Korea Univ.-Kookmin Univ. joint research team wins top vehicle security award
A research team jointly led by Korea University’s Hacking and Countermeasure Research Lab (HCRL) and Kookmin University’s Mobility Cybersecurity Lab has received the Best Artifact Award at USENIX VehicleSec 2026, the universities said Wednesday. The two-day international symposium, regarded as a leading academic forum for vehicle cybersecurity, was held in Baltimore, Maryland, earlier this week.…
A joint research team from Korea University's Hacking and Countermeasure Research Lab and Kookmin University's Mobility Cybersecurity Lab has won the Best Artifact Award at USENIX VehicleSec 2026, an international symposium on vehicle cybersecurity. The two-day event took place in Baltimore, Maryland, earlier this week. This recognition follows the growing adoption of advanced and connected technologies in vehicles, which has raised concerns about vehicle hacking and the need for AI-powered systems to detect cyberattacks on in-vehicle networks.
The team earned praise for creating the AutoHack Dataset, a collection of vehicle cybersecurity data gathered from actual road driving. This dataset aims to assist AI-based security systems in distinguishing between normal vehicle operations and potential malicious attacks. Their work, outlined in the paper "AutoHack: A Physically Verified Multi-Bus CAN Dataset for Intrusion Detection System Evaluation," received full recognition.
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