I am an assistant professor at King Saud University. I received my PhD in the Computer Science department from Indiana University. My research interests include cybercrime defense and traffic analysis. I was honored to be advised by Prof. XiaoFeng Wang.

Publications

[CCS’25] Exploring and Analyzing Cross Layer DoS Attack Against UDP-based Services on Linux.
Dashuai Wu, Yunyi Zhang, Baojun Liu, Xiang Li, Eihal Alowaisheq, and Haixin Duan.
The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)

[USENIX Security’24] Rethinking the Security Threats of Stale DNS Glue Records.
Yunyi Zhang, Baojun Liu, Haixin Duan, Min Zhang, Xiang Li, Fan Shi, Chengxi Xu, and Eihal Alowaisheq
The USENIX Security Symposium

[DSN'24] Stealthy Peers: Understanding Security and Privacy Risks of Peer-Assisted Video Streaming.
Tang, Siyuan, Eihal Alowaisheq, Xianghang Mi, Yi Chen, XiaoFeng Wang, and Yanzhi Dou
The IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)

[CCS’23] Silence is not Golden: Disrupting the Load Balancing of Authoritative DNS Servers. The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
Fenglu Zhang, Baojun Liu, Eihal Alowaisheq , Jianjun Chen, Chaoyi Lu, Linjian Song, Yong Ma, Ying Liu, Haixin Duan, and Min Yang
The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
Distinguished Paper Award!

[IMC’23] Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Evaluating Security Risks of the Undelegated Record on DNS Hosting Services.
Fenglu Zhang, Yunyi Zhang, Baojun Liu, Eihal Alowaisheq, Lingyun Ying, Xiang Li, Zaifeng Zhang, Ying Liu, Haixin Duan, and Min Zhang
The ACM on Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)

[CCS’20] Zombie Awakening: Stealthy Hijacking of Active Domains through DNS Hosting Referral
Eihal Alowaisheq, Siyuan Tang, Zhihao Wang, Fatemah Alharbi, Xiaojing Liao, and XiaoFeng Wang
The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)

[NDSS’19] Cracking the Wall of Confinement: Understanding and Analyzing Malicious Domain Take-downs
Eihal Alowaisheq, Peng Wang, Sumayah Alrwais, Xiaojing Liao, XiaoFeng Wang, Tasneem Alowaisheq, Xianghang Mi, Siyuan Tang, and Baojun Liu
The Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium
Distinguished Paper Award!

[S&P’16] Seeking nonsense, looking for trouble: Efficient promotional-infection detection through semantic inconsistency search
Xiaojing Liao, Kan Yuan, XiaoFeng Wang, Zhongyu Pei, Hao Yang, Jianjun Chen, Haixin Duan, Kun Du, Eihal Alowaisheq, Sumayah Alrwais, Luyi Xing, and Raheem Beyah
The IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)

[ACSAC 2016] Catching predators at watering holes: finding and understanding strategically compromised websites
Sumayah Alrwais, Kan Yuan, Eihal Alowaisheq, Xiaojing Liao, Alina Oprea, XiaoFeng Wang, and Zhou Li
The Annual Conference on Computer Security Applications (ACSAC)

[USENIX Security’14] Understanding the dark side of domain parking
Sumayah Alrwais, Kan Yuan, Eihal Alowaisheq, Zhou Li, and XiaoFeng Wang
The USENIX Security Symposium

[S&P’14] Hunting the red fox online: Understanding and detection of mass redirect-script injections
Zhou Li, Sumayah Alrwais, XiaoFeng Wang, and Eihal Alowaisheq
The IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)