Awards 2025
Dutch Cyber Security Best Research Paper (DCSRP) Award 2025
DCSRP Award 2025
On 22 January 2026, in Amersfoort, the Dutch Cyber Security Best Research Paper Award 2025 was presented. The contest was organized by ACCSS, in cooperation with the organizing committee of the Special Interest Group Cyber Security (SIG CS): Kate Labunets (UU), Abhishta Abhishta (UT), Riccardo Ferrari (TU Delft), and Cristiano Giuffrida (VU Amsterdam).
Many thanks to the organizing committee and the distinguished international jury: Stefan Brunthaler (University of the Bundeswehr Munich), Yossi Oren (Ben-Gurion University) and Nils Ole Tippenhauer (CISPA).
Winners
TECHNICAL TRACK
First prize
“Uncontained: Uncovering Container Confusion in the Linux Kernel”
Jakob Koschel (VU Amsterdam), Pietro Borrello, Daniele Cono D’Elia, Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida
Runner-ups
“InSpectre Gadget: Inspecting the Residual Attack Surface of Cross-privilege Spectre v2”
Sander Wiebing (VU Amsterdam), Alvise de Faveri Tron, Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida
“Reading It like an Open Book: Single-trace Blind Side-channel Attacks on Garbled Circuit Frameworks”
Sirui Shen, Chenglu Jin (CWI)
MULTIDISCIPLINARY TRACK
First prizes (ex aequo)
“A tale of two markets: Investigating the ransomware payments economy”
Kris Oosthoek (TU Delft), Jack Cable, Georgios Smaragdakis
Communications of the ACM, 66(8), 74–83
“Deception in double extortion ransomware attacks: An analysis of profitability and credibility”
Tom Meurs (Dutch Police), Edward Cartwright, Anna Cartwright, Marianne Junger, Abhishta Abhishta
Computers & Security, 138, 103670
Runner-up
“Operationalizing cybersecurity research ethics review: from principles and guidelines to practice”
Dennis Reidsma, Jeroen van der Ham-de Vos (University of Twente), Andrea Continella
Congratulations to all nominees and winners!
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