2nd Cyber Security in Cars Workshop (CSCS)

Taipei, Taiwan

co-located with the 32nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Workshop Program ACM CCS 2025 CSCS 2024

We are thrilled to announce the 2nd Cyber Security in Cars Workshop (CSCS) — a premier event dedicated to tackling the evolving challenges of cybersecurity in modern vehicles. CSCS brings together researchers, industry experts, developers, and security professionals to explore cutting-edge research, discuss emerging threats, and collaborate on innovative solutions in automotive cybersecurity.

The CSCS 2025 conference will once again be hosted at ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)!

Building on the legacy of the ACM Computer Science in Cars Symposium, CSCS continues to advance the field, fostering discussions that bridge academia and industry.

We also want to extend a huge thank you to everyone who contributed to making the 1st CSCS at ACM CCS a resounding success! Your research, insights, and participation helped create a vibrant and inspiring event, and we look forward to building on that momentum.

Workshop Program

Note: Some papers are still under revision. The list of accepted papers will be updated as decisions are finalized.

  • Short: RollCAN – CAN-bus based RollJam-Attack Jannis Hamborg (Hochschule Darmstadt)*; Timm Lauser (Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences); Christoph Krauß (Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences)
  • An Automotive Cybersecurity Trend Radar Gabriel Simmann (Institute of Energy Efficient Mobility (IEEM), University of Applied Sciences)*; Reiner Kriesten (Institute of Energy Efficient Mobility (IEEM), University of Applied Sciences); Felix Maag (Daimler Truck Holding AG); Martin Mager (Daimler Truck Holding AG)
  • Driving Down Premiums: A Security and Forensic Analysis of the DriveWell Insurance System Claudius Laves (Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt)*; Thomas Hutzelmann (Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt); Kevin Mayer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg); Hans-Joachim Hof (Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt)
  • Structured Threat Modeling Approach for Generating Executable Attack Scenarios in the EV Charging Infrastructure Jae-Jun Ha (System Security Research Center, Chonnam National University)*; Dong-Hyuk Shin (System Security Research Center, Chonnam National University); Ieck-Chae Euom (Department of Data Science, Chonnam National University)
  • WIP: Assessing GPTs models’ knowledge of automotive cyberthreats benchmarking autoISAC framework Nicola Scarano (Politecnico di Torino)*; Luca Mannella (Politecnico di Torino); Alessandro Savino (Politecnico di Torino ); Stefano Di Carlo (Politecnico di Torino)
  • Vehicle-to-Everything Trust: Enabling Autonomous Trust Assessment of V2X Data by Vehicles Nataša Trkulja (Ulm University)*; Artur Hermann (Ulm University); Paul L. Duhr (Ulm University); Echo Meißner (Ulm University); Michael Buchholz (Ulm University); Frank Kargl (Ulm University); Benjamin Erb (Ulm University)
  • Short: Application of Quantum Key Distribution in Intelligent Transport Systems Henning Ullrich (Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt)*; Dominik Bayerl (Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt); Thomas Hutzelmann (Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt); Hans-Joachim Hof ( Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt)
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    Call for Papers

    CSCS brings together researchers, practitioners, developers, and anyone interested in solving the myriad complex problems of cyber security in modern vehicles. The conference offers a common platform to discuss new developments in vehicle technology and its applications. In addition to presenting current research contributions, the conference offers the opportunity for networking, joint brainstorming on current challenges and the development of new solutions. Cyber Security for Vehicles is a very important research area due to the current drive to make vehicles fully autonomous and increasingly connected. Software systems running on Electronic Control Units (ECU) and High-Performance Computers (HPC) handle a wide spectrum of functions ranging from autonomous/assisted/cooperative driving over infotainment to integrated intelligent assistants.

    However, vehicles’ associated connectivity must be secured against attackers, as successful attacks can have devastating effects. The threat surface is getting even more complex especially with the pervasive use of artificial intelligence in many central components.

    Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    Submissions

    We are looking for submissions with high quality, original and unpublished contributions in two categories:

    1. Full papers up to 10 pages
    2. Short position papers or work-in-progress (WIP) papers up to 6 pages

    excluding references and appendices. Note that reviewers are not required to read appendices or any supplementary material. The review process is double-blind. Submissions have to be anonymized.

    All papers must be formatted in the double-column ACM format (sigconf) and submitted via the submission system. Authors should not change the font or the margins of the ACM format. Submissions not following the required format may be rejected without review.

    Short papers are suitable for position papers or original works whose descriptions fit within 6 pages. WIP papers are suitable for original yet incomplete work that is looking for middle-stage feedback from the community. Short or WIP papers must have the prefix “Short:”/“WIP:” in their titles

    Articles will be submitted using Microsoft CMT. You will have to upload a pdf document and an abstract after registering the corresponding author. Once a paper (regular, short, WIP) is accepted, at least one of the authors is expected to attend the conference to present it.

    Submit here

    Committee

    General Chair

    Hans-Joachim Hof

    Technical University of Ingolstadt, Germany


    Hans-Joachim Hof is full professor and vice president of Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany. He leads the research group „Security in Mobility“ in the CARISSMA Institute of Electric, Connected, and Secure Mobility (C-ECOS). His research focus is on the security testing of vehicles as well as on secure automotive software. Previously, Hans-Joachim was a full professor at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany and research scientist at Corporate Technology of Siemens AG, Germany. He holds a PhD from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Hans-Joachim is a member of the board of the German Chapter of the ACM and of the German national computer science association (Gesellschaft für Informatik).

    Program Co-Chairs

    Mario Fritz

    CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany


    Mario Fritz is faculty member at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarbruecken, Germany and professor at the Saarland University. Previously, he was senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and post-doc at UC Berkeley and the International Computer Science Institute on a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His research focus is at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning with Security & Privacy. His recent work focuses on Deep Learning techniques that allow end-to-end training of complex and multi-modal approaches. He has over 90 publications - 50 in top venues. His key contributions include work on visual domain adaptation, latent factor models, the Visual Turing Test, privacy in visual data, and attack as well as defenses for machine learning models. He has served as area chair for ECCV and ICCV, is associate editor of TPAMI and is member of the ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee.

    Christoph Krauß

    Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and INCYDE GmbH


    Christoph Krauß is full professor for Network Security at the Department of Computer Science at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (HDA) and Head of Automotive Security Research at INCYDE GmbH, which he co-founded. At HDA, he is the spokesperson of the IT Security Expert Group, head of the research group Applied Cyber Security Darmstadt (ACSD), and member of the inter-university PhD Center for Applied Computer Science PZAI. At INCYDE, he coordinates the research activities and research projects of the automotive sector. He has over 15 years of experience in the area of cyber security. Currently, his fields of interest and activities are focused on automotive security and privacy, railway security, intelligent energy networks security, trusted computing, network security, efficient and post quantum cryptography, and security engineering.

    Program Committee

    Web Chairs and Local Organization Chairs


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    The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.