Cyber-physical and smart embedded systems, already highly networked, will be even more connected in the near future to form the Internet of Things, handling large amount of private and safety critical data. The pervasive diffusion of these devices will create several threats to privacy and could open new possibilities for attackers, since the security of even large portions of the Internet of Things could be harmed by compromising a reduced number of components. The possibility of securely updating devices should be guaranteed and it should be possible to verify and assert the root of trust of components. With respect to this context we expect contributions in different areas of security in Internet of Things.

List of Topics

Topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to:

• Malicious firmware design and detection
• Malware in Internet of Things applications
• Hardware root of trust
• Privacy issues of smart-home systems and complex systems
• Hardware Trojans and their effects on systems
• Hardware authentication and IP protection
• Secure communication and key-management
• Implementation attacks and countermeasures
• Emerging threats and attack vectors in the Internet of Things
• Supply chain security
• Artificial intelligence techniques for malware detection
• GDPR-compliant hardware and software design

Submission Guidelines

Prospective authors are invited to submit novel contributions, works in progress, and positional papers (4 to 8 pages for regular papers, 2 to 4 pages for extended abstracts, double-column ACM conference format). Page limits include figures, tables and appendices, but exclude references; authors may buy up to two (2) extra pages for accepted regular papers. Submissions must be anonymous with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references.

Publication

Computing Frontiers 2026 has obtained the technical sponsorship of the ACM Association for Computing Machinery. All the papers, including those accepted for the Mal-IoT workshop, will be published on the ACM Digital Library and submitted to SCOPUS and DBLP for indexation. At least one author of an accepted paper is required to register for the whole Computing Frontiers 2026 conference, and all accepted papers are expected to be presented in person at the workshop.

Venue

The workshop will be held in Catania, Sicily, Italy. Please refer to the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2026 (CF'26) website for any information related on how to reach Catania and where to stay.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to maliot26 [at] easychair [dot] org