GSMA Mobile Security Research Acknowledgements

The GSMA’s Mobile Security Research Acknowledgements page lists security vulnerability reporters that have made contributions to increasing the security of the mobile industry by submitting disclosures to the GSMA or its members. It is the primary mechanism for the GSMA to recognise and acknowledge the positive impact the reporter has had on the mobile industry by following the GSMA’s Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) process.
This was previously known as GSMA Mobile Security Hall of Fame from 2017-May 2021.

Does a CVD number signify an acknowledgement?

The GSMA’s CVD programme assigns CVD numbers to facilitate the tracking and management of each case. The allocation of a CVD number does not imply that the panel of experts has assessed or publicly acknowledged the research.

After the assignment of a CVD number, the panel of experts reviews the vulnerability and determines whether the research is in scope, unique and credible and establishes the appropriate next steps and actions. If the research is deemed in scope, unique and credible, the researchers are acknowledged on the list below, once mitigating actions have been undertaken by GSMA.

This Mobile Security Research Acknowledgements page also facilitates the nomination and recognition of other reporters of vulnerabilities that may have made significant discoveries of vulnerabilities to individual GSMA member companies.

Entry to the Mobile Security Research Acknowledgements page is optional and is at the discretion of the reporter, the GSMA and/or the nominating GSMA member.

On behalf of the mobile industry, we would like to thank the following people for making a disclosure to us and recognise their contribution to increasing the security of the mobile industry:

CVD# Name Organisation & Link
CVD-2023
0077
Taekkyung Oh,
Sangwook Bae,
Junho Ahn,
Hoang Dinh Tuan,
Yonghwa Lee,
Yongdae Kim
Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)
CVD-2023
0076
Mitziu Echeverria,
Aliakbar Sadeghi,
Daniyal Pirwani Dar,
Omar Chowdhury
The University of Iowa
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook University
CVD-2023
0075
Yaru Yang,
Yiming Zhang,
Tao Wan,
Chuhan Wang,
Haixin Duan,
Jianjun Chen
Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University
CableLabs & Carleton University
Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University
CVD-2023
0074
Qize Wang
ADLab of VenusTech
CVD-2023
0073
David Rupprecht,
Tobias Funke,
Katharina Kohls
Radix Security
Ruhr-University Bochum
Radboud University
CVD-2023
0072
Evangelos Bitsikas,
Aanjhan Ranganathan,
Theodor Schnitzler,
Christina Pöpper
Northeastern University
Northeastern University
Technical University Dortmund
New York University Abu Dhabi
CVD-2023
0071
Abdullah Al Ishtiaq,
Kai Tu,
Syed Md Mukit Rashid,
Syed Rafiul Hussain
Pennsylvania State University
CVD-2023
0070
Taekkyung Oh,
Sangwook Bae,
Junho Ahn,
Yongdae Kim
Korea Advanced Institute
of Science & Technology (KAIST)
CVD-2023
0069
Mujtahid Akon
Tianchang Yang
Yilu Dong
Syed Rafiul Hussain
Pennsylvania State University
CVD-2023
0067
Imran Saleem
Mobileum
CVD-2022
0064
Bedran Karakoc,
Nils Fürste,
David Rupprecht,
Katharina Kohls
Ruhr-University Bochum
Software Radio Systems
Radix Security
Radboud University Nijmegen
CVD-2022
0063
Imran Saleem
Mobileum
CVD-2022
0060, 0061 and 0062
Seaver Thorn, K. Virgil, English, Kevin R.B Butler, William Enck
North Carolina State University & University of Florida
CVD-2022
0058
Zhiwei Cui, Baojiang Cui, Siyuan Wang, Fengjiao He, Hongxin Wang
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
CVD-2022
0056
Fabricio Ferraz
MEO
CVD-2021
0052
Imran Saleem
Mobileum
CVD-2021
0050
Syed Rafiul Hussain,
Abdullah Al Ishtiaq
Pennsylvania State University
Imtiaz Karim,
Elisa Bertino
Purdue University
Omar Chowdhury
The University of Iowa
CVD-2021
0049
Yi Chen
Indiana University Bloomington
https://sites.google.com/view/chenyi1
Yepeng Yao
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
https://yaoyepeng.github.io
XiaoFeng Wang
Indiana University Bloomington
https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/xw7
CVD-2021
0047
Silke Holtmanns
AdaptiveMobile Security
CVD-2021
0046
Benoit Michau,
Thomas Coudray,
Rémi Bonamy
P1 Security
CVD-2021
0045
Reza Soosahabi
ATI Research Center, Keysight Technologies Inc.
Paper, Talk
CVD-2021
0043
Imtiaz Karim,
Elisa Bertino
Purdue University
Syed Rafiul Hussain
Pennsylvania State University
CVD-2020
0041
Christof Beierle,
Gregor Leander,
David Rupprecht,
Lukas Stennes
Ruhr University Bochum
Patrick Derbez
Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA
Gaëtan Leurent
Inria
Håvard Raddum
Simula UiB
Yann Rotella
Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, CNRS, Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Versailles
CVD-2020
0040
Nitya Lakshmanan
Nishant Budhdev
Mun Choon Chan
Jun Han
National University of Singapore
Min Suk Kang
KAIST
CVD-2020
0035
Guancheng Li
Zhengyi Shang
Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab
CVD-2019
0030
David Rupprecht
Katharina Kohls
Thorsten Holz
Ruhr University Bochum
Christina Pöpper
NYU Abu Dhabi
CVD-2019
0029
Syed Rafiul Hussain
Mitziu Echeverria
Imtiaz Karim
Omar Chowdhury
Elisa Bertino
Purdue University
University of Iowa
Purdue University
University of Iowa
Purdue University
CVD-2019
0026
Cathal Mc Daid
AdaptiveMobile Security
https://www.adaptivemobile.com
CVD-2019
0024
David Rupprecht
Christina Pöpper
Thorsten Holz
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany and
New York University Abu Dhabi
CVD-2019
0018
Altaf Shaik
Technical University of Berlin
https://www.isti.tu-berlin.de/security_in_telecommunications
Ravishankar Borgaonkar
SINTEF Digital
https://www.sintef.no/en/all-employees/employee/?empId=7616
CVD-2018
0014
Elisa Bertino
Purdue University
https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/bertino/
Omar Chowdhury
University of Iowa
http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~comarhaider/
Mitziu Echeverria
University of Iowa
Syed Rafiul Hussain
Purdue University
https://relentless-warrior.github.io/
Ninghui Li
Purdue University
https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ninghui/
CVD-2018
0013
Merlin Chlosta
David Rupprecht
Thorsten Holz
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Paper, Talk
Christina Pöpper
NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Paper, Talk
CVD-2018
0012
David Basin
Jannik Dreier
Lucca Hirschi
Saša Radomirović
Ralf Sasse
Vincent Stettler
ETH Zurich, Université de Lorraine
CNRS, Inria, University of Dundee
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10360
CVD-2018
00011
Loïc Ferreira
Orange Labs / IRISA
http://crypto.rd.francetelecom.com/people/Ferreira
Gildas Avoine
INSA Rennes / IRISA
http://avoine.net
CVD-2018
0009
Sebastian Stumpf
Munich University of Applied Sciences
https://www.hm.edu/en/
CVD-2018
0008
David Rupprecht
Katharina Kohls
Christina Pöpper
Thorsten Holz
Ruhr University Bochum and
New York University Abu Dhabi
https://www.alter-attack.net
CVD-2017
0007
Altaf Shaik
Technical University of Berlin and Kaitiaki Labs
https://www.isti.tu-berlin.de/security_in_telecommunications
Ravishankar Borgaonkar
SINTEF Digital and Kaitiaki Labs
https://www.sintef.no/en/cyber-security/#/
CVD-2017
0005
Fredrik Söderlund
Symsoft
http://www.symsoft.com
CVD-2017
0004
Maxime Meyer
Vade Secure Technology, Inc.
http://maximemeyer.com
Ben Smyth
Verified IO Limited
http://www.bensmyth.com
Elizabeth A. Quaglia
Information Security Group,
Royal Holloway, University of London
https://lizquaglia.wordpress.com
CVD-2017
0003
Vladimir Wolstencroft
BAIKE LTD
Fredrik Söderlund
Symsoft
http://www.symsoft.com
CVD-2017
0001
Yuwei Zheng
Lin Huang
Haoqi Shan
Jun Li
Qing Yang
Unicorn Team, Radio Security
Research Dept., 360 Technology
http://unicorn.360.com

Furthermore we would like to acknowledge the contributions of the following:

  • Prof. Steve Babbage
  • Nick Arconati
  • Prajwol Kumar Nakarmi

Find out more information about the GSMA Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure programme.