OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Information Security is 7. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
BitCracker: BitLocker meets GPUs	125
The rise of “security and privacy”: bibliometric analysis of computer privacy research	106
Fast but approximate homomorphic k-means based on masking technique	76
Verifiability for privacy-preserving computing on distributed data — a survey	50
AutoPKI: public key infrastructure for IoT with automated trust transfer	49
Anomalous behavior detection-based approach for authenticating smart home system users	46
Outlier-oriented poisoning attack: a grey-box approach to disturb decision boundaries by perturbing outliers in multiclass learning	40
Efficient arabic and english social spam detection using a transformer and 2D convolutional neural network-based deep learning filter	39
A content-based deep intrusion detection system	33
Feature engineering impact on position falsification attacks detection in vehicular ad-hoc network	32
Systematic review of SIEM technology: SIEM-SC birth	30
An intrusion detection approach based on incremental long short-term memory	29
Using machine learning to detect network intrusions in industrial control systems: a survey	29
Malware classification approaches utilizing binary and text encoding of permissions	27
A comprehensive approach for mitigating impersonation in online assessment: integrity policy and random authentication	25
Fairness as a Service (FaaS): verifiable and privacy-preserving fairness auditing of machine learning systems	24
Weighted quality criteria for cyber threat intelligence: assessment and prioritisation in the MISP data model	23
Automated broken object-level authorization attack detection in REST APIs through OpenAPI to colored petri nets transformation	23
BLoCNet: a hybrid, dataset-independent intrusion detection system using deep learning	23
Balancing usability, user experience, security and privacy in XR systems: a multidimensional approach	23
Xai-driven black-box adversarial attacks on network intrusion detectors	22
Random resampling algorithms for addressing the imbalanced dataset classes in insider threat detection	22
Acnn: arbitrary trace attacks based on leakage area detection	20
Restricting data-leakage using fine-grained access control on OSN objects	20
A vulnerability assessment and exploitation analysis of a powerline communication HomePlug AV network adapter	20

MEDICALHARM: A threat modeling designed for modern medical devices and a comprehensive study on effectiveness, user satisfaction, and security perspectives	20
Survey on image encryption techniques using chaotic maps in spatial, transform and spatiotemporal domains	20
Detection, characterization, and profiling DoH Malicious traffic using statistical pattern recognition	20
Unmasking the common traits: an ensemble approach for effective malware detection	20
Enhancing phishing email detection with stylometric features and classifier stacking	19
Model-Agnostic Utility-Preserving Biometric Information Anonymization	19
Pseudonym shuffling-driven blockchain and Autoencoder-based secure E-healthcare data management	19
Improving spam email classification accuracy using ensemble techniques: a stacking approach	18
Ensemble learning-based adaptive and adversarial techniques for APT attack detection	18
Adversarial robustness of deep reinforcement learning-based intrusion detection	17
A survey of anomaly detection methods for power grids	17
A cyber defense system against phishing attacks with deep learning game theory and LSTM-CNN with African vulture optimization algorithm (AVOA)	17
Phish-Sight: a new approach for phishing detection using dominant colors on web pages and machine learning	17
Tracing the evolution of cyber resilience: a historical and conceptual review	17
“Animation” URL in NFT marketplaces considered harmful for privacy	17
A perspective–retrospective analysis of diversity in signature-based open-source network intrusion detection systems	17
Attribute inference privacy protection for pre-trained models	16
A systematic literature review on wearable health data publishing under differential privacy	16
Certified unlearning for a trustworthy machine learning-based access control administration	16
Developers’ mindset on self-adaptive privacy and its requirements for cloud computing environments	16
Privacy information propagation in online social networks - a case study based on Weibo data	16
Unmasking SDN flow table saturation: fingerprinting, attacks and defenses	16
Semi-supervised approach for detecting malicious domains in TLDs in their first query	16
Secure outsourcing of manufacturing compliance checks	15
Analyzing shared keys in X.509 certificates with domain ownership	15
Blockchain-based data integrity framework for Internet of Things	15
Generating adversarial examples with collaborative generative models	15
Construction of network pentest-defense adversarial environment based on NASim	15
GaTeBaSep: game theory-based security protocol against ARP spoofing attacks in software-defined networks	15
Business process models and simulation to enable GDPR compliance	15
Deceiving supervised machine learning models via adversarial data poisoning attacks: a case study with USB keyboards	14
Advancements and challenges in privacy-preserving split learning: experimental findings and future directions	14
Automated cybersecurity impact propagation across business processes using process mining techniques	14
A systematic mapping study on security for systems of systems	14
Authentication in Internet of Things, protocols, attacks, and open issues: a systematic literature review	14
Securing air-gapped systems-review of covert techniques for data ex-filtration and a new clause proposal for ISO 27001	14
Efficient authentication scheme for heterogeneous signcryption with cryptographic reverse firewalls for VANETs	14
Generative AI for pentesting: the good, the bad, the ugly	13
Exploring the potential of deep learning and machine learning techniques for randomness analysis to enhance security on IoT	13
Cross-Silo Federated Learning in Security Operations Centers for effective malware detection	13
Spatial de-correlation of generated keys from wireless channels using adversarial deep learning	13
RLET: a lightweight model for ubiquitous multi-class intrusion detection in sustainable and secured smart environment	13
WEFT: a consistent and tamper-proof methodology for acquisition of automatically verifiable forensic web evidence	13
Malicious uses of blockchains by malware: from the analysis to Smart-Zephyrus	12
Estimating vulnerability metrics with word embedding and multiclass classification methods	12
A generic framework for blockchain-assisted on-chain auditing for off-chain storage	12
Security beyond cybersecurity: side-channel attacks against non-cyber systems and their countermeasures	12
International journal of information security: a bibliometric study, 2007–2023	12
Cyber-security gamification in federation of cyber ranges: design, implementation, and evaluation	12
Adversarial attack detection framework based on optimized weighted conditional stepwise adversarial network	12

Multi-user covert communication in power internet of things networks	12
Adversarial attacks against mouse- and keyboard-based biometric authentication: black-box versus domain-specific techniques	12
DevSecOps practices and tools	12
Multi-cloud applications: data and code fragmentation for improved security	12
Toward a unified and secure approach for extraction of forensic digital evidence from an IoT device	12
A first look at references from the dark to the surface web world: a case study in Tor	11
Two-stage advanced persistent threat (APT) attack on an IEC 61850 power grid substation	11
A Data-centric approach for safe and secure large language models against threatening and toxic content	11
Identifying factors influencing the duration of zero-day vulnerabilities	11
Trust attack prevention based on Spark-blockchain in social IoT: a survey	11
Comprehensive review on machine learning and deep learning techniques for malware detection in android and IoT devices	11
ANS-based compression and encryption with 128-bit security	11
A fog-based anonymous authentication scheme with location privacy for wireless body area network with FPGA implementation	10
Abuse-freeness in contract signing: a blockchain-based proposal	10
Anonymous provision of privacy-sensitive services using blockchain and decentralised storage	10
Generating ICS vulnerability playbooks with open standards	10
A systematic overview on methods to protect sensitive data provided for various analyses	10
Novel mechanism for anonymous reporting and anonymous rewarding using blockchain technology	10
A conflict-aware active BLE state machine learning and state coverage-guided gray-box fuzz testing method	10
An overview of proposals towards the privacy-preserving publication of trajectory data	10
A comprehensive Blockchain-oriented secure framework for SDN/Fog-based IoUT	10
Protection of centralized SDN control plane from high-rate Packet-In messages	10
A comprehensive analysis of cryptocurrency breaches at endpoint	10
Retraction Note: Deep learning based network intrusion detection system: a systematic literature review and future scopes	9
Correction: Cryptocurrency recovery framework using pre-signed transaction	9
A unit-based symbolic execution method for detecting memory corruption vulnerabilities in executable codes	9
Selfish mining attack in blockchain: a systematic literature review	9
Factors influencing Swedish citizens’ willingness to provide their mobile phones to forensic examination	9
Performance analysis of capsule networks for detecting GPS spoofing attacks on unmanned aerial vehicles	9
Cyber–physical risk assessment for false data injection attacks considering moving target defences	9
Revisiting QUIC attacks: a comprehensive review on QUIC security and a hands-on study	9
TENET: a new hybrid network architecture for adversarial defense	9
PayScan: Detection and Security Analysis of Payment Libraries in Android Apps	9
Deep behavioral analysis of machine learning algorithms against data poisoning	9
Analysis of OSPU security effect and data assembly verification under semi-network OS architecture	9
Non-Alpha-Num: a novel architecture for generating adversarial examples for bypassing NLP-based clickbait detection mechanisms	9
Challenges of post-quantum digital signing in real-world applications: a survey	9
Large language models for software vulnerability detection: a guide for researchers on models, methods, techniques, datasets, and metrics	8
Securing the IoT ecosystem: ASIC-based hardware realization of Ascon lightweight cipher	8
Email bombing attack detection and mitigation using machine learning	8
Enhancing DevSecOps practice with Large Language Models and Security Chaos Engineering	8
Efficient and interpretable SRU combined with TabNet for network intrusion detection in the big data environment	8
A deep learning approach based on multi-view consensus for SQL injection detection	8
Identifying Open-Source Threat Detection Resources on GitHub: A Scalable Machine Learning Approach	8
Pioneering automated vulnerability detection for smart contracts in blockchain using KEVM: Guardian ADRGAN	8
Maritime decision-makers and cyber security: deck officers’ perception of cyber risks towards IT and OT systems	8
Balancing the act? Resampling versus imbalanced data for Wi-Fi IDS	8
Federated learning for misbehaviour detection with variational autoencoders and Gaussian mixture models	8
Scalable, password-based and threshold authentication for smart homes	8
SCAnME - scanner comparative analysis and metrics for evaluation	8
Detecting malicious nodes using game theory and reinforcement learning in software-defined networks	8
A computationally efficient dimensionality reduction and attack classification approach for network intrusion detection	8
Short- versus long-term performance of detection models for obfuscated MSOffice-embedded malware	7
SmartiPhish: a reinforcement learning-based intelligent anti-phishing solution to detect spoofed website attacks	7
DFTMicroagg: a dual-level anonymization algorithm for smart grid data	7
Federated learning-based intrusion detection system for Internet of Things	7
A personalized learning theory-based cyber-security training exercise	7
Vulnerability discovery based on source code patch commit mining: a systematic literature review	7
CARNYX: A framework for vulnerability detection via power consumption analysis in embedded systems	7