OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Information Security is 6. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
BitCracker: BitLocker meets GPUs	111
Fast but approximate homomorphic k-means based on masking technique	82
The rise of “security and privacy”: bibliometric analysis of computer privacy research	68
Feature engineering impact on position falsification attacks detection in vehicular ad-hoc network	46
An intrusion detection approach based on incremental long short-term memory	44
AutoPKI: public key infrastructure for IoT with automated trust transfer	38
Using machine learning to detect network intrusions in industrial control systems: a survey	37
Outlier-oriented poisoning attack: a grey-box approach to disturb decision boundaries by perturbing outliers in multiclass learning	28
Anomalous behavior detection-based approach for authenticating smart home system users	28
Systematic review of SIEM technology: SIEM-SC birth	27
A content-based deep intrusion detection system	26
Efficient arabic and english social spam detection using a transformer and 2D convolutional neural network-based deep learning filter	24
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
Random resampling algorithms for addressing the imbalanced dataset classes in insider threat detection	23
Malware classification approaches utilizing binary and text encoding of permissions	23
A comprehensive approach for mitigating impersonation in online assessment: integrity policy and random authentication	20
Optimization of parallel firewalls filtering rules	19
Xai-driven black-box adversarial attacks on network intrusion detectors	19
Fairness as a Service (FaaS): verifiable and privacy-preserving fairness auditing of machine learning systems	19
Automated broken object-level authorization attack detection in REST APIs through OpenAPI to colored petri nets transformation	18
Survey on image encryption techniques using chaotic maps in spatial, transform and spatiotemporal domains	18
Model-Agnostic Utility-Preserving Biometric Information Anonymization	17
A cyber defense system against phishing attacks with deep learning game theory and LSTM-CNN with African vulture optimization algorithm (AVOA)	17
Tracing the evolution of cyber resilience: a historical and conceptual review	17

Detection, characterization, and profiling DoH Malicious traffic using statistical pattern recognition	17
Enhancing phishing email detection with stylometric features and classifier stacking	16
Unmasking the common traits: an ensemble approach for effective malware detection	16
Phish-Sight: a new approach for phishing detection using dominant colors on web pages and machine learning	15
A survey of anomaly detection methods for power grids	15
Adversarial robustness of deep reinforcement learning-based intrusion detection	15
Improving spam email classification accuracy using ensemble techniques: a stacking approach	15
MEDICALHARM: A threat modeling designed for modern medical devices and a comprehensive study on effectiveness, user satisfaction, and security perspectives	15
Restricting data-leakage using fine-grained access control on OSN objects	15
Acnn: arbitrary trace attacks based on leakage area detection	14
GaTeBaSep: game theory-based security protocol against ARP spoofing attacks in software-defined networks	14
A systematic mapping study on security for systems of systems	14
A perspective–retrospective analysis of diversity in signature-based open-source network intrusion detection systems	14
Privacy information propagation in online social networks - a case study based on Weibo data	14
Secure outsourcing of manufacturing compliance checks	14
“Animation” URL in NFT marketplaces considered harmful for privacy	14
Unmasking SDN flow table saturation: fingerprinting, attacks and defenses	13
Authentication in Internet of Things, protocols, attacks, and open issues: a systematic literature review	13
Business process models and simulation to enable GDPR compliance	13
Semi-supervised approach for detecting malicious domains in TLDs in their first query	12
Certified unlearning for a trustworthy machine learning-based access control administration	12
Efficient authentication scheme for heterogeneous signcryption with cryptographic reverse firewalls for VANETs	12
Attribute inference privacy protection for pre-trained models	12
Deceiving supervised machine learning models via adversarial data poisoning attacks: a case study with USB keyboards	11
A systematic literature review on wearable health data publishing under differential privacy	11
RLET: a lightweight model for ubiquitous multi-class intrusion detection in sustainable and secured smart environment	11
Estimating vulnerability metrics with word embedding and multiclass classification methods	11
Developers’ mindset on self-adaptive privacy and its requirements for cloud computing environments	11
Blockchain-based data integrity framework for Internet of Things	11
Exploring the potential of deep learning and machine learning techniques for randomness analysis to enhance security on IoT	11
Generative AI for pentesting: the good, the bad, the ugly	11
Analyzing shared keys in X.509 certificates with domain ownership	11
Generating adversarial examples with collaborative generative models	11
Spatial de-correlation of generated keys from wireless channels using adversarial deep learning	11
WEFT: a consistent and tamper-proof methodology for acquisition of automatically verifiable forensic web evidence	10
DevSecOps practices and tools	10
Adversarial attacks against mouse- and keyboard-based biometric authentication: black-box versus domain-specific techniques	10
Cyber-security gamification in federation of cyber ranges: design, implementation, and evaluation	10
A generic framework for blockchain-assisted on-chain auditing for off-chain storage	10
Multi-cloud applications: data and code fragmentation for improved security	10
Adversarial attack detection framework based on optimized weighted conditional stepwise adversarial network	10
A fog-based anonymous authentication scheme with location privacy for wireless body area network with FPGA implementation	10
A first look at references from the dark to the surface web world: a case study in Tor	9
A systematic overview on methods to protect sensitive data provided for various analyses	9
International journal of information security: a bibliometric study, 2007–2023	9
Multi-user covert communication in power internet of things networks	9
Toward a unified and secure approach for extraction of forensic digital evidence from an IoT device	9
Malicious uses of blockchains by malware: from the analysis to Smart-Zephyrus	9
Security beyond cybersecurity: side-channel attacks against non-cyber systems and their countermeasures	9
Comprehensive review on machine learning and deep learning techniques for malware detection in android and IoT devices	9

Trust attack prevention based on Spark-blockchain in social IoT: a survey	9
Two-stage advanced persistent threat (APT) attack on an IEC 61850 power grid substation	9
Generating ICS vulnerability playbooks with open standards	8
Non-Alpha-Num: a novel architecture for generating adversarial examples for bypassing NLP-based clickbait detection mechanisms	8
Retraction Note: Deep learning based network intrusion detection system: a systematic literature review and future scopes	8
Balancing the act? Resampling versus imbalanced data for Wi-Fi IDS	8
A comprehensive Blockchain-oriented secure framework for SDN/Fog-based IoUT	8
Abuse-freeness in contract signing: a blockchain-based proposal	8
Cyber–physical risk assessment for false data injection attacks considering moving target defences	8
An overview of proposals towards the privacy-preserving publication of trajectory data	8
Novel mechanism for anonymous reporting and anonymous rewarding using blockchain technology	8
Securing the IoT ecosystem: ASIC-based hardware realization of Ascon lightweight cipher	8
Performance analysis of capsule networks for detecting GPS spoofing attacks on unmanned aerial vehicles	8
Selfish mining attack in blockchain: a systematic literature review	8
A unit-based symbolic execution method for detecting memory corruption vulnerabilities in executable codes	8
Analysis of OSPU security effect and data assembly verification under semi-network OS architecture	8
A comprehensive analysis of cryptocurrency breaches at endpoint	8
Revisiting QUIC attacks: a comprehensive review on QUIC security and a hands-on study	8
Vulnerability discovery based on source code patch commit mining: a systematic literature review	8
Deep behavioral analysis of machine learning algorithms against data poisoning	8
ANS-based compression and encryption with 128-bit security	8
TENET: a new hybrid network architecture for adversarial defense	8
Protection of centralized SDN control plane from high-rate Packet-In messages	8
Challenges of post-quantum digital signing in real-world applications: a survey	8
Email bombing attack detection and mitigation using machine learning	7
Correction: Cryptocurrency recovery framework using pre-signed transaction	7
Maritime decision-makers and cyber security: deck officers’ perception of cyber risks towards IT and OT systems	7
Efficient and interpretable SRU combined with TabNet for network intrusion detection in the big data environment	7
Pioneering automated vulnerability detection for smart contracts in blockchain using KEVM: Guardian ADRGAN	7
Factors influencing Swedish citizens’ willingness to provide their mobile phones to forensic examination	7
Federated learning for misbehaviour detection with variational autoencoders and Gaussian mixture models	7
A deep learning approach based on multi-view consensus for SQL injection detection	7
Large language models for software vulnerability detection: a guide for researchers on models, methods, techniques, datasets, and metrics	7
A computationally efficient dimensionality reduction and attack classification approach for network intrusion detection	7
Enhancing DevSecOps practice with Large Language Models and Security Chaos Engineering	7
Detecting malicious nodes using game theory and reinforcement learning in software-defined networks	7
The Agent Web Model: modeling web hacking for reinforcement learning	7
Investigation of application layer DDoS attacks in legacy and software-defined networks: A comprehensive review	6
From sinking to saving: MITRE ATT &CK and D3FEND frameworks for maritime cybersecurity	6
Transformer or Autoencoder? Who is the ultimate adversary for attack detectors?	6
SmartiPhish: a reinforcement learning-based intelligent anti-phishing solution to detect spoofed website attacks	6
Federated learning-based intrusion detection system for Internet of Things	6
DFTMicroagg: a dual-level anonymization algorithm for smart grid data	6
Security analysis and improvement of a privacy-preserving authentication scheme in VANET	6
Machine learning approach to vulnerability detection in OAuth 2.0 authentication and authorization flow	6
Short- versus long-term performance of detection models for obfuscated MSOffice-embedded malware	6
A personalized learning theory-based cyber-security training exercise	6
An end-to-end intrusion detection system with IoT dataset using deep learning with unsupervised feature extraction	6
Start thinking in graphs: using graphs to address critical attack paths in a Microsoft cloud tenant	6
Mobile botnet detection: a comprehensive survey	6
Scalable, password-based and threshold authentication for smart homes	6
Aldp-fl: an adaptive local differential privacy-based federated learning mechanism for IoT	6
A comprehensive survey of phishing: mediums, intended targets, attack and defence techniques and a novel taxonomy	6