Zilong Lin

Email: zillin [at] iu.edu

Address: Luddy Hall 3051

700 N Woodlawn Avenue

Bloomington, IN, 47408

I am a fifth-year PhD student at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington. My research is co-advised by Prof. Xiaojing Liao and Prof. XiaoFeng Wang.

My research mainly focuses on system security, especially cybercrime and machine learning security. Presently, my exploration is centered on the security around Large Language Models (LLM).

Besides academic research, I’m also interested in violin and swimming. I am currently honing my skills in violin performance at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University Bloomington.

News

Oct 09, 2024	Our paper Malla: Demystifying Real-world Large Language Model Integrated Malicious Services has been selected as a Top 15 finalist in the 2024 CSAW Applied Research Competition.
Sep 04, 2024	Honored to be awarded a student conference grant to attend ACM CCS ‘24. Thanks ACM CCS!
Aug 19, 2024	I will serve as a member of the Artifact Evaluation Committee for ACSAC ‘25.
Aug 15, 2024	Honored to give a talk at the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium about Large Language Model Integrated Malicious Services, whose repository has been awarded all three badges in the USENIX Security’24 Artifact Evaluation. The animation video of this work is available on YouTube in English and Bilibili in Chinese.
Jun 27, 2024	AI Incident Database has included our research Real-world Large Language Model Integrated Malicious Services (presented at USENIX Security ‘24).
Jun 22, 2024	I will serve as a member of the Artifact Evaluation Committee for NDSS ‘25.
May 29, 2024	Our paper Malla: Demystifying Real-world Large Language Model Integrated Malicious Services is accepted by USENIX Security ‘24.
May 20, 2024	Honored to give a talk about MAWSEO at IEEE S&P 2024. The animation video of this work is available on YouTube in English and Bilibili in Chinese.
May 09, 2024	Honored to receive the Luddy Outstanding Researcher Award, thanks to the guidance of my advisors in my research work.
Apr 15, 2024	Honored to be awarded a student travel grant to attend IEEE S&P ‘24. Thanks IEEE S&P!
Apr 10, 2024	I will serve as a member of the Artifact Evaluation Committee for CCS ‘24.
Feb 29, 2024	Thrilled to provide the talk on LLM security to Capital One.
Jul 10, 2023	Our paper is accepted at IEEE S&P ‘24.

Selected publications

Malla: Demystifying Real-world Large Language Model Integrated Malicious Services

Zilong Lin , Jian Cui , Xiaojing Liao , and XiaoFeng Wang

The 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, 2024

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MAWSEO: Adversarial Wiki Search Poisoning for Illicit Online Promotion

Zilong Lin , Zhengyi Li , Xiaojing Liao , XiaoFeng Wang , and Xiaozhong Liu

The 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), 2024

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Demystifying local business search poisoning for illicit drug promotion

Peng Wang* , Zilong Lin* , Xiaojing Liao , and XiaoFeng Wang

ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2022

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@article{wang2022demystifying,
  title = {Demystifying local business search poisoning for illicit drug promotion},
  author = {Wang*, Peng and Lin*, Zilong and Liao, Xiaojing and Wang, XiaoFeng},
  journal = {ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)},
  google_scholar_id = {UeHWp8X0CEIC},
  year = {2022}
}

PAKDD

IDSGAN: Generative adversarial networks for attack generation against intrusion detection

Zilong Lin , Yong Shi , and Zhi Xue

The 26th Pacific-asia conference on knowledge discovery and data mining (PAKDD), 2022

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@article{lin2022idsgan,
  title = {IDSGAN: Generative adversarial networks for attack generation against intrusion detection},
  author = {Lin, Zilong and Shi, Yong and Xue, Zhi},
  journal = {The 26th Pacific-asia conference on knowledge discovery and data mining (PAKDD)},
  pages = {79--91},
  google_scholar_id = {u-x6o8ySG0sC},
  year = {2022},
  organization = {Springer}
}