OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Information Security is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Robotics cyber security: vulnerabilities, attacks, countermeasures, and recommendations	106
Survey on image encryption techniques using chaotic maps in spatial, transform and spatiotemporal domains	78
MAPAS: a practical deep learning-based android malware detection system	53
Public key versus symmetric key cryptography in client–server authentication protocols	30
A review on fake news detection 3T’s: typology, time of detection, taxonomies	30
A systematic literature review for network intrusion detection system (IDS)	29
Deep SARSA-based reinforcement learning approach for anomaly network intrusion detection system	25
Applying NLP techniques to malware detection in a practical environment	25
Automatic analysis of attack graphs for risk mitigation and prioritization on large-scale and complex networks in Industry 4.0	24
DAPP: automatic detection and analysis of prototype pollution vulnerability in Node.js modules	22
Intelligent and behavioral-based detection of malware in IoT spectrum sensors	20
Classifying resilience approaches for protecting smart grids against cyber threats	20
Securing MQTT protocol for IoT environment using IDS based on ensemble learning	17
A content-based deep intrusion detection system	17
Cyber insurance: state of the art, trends and future directions	14
Privacy in targeted advertising on mobile devices: a survey	13
An efficient intrusion detection system for MQTT-IoT using enhanced chaotic salp swarm algorithm and LightGBM	13
Highly private blockchain-based management system for digital COVID-19 certificates	13
LASSI: a lightweight authenticated key agreement protocol for fog-enabled IoT deployment	13
Security analysis on “Three-factor authentication protocol using physical unclonable function for IoV”	12
Cyber risk management for autonomous passenger ships using threat-informed defense-in-depth	12
From zero-shot machine learning to zero-day attack detection	12
BLoCNet: a hybrid, dataset-independent intrusion detection system using deep learning	12
A systematic literature review on wearable health data publishing under differential privacy	12
Privacy preserving data sharing and analysis for edge-based architectures	12

Attribute-based encryption and sticky policies for data access control in a smart home scenario: a comparison on networked smart object middleware	12
Scalable, password-based and threshold authentication for smart homes	11
Design and implementation of a new lightweight chaos-based cryptosystem to secure IoT communications	11
Browser-in-the-Middle (BitM) attack	11
A novel approach for detection of APT malware using multi-dimensional hybrid Bayesian belief network	11
Thresholdizing HashEdDSA: MPC to the Rescue	10
How education level influences internet security knowledge, behaviour, and attitude: a comparison among undergraduates, postgraduates and working graduates	10
DEALER: decentralized incentives for threat intelligence reporting and exchange	10
CT-GCN: a phishing identification model for blockchain cryptocurrency transactions	10
Insider attack mitigation in a smart metering infrastructure using reputation score and blockchain technology	10
Revisiting QUIC attacks: a comprehensive review on QUIC security and a hands-on study	10
On the detection of lateral movement through supervised machine learning and an open-source tool to create turnkey datasets from Sysmon logs	9
Machine learning approach to vulnerability detection in OAuth 2.0 authentication and authorization flow	9
Intrusion detection system over real-time data traffic using machine learning methods with feature selection approaches	9
Extending access control in AWS IoT through event-driven functions: an experimental evaluation using a smart lock system	9
A study of machine learning-based models for detection, control, and mitigation of cyberbullying in online social media	9
PatrIoT: practical and agile threat research for IoT	9
Effective network intrusion detection using stacking-based ensemble approach	9
Dependency-based security risk assessment for cyber-physical systems	9
Continuous improvement process (CIP)-based privacy-preserving framework for smart connected toys	8
A full privacy-preserving distributed batch-based certificate-less aggregate signature authentication scheme for healthcare wearable wireless medical sensor networks (HWMSNs)	8
Password-authenticated searchable encryption	8
Novel trust-aware intrusion detection and prevention system for 5G MANET–Cloud	8
A comprehensive survey of phishing: mediums, intended targets, attack and defence techniques and a novel taxonomy	8
PSO + FL = PAASO: particle swarm optimization + federated learning = privacy-aware agent swarm optimization	8
Challenges of post-quantum digital signing in real-world applications: a survey	8
Generative AI for pentesting: the good, the bad, the ugly	8
Accountable privacy preserving attribute-based access control for cloud services enforced using blockchain	8
Energy-efficient trust-aware secured neuro-fuzzy clustering with sparrow search optimization in wireless sensor network	8
An intrusion detection approach based on incremental long short-term memory	7
Malicious code detection in android: the role of sequence characteristics and disassembling methods	7
A defensive framework for deepfake detection under adversarial settings using temporal and spatial features	7
A voting gray wolf optimizer-based ensemble learning models for intrusion detection in the Internet of Things	7
Evaluating card-based protocols in terms of execution time	7
P2ADF: a privacy-preserving attack detection framework in fog-IoT environment	7
Cyber range design framework for cyber security education and training	7
Systematic review of SIEM technology: SIEM-SC birth	7
ISM-AC: an immune security model based on alert correlation and software-defined networking	7
A survey on IoT application layer protocols, security challenges, and the role of explainable AI in IoT (XAIoT)	7
A context-centered methodology for IoT forensic investigations	7
A blockchain-enabled collaborative intrusion detection framework for SDN-assisted cyber-physical systems	6
A risk-level assessment system based on the STRIDE/DREAD model for digital data marketplaces	6
A deep learner model for multi-language webshell detection	6
Privacy-preserving continuous authentication using behavioral biometrics	6
Adversarial security mitigations of mmWave beamforming prediction models using defensive distillation and adversarial retraining	6
An efficient privacy-preserving pay-by-phone system for regulated parking areas	6
AiCEF: an AI-assisted cyber exercise content generation framework using named entity recognition	6
Secure cloud-based mobile apps: attack taxonomy, requirements, mechanisms, tests and automation	6
Mitigating insider threat by profiling users based on mouse usage pattern: ensemble learning and frequency domain analysis	6
An autoML network traffic analyzer for cyber threat detection	6

Cyber–physical risk assessment for false data injection attacks considering moving target defences	6
INCHAIN: a cyber insurance architecture with smart contracts and self-sovereign identity on top of blockchain	5
Phish-Sight: a new approach for phishing detection using dominant colors on web pages and machine learning	5
A survey on interest packet flooding attacks and its countermeasures in named data networking	5
Anomalous behavior detection-based approach for authenticating smart home system users	5
A technical characterization of APTs by leveraging public resources	5
Attention: there is an inconsistency between android permissions and application metadata!	5
Tracing the evolution of cyber resilience: a historical and conceptual review	5
DNS exfiltration detection in the presence of adversarial attacks and modified exfiltrator behaviour	5
Cyber threat assessment and management for securing healthcare ecosystems using natural language processing	5
A survey on analyzing encrypted network traffic of mobile devices	5
Malicious website identification using design attribute learning	5
Bu-Dash: a universal and dynamic graphical password scheme (extended version)	5
OCPP in the spotlight: threats and countermeasures for electric vehicle charging infrastructures 4.0	5
Analyzing and comparing the security of self-sovereign identity management systems through threat modeling	5
Federated learning-based intrusion detection system for Internet of Things	5
The Agent Web Model: modeling web hacking for reinforcement learning	5
Security beyond cybersecurity: side-channel attacks against non-cyber systems and their countermeasures	5
Cybersecurity challenges in IoT-based smart renewable energy	5
Defeating traffic analysis via differential privacy: a case study on streaming traffic	4
PPAM-mIoMT: a privacy-preserving authentication with device verification for securing healthcare systems in 5G networks	4
SealFSv2: combining storage-based and ratcheting for tamper-evident logging	4
A comprehensive Blockchain-oriented secure framework for SDN/Fog-based IoUT	4
Security-enhanced firmware management scheme for smart home IoT devices using distributed ledger technologies	4
LDES: detector design for version number attack detection using linear temporal logic based on discrete event system	4
Mobile botnet detection: a comprehensive survey	4
IoT-oriented high-efficient anti-malware hardware focusing on time series metadata extractable from inside a processor core	4
Improving spam email classification accuracy using ensemble techniques: a stacking approach	4
Pragmatic authenticated key agreement for IEEE Std 802.15.6	4
Privacy and safety improvement of VANET data via a safety-related privacy scheme	4
A decentralized honeypot for IoT Protocols based on Android devices	4
Blockchain-based multi-diagnosis deep learning application for various diseases classification	4
A novel two-level secure access control approach for blockchain platform in healthcare	4
A new smart smudge attack using CNN	4
A systematic review of privacy techniques in recommendation systems	4
Authenticated logarithmic-order supersingular isogeny group key exchange	4
Detection of adversarial attacks based on differences in image entropy	4
Forensic investigation of the dark web on the Tor network: pathway toward the surface web	4
MLSTL-WSN: machine learning-based intrusion detection using SMOTETomek in WSNs	4
Coin-based Secure Computations	4
Network intrusion detection and mitigation in SDN using deep learning models	4
Random resampling algorithms for addressing the imbalanced dataset classes in insider threat detection	4
A multi-objective cost–benefit optimization algorithm for network hardening	4
Automated benchmark network diversification for realistic attack simulation with application to moving target defense	4
Multi-cloud applications: data and code fragmentation for improved security	4
User identification using deep learning and human activity mobile sensor data	4
Enhanced models for privacy and utility in continuous-time diffusion networks	4
DFTMicroagg: a dual-level anonymization algorithm for smart grid data	4
From scattered data to actionable knowledge: flexible cyber security reporting in the military domain	4