On March 24, 2025, OTA Kazuki (a fourth-year student at the time of receiving the award) and TAGUCHI Kaiji (a fourth-year student) (Kikuchi Laboratory, Department of Frontier Media Science) received the Student Encouragement Award at the Program Committee of the 87th National Convention of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ).
This award is given to outstanding presentations selected by the chair from among student members who presented in the student session.
OTA Kazuki and Professor KIKUCHI Hiroaki presented “Threat analysis of phishing attacks with Evilginx, a man-in-the-middle attack tool that byasses 2FA.”
TAGUCHI Kaiji and Professor KIKUCHI Hiroaki gave a presentation titled “Development of a detection tool for session replay services that collect mouse history data from the website.”
In the research on man-in-the-middle attack tools, they targeted Evilginx, an open source tool that breaks multi-factor authentication, and investigated the types and percentages of domestic and international services that are vulnerable to this tool.
In the session replay study, they studied how to detect pages where browsing history, such as mouse movements, is being recorded without the user’s knowledge.
With cyberattacks causing increasingly serious damage and impacts, these studies are expected to contribute to improving security and privacy.