About me

I am an assistant professor at the University of Bahrain. My research focus on offensive security across different platforms: Computers, Mobiles (specially Android OS) and web browsers. I discovered and reported several security vulnerabilities that affect products belong to Google, Samsung, Huawei and Opera. I obtained my PhD in computer science from the University of Birmingham, UK in December 2023. My master degree (Msc) is in advanced computer science with distinction from University of Birmingham, UK in December 2017.

Publication

2023
Symbolic modelling of remote attestation protocols for device and app integrity on Android
Abdulla Aldoseri, Tom Chothia , José Moreira and David Oswald
The 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2023), 2023.
Melbourne, Australia
i-205589624 (Google)
2022
A Tale of Four Gates: Privilege Escalation and Permission Bypasses on Android Through App Components
Abdulla Aldoseri, David Oswald, Robert Chiper
The 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2022), 2022.
Copenhagen, Denmark
CVE-2020-26606 (Samsung), CVE-2020-9119 (Huawei) and i-75232797 (Google)
Presentation and demo videos
insecure://Vulnerability Analysis of URI Scheme Handling in Android Mobile Browsers
Abdulla Aldoseri, David Oswald
Workshop on Measurements, Attacks, and Defenses for the Web (MADWeb 2022), 2022.
San Diego, California, US
CVE-2020-6159 (Opera), CVE-2021-25419 (Samsung), CVE-2021-25348 (Samsung), CVE-2021-25417 (Samsung), (i-1154353) (Google)
Best paper award
2019
A Tale of Two Worlds: Assessing the Vulnerability of Enclave Shielding Runtimes
Jo Van Bulck, David Oswald, Eduard Marin, Abdulla Aldoseri, Flavio D. Garcia, Frank Piessens
26th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2019), 2019.
London, UK
CVE-2018-3626, CVE-2019-14565, CVE-2019-0876, CVE-2019-1369, CVE-2019-1370

Professional Certificates

Malware Reverse Engineering
Kaspersky Academy/ Kaspersky lab
Certified
Security Monitoring and Cyber Threat Hunting
Kaspersky Academy/ Kaspersky lab
Certified
Palo Alto Networks Certified Academy Instructor
Palo Alto Networks Academy
Certified