We're hiring! We have an open PhD position in Multi-Factor Authentication Protocols. Join our team 👏 #SCAMPER #choosecosic Vacancy online at esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/vacanc...

Congratulations to Mujtaba Hassan for successfully completing his PhD on "Evolutionary Computation for the Design and Evaluation of Hardware-Efficient Non-Cryptographic Hash Functions" at COSIC-ES&S! 🥳🎉🎓

We have a new visitor from New York University! Hossein Hafei is interested in proof systems and their applications to real-world security issues. Welcome! #choosecosic

We're hiring! We have an open PhD position in Multi-Factor Authentication Protocols. Join our team 👏 #SCAMPER #choosecosic Vacancy online at www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/vacanc...

🤝Meet Maryam Zarezadeh, a postdoctoral researcher visiting COSIC from Barkhausen Institut (BI). Maryam's research interests include security and privacy solutions for trustworthy AI and machine learning, as well as federated learning and differential privacy. #choosecosic

“Mass surveillance is not the solution to child abuse,” warn critics like encryption expert Bart Preneel in Gazet van Antwerpen: www.gva.be/politiek/bel... #chatcontrol #privacy

“Mass surveillance is not the solution to child abuse,” warn critics like encryption expert Bart Preneel: www.nieuwsblad.be/politiek/bel... #chatcontrol #privacy

EU plans to scan every photo sent via WhatsApp/Signal for child abuse images. Bart Preneel warns in HLN: allowing the government to check all our messages could lead to major personal drama. #ChatControl #Privacy www.hln.be/binnenland/m...

The COSIC Seminar "Privacy-Preserving Graph Analysis: The Journey So Far and the Way Ahead" by Bhavish Raj Gopal (Indian Institute of Science) is now on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmlG...

Please welcome our new PhD student Henri Vermeersch! Henri will be working on accelerating FHE using algorithmic-level improvements and next-generation compute platforms. #choosecosic

Rongkuan He is a new PhD student in COSIC: "COSIC stands out for its unique blend of deep cryptography, practical security, and open collaboration. It’s the ideal place to explore how AI, networks, and cryptographic protocols can truly work together securely." #choosecosic

Please welcome Yi-Fu Lai, the new Postdoc at COSIC! Yi-Fu's primary research interest is in constructing cryptosystems that are provably secure from post-quantum assumptions. "I chose COSIC because exciting things happen here." #choosecosic #postquantum

Welcome to Emre Koçer, the new PhD student in Ingrid Verbauwhede's team! #choosecosic

Europe’s new Chat Control plan would scan every private message for child abuse material, even those protected by end-to-end encryption. "It’s like putting a camera in every home" warns Prof Bart Preneel. www.standaard.be/buitenland/e... [paywall] #Privacy #ChatControl

We are proud to share that COSIC researcher Xander Pottier has obtained an #FWO PhD fellowship strategic basic research for his work on "accelerating homomorphic encryption algorithms on FPGA hardware to enable secure and efficient processing of sensitive data". www.fwo.be/en/results-o...

💡 De resultaten van de nieuwe doctoraatsonderzoekers fundamenteel onderzoek en strategisch basisonderzoek zijn bekend. We kunnen voor deze oproep 313 FO-mandaten en 179 SB-mandaten toekennen. We wensen de startende onderzoekers veel succes. 👏 🎉 www.fwo.be/nl/resultate...

Congratulations to Amit Singh Bhati for successfully defending his PhD thesis "Advanced Cryptography for Modern Data Security: Provably Secure and Efficient Symmetric-Key Modes from Expanding Primitives"! 🎓🥂🥳

Please welcome Zetao Miao! Zetao will be working in Ingrid Verbauwhede's team. #choosecosic

📹The COSIC seminar "Proofs of Storage for Cloud and Blockchains" by Sushmita Ruj (UNSW) is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gmk...

An alumnus of our Master of Cybersecurity program started a PhD at COSIC: welcome to Matthias Kerkhofs! "I chose COSIC because of its leading position in the field of cryptography and because of the pleasant experience I had when working here on my master's thesis." #choosecosic

📆 Save the date! November 13. Cybersecurity Industry Day. 4th edition! This event is all about bringing together experts from industry and academia to boost progress in cybersecurity. 👉 Full program: cybersecurity-industry-day.be

Belgian ROB TV visited our lab and interviewed COSIC researcher Jesse De Meulemeester about the "battering ram" attack: www.robtv.be/nieuws/onder... #BatteringRam #CloudSecurity #Intel #AMD #COSIC #KULeuven

"KU Leuven kraakt beveiliging cloudservers met hardwaremodule van 50 euro" itdaily.be/nieuws/busin... #batteringram #attack #cloud #intel #amd #cosic #kuleuven

"Hightechbeveiliging van cloudservers gehackt met zelfgebouwde module van slechts 50 euro" www.emerce.nl/wire/hightec... #batteringram #attack #cloud #intel #amd #cosic #kuleuven

"Battering RAM Attack Breaks Intel and AMD Security Tech With $50 Device" securityweek.com/battering-ra... #batteringram #attack #cloud #intel #amd #cosic #kuleuven

"Battering RAM Exploit Bypasses Modern Protections in Intel, AMD Cloud Processors" gbhackers.com/battering-ra... #batteringram #attack #cloud #intel #amd #cosic #kuleuven

"New $50 Battering RAM Attack Breaks Intel and AMD Cloud Security Protections" thehackernews.com/2025/10/50-b... #batteringram #attack #cloud #intel #amd #cosic #kuleuven

"Battering RAM Attack Breaks Intel and AMD Security Tech With $50 Device" www.securityweek.com/battering-ra... #batteringram #attack #cloud #intel #amd #cosic #kuleuven

Research by COSIC, KU Leuven and and the University of Birmingham exposes fundamental hardware flaw in highly protected cloud servers: batteringram.eu #batteringram #attack #cloud #intel #amd

"New Battering RAM Attack Bypasses Defenses on Intel and AMD Cloud Processors" cyberpress.org/battering-ra... #batteringram #attack #cloud #intel #amd

New Battering RAM Attack Bypasses Latest Defenses on Intel and AMD Cloud Processors: cybersecuritynews.com/battering-ra... #batteringram #attack #cloud #intel #amd

"Onderzoekers KULeuven hacken geavanceerde cloudbeveiliging Intel en AMD" in Knack Datanews: datanews.knack.be/nieuws/secur...

COSIC researcher Jesse De Meulemeester was interviewed by Belgian newspaper De Tijd for the podcast "De 7" on the Battering RAM attack on Intel and AMD Cloud Processors [in Dutch]: www.tijd.be/podcasts/de-7 #batteringram #attack #cloud #intel #amd

Welcome to our new PhD student Neus Vayà, who will be working on Secure MPC! "I chose COSIC not only for its exciting research opportunities, but also because of the wonderful experience I had working with such a nice, fun, and brilliant group of people during my master’s thesis." #choosecosic

You can still register for our PQCSA "PQC Migration & Supply Chain Readiness for the Automotive Industry" workshop in Frankfurt, Germany on 7 November 2025, co-located with ESCAR: www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/events... #PQC #ESCAR #PostQuantum #Quantum

🤩The COSIC newsletter for August-September is now online, find out what we've been up to: www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/sites/...

The COSIC Seminar "Evaluation of Hardware Masked Circuits, From Conservative Models to Heuristic Approaches" by Amir Moradi (TU Darmstadt) is now available on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG_2... Follow us on YT to get the latest crypto videos!

Great news, the #PQCSA Workshop on Tackling the #Quantum Threat in Athens is now fully available on our YouTube channel! 📹https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiHaXFHjrqYfirMJAg9UOPwtpjczj5Q1Y #digitaleurope #pqc

Our researcher Quinten Norga is presenting "mUOV: Masking the Unbalanced Oil and Vinegar Digital Signature Scheme at First- and Higher-Order" at the NIST 6th PQC Standardization Conference in Gaithersburg, MD, USA today. csrc.nist.gov/Events/2025/... #NIST #Standardization #PQC

Europe is testing a digital age verification app to protect minors online. Bart Preneel warns it risks privacy, can be bypassed, and may exclude users. Could this be the end of online anonymity? www.standaard.be/media-en-cul... #ageverification #anonyimity #privacy

🎓 Leuven gained two new doctors yesterday! Congrats to Dilip Kumar and Roozbeh Sarenche on successfully defending their PhD theses at COSIC. 👏

New COSIC, KU Leuven spin-off Belfort enables secure real-time processing of encrypted data nieuws.kuleuven.be/en/content/2...

COSIC is very proud of #Belfort, the spin-off founded out of our cryptographic expertise. "For decades, we’ve explored how to make computation secure by design. With Belfort, we’re finally bringing those ideas into practice." (COSIC Professor Ingrid Verbauwhede)

The COSIC Seminar "Leuvenshtein: Efficient FHE-based Edit Distance Computation with Single Bootstrap per Cell" by Wouter Legiest (COSIC) is now online on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7-k... #Leuvenshtein #cosicseminar

Yifan Dang (Tsinghua University) gave a COSIC Seminar on "Entropy extractor based high-throughput post-processings for True Random Number Generators", watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1EU...

COSIC researcher Jonas Bertels gave a seminar on "Quatorze bis: The state-of-the-art hardware accelerator for TFHE/FINAL", you can now watch it online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKKf...

The COSIC Seminar "Rudraksh: A compact and lightweight post-quantum key-encapsulation mechanism" by Suparna Kundu (COSIC) is now available on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynv9...

Bart Preneel in the print edition of De Morgen on the #brusselsairport #cyberattack: "Why do some airports experience more problems than others? Some airports can still operate with local systems. Clearly, Brussels cannot." www.demorgen.be/snelnieuws/p...

Michiel van Beirendonck (Belfort) will be giving a talk at the FHE.org Hardware Day 2025 on Thursday, info and registration on luma.com/2skte98w

Our researcher Wouter Legiest will be giving a talk at the FHE.org Hardware Day 2025 on Thursday, info and registration on luma.com/2skte98w