March 2026: Jack and Afsah are traveling to IEEE Aerospace Conference 2026 in Big Sky, Montana! Jack will be presenting our work on supply chain-based malware threats to small satellites. Come see us there!
February 2026: Enrique, Ramsha, and Afsah will be attending NDSS in San Diego. We will be presenting our work on auditing the security and privacy of mobile VPNs. Come see us there!
February 2026: We hosted Dr. Kevin Butler (University of Florida) at UNM. Dr. Butler delivered a talk on “Exploring Unanticipated Functionality in the Mobile Ecosystem and Beyond”.
January 2026: Congratulations Enrique and Ramsha for receiving the NDSS Fellowship!
January 2026: Danish has been featured by Computing Research Association (CRA)! Read more
January 2026: Our paper on privacy leaks from SMS-delivered URLs is gaining media traction. Read the full paper here.
November 2025: Paper on “Silent Subversion: Sensor Spoofing Attacks via Supply Chain Implants in Satellite Systems” accepted at The 47th IEEE Aerospace Conference 2026. This work resulted in vulnerability disclosures and has been acknowledged by NASA. Congratulations Jack!
October 2025: Our space security efforts got featured in SecurityAffairs and SCWorld. Check the Arxived version here!
September 2025: We officially registered LoboSec as a student-led CTF group at UNM. Please join, if you are interested.
September 2025: We have been listed as a contributor to The Aerospace Corporation’s Space Attack Research and Tactic Analysis (SPARTA) matrix.
September 2025: Dheeman passed his dissertation defense. Congratulations Dheeman! 🎉🎓
August 2025: NSF SaTC Medium (#2452884) awarded with Profs. Roya Ensafi (UMich) and Jed Crandall (ASU). This will support our upcoming works on VPNs.
August 2025: Paper on “MVPNalyzer An Investigative Framework for Auditing the Security & Privacy of Mobile VPNs” accepted at NDSS 2026 on mobile VPNs. Congrats Wayne, Aaron, and Enrique!
July 2025: Paper accepted at The 47th IEE Aerospace Conference 2026 on supply chain-based malware threats to small satellites. Congrats Jack!
July 2025: LoboSec came second at Hack The Box StackSmash CTF 2025. Congratulations! 🎉
June 2025: Our novel attack vector was acknowledged by Aerospace Corporation’s Space Attack Research and Tactic Analysis (SPARTA).
June 2025: Our novel attack vector on satellite systems was acknowledged by NASA. Congratulations Jack!
May 2025: Paper accepted at ACM Web Science (WebSci 2025) on Russian Censorship through the Lens of Time Series Analysis. Congrats Dheeman!
May 2025: Paper accepted at The 5th Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC 2025) on “LLaVul: A Multimodal LLM for Interpretable Vulnerability Reasoning about Source Code”. Congrats Ala and Mike!
April 2025: Dr. Abusnaina (Meta) visited and shared his experiences his experiences with us at Beyond Defense Lab.
February 2025: Muhammad Saad (X, formerly Twitter) shared his research and experiences with students at UNM.
December 2024: Muhammad Danish has been recognized by Computing Research Association (CRA) among undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities for his outstanding potential in computing research. He was featured by UNM newsroom. Congratulations Danish!
December 2024: Our paper at WISE 2024 won the best paper award!
October 2024: Paper on “Exposing the limitations of ML for Malware Detection Under Concept Drift” accepted at WISE 2024.
August 2024: Attended USENIX Security 2024 in Philadelphia.
July 2024: Joined NSF “CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service (SFS)” program at UNM as a Co-PI.
June 2024: We started a CTF club in the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico.
April 2024: Hosted Dr. Sazzadur Rahaman at UNM. Dr. Rahaman delivered a keynote at the CS students’ conference @ UNM.
February 2024: Dr. Bhupendra Acharya from CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, gave a talk on “Cloak and Scam: Creating Honeypots to Measure Present Day Internet Defense Mechanisms Against Social Engineering Attacks” at UNM as part of NSF SFS security lecture series.
November 2023: Gave a talk at Computer Science colloquium at The University of New Mexico.
September 2023: Gave an invited talk on Improving the Security Response of Emerging Systems as part of Computer Science colloquium at University of Idaho and New Mexico Institute of Technology.
