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An Empirical Study of Observability Limits in Advanced Software Supply Chain Attacks

Group: Systems Seminars
Speaker: Zhuoran (Newt) Tan, University of Glasgow
Date: 28 July, 2026
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Location: Room 422, Sir Alwyn Williams Building and Teams

Abstract: Advanced software supply chain attacks often occur only at runtime and leave fragmented evidence across hosts, services, and dependency layers. We present SynthChain, a multi-source runtime dataset with end-to-end ground truth for seven representative supply-chain attack scenarios across PyPI, npm, and C++ environments. The dataset contains approximately 0.59 million events from 11 telemetry types, annotated with MITRE ATT&CK techniques and 2,919 verified indicators of compromise. Our analysis shows that no single telemetry source can reconstruct a complete attack chain, while carefully selected source combinations substantially improve coverage. We further identify key observability failure modes and derive practical guidelines for telemetry planning and runtime defense evaluation.

Bio: Zhuoran (Newt) Tan received the M.Sc. degree in Information Security (with a year in industry) from Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2020, and is completing his Ph.D. degree in Computing Science at the University of Glasgow in 2026. He has held senior research and engineering roles in the cybersecurity industry, with extensive experience in both industrial R&D and academic research. His work spans AI and LLM security, software supply chain security, threat detection, security automation, and runtime analysis. His first-author research has appeared in venues including ACM CCS, IEEE IOTJ, and MSR, with additional work published in workshops affiliated with IEEE ICDCS and FSE. His industry research on MLOps- based anomaly detection and security automation has also been featured by SecuritySenses.

SPLV’26: Scottish Programming Languages and Verification Summer School 2026

Group: Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA)
Speaker: SICSA Event, SICSA
Date: 03 August, 2026
Time: 01:00 - 01:00
Location: TBA

The 2026 edition of SPLV will be held at the University of Glasgow, with the main courses running from within the Gilbert Scott Building. The school is aimed at PhD students in programming languages, verification and related areas. Researchers and practitioners are welcome, as are strong undergraduate and masters students with the support of a supervisor. Participants should have a background in computer science, mathematics or a related discipline. Prospective students may contact the organisers if they have any concerns about background knowledge. Registration will open March 2026. View full programme at SPLV 2026 | SPLV

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