Our new research Heracles (“𝑶𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑹𝒊𝒔𝒌𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑨𝒅𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑨𝒖𝒈𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝑫𝒂𝒕𝒂-𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒆 𝑫𝒐𝑺 𝑴𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏”) will appear in NDSS’26. This work examines emerging security risks in modern programmable network infrastructures and highlights how design choices for efficiency can introduce new attack surfaces. We further propose Shield , a multi-layered mitigation scheme that successfully mitigates the Heracles attack while preserving line-rate performance and adaptive detection accuracy.
This is joint work with researchers (Prof. Min Suk Kang and his students) at KAIST. Congratulations on the amazing work, Hocheol! And thank you for spending time with us at the SUCCESS Lab as a visiting student in 2025!