We are thrilled to announce that our journal paper entitled “Comprehensive Evaluation and Defense against Adversarial Fog Attacks on LiDAR-Based Autonomous Driving” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Information Processing (JIP). Congratulations to Tanaka-kun and kudos to the entire team!

This paper is an extended journal version of our ACM AsiaCCS 2025 paper. In this work, we present a comprehensive evaluation of Adversarial Fog Attacks (AFA), which exploit vulnerabilities of point cloud preprocessing filters in LiDAR-based autonomous driving. We systematically analyze how environmental and attack parameters affect the attack effectiveness, physically validate the attack across multiple LiDAR models, and investigate post-detection avoidance behaviors together with practical defense strategies. The paper will appear in Vol. 34 (September 2026).

Yuuna Tanaka, Kazuki Nomoto, Ryunosuke Kobayashi, Go Tsuruoka, and Tatsuya Mori, "Comprehensive Evaluation and Defense against Adversarial Fog Attacks on LiDAR-Based Autonomous Driving." Journal of Information Processing, Vol. 34, Sep 2026.

We are thrilled to announce that our workshop paper entitled “Large-Scale Analysis of Malware Distribution via Fake Game Cheats and Cracked Software on YouTube” has been accepted for publication in the 5th Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations (WACCO 2026), co-located with IEEE EuroS&P 2026. Congratulations Yamagishi-kun!

In this work, we present VIPER (VIdeo Platform Exploitation Reconnaissance), an automated system that continuously monitors YouTube for malware distribution campaigns masquerading as game cheats or cracked software—a class of threat we term VidCrackBait. VIPER iteratively updates its search queries to track evolving attack patterns and harvests video metadata via the YouTube Data API v3. Over five months, VIPER collected 104,974 videos from 38,855 unique channels, identifying 6,976 distinct fully qualified domain names embedded in descriptions and comments. Our analysis reveals that attackers target popular competitive games with recurring title/description/thumbnail patterns, and we identify 396 intermediate YouTube channels that post no content but serve as persistent relay nodes—forming multi-stage redirection chains that link YouTube to messaging platforms, file-hosting services, and social media.

Rei Yamagishi, Shota Fujii, and Tatsuya Mori, "Large-Scale Analysis of Malware Distribution via Fake Game Cheats and Cracked Software on YouTube." In Proc. of the 5th Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations (WACCO 2026), co-located with IEEE EuroS&P 2026, Venice, Italy, Jun 2026.