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This work was primarily led by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jchauhn/" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Jyotirmay Chauhan</a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">Jul 2025</th> <td> New paper on stealthy UI attacks against password managers was accepted at NDSS 2026. This work was primarily done by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-infantino/" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Andrea Infantino</a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">Jun 2025</th> <td> New paper on the risks of migrating codebases from the web to cross-platform apps was accepted at PETS 2025. This work was primarily done by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudio-paloscia/" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Claudio Paloscia</a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">Aug 2024</th> <td> New paper on detecting and replacing privacy-harming code in JS bundles was accepted at CCS 2024. 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