Academic Staff
Asya Mitseva, M.Sc.
VG 1C, room 2.17
T: +49 (0) 355 69 2615
F: +49 (0) 355 69 2127
asya.mitseva(at)b-tu.de
Office Hours
To schedule an appointment, please contact Ms. Mitseva in advance via email with your request.
If you are interested in a student job, please send an e-mail to: itsec-jobs.informatik(at)lists.b-tu.de
If you are interested in a topic for your thesis, please send an e-mail to: fg-itsec-thesis.informatik(at)lists.b-tu.de
About me
Currently, I am a researcher and doctoral student at the Chair of IT Security. I received my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria, and my Master's degree in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen University, Germany. I also wrote my bachelor thesis at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, and completed a six-month internship at the University of Luxembourg at the end of my master studies. After my studies, I continued to work at the University of Luxembourg for four years.
Research Interests
My research focuses on anonymous communication and privacy-enhancing technologies (especially Tor), where I evaluate the impact of different attacks and aim to design and analyze efficient countermeasures. I am also interested in evaluating the application of machine learning for traffic analysis to sensitive data flows (e.g., website fingerprinting against privacy-aware users) as well as anomaly detection in critical infrastructures.
Teaching
I teach both practical master courses “Study Project: Adversarial Machine Learning” and “Cyber Security Lab (Ethical Hacking)”, and coordinate our seminars “Research Seminar: Advanced Topics in Network and System Security” and “Undergraduate Research Seminar: Basics of System and Network Security”. In addition, I regularly supervise several seminar students as well as bachelor and master theses.
If you are interested in a student job, please send an e-mail to: itsec-jobs.informatik(at)lists.b-tu.de
If you are interested in a topic for your thesis, please send an e-mail to: fg-itsec-thesis.informatik(at)lists.b-tu.de
Publications
Stop, don't click here anymore: boosting website fingerprinting by considering sets of subpages
- Author(s)
- Mitseva, Asya, Panchenko, Andriy
- Type
- Conference Proceeding refering
- Year of publication
- 2024
- Source
- Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Sec 2024), Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 14-16, 2024, S. 4139 - 4156
- ISBN
- 978-1-939133-44-1
- URL
- https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity24-mitseva.pdf
- https://dblp.org/rec/conf/uss/Mitseva024.html
Security and Performance Implications of BGP Rerouting-resistant Guard Selection Algorithms for Tor
- Author(s)
- Mitseva, Asya, Alexandrova, Marharyta, Panchenko, Andriy
- Type
- Scientific Article ref.
- Year of publication
- 2023
- BGP routing attacks; Tor; Onion routing; Privacy; Traffic analysis
- Source
- Computers and Security
- Volume
- 132
- ISSN
- 1872-6208
- 0167-4048
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2023.103374
Challenges and Pitfalls in Generating Representative ICS Datasets in Cyber Security Research
- Author(s)
- Mitseva, Asya, Thierse, Paul, Hoffmann, Harald, Er, Devran, Panchenko, Andriy
- Editor(s)
- Katsikas, Sokratis
- Type
- Conference Proceeding refering
- Year of publication
- 2023
- Publisher name
- Cham : Springer International Publishing
- Source
- Computer Security, ESORICS 2022 International WorkshopsCyberICPS 2022, SECPRE 2022, SPOSE 2022, CPS4CIP 2022, CDT&SECOMANE 2022, EIS 2022, and SecAssure 2022 Copenhagen, Denmark, September 26–30, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, S. 379 - 397
- ISBN
- 978-3-031-25459-8
- 978-3-031-25460-4
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25460-4_22
- Lecture notes in computer science ; 13785
GuardedGossip: Secure and Anonymous Node Discovery in Untrustworthy Networks
- Author(s)
- Panchenko, Andriy, Mitseva, Asya, Ziemann, Torsten, Hering, Till
- Type
- Conference Proceeding refering
- Year of publication
- 2021
- Publisher name
- Cham : Springer
- Node lookup; DHT; Tor; Onion routing; Anonymity
- Source
- Security and Privacy in Communication Networks : 17th EAI International Conference, SecureComm 2021, Virtual Event, September 6–9, 2021, Proceedings, Part I, S. 123 - 143
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-90018-2
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90019-9_7
- Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
WhisperChord: Scalable and Secure Node Discovery for Overlay Networks
- Author(s)
- Panchenko, Andriy, Mitseva, Asya, Knabe, Sara
- Type
- Conference Proceeding refering
- Year of publication
- 2021
- Publisher name
- IEEE
- Source
- IEEE 46th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Edmonton, AB, Canada, 4-7 Oct. 2021, S. 170 - 177
- ISBN
- 978-1-6654-1886-7
- 978-1-6654-4800-0
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/LCN52139.2021.9525008
POSTER: How Dangerous is My Click? Boosting Website Fingerprinting By Considering Sequences of Webpages
- Author(s)
- Mitseva, Asya, Pennekamp, Jan, Lohmöller, Johannes, Ziemann, Torsten, Hoerchner, Carl, Wehrle, Klaus, Panchenko, Andriy
- Type
- Conference Proceeding refering
- Year of publication
- 2021
- Publisher name
- New York : ACM Press
- Source
- Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2021), Seoul, Virtual Event, South Korea, November 2021, S. 2411 - 2413
- ISBN
- 978-1-4503-8454-4
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3460120.3485347
Security and Performance Implications of BGP Rerouting-resistant Guard Selection Algorithms for Tor
- Author(s)
- Mitseva, Asya, Aleksandrova, Marharyta, Engel, Thomas, Panchenko, Andriy
- Type
- Conference Proceeding refering
- Year of publication
- 2020
- Publisher name
- Cham : Springer
- Source
- ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection : 35th IFIP TC 11 International Conference, SEC 2020, Maribor, Slovenia, September 21–23, 2020, S. 219 - 233
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-58201-2
- 978-3-030-58200-5
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58201-2_15
- IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology book series IFIPAICT ; volume 580
Analyzing PeerFlow - A Bandwidth Estimation System for Untrustworthy Environments
- Author(s)
- Mitseva, Asya, Engel, Thomas, Panchenko, Andriy
- Editor(s)
- Reinhardt, Delphine, Langweg, Hanno, Witt, Bernhard C., Fischer, Mathias
- Type
- Conference Proceeding refering
- Year of publication
- 2020
- Publisher name
- Bonn : Gesellschaft für Informatik
- Source
- Sicherheit 2020 : Sicherheit, Schutz und Zuverlässigkeit ; Konferenzband der 10. Jahrestagung des Fachbereichs Sicherheit der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) ; 17.- 20. März 2020 in Göttingen, S. 29 - 40
- ISBN
- 978-3-88579-695-4
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.18420/sicherheit2020_02
- GI-Edition / Proceedings ; Volume P-301
- Lecture notes in informatics
TrafficSliver: Fighting Website Fingerprinting Attacks with Traffic Splitting
- Author(s)
- De la Cadena, Wladimir, Mitseva, Asya, Hiller, Jens, Pennekamp, Jan, Reuter, Sebastian, Filter, Julian, Engel, Thomas, Wehrle, Klaus, Panchenko, Andriy
- Type
- Conference Proceeding refering
- Year of publication
- 2020
- Publisher name
- New York : Association for Computing Machinery
- Traffic Analysis; Website Fingerprinting; Privacy; Anonymous Communication; Onion Routing; Web Privacy
- Source
- CCS '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, October 2020, S. 1971 - 1985
- ISBN
- 978-1-4503-7089-9
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3372297.3423351
Multipathing Traffic to Reduce Entry Node Exposure in Onion Routing
- Author(s)
- Pennekamp, Jan, Hiller, Jens, Reuter, Sebastian, De la Cadena, Wladimir, Mitseva, Asya, Henze, Martin, Engel, Thomas, Wehrle, Klaus, Panchenko, Andriy
- Type
- Conference Proceeding refering
- Year of publication
- 2019
- Publisher name
- IEEE Press
- Source
- Proceedings of the 27th annual IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (Poster) (IEEE ICNP 2019), Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 2019
- ISBN
- 978-1-7281-2700-2
- 978-1-7281-2701-9
- URL
- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8888029
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNP.2019.8888029
POSTER: Traffic Splitting to Counter Website Fingerprinting
- Author(s)
- De La Cadena, Wladimir, Mitseva, Asya, Pennekamp, Jan, Hiller, Jens, Lanze, Fabian, Engel, Thomas, Wehrle, Klaus, Panchenko, Andriy
- Type
- Conference Proceeding refering
- Year of publication
- 2019
- Publisher name
- New York : ACM Press
- Source
- CCS '19 Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, London, UK, November 11 - 15, 2019., S. 2533 - 2535
- ISBN
- 978-1-4503-6747-9
- URL
- https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3319535.3363249
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3319535.3363249
Analysis of Multi-path Onion Routing-based Anonymization Networks
- Author(s)
- De la Cadena, Wladimir, Kaiser, Daniel, Mitseva, Asya, Panchenko, Andriy, Engel, Thomas
- Editor(s)
- Foley, Simon N.
- Type
- Conference Proceeding refering
- Year of publication
- 2019
- Publisher name
- Frankfurt am Main : Springer
- Source
- Data and Applications Security and Privacy XXXIII : 33rd Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference, DBSec 2019, Charleston, SC, USA, July 15–17, 2019, Proceedings, S. 240 - 258
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-22478-3
- 978-3-030-22479-0
- URL
- https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-22479-0
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22479-0_13
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series ; volume 11559
The state of affairs in BGP security: A survey of attacks and defenses
- Author(s)
- Mitseva, Asya, Panchenko, Andriy, Engel, Thomas
- Type
- Scientific Article ref.
- Year of publication
- 2018
- Source
- Computer Communications, S. 45 - 60
- Volume
- 124
- ISSN
- 0140-3664
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2018.04.013
Analysis of Fingerprinting Techniques for Tor Hidden Services
- Author(s)
- Panchenko, Andriy, Mitseva, Asya, Henze, Martin, Lanze, Fabian, Engel, Thomas, Wehrle, Klaus
- Type
- conference publication
- Year of publication
- 2017
- Publisher name
- New York, NY : ACM
- Source
- WPES '17 Proceedings of the 2017 on Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, Dallas, Texas, USA, October 2017, S. 165 - 175
- ISBN
- 978-1-4503-5175-1
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3139550.3139564
POSTER: Fingerprinting Tor Hidden Services
- Author(s)
- Mitseva, Asya, Panchenko, Andriy, Lanze, Fabian, Henze, Martin, Engel, Thomas, Wehrle, Klaus
- Type
- Conference Proceeding refering
- Year of publication
- 2016
- Publisher name
- New York : ACM
- Source
- In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, S. 1766 - 1768
- ISBN
- 978-1-4503-4139-4
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/2976749.2989054