Mengying Wu | Fudan University

About Me

I am a full-time Bachelor-PhD candidate majoring in Cyberspace security at School of Computer Science, Fudan University, advised by Prof. Min Yang, Prof. Mi Zhang and Prof. Geng Hong. My research interests include Cybercrime, novel cybersecurity threats and Internet measurement.

Research Interests

Cybercrime: blackhat SEO, underground industry
Novel Cybersecurity Threats: web resource abuse
Internet Measurement
Email Security
Supply Chain Security

News

[Oct. 2024] Our paper about black hat SEO abuse in software repositories is accepted to ICSE 2025.
[Oct. 2024] Our paper about the device search engine is accepted to NDSS 2025.
[Sep. 2023] Our paper about the abuse of image hosting module is accepted to ACM CCS 2023.

Publications

ICSE

Exposing the Hidden Layer: Software Repositories in the Service of SEO Manipulation

Mengying Wu*, Geng Hong*, Wuyuao Mai, Xinyi Wu, Lei Zhang, Yingyuan Pu, Huajun Chai, Lingyun Ying, Haixin Duan, and Min Yang

the 47nd International Conference on Software Engineering (IEEE/ACM ICSE'25, CCF-A)

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NDSS

Revealing the Black Box of Device Search Engine: Scanning Assets, Strategies, and Ethical Consideration

Mengying Wu*, Geng Hong*, Jinsong Chen, Qi Liu, Shujun Tang, Youhao Li, Baojun Liu, Haixin Duan, Min Yang

the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2025 (NDSS'25, CCF-A)

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CCS

Understanding and Detecting Abused Image Hosting Modules as Malicious Services

Geng Hong, Mengying Wu, Pei Chen, Xiaojing Liao, Guoyi Ye, and Min Yang

the 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'23, CCF-A)

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软件学报

An Underground Industry Application Collection Method Based on Flow Analysis（一种基于突变流量的在野黑产应用采集方法）

陈沛*，洪赓*，邬梦莹，陈晋松，段海新，杨珉

Journal of Software（软件学报），2024，35（08）

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