OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security is 2. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Secure Selections on Encrypted Multi-writer Streams	94
Deep PackGen: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Adversarial Network Packet Generation	37
Secure and Reliable Network Updates	37
Security Implications of the Morello Platform: An Empirical Threat Model-Based Analysis	33
Privacy-Preserving Training of Support Vector Machines via Secure Multiparty Computation	33
TLS-MHSA: An Efficient Detection Model for Encrypted Malicious Traffic based on Multi-Head Self-Attention Mechanism	30
Site Inspector: Improving Browser Communication of Website Security Information	30
Dimensional Robustness Certification for Deep Neural Networks in Network Intrusion Detection Systems	28
Flexible Mechanisms for Remote Attestation	27
Binsec/Rel: Symbolic Binary Analyzer for Security with Applications to Constant-Time and Secret-Erasure	24
A Secret Sharing-Inspired Robust Distributed Backdoor Attack to Federated Learning	24
CBAs: Character-level Backdoor Attacks against Chinese Pre-trained Language Models	23
symbSODA: Configurable and Verifiable Orchestration Automation for Active Malware Deception	21
#PrettyFlyForAWiFi	21
Information Leakage Games: Exploring Information as a Utility Function	20
Differentially Private Real-Time Release of Sequential Data	20
Bi-objective Optimization in Role Mining	20
SPArch: A Hardware-oriented Sketch-based Architecture for High-speed Network Flow Measurements	19
Spoofing Against Spoofing: Toward Caller ID Verification in Heterogeneous Telecommunication Systems	19
A Decentralized Private Data Marketplace using Blockchain and Secure Multi-Party Computation	19
PredicTor: A Global, Machine Learning Approach to Tor Path Selection	16
An Experimental Assessment of Inconsistencies in Memory Forensics	15
Generalizable Multi-Model Fusion for Multi-Class DoS Detection Using Cognitive Diversity and Rank-Score Analysis	15
Valued Authorization Policy Existence Problem: Theory and Experiments	14
Fraud Detection under Siege: Practical Poisoning Attacks and Defense Strategies	13

C3PO: C loud-based C onfidentiality-preserving C ontinuous Query P r	13
Improving Unlinkability of Attribute-based Authentication through Game Theory	12
So Near and Yet So Far – Symbolic Verification of Distance-Bounding Protocols	12
Adversarial Attack and Defense for Commercial Black-box Chinese-English Speech Recognition Systems	12
FairQuanti: Enhancing Fairness in Deep Neural Network Quantization via Neuron Role Contribution	11
Performance and Usability Evaluation of Brainwave Authentication Techniques with Consumer Devices	11
What Users Want From Cloud Deletion and the Information They Need: A Participatory Action Study	11
CySecBERT : A Domain-Adapted Language Model for the Cybersecurity Domain	11
Semi-Supervised Classification of Malware Families Under Extreme Class Imbalance via Hierarchical Non-Negative Matrix Factorization with Automatic Model Selection	10
Generating Quality Threat Intelligence Leveraging OSINT and a Cyber Threat Unified Taxonomy	10
Assessment Framework for the Identification and Evaluation of Main Features for Distributed Usage Control Solutions	9
Balancing Security and Privacy in Genomic Range Queries	9
A Lightweight Privacy-Aware Continuous Authentication Protocol-PACA	8
A Comparison of Systemic and Systematic Risks of Malware Encounters in Consumer and Enterprise Environments	8
ZTA-IoT: A Novel Architecture for Zero-Trust in IoT Systems and an Ensuing Usage Control Model	8
MGAN: A Multi-view Graph Adaptive Network for Robust Malicious Traffic Detection	8
Sphinx-in-the-Head: Group Signatures from Symmetric Primitives	8
Swarm: A Distributed Ledger-based Framework to Enhance Air Traffic Control Security Using ADS-B Protocol	8
B ³ : Backdoor Attacks against Black-box Machine Learning Models	8
Risk Prediction of IoT Devices Based on Vulnerability Analysis	7
AutoFR: Automated Filter Rule Generation for Adblocking	7
Euler : Detecting Network Lateral Movement via Scalable Temporal Link Prediction	7
Cyber Threat Intelligence meets the Analytic Tradecraft	7
RansomShield: A Visualization Approach to Defending Mobile Systems Against Ransomware	7
Computation on Encrypted Data Using Dataflow Authentication	6
SoK: Human-centered Phishing Susceptibility	6
Measures of Information Leakage for Incomplete Statistical Information: Application to a Binary Privacy Mechanism	6
Boost Your Immunity: VACCINE for Preventing a Novel Stealthy Slice Selection Attack in 5G and Beyond	6
On the Security of Smartphone Unlock PINs	6
Accountable Private Set Cardinality for Distributed Measurement	6
End-to-End Security for Distributed Event-driven Enclave Applications on Heterogeneous TEEs	6
Privacy Policies across the Ages: Content of Privacy Policies 1996–2021	6
Formal Security Analysis of the OpenID FAPI 2.0 Family of Protocols: Accompanying a Standardization Process	5
Intriguing Properties of Adversarial ML Attacks in the Problem Space [Extended Version]	5
Revisiting the Security of Biometric Authentication Systems Against Statistical Attacks	5
End-to-Same-End Encryption: Modularly Augmenting an App with an Efficient, Portable, and Blind Cloud Storage	5
Quantifying and Exploiting Adversarial Vulnerability: Gradient-Based Input Pre-Filtering for Enhanced Performance in Black-Box Attacks	5
Level Up with ML Vulnerability Identification: Leveraging Domain Constraints in Feature Space for Robust Android Malware Detection	5
InkFiltration: Using Inkjet Printers for Acoustic Data Exfiltration from Air-Gapped Networks	5
Performance Enhancement of Intrusion Detection System in Cloud by Using Boruta Algorithm	4
A Novel Hybrid Approach for Multi-Dimensional Data Anonymization for Apache Spark	4
Formal Modelling and Automated Trade-off Analysis of Enforcement Architectures for Cryptographic Access Control in the Cloud	4
Is Bitcoin Future as Secure as We Think? Analysis of Bitcoin Vulnerability to Bribery Attacks Launched through Large Transactions	4
Flexichain: Flexible Payment Channel Network to Defend Against Channel Exhaustion Attack	4
Privacy-preserving Resilient Consensus for Multi-agent Systems in a General Topology Structure	4
Specifying and Verifying Information Flow Control in SELinux Configurations	4
Assessing Cyber Risk in Cyber-Physical Systems Using the ATT&CK Framework	4
Comprehensive Kernel Safety in the Spectre Era: Mitigations and Performance Evaluation	4
Learning Relationship-Based Access Control Policies from Black-Box Systems	4
The Dark Side of Native Code on Android	4

Constrained Proximity Attacks on Mobile Targets	3
Resilience-by-design in Adaptive Multi-agent Traffic Control Systems	3
Exploitation Techniques for Data-oriented Attacks with Existing and Potential Defense Approaches	3
ZT-SDN: An ML-Powered Zero-Trust Architecture for Software-Defined Networks	3
A Metric Differential Privacy Mechanism for Sentence Embeddings	3
Attack Detection Using Item Vector Shift in Matrix Factorisation Recommenders	3
Cheesecloth: Zero-Knowledge Proofs of Real-World Vulnerabilities	3
OptiClass : An Optimized Classifier for Application Layer Protocols Using Bit Level Signatures	3
Assessing and Mitigating the Privacy Implications of Eye Tracking on Handheld Mobile Devices	3
Design, Development, and Evaluation of a Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Digital Literacy Game for Tweens	3
A Novel Cross-Network Embedding for Anchor Link Prediction with Social Adversarial Attacks	2
Understanding Information Disclosure from Secure Computation Output: A Comprehensive Study of Average Salary Computation	2
Uncovering CWE-CVE-CPE Relations with Threat Knowledge Graphs	2
DP-Poison: Poisoning Federated Learning under the Cover of Differential Privacy	2
Stateful Protocol Composition in Isabelle/HOL	2
ThermoSecure: Investigating the Effectiveness of AI-Driven Thermal Attacks on Commonly Used Computer Keyboards	2
Revisiting GPS Spoofing in Phasor Measurement: Real-World Exploitation and Practical Detection in Power Grids	2
X-squatter: AI Multilingual Generation of Cross-Language Sound-squatting	2
Beyond the Screen: Exploring Privacy Boundaries through Automated User Profiling	2
Paralinguistic Privacy Protection at the Edge	2
DELM: Deep Ensemble Learning Model for Anomaly Detection in Malicious Network Traffic-based Adaptive Feature Aggregation and Network Optimization	2
Multi-Stage Enhanced Zero Trust Intrusion Detection System for Unknown Attack Detection in Internet of Things and Traditional Networks	2
MRAAC: A Multi-stage Risk-aware Adaptive Authentication and Access Control Framework for Android	2
EI-MTD: Moving Target Defense for Edge Intelligence against Adversarial Attacks	2
PEBASI: A Privacy preserving, Efficient Biometric Authentication Scheme based on Irises	2
The Effect of Domain Terms on Password Security	2
VulANalyzeR: Explainable Binary Vulnerability Detection with Multi-task Learning and Attentional Graph Convolution	2
Pump Up Password Security! Evaluating and Enhancing Risk-Based Authentication on a Real-World Large-Scale Online Service	2
“Sign in with ... Privacy ”: Timely Disclosure of Privacy Differences among Web SSO Login Options	2
Privacy-preserving Decentralized Federated Learning over Time-varying Communication Graph	2
Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers: Low-cost Attacks, Quantitative Analyses, and Efficient Mitigations	2
Incentivizing Secure Software Development: The Role of Voluntary Audit and Liability Waiver	2