The Computer and Communication Security Laboratory (CCS Lab) was established in 2004 at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University. Today, CCS Lab is dedicated to advancing research in software security, secure system design, and network security. Our mission is to address emerging security challenges and develop effective countermeasures to safeguard our digital world.
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News

2026/06/23 Choongin's collaborative research paper, Q3Fuzz (DSN 2026) received the Best Paper Award
Choongin’s collaborative research paper with CUNY received the Best Paper Award at The 56th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 23, 2026. Congratulations!

2025/11/05 Prof. Lee presented "Securing Open Source with SBOM: From Visibility to Trust" at Open Source Summit Korea 2025
Prof. Lee presented "Securing Open Source with SBOM: From Visibility to Trust" at the Open Source Summit Korea 2025, highlighting automated SBOM generation, vulnerability verification, and collaborative initiatives for open source security.

2024/07/10 Prof. Lee delivered a talk as a panelist in OECD Global Forum on Digital Security for Prosperity
Prof. Lee delivered a talk as a panelist in order to discuss open source security and security-by-design, along with renowned policy/technical experts.

2024/07/08 Dr. Nkuba Carlos Uncovered 28 Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerabilities in Z-Wave IoT Smart Home Devices with New Research
Groundbreaking research by Dr. Nkuba Carlos and Jimin Kang uncovered 28 vulnerabilities in Z-Wave IoT smart home devices, leading to security advisories and CVE assignments.
2024/05/18 CCSLAB 20th Anniversary Event
2022/04/22 CCSLAB got the excellence award for the IITP R&D project exchange meeting
CCSLAB got the excellence award for the IITP R&D project exchange meeting with the "Development of Automated Vulnerability Discovery Technologies for Blockchain Platform Security" project.

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Registered CVEs

68 2026/07/15 CVE-2026-38974 Yeonghyeon Choi, Duyeong Kim
67 2026/07/10 CVE-2026-57575 Yeonghyeon Choi, Duyeong Kim
66 2026/07/06 CVE-2026-38979 Yeonghyeon Choi, Duyeong Kim
65 2026/07/06 CVE-2026-38976 Yeonghyeon Choi, Duyeong Kim
64 2026/07/06 CVE-2026-38973 Yeonghyeon Choi, Duyeong Kim
63 2026/07/02 CVE-2026-50722 Yeonghyeon Choi, Duyeong Kim
62 2026/07/02 CVE-2026-50721 Yeonghyeon Choi, Duyeong Kim
61 2026/07/02 CVE-2026-38972 Yeonghyeon Choi, Duyeong Kim
60 2026/07/02 CVE-2026-38971 Yeonghyeon Choi, Duyeong Kim

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Publication

2026/10/12
Paper
GANADI: Uncovering C/C++ OSS Reuse Genealogies via Pivotal Function-based Clustering to Enhance Supply Chain Security, IEEE/ACM Int'l Conf. on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) Dongyeon Kim
2026/07/28
Patent
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING PROPAGATION OF SECURITY VULNERABILITIES OF OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE INHERENT IN COMPONENTS OF TARGET SOFTWARE (Registration) Heejo Lee
2026/06/23
Best Paper
Award
Q3Fuzz: Multi-Layered Stateful Fuzzing for the QUIC-HTTP/3 Protocol Stack, IEEE/IFIP Int'l Conf. on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) Isa Jafarov
2026/06/09
Patent
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING PROPAGATION OF SECURITY VULNERABILITIES OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE INHERENT IN COMPONENTS OF TARGET SOFTWARE (Registration) Seunghoon Woo
2026/06/09
Paper
Clovery: Identifying Affected Versions in C/C++ Public Security Vulnerability Reports, IFIP Int'l Conf. on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP SEC) Duyeong Kim
2026/03/23
Paper
Human vs AI: Insecure Use of Security-Sensitive Functions in AI-generated Code in Comparison to Human-written Code, ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC) Joonku Lee
2026/03/23
Paper
CovBooster: Coverage Booster for Binary Code Clone Detection by Reduced Signatures, ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC) Jeongwoo Lee
2026/03/23
Paper
ZENA: Enhanced Anomaly-based IDS for Smart Homes Automation Through Multilayer Artificial Neural Network, Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN) Nkuba Kayembe Carlos
2025/12/31
Patent
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING VULNERABLE SOFTWARE VERSIONS THROUGH SEMANTIC PAIR MAPPING BASED ON CODE LINE DEPENDENCY USING SECURITY PATCHES (Application) Heejo Lee
2025/12/09
Paper
Probing Challenges and Future Research of SBOM Generation for Medical Devices, Workshop at the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, (ACSAC-HealthSec) Hui Zhuang
2025/11/16
Paper
IMUFUZZER: Resilience-based Discovery of Signal Injection Attacks on Robotic Vehicles, IEEE/ACM Int'l Conf. on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) Sudharssan Mohan
2025/09/24
Patent
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING VULNERABLE SOFTWARE VERSIONS THROUGH SEMANTIC PAIR MAPPING BASED ON CODE LINE DEPENDENCY USING SECURITY PATCHES (Application) Heejo Lee

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