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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Secure Selections on Encrypted Multi-writer Streams	44
Secure and Reliable Network Updates	41
Security Implications of the Morello Platform: An Empirical Threat Model-Based Analysis	37
Privacy-Preserving Training of Support Vector Machines via Secure Multiparty Computation	34
TLS-MHSA: An Efficient Detection Model for Encrypted Malicious Traffic based on Multi-Head Self-Attention Mechanism	32
Site Inspector: Improving Browser Communication of Website Security Information	30
Deep PackGen: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Adversarial Network Packet Generation	30
Dimensional Robustness Certification for Deep Neural Networks in Network Intrusion Detection Systems	28
Binsec/Rel: Symbolic Binary Analyzer for Security with Applications to Constant-Time and Secret-Erasure	26
A Secret Sharing-Inspired Robust Distributed Backdoor Attack to Federated Learning	26
SPArch: A Hardware-oriented Sketch-based Architecture for High-speed Network Flow Measurements	23
CBAs: Character-level Backdoor Attacks against Chinese Pre-trained Language Models	22
Bi-objective Optimization in Role Mining	22
Information Leakage Games: Exploring Information as a Utility Function	21
Differentially Private Real-Time Release of Sequential Data	21
symbSODA: Configurable and Verifiable Orchestration Automation for Active Malware Deception	21
Spoofing Against Spoofing: Toward Caller ID Verification in Heterogeneous Telecommunication Systems	20
PredicTor: A Global, Machine Learning Approach to Tor Path Selection	19
An Experimental Assessment of Inconsistencies in Memory Forensics	17
Fraud Detection under Siege: Practical Poisoning Attacks and Defense Strategies	16
A Decentralized Private Data Marketplace using Blockchain and Secure Multi-Party Computation	16
C3PO: C loud-based C onfidentiality-preserving C ontinuous Query P r	16
Valued Authorization Policy Existence Problem: Theory and Experiments	14
Adversarial Attack and Defense for Commercial Black-box Chinese-English Speech Recognition Systems	14
Generalizable Multi-Model Fusion for Multi-Class DoS Detection Using Cognitive Diversity and Rank-Score Analysis	14

FairQuanti: Enhancing Fairness in Deep Neural Network Quantization via Neuron Role Contribution	13
What Users Want From Cloud Deletion and the Information They Need: A Participatory Action Study	12
So Near and Yet So Far – Symbolic Verification of Distance-Bounding Protocols	12
Improving Unlinkability of Attribute-based Authentication through Game Theory	12
Generating Quality Threat Intelligence Leveraging OSINT and a Cyber Threat Unified Taxonomy	10
Semi-Supervised Classification of Malware Families Under Extreme Class Imbalance via Hierarchical Non-Negative Matrix Factorization with Automatic Model Selection	10
CySecBERT : A Domain-Adapted Language Model for the Cybersecurity Domain	10
Performance and Usability Evaluation of Brainwave Authentication Techniques with Consumer Devices	9
B ³ : Backdoor Attacks against Black-box Machine Learning Models	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
Balancing Security and Privacy in Genomic Range Queries	8
Assessment Framework for the Identification and Evaluation of Main Features for Distributed Usage Control Solutions	8
End-to-End Security for Distributed Event-driven Enclave Applications on Heterogeneous TEEs	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
A Comparison of Systemic and Systematic Risks of Malware Encounters in Consumer and Enterprise Environments	8
SoK: Human-centered Phishing Susceptibility	7
AutoFR: Automated Filter Rule Generation for Adblocking	7
Identifying Fraudulent Users in E-commerce Applications through Spatiotemporal Fusion and Selective Aggregation	7
Cyber Threat Intelligence meets the Analytic Tradecraft	7
Risk Prediction of IoT Devices Based on Vulnerability Analysis	7
Euler : Detecting Network Lateral Movement via Scalable Temporal Link Prediction	7
RansomShield: A Visualization Approach to Defending Mobile Systems Against Ransomware	7
Boost Your Immunity: VACCINE for Preventing a Novel Stealthy Slice Selection Attack in 5G and Beyond	6
Measures of Information Leakage for Incomplete Statistical Information: Application to a Binary Privacy Mechanism	6
Accountable Private Set Cardinality for Distributed Measurement	6
Intriguing Properties of Adversarial ML Attacks in the Problem Space [Extended Version]	6
Privacy Policies across the Ages: Content of Privacy Policies 1996–2021	6
Evaluating Honeyfile Realism and Enticement Metrics	6
Computation on Encrypted Data Using Dataflow Authentication	6
VPT: Privacy Preserving Energy Trading and Block Mining Mechanism for Blockchain Based Virtual Power Plants	5
Formal Security Analysis of the OpenID FAPI 2.0 Family of Protocols: Accompanying a Standardization Process	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
Revisiting the Security of Biometric Authentication Systems Against Statistical Attacks	5
InkFiltration: Using Inkjet Printers for Acoustic Data Exfiltration from Air-Gapped Networks	4
Toward a Robust Detection of PowerShell Malware against Code Mixing and Obfuscation by Using Sentence Transformer and Similarity Learning	4
SatIQ: Extensible and Stable Satellite Authentication using Hardware Fingerprinting	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
Comprehensive Kernel Safety in the Spectre Era: Mitigations and Performance Evaluation	4
Learning Relationship-Based Access Control Policies from Black-Box Systems	4
Privacy-preserving Resilient Consensus for Multi-agent Systems in a General Topology Structure	4
Performance Enhancement of Intrusion Detection System in Cloud by Using Boruta Algorithm	4
Assessing Cyber Risk in Cyber-Physical Systems Using the ATT&CK Framework	4
Flexichain: Flexible Payment Channel Network to Defend Against Channel Exhaustion Attack	4
The Dark Side of Native Code on Android	4
A Novel Hybrid Approach for Multi-Dimensional Data Anonymization for Apache Spark	4

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