhao, Ziming
2023 60th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)2023Understanding and Analyzing COVID-19-related Online Hate Propagation Through Hateful Memes Shared on Twitter
Vishwamitra, Nishant and Guo, Keyan and Liao, Song and Mu, Jaden and Ma, Zheyuan and Cheng, Long and Zhao, Ziming and Hu, Hongxin
Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM)2023