2025-06-12 | Brussels | EU Horizon Cluster 3 Brokerage Event 2025 | Link 1
Dr. Emre Süren, Head of the Royal Hacking Lab, presented a proposal among 25 innovative project ideas to an audience of ~200 participants in Brussels. His proposal focuses on leveraging generative AI for vulnerability research and enhancing Europe’s capabilities to combat crime and terrorism. The aim is to form a strong consortium to apply for upcoming ECCC-X calls.
2025-06-03 | Royal Hacking Lab | SWITS'25 Seminar | Link 1
Dr. Emre Süren from the Royal Hacking Lab delivered a live IoT hacking demonstration during the 25th SWITS Seminar — the Swedish IT Security Network for PhD students and researchers. Hosted by Cybercampus Sverige, the event brought together around 100 participants who visited the lab in four dynamic sessions, marking the largest-ever visit to the Royal Hacking Lab!
2025-05-16 | Royal Hacking Lab | Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) | Link 1
Dr. Emre Süren presented the research done at Royal Hacking Lab to the students from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore. As NTU is a strategic partner of KTH Royal Institute of Technology, the idea is to draw attention to land exceptional students to the lab.
2025-05-14 | Swedish Defence University | CrowdHelix - Civil Security for Society Matchmaking Event | Link 1
Our lab manager Dr. Emre Süren gave a poster pitch at the Civil Security for Society Matchmaking Event to find collaborators for EU Cluster 3 2025 call. Dr. Emre pitched our latest lab work AI-fueled vulnerability research and AI-powered cyber threat intelligence.
2025-05-08 | Royal Hacking Lab | Nackademin & IT-Högskolan | Link 1
Dr. Emre Süren presented ongoing research in IoT Hacking, Threat Intelligence, and LLM Security to an engaged students from Nackademin and IT-Högskolan. The demo contained a series of vulnerabilities (publicly available data, a default password, some weak encoding, and a business logic flaw) causing remote code execution.
2025-04-29 | Cybercampus Sverige | Cybersäkerhetsutbildning för Diplomatprogrammet | Link 1
Dr. Emre Süren, our Head of Lab, delivered a lecture on AI and cybersecurity to Sweden’s next generation of diplomats. As part of their training, diplomatic interns are required to complete a series of cybersecurity modules — and we were proud to contribute by offering a session on AI Security within the Cyber Security Training for Diplomats program, hosted by Cybercampus Sverige | Sweden.
2025-04-10 | Altinget | Cybersäkerhet Nätverk | Link 1 Link 2
Dr. Emre Süren delivered a guest lecture at Altinget Cybersecurity Network. His presentation focused on key challenges in fine-tuning models for offensive security, optimizing LLM outputs to assist in vulnerability discovery, understanding the limitations of AI agents, and exploring how these models can be utilized in classified environments. He also demonstrated prompt injection attacks on two commercial chatbots.
2025-03-27 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | KTH Fusion Career Fair - Research Corner | Link 1
Head of Hacking Lab, Dr. Emre Süren, participated in the career fair organized by KTH Fusion (Physics Chapter's Career Fair 2025), where he had the opportunity to speak with many students about the exciting projects planned in the lab as well as ongoing research.
2025-03-20 | Detectify | OWASP Meetup | Link 1
Dr. Emre Süren took the stage at an amazing Hack Night organized by OWASP and Detectify. The interactive session dived into: Prompt injection attacks, Fine-tuning LLMs & deploying LLM agents, as well as Current challenges in AI security.
2025-03-20 | Royal Hacking Lab | KTH Executive School Guest Lecture | Link 1
Royal Hacking Lab was delighted to host KTH Executive School, with Program Director Ulf Änggård, and valuable staff from Stellar Capacity for an exciting session on cutting-edge cybersecurity research. Dr. Emre Süren presented the current research and future vision, diving into offensive AI, vulnerabilities in the intersection of IoT and LLMs. The session featured: IoT device exploitation – hands-on attack, LLM security weaknesses – practical demonstrations, and a password cracking challenge – a mini-game with the participants.
2025-03-03 | KTH Rektorshuset | Hosting a Swedish Philanthropist | Link 1
A restricted event was held at the top floor of KTH Rektorshuset where Dr. Emre Süren presented a demo revolving around vulnerability research and AI.
2025-03-03 | Stellar Capacity | Cybersecurity Masterclass | Link 1
Dr. Emre Süren, Head of Hacking Lab, took the stage at an event organized by Stellar Capacity, where he presented the cutting-edge research he has been leading. His hands-on session demonstrated real-world examples of prompt injection attacks on mainstream LLMs, highlighting the risks these models face in the wild. Beyond showcasing vulnerabilities, he introduced his ongoing work on integrating LLMs into vulnerability research, including fine-tuning models to detect security flaws before they can be exploited.
2025-02-20 | Cybercampus Sverige | University of Strathclyde Visit | Link 1
Royal Hacking Lab has been visited by a Scottish University. Dr. Emre Süren demonstrated a real-world attack on smartwatches tampering the communication traffic.
2024-10-08 | Cybercampus Sverige | Women4Cyber | Link 1
Cybercampus Sverige hosted Women4Cyber where Dr. Emre Süren presented his study in vulnerability research in the AI ecosystem and redesign vulnerability research methods based on LLMs. He also provided insights regarding why AI services are considered critical services and the ultimate attack surface.
2024-09-27 | Cybercampus Sverige | KTH Rektor and Investment Committee | Link 1
Royal Hacking Lab hosted the KTH Rector with the rector's advisory committee for fundraising. Our researcher Emre Süren, Ph.D. demonstrated an attack on smartwatches tampering with the communication traffic. The vulnerabilities in this demo were discovered in a lab research.
2024-06-14 | Stockholm | MidNightSunCTF Conference | Link 1 Link 2
Dr. Emre Süren, Head of Hacking Lab, presented his research, Sweden's Threat Intelligence, at the Midnight Sun CTF Conference. He showed examples of vulnerable servers and IoT devices, infected devices, and attacker infrastructures all located in Sweden. He proposed an AI-based method to solve the current phenomena.
2024-06-05 | Royal Hacking Lab | KTH Executive School Visit | Link 1
Royal Hacking Lab is pleased to once again welcome Program Director @Ulf Änggård and his participants from the @KTH Executive School. Our lab manager, Dr. Emre Süren, provided a comprehensive overview of vulnerabilities in cars, charging stations, and smart medical devices. The session also covered the vulnerabilities within the large language model (LLM) ecosystem and explored how LLMs can be utilized for sensitive tasks.
2024-06-01 | KTH ReaktorHallen | Swedish Stakeholders | Link 1
A classified event was held at KTH Reaktorhallen where Dr. Emre Süren presented the results of his seed project Sweden's Threat Intelligence.
2024-05-27 | Lund University | SWITS'24 Seminar | Link 1
Royal Hacking Lab was thrilled to be featured at SWITS'24 Seminar, where Dr. Emre Süren had the opportunity to present our infrastructure, ongoing research, and potential collaboration opportunities.
2024-05-17 | Cybercampus Sverige | KTH Executive School Guest Lecture | Link 1
We were delighted to host participants from the @KTH Executive School at @NSE Hacking Lab. Program Director @Ulf Änggård, along with the class participants, joined us for an engaging and informative session. Our lab manager, @Emre Süren, provided an insightful overview of our cutting-edge IoT vulnerability research and demonstrated how we leverage artificial intelligence in our security research. One of the highlights was our renowned smartphone hacking demo, which showcased the practical applications of our research.
2024-05-06 | SciLifeLab | HTM Matchmaking 2024 | Link 1
We are excited to share that we had the privilege of presenting at the Health, Medicine, and Technology (HMT 2024) matchmaking event. During our pitch, Dr. Emre Süren, representing Cybercampus Sverige, shed light on the critical issue of vulnerabilities in today's medical devices. Our researcher demonstrated the importance of leveraging our expertise in IoT vulnerability research to enhance the security of these life-critical devices.
2024-04-25 | Cybercampus Sverige | Dakota State University Visit | Link 1
We hosted a delegation consisting of President of Dakota State University Jose-Marie Griffiths, Tommy Schönberg from AI Sweden and Lars Hedström from Försvarshögskolan. Our researcher, Dr. Emre Süren, Head of Royal Hacking Lab, demonstrated an attack involving the use of Chat-GPT for vulnerability exploitation.
2024-04-19 | SVT Radio | Interview | Link 1
"Emre Süren, chef på Hacker Lab, en del av Cybercampus på Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan i Stockholm, får se vårt material med rapporten över intrångsförsök på internetforumet med militära hemligheter. Han kan inte utifrån handlingarna dra slutsatsen att någon lyckats hämta ut information därifrån. Men i rapporten finns ett intrång som sticker ut, tycker han. ”Exploited Host”, står det vid ett angrepp som är daterat oktober 2015. Enligt honom betyder det angriparen har kommit in på sajten vid minst ett tillfälle. Det här visar direkt och tydligt att den här enheten har blivit äventyrad av utomstående. En angripare har kommit in på sajten, säger Emre Süren på Hacker Lab."
2024-03-25 | Cybercampus Sverige | Interview | Link 1
Cybercampus Sverige had the pleasure of hosting representatives from a government entity at the Hacking Lab. Our researcher, Emre Süren, demonstrated an attack involving the compromise of a fully updated smartphone. The scenario illustrated the dangers of phishing apps on app stores, which allow attackers direct access to smartphones, the ease of exploiting mobile applications developed without security considerations, the process of guessing passwords that appear to meet secure password policies, the risks of connecting to rogue Wi-Fi networks which expose open services to attackers, and the issue of routers with backdoors enabling attackers to infiltrate networks meant to be secure.
2024-03-22 | NyTeknik | Interview | Link 1 Link 2
"Studenterna som Ny Teknik träffar har bakgrund från olika ingenjörsutbildningar på KTH, berättar Emre Süren, som forskar om sårbarheter i it-system, med fokus på uppkopplade internet of things-enheter. Han ansvarar också för labbet för etisk hackning på KTH. Vi försöker rekrytera blivande forskare bland våra studenter. Men det är inte vårt enda mål med utbildningen utan vi vill också förbereda studenterna för ett yrkesliv it-säkerhetsbranschen, säger Emre Süren. Nu är tanken att Cybercampus ska bli arenan där akademin och den privata it-säkerhetsbranschen ska kunna mötas under mer formella, strukturerade former. Fördelarna med den typen av utbyte av kunskap och information är stor, enligt forskaren Emre Süren. Vi hoppas kunna fördjupa samarbetet mellan kommersiella it-säkerhetsbolag och forskarvärlden. Inom industrin vill du kanske granska tio spår inom it-säkerhet för att sedan välja ut ett och fördjupa sig i det. Men inom akademin kan vi gå djupare in på fem eller tio intressanta spår parallellt, och sedan jämföra och sortera ut lösningen som är mest intressant. Det är en win-win: Vi skulle kunna ta del av omfattande data som it-säkerhetsbolagen samlar in, och de kan få ta del av vår forskning, fortsätter han."