Hi! I am Ziyu Lin (ζεη in Chinese). I am a Research Assistant in the National University of Singapore. I work in the CISCO & NUS Lab and am advised by Prof. Sikdar Biplab and Prof. Prosanta Gope. My research focuses on 5G security and network protocol security. My research results have received acknowledgments from well-known CDN vendors such as Azure, Alibaba, Baidu, Cloudflare, Cachefly, G-Core, Qiniu, Tencent, and UPyun.
π₯ News
- 2025.03: Β ππ Zhiwei and I will present CDN Cannon at Black Hat Asia 2025.
- 2024.09: Β ππ Our paper Detecting and Measuring Security Implications of Entangled Domain Verification in CDN was available on Arxiv!
- 2024.03: Β ππ Our paper βCDN Cannon: Exploiting CDN Back-to-Origin Strategies for Amplification Attacksβ was accepted by Usenix Security, Philadelphia, PA, 2024.
π Publications
- CDN Cannon: Exploiting CDN Back-to-Origin Strategies for Amplification Attack
- Ziyu Lin, Zhiwei Lin, Ximeng Liu, Jianjun Chen, Run Guo, Cheng Chen, Shaodong Xiao
- The 33rd USENIX Security Symposium
- This paper is about exploiting CDN Back-to-Origin strategies to launch a new class of amplification attacks.
- Detecting and Measuring Security Implications of Entangled Domain Verification in CDN
- Ziyu Lin, Zhiwei Lin, Run Guo, Jianjun Chen, Mingming Zhang, Ximeng Liu, Tianhao Yang, Zhuoran Cao, Robert H. Deng
- This paper is about automatically detecting Domain Verification vulnerabilities in CDN.
π Talks
- CDN Cannon: Exploiting CDN Back-to-Origin Strategies for Amplification Attack
- Ziyu Lin, Zhiwei Lin
π Educations
- 2022.09 - 2025.06, Master, Fuzhou University, P.R.C.
- 2018.09 - 2022.06, Undergraduate, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, P.R.C.
π Honors and Awards
- 2024.10 Chinese National Scholarship
- 2024.01 Best Paper Award, 2024 2nd International Conference on Big Data and Privacy Computing.
- 2022.12 3rd Place of TEE Track in 2022 World Privacy-Preserving Computing Competition (WPPCC)
π» Internships
- 2025.05 - 2025.11(expected), National University of Singapore, Research Assistant (supervised by Prof. Sikdar Biplab and Prof. Prosanta Gope).
- 2024.05 - 2025.05, Singapore Management University, Research Assistant (supervised by Prof. Robert Deng).
- 2023.01 - 2024.05, Tsinghua University, Research Assistant (supervised by Prof. Jianjun Chen and Dr. Run Guo).