Faasm: Lightweight isolation for efficient stateful serverless computing

S Shillaker, P Pietzuch - … Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 20 …, 2020 - usenix.org
Serverless computing is an excellent fit for big data processing because it can scale quickly
and cheaply to thousands of parallel functions. Existing serverless platforms isolate …

Empowering web applications with webassembly: Are we there yet?

W Wang - 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
WebAssembly is the newest web standard. It defines a compact bytecode format that allows
it to be loaded and executed fast. While WebAssembly is generally believed to be faster than …

Everything old is new again: Binary security of {WebAssembly}

D Lehmann, J Kinder, M Pradel - 29th USENIX Security Symposium …, 2020 - usenix.org
WebAssembly is an increasingly popular compilation target designed to run code in
browsers and on other platforms safely and securely, by strictly separating code and data …

An empirical study of real-world webassembly binaries: Security, languages, use cases

A Hilbig, D Lehmann, M Pradel - Proceedings of the web conference …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
WebAssembly has emerged as a low-level language for the web and beyond. Despite its
popularity in different domains, little is known about WebAssembly binaries that occur in the …

[HTML][HTML] WebAssembly and Security: a review

G Perrone, SP Romano - Computer Science Review, 2025 - Elsevier
WebAssembly is revolutionizing the approach to develo** modern applications. Although
this technology was born to create portable and performant modules in web browsers …

{EOSAFE}: security analysis of {EOSIO} smart contracts

N He, R Zhang, H Wang, L Wu, X Luo, Y Guo… - 30th USENIX security …, 2021 - usenix.org
The EOSIO blockchain, one of the representative Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS)
blockchain platforms, has grown rapidly recently. Meanwhile, a number of vulnerabilities …

Exploring missed optimizations in webassembly optimizers

Z Liu, D **ao, Z Li, S Wang, W Meng - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The prosperous trend of deploying complex applications to web browsers has boosted the
development of WebAssembly (wasm) compilation toolchains. Software written in different …

Wasai: uncovering vulnerabilities in wasm smart contracts

W Chen, Z Sun, H Wang, X Luo, H Cai… - Proceedings of the 31st …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
WebAssembly (Wasm) smart contracts have shown growing popularity across blockchains
(eg, EOSIO) recently. Similar to Ethereum smart contracts, Wasm smart contracts suffer from …

Finding the dwarf: recovering precise types from WebAssembly binaries

D Lehmann, M Pradel - Proceedings of the 43rd ACM SIGPLAN …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The increasing popularity of WebAssembly creates a demand for understanding and reverse
engineering WebAssembly binaries. Recovering high-level function types is an important …

An empirical study of bugs in webassembly compilers

A Romano, X Liu, Y Kwon… - 2021 36th IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
WebAssembly is the newest programming language for the Web. It defines a portable
bytecode format for use as a compilation target for programs developed in high-level …