Caner Tol

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Hello!šŸ‘‹

I am a recent Ph.D. graduate from Vernam Lab, WPI, advised by Berk Sunar.

My current research interests are

  • Microarchitectural (Ī¼arch) security
  • Side-channel and Fault Injection attacks
  • Attacks on ML models and other critical software
  • Automated detection and patching of Ī¼arch vulnerabilities using AI

Outside of work, I do Aikido, scuba diving, sailing, tangoā€¦

news

Mar 25, 2024 LeapFrog attack has been accepted to hardware.io USA 2024 under the new research category!
Mar 25, 2024 ZeroLeak will appear in Real World Crypto 2024, Toronto, Canada!
Nov 16, 2023 Our Mayhem attack has been accepted to ACM AsiaCCS 2024, Singapore!
Sep 25, 2023 We have issued CVE-2023-42465 for the SUDO library for our Mayhem attack. A series of commits were pushed as countermeasures.
Apr 23, 2023 Iā€™ve been selected to receive a student travel grant for IEEE S&P 2023.

selected publications

  1. Ī¼RL: Discovering Transient Execution Vulnerabilities Using Reinforcement Learning
    M. Caner Tol,Ā Kemal Derya,Ā andĀ Berk Sunar
    2025
  2. LeapFrog: The Rowhammer Instruction Skip Attack
    Andrew J. Adiletta,Ā M. Caner Tol,Ā andĀ Berk Sunar
    2024
  3. ZeroLeak: Automated Side-Channel Patching in Source Code Using LLMs
    M. Caner Tol,Ā andĀ Berk Sunar
    2023
  4. Donā€™t Knock! Rowhammer at the Backdoor of DNN Models
    M. Caner Tol,Ā Saad Islam,Ā Andrew J. Adiletta,Ā Berk Sunar,Ā andĀ Ziming Zhang
    In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2022