OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Information Security is 11. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
BitCracker: BitLocker meets GPUs	214
AutoPKI: public key infrastructure for IoT with automated trust transfer	92
Verifiability for privacy-preserving computing on distributed data — a survey	80
Using machine learning to detect network intrusions in industrial control systems: a survey	77
The rise of “security and privacy”: bibliometric analysis of computer privacy research	66
Outlier-oriented poisoning attack: a grey-box approach to disturb decision boundaries by perturbing outliers in multiclass learning	63
Efficient arabic and english social spam detection using a transformer and 2D convolutional neural network-based deep learning filter	58
Fast but approximate homomorphic k-means based on masking technique	57
Systematic review of SIEM technology: SIEM-SC birth	49
Feature engineering impact on position falsification attacks detection in vehicular ad-hoc network	48
Weighted quality criteria for cyber threat intelligence: assessment and prioritisation in the MISP data model	47
An intrusion detection approach based on incremental long short-term memory	47
Malware classification approaches utilizing binary and text encoding of permissions	45
A comprehensive approach for mitigating impersonation in online assessment: integrity policy and random authentication	44
Fairness as a Service (FaaS): verifiable and privacy-preserving fairness auditing of machine learning systems	44
Balancing usability, user experience, security and privacy in XR systems: a multidimensional approach	44
Xai-driven black-box adversarial attacks on network intrusion detectors	43
BLoCNet: a hybrid, dataset-independent intrusion detection system using deep learning	42
can-sleuth: Sleuthing out the capabilities, limitations, and performance impacts of automotive intrusion detection datasets	42
Automated broken object-level authorization attack detection in REST APIs through OpenAPI to colored petri nets transformation	41
Adaptive trust evaluation model based on container security analysis in the Docker platform	41
Random resampling algorithms for addressing the imbalanced dataset classes in insider threat detection	40
A vulnerability assessment and exploitation analysis of a powerline communication HomePlug AV network adapter	39
Acnn: arbitrary trace attacks based on leakage area detection	38
Restricting data-leakage using fine-grained access control on OSN objects	37

A perspective–retrospective analysis of diversity in signature-based open-source network intrusion detection systems	36
Explainable AI based dynamic cybersecurity risk management for cyber insurability	35
MEDICALHARM: A threat modeling designed for modern medical devices and a comprehensive study on effectiveness, user satisfaction, and security perspectives	35
Pseudonym shuffling-driven blockchain and Autoencoder-based secure E-healthcare data management	35
Unmasking the common traits: an ensemble approach for effective malware detection	33
Towards enhanced cybersecurity in industrial control systems: a systematic review of context-based modeling, digital twins, and machine learning approaches	33
Model-Agnostic Utility-Preserving Biometric Information Anonymization	33
Ensemble learning-based adaptive and adversarial techniques for APT attack detection	32
A large scale analysis of code security in public repositories	32
A survey of anomaly detection methods for power grids	31
Tracing the evolution of cyber resilience: a historical and conceptual review	30
Detection, characterization, and profiling DoH Malicious traffic using statistical pattern recognition	30
Phish-Sight: a new approach for phishing detection using dominant colors on web pages and machine learning	30
Adversarial robustness of deep reinforcement learning-based intrusion detection	29
Enhancing phishing email detection with stylometric features and classifier stacking	28
Digital Twin-Enabled Incident Detection and Response: A Systematic Review of Critical Infrastructures Applications	28
A cyber defense system against phishing attacks with deep learning game theory and LSTM-CNN with African vulture optimization algorithm (AVOA)	28
Attribute inference privacy protection for pre-trained models	27
“Animation” URL in NFT marketplaces considered harmful for privacy	27
Improving spam email classification accuracy using ensemble techniques: a stacking approach	27
Securing air-gapped systems-review of covert techniques for data ex-filtration and a new clause proposal for ISO 27001	26
Certified unlearning for a trustworthy machine learning-based access control administration	25
Construction of network pentest-defense adversarial environment based on NASim	25
Semi-supervised approach for detecting malicious domains in TLDs in their first query	25
Automated cybersecurity impact propagation across business processes using process mining techniques	24
Deceiving supervised machine learning models via adversarial data poisoning attacks: a case study with USB keyboards	24
Privacy information propagation in online social networks - a case study based on Weibo data	24
GaTeBaSep: game theory-based security protocol against ARP spoofing attacks in software-defined networks	24
Enhancing national security: a multidimensional situational awareness model for emerging economic crime prevention	24
Secure outsourcing of manufacturing compliance checks	24
Analyzing shared keys in X.509 certificates with domain ownership	24
Selfish or Malicious: Price of malice in human-centric security decision-making for attack graph-based interdependent systems	24
Developers’ mindset on self-adaptive privacy and its requirements for cloud computing environments	23
Cross-Silo Federated Learning in Security Operations Centers for effective malware detection	23
Tackling smart city security: deep learning approach utilizing feature selection and two-level cooperative framework optimized by adapted metaheuristics algorithm	23
Efficient authentication scheme for heterogeneous signcryption with cryptographic reverse firewalls for VANETs	23
BuKc: A novel bottom-up approach for enhanced data anonymization in apache spark	23
From Prey to Protect: Exploring Social Engineering Through Games and Simulation. Trust, Awareness, and Phishing Defense	23
Generative AI for pentesting: the good, the bad, the ugly	22
Generating adversarial examples with collaborative generative models	22
A systematic mapping study on security for systems of systems	22
Authentication in Internet of Things, protocols, attacks, and open issues: a systematic literature review	22
Business process models and simulation to enable GDPR compliance	22
Advancements and challenges in privacy-preserving split learning: experimental findings and future directions	22
Unmasking SDN flow table saturation: fingerprinting, attacks and defenses	22
Blockchain-based data integrity framework for Internet of Things	22
Spatial de-correlation of generated keys from wireless channels using adversarial deep learning	21
A generic framework for blockchain-assisted on-chain auditing for off-chain storage	21
Selected papers from the 29th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (by invite-only)	21
Multi-cloud applications: data and code fragmentation for improved security	21

Interpretable information fusion and small sample dataset expansion in power system anomaly detection based on artificial intelligence algorithms	20
A Comprehensive User Study on Medical Device Threat Modeling Methodologies and CyberLlama2 - MEDICALHARM Threat Modeling Assistant.	20
Cyber-security gamification in federation of cyber ranges: design, implementation, and evaluation	20
Exploring the potential of deep learning and machine learning techniques for randomness analysis to enhance security on IoT	20
Adversarial attack detection framework based on optimized weighted conditional stepwise adversarial network	19
RLET: a lightweight model for ubiquitous multi-class intrusion detection in sustainable and secured smart environment	19
Estimating vulnerability metrics with word embedding and multiclass classification methods	19
DevSecOps practices and tools	19
WEFT: a consistent and tamper-proof methodology for acquisition of automatically verifiable forensic web evidence	19
Multi-user covert communication in power internet of things networks	19
A fog-based anonymous authentication scheme with location privacy for wireless body area network with FPGA implementation	18
Network-Based Real-Time Detection of Data Manipulation Attacks in Industrial Control Systems	18
International journal of information security: a bibliometric study, 2007–2023	18
Malicious uses of blockchains by malware: from the analysis to Smart-Zephyrus	18
Comprehensive review on machine learning and deep learning techniques for malware detection in android and IoT devices	18
A Data-centric approach for safe and secure large language models against threatening and toxic content	18
Trust attack prevention based on Spark-blockchain in social IoT: a survey	17
A blockchain-based trust and reputation model resilient to forgery attacks for data sharing scenarios (RWS-BTRM)	17
Two-stage advanced persistent threat (APT) attack on an IEC 61850 power grid substation	17
Identifying factors influencing the duration of zero-day vulnerabilities	17
BSDS-ShareCrypt: a blockchain-enabled framework for secure, anonymous, and accountable data sharing in cloud-IoT environments using aggregate key searchable encryption	17
Adversarial attacks against mouse- and keyboard-based biometric authentication: black-box versus domain-specific techniques	17
Toward a unified and secure approach for extraction of forensic digital evidence from an IoT device	17
A Framework for Drift Detection and Adaptation in AI-driven Anomaly and Threat Detection Systems	16
A conflict-aware active BLE state machine learning and state coverage-guided gray-box fuzz testing method	16
A systematic overview on methods to protect sensitive data provided for various analyses	16
A comprehensive Blockchain-oriented secure framework for SDN/Fog-based IoUT	16
Correction to: CARNYX: A framework for vulnerability detection via power consumption analysis in embedded systems	16
TENET: a new hybrid network architecture for adversarial defense	16
ANS-based compression and encryption with 128-bit security	16
Generating ICS vulnerability playbooks with open standards	16
Correction: Maritime cybersecurity: protecting digital seas	16
Analysis of OSPU security effect and data assembly verification under semi-network OS architecture	16
FKSS: A fast keyword search scheme with access control for cloud-assisted edge computing	15
Novel mechanism for anonymous reporting and anonymous rewarding using blockchain technology	15
Selfish mining attack in blockchain: a systematic literature review	15
PayScan: Detection and Security Analysis of Payment Libraries in Android Apps	15
A unit-based symbolic execution method for detecting memory corruption vulnerabilities in executable codes	15
Cyber–physical risk assessment for false data injection attacks considering moving target defences	15
A comprehensive analysis of cryptocurrency breaches at endpoint	15
Abuse-freeness in contract signing: a blockchain-based proposal	15
Non-Alpha-Num: a novel architecture for generating adversarial examples for bypassing NLP-based clickbait detection mechanisms	14
Revisiting QUIC attacks: a comprehensive review on QUIC security and a hands-on study	14
Pioneering automated vulnerability detection for smart contracts in blockchain using KEVM: Guardian ADRGAN	14
Efficient and interpretable SRU combined with TabNet for network intrusion detection in the big data environment	14
Protection of centralized SDN control plane from high-rate Packet-In messages	14
Anonymous provision of privacy-sensitive services using blockchain and decentralised storage	14
Performance analysis of capsule networks for detecting GPS spoofing attacks on unmanned aerial vehicles	14
An overview of proposals towards the privacy-preserving publication of trajectory data	14
Factors influencing Swedish citizens’ willingness to provide their mobile phones to forensic examination	14
Large language models for software vulnerability detection: a guide for researchers on models, methods, techniques, datasets, and metrics	14
Correction: Cryptocurrency recovery framework using pre-signed transaction	13
Progressive attack graph: a technique for scalable and adaptive attack graph generation	13
Intrusion detection in IoT network using temporal wavelet augmented deep dense and LSTM auto-encoders	13
Designated-verifier zk-SNARKs made easy	13
A computationally efficient dimensionality reduction and attack classification approach for network intrusion detection	13
Retraction Note: Deep learning based network intrusion detection system: a systematic literature review and future scopes	13
Maritime decision-makers and cyber security: deck officers’ perception of cyber risks towards IT and OT systems	13
Vulnerability discovery based on source code patch commit mining: a systematic literature review	13
Email bombing attack detection and mitigation using machine learning	13
Identifying Open-Source Threat Detection Resources on GitHub: A Scalable Machine Learning Approach	13
Detecting malicious nodes using game theory and reinforcement learning in software-defined networks	12
Federated learning for misbehaviour detection with variational autoencoders and Gaussian mixture models	12
Deep behavioral analysis of machine learning algorithms against data poisoning	12
Balancing the act? Resampling versus imbalanced data for Wi-Fi IDS	12
SCAnME - scanner comparative analysis and metrics for evaluation	12
Enhancing DevSecOps practice with Large Language Models and Security Chaos Engineering	12
Securing the IoT ecosystem: ASIC-based hardware realization of Ascon lightweight cipher	12
A deep learning approach based on multi-view consensus for SQL injection detection	12
Federated learning-based intrusion detection system for Internet of Things	11
CARNYX: A framework for vulnerability detection via power consumption analysis in embedded systems	11
A personalized learning theory-based cyber-security training exercise	11
Transformer or Autoencoder? Who is the ultimate adversary for attack detectors?	11
Short- versus long-term performance of detection models for obfuscated MSOffice-embedded malware	11
Bridging cybersecurity with digital twin technology: a thematic analysis	11
A comprehensive survey of phishing: mediums, intended targets, attack and defence techniques and a novel taxonomy	11
Evaluating ASCERT: generative AI for cyber-range scenario generation	11
Aldp-fl: an adaptive local differential privacy-based federated learning mechanism for IoT	11