Welcome to CNS Lab!

The Cognitive and Network Security (CNS) Lab, led by Prof. Jinwoo Kim at Kwangwoon University, investigates how both humans and intelligent systems perceive, reason, and act in the presence of emerging cyber threats. Our work spans cloud and networked infrastructures, including SDN and SD-WAN, container and serverless platforms, and WebAssembly runtimes, as well as application layer systems such as blockchain, social VR, and AI-driven environments. By analyzing threats at the human, system, and AI levels, we design cognitive, adaptive, and practical security mechanisms that enhance resilience in real-world deployments.

인지 및 네트워크 보안 연구실(CNS Lab)은 광운대학교 소프트웨어학부 김진우 교수가 이끌고 있으며, 인간과 지능형 시스템이 사이버 위협을 어떻게 인지하고, 판단하며, 대응하는지에 대한 연구를 수행합니다. 연구 분야는 SDN과 SD WAN, 컨테이너 및 서버리스 환경, WebAssembly 런타임과 같은 차세대 클라우드·네트워크 인프라뿐 아니라, 소셜 VR, AI 기반 시스템까지 폭넓게 포함합니다. 본 연구실은 이러한 다양한 환경에서 발생하는 위협을 인지적 관점에서 이해하고, 이를 바탕으로 적응형 인지 보안 기술을 설계하여 실제 시스템의 보안성과 신뢰성을 향상시키는 것을 목표로 합니다.

News

• (Nov. 26, 2025) Our paper, "BeaCon: Automatic Container Policy Generation using Environment-aware Dynamic Analysis," has been accepted for publication in Computers & Security! (JCR Q1, SCIE journal)

• (Nov. 12, 2025) Our paper, "SecTracer: A Framework for Uncovering the Root Causes of Network Intrusions via Security Provenance," has been accepted for publication in Computers & Security! (JCR Q1, SCIE journal)

• (Oct. 17, 2025) Our paper entitled "PassREfinder-FL: Privacy-Preserving Credential Stuffing Risk Prediction via Graph-Based Federated Learning for Representing Password Reuse between Websites" has been accepted to Expert Systems with Applications! (JCR Q1, SCIE journal)

• (Aug. 3, 2025) Our paper, entitled "Noisy Neighbor: Exploiting RDMA for Resource Exhaustion Attacks in Containerized Clouds," has been accepted to SecAssure 2025 (a workshop co-located with ESORICS)!

• (Jun. 22, 2025) Our paper, entitled "The Hidden Dangers of Public Serverless Repositories: An Empirical Security Assessment," has been accepted at ESORICS 2025!

• (May 12, 2025) Our paper, entitled "CryptoGuard: Lightweight Hybrid Detection and Response to Host-based Cryptojackers in Linux Cloud Environments," has been accepted to AsiaCCS 2025!

• (Jan. 17, 2025) Our poster entitled "Illusion Worlds: Deceptive UI Attacks in Social VR" has been accepted to IEEE VR 2025!

• (Dec. 12, 2024) Our poster entitled "EO-VLM: VLM-Guided Energy Overload Attacks on Vision Models" has won the Best Poster Presentation Award at ACSAC 2024!

• (Dec. 06, 2024) Our paper entitled "MUFFLER: Secure Tor Traffic Obfuscation with Dynamic Connection Shuffling and Distributing" has been accepted to INFOCOM 2025 (a top-tier conference in networking)!

• (Nov. 26, 2024) Our paper entitled "Uncovering Threats in Container Systems: A Study on Misconfigured Container Components in the Wild" has been accepted to IEEE Access (JCR Q2, SCIE Journal).

• (Sep. 25, 2024) Our paper entitled "gShock: A GNN-based Fingerprinting System for Permissioned Blockchain Networks over Encrypted Channels" has been accepted to IEEE Access (JCR Q2, SCIE Journal).

• (Sep. 12, 2024) Our paper entitled "CENSor: Detecting Illicit Bitcoin Operation via GCN-based Hyperedge Classification" has been accepted to IEEE Access (JCR Q2, SCIE Journal).

• (July 23, 2024) Our paper entitled "Fatriot: Fault-Tolerant MEC Architecture for Mission-Critical Systems using a SmartNIC" has been accepted to the Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JCR Q1, SCIE Journal).

• (May. 9, 2024) Our paper entitled "Inducing Harmful Speech in Large Language Models through Korean Malicious Prompt Injection Attacks" has been accepted to the Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology (KCI Journal).

• (May. 6 2024) Our paper entitled "Ambusher: Exploring the Security of Distributed SDN Controllers through Protocol State Fuzzing" has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (JCR JIF Q1, SCIE Journal).

• (Feb. 29 2024) Gyeonghoon Park joined our lab as an undergraduate intern. Welcome!

• (Jan. 30 2024) Jinu Choi joined our lab as an undergraduate intern. Welcome!

• (Jan. 30 2024) Jongseop Kim joined our lab as an undergraduate intern. Welcome!

• (Jan. 20 2024) Our paper entitled "Enhancing Security in SDN: Systematizing Attacks and Defenses from a Penetration Perspective" has been accepted to Elsevier Computer Networks (JCR Q1, SCIE Journal).

• (Dec. 2 2023) Congratulations to Jimin for receiving the Best Paper Award at CISC-W '23 for her paper titled "Analyzing the Effectiveness of Malicious Korean Prompt Injection Attacks in LLM Applications"! (link)

• (Nov. 30 2023) Minsuk Kim joined our lab as an undergraduate intern. Welcome!

• (Nov. 30 2023) Hani Lee joined our lab as an undergraduate intern. Welcome!

• (Jun. 30 2023) Jimin Suh joined our lab as an undergraduate intern. Welcome!

• (May. 1 2023) Seungho Song joined our lab as an undergraduate intern. Welcome!

• (Dec. 20 2022) Dongeun Kim joined our lab as an undergraduate intern. Welcome!

• (Apr. 1 2022) Jiyoung Choi joined our lab as an undergraduate intern. Welcome!

• (Oct. 21 2022) Our paper has been accepted to Elsevier Computers & Security (JCR JIF Q2, SCIE Journal).

• (Sep. 3 2022) Our paper entitled "Heimdallr: Fingerprinting SD-WAN Control-Plane Architecture via Encrypted Control Traffic" has been accepted to ACSAC 2022.

• (April 1 2022) Junhee Lee joined our lab as an undergraduate intern. Welcome!

• (March 1 2022) Prof. Jinwoo Kim joined the School of Software at Kwangwoon University.