ObfusQate: Where Quantum Magic Meets Code Security – Say Goodbye to Easy Cracking!
Hands on workshop during the 20th International Conference on Information Systems Security.
PhD Students:
Aditya Kulkarni
Area: Phishing Detection, DNS Security
Started in 2022
Akarsh Ashok
Area: Reverse Engineering, LLM
Started in 2025
Vincent Tan
Area: Quantum attacks
Starting in Sept 2025
Research Engineers:
Amal Raj - Working on Quantum Security
Quan, Lee Jun, Ye, Tan Jia, Ling, Goh Geok, Balachandran, & Vivek (2025). QIris: Quantum Implementation of Rainbow Table Attacks. In *International Conference on Information Systems Security* (pp. 213-222).
Hriday, Duddu, Kulkarni, Aditya, Balachandran, Vivek, Das, & Tamal (2025). Phish-Blitz: Advancing Phishing Detection with Comprehensive Webpage Resource Collection and Visual Integrity Preservation. In *2025 17th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworks (COMSNETS)* (pp. 481-488).
Kulkarni, Aditya, Das, Tamal, Balachandran, & Vivek (2025). ODoQ: Oblivious DNS-over-QUIC. *nan*, *nan*(nan), nan.
Bartake, Nilhil, Jie, See Toh Zi, Jiawen, Carmen Wong, Kasper, Michael, Balachandran, & Vivek (2025). ObfusQate: Unveiling the First Quantum Program Obfuscation Framework. *arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.23785*, *nan*(nan), nan.
Kulkarni, Aditya, Balachandran, Vivek, Divakaran, Dinil Mon, Das, & Tamal (2024). Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning Models for Phishing Webpage Detection. In *2024 16th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS)* (pp. 430-432).
Loh, Peter KK, Lee, Aloysius ZY, Balachandran, & Vivek (2024). Towards a hybrid security framework for phishing awareness education and defense. *Future Internet*, *16*(3), 86.
Lim, Joseph Guan Quan, Kwok, Zhen Yu, Soon, Isaac, Yong, Jun Xian, Song Yuhao, Samuel, Binte Rosley, Siti Halilah, Balachandran, & Vivek (2024). A-COPILOT: Android Covert Operation for Private Information Lifting and OTP Theft: A study on how Malware Masquerading as Legitimate Applications compromise Security and Privacy. In *Proceedings of the Fourteenth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy* (pp. 155-157).
Kulkarni, Aditya, Balachandran, Vivek, Divakaran, Dinil Mon, Das, & Tamal (2024). From ml to llm: Evaluating the robustness of phishing webpage detection models against adversarial attacks. *arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.20361*, *nan*(nan), nan.
Kulkarni, Aditya, Balachandran, Vivek, Das, & Tamal (2024). Phishing webpage detection: Unveiling the threat landscape and investigating detection techniques. *IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials*, *nan*(nan), nan.
Alvin, Ang Peng Chuan, Mohan, Purnima Murali, Keong, Peter Loh Kok, Balachandran, Vivek, Joo, & Choo Yuh (2024). DQN-based Adaptive Network Architecture for High-Fidelity NGN Flow Classification. In *2024 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS)* (pp. 1-7).
Rishith, Aduma, Kulkarni, Aditya, Das, Tamal, Balachandran, & Vivek (2024). Overcoming DNSSEC Islands of Security: A TLS and IP-Based Certificate Solution. In *2024 IEEE Conference on Engineering Informatics (ICEI)* (pp. 1-7).
Jutasompakorn, Pearpilai, Perdana, Arif, Balachandran, & Vivek (2023). Enhancing decision making with machine learning: The case of aurora crowdlending platform. *Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases*, *13*(1), 58-66.
Balachandran, Vivek, Kirwan, Ryan, Loh, Peter, Ebrahim, Mohamed Riaz, Kusuma, & Ravishanker (2023). ASAP: Application Security Assessment Protocol. In *2023 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI)* (pp. 1-4).
Kulkarni, Aditya, Patel, Shahil Manishbhai, Tirrnare, Shivam Pradip, Balachandran, Vivek, Das, & Tamal (2023). Bridging the gap in phishing detection: A comprehensive phishing dataset collector. In *2023 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI)* (pp. 1-7).
Murali Mohan, Purnima, Balachandran, Vivek, Ze Quan, Ong, Pang Ze Xin, Jas, Divakaran, & Dinil Mon (2023). NFT-Merit: An NFT-based Module Credit Management System on Ethereum Blockchain. *nan*, *nan*(nan), nan.
Mohan, Purnima Murali, Balachandran, Vivek, Quan, Ong Ze, Xin, Jas Pang Ze, Divakaran, & Dinil Mon (2022). NFT-merit: an NFT-based module credit management system on ethereum blockchain. In *2022 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)* (pp. 472-476).