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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
BitCracker: BitLocker meets GPUs	134
Using machine learning to detect network intrusions in industrial control systems: a survey	130
Feature engineering impact on position falsification attacks detection in vehicular ad-hoc network	81
The rise of “security and privacy”: bibliometric analysis of computer privacy research	57
Fast but approximate homomorphic k-means based on masking technique	55
Verifiability for privacy-preserving computing on distributed data — a survey	53
An intrusion detection approach based on incremental long short-term memory	51
AutoPKI: public key infrastructure for IoT with automated trust transfer	43
Anomalous behavior detection-based approach for authenticating smart home system users	36
Efficient arabic and english social spam detection using a transformer and 2D convolutional neural network-based deep learning filter	33
Systematic review of SIEM technology: SIEM-SC birth	33
Outlier-oriented poisoning attack: a grey-box approach to disturb decision boundaries by perturbing outliers in multiclass learning	33
A comprehensive approach for mitigating impersonation in online assessment: integrity policy and random authentication	31
Automated broken object-level authorization attack detection in REST APIs through OpenAPI to colored petri nets transformation	30
Fairness as a Service (FaaS): verifiable and privacy-preserving fairness auditing of machine learning systems	27
Xai-driven black-box adversarial attacks on network intrusion detectors	26
Weighted quality criteria for cyber threat intelligence: assessment and prioritisation in the MISP data model	26
Adaptive trust evaluation model based on container security analysis in the Docker platform	26
can-sleuth: Sleuthing out the capabilities, limitations, and performance impacts of automotive intrusion detection datasets	25
Random resampling algorithms for addressing the imbalanced dataset classes in insider threat detection	25
BLoCNet: a hybrid, dataset-independent intrusion detection system using deep learning	25
Malware classification approaches utilizing binary and text encoding of permissions	25
Survey on image encryption techniques using chaotic maps in spatial, transform and spatiotemporal domains	25
Balancing usability, user experience, security and privacy in XR systems: a multidimensional approach	25
Restricting data-leakage using fine-grained access control on OSN objects	24

Pseudonym shuffling-driven blockchain and Autoencoder-based secure E-healthcare data management	23
Model-Agnostic Utility-Preserving Biometric Information Anonymization	23
A vulnerability assessment and exploitation analysis of a powerline communication HomePlug AV network adapter	23
Ensemble learning-based adaptive and adversarial techniques for APT attack detection	23
Digital Twin-Enabled Incident Detection and Response: A Systematic Review of Critical Infrastructures Applications	23
MEDICALHARM: A threat modeling designed for modern medical devices and a comprehensive study on effectiveness, user satisfaction, and security perspectives	22
Unmasking the common traits: an ensemble approach for effective malware detection	22
Adversarial robustness of deep reinforcement learning-based intrusion detection	22
Acnn: arbitrary trace attacks based on leakage area detection	22
Enhancing phishing email detection with stylometric features and classifier stacking	21
Detection, characterization, and profiling DoH Malicious traffic using statistical pattern recognition	21
A cyber defense system against phishing attacks with deep learning game theory and LSTM-CNN with African vulture optimization algorithm (AVOA)	21
Phish-Sight: a new approach for phishing detection using dominant colors on web pages and machine learning	20
Improving spam email classification accuracy using ensemble techniques: a stacking approach	20
A survey of anomaly detection methods for power grids	20
Tracing the evolution of cyber resilience: a historical and conceptual review	20
“Animation” URL in NFT marketplaces considered harmful for privacy	19
A perspective–retrospective analysis of diversity in signature-based open-source network intrusion detection systems	19
Certified unlearning for a trustworthy machine learning-based access control administration	18
Attribute inference privacy protection for pre-trained models	18
Business process models and simulation to enable GDPR compliance	18
Securing air-gapped systems-review of covert techniques for data ex-filtration and a new clause proposal for ISO 27001	18
Construction of network pentest-defense adversarial environment based on NASim	18
GaTeBaSep: game theory-based security protocol against ARP spoofing attacks in software-defined networks	17
Semi-supervised approach for detecting malicious domains in TLDs in their first query	17
Cross-Silo Federated Learning in Security Operations Centers for effective malware detection	16
Efficient authentication scheme for heterogeneous signcryption with cryptographic reverse firewalls for VANETs	16
Deceiving supervised machine learning models via adversarial data poisoning attacks: a case study with USB keyboards	16
Generating adversarial examples with collaborative generative models	16
Automated cybersecurity impact propagation across business processes using process mining techniques	16
Advancements and challenges in privacy-preserving split learning: experimental findings and future directions	16
Analyzing shared keys in X.509 certificates with domain ownership	16
A systematic mapping study on security for systems of systems	15
Authentication in Internet of Things, protocols, attacks, and open issues: a systematic literature review	15
Secure outsourcing of manufacturing compliance checks	15
Privacy information propagation in online social networks - a case study based on Weibo data	15
Blockchain-based data integrity framework for Internet of Things	15
Unmasking SDN flow table saturation: fingerprinting, attacks and defenses	15
Generative AI for pentesting: the good, the bad, the ugly	15
A systematic literature review on wearable health data publishing under differential privacy	15
Developers’ mindset on self-adaptive privacy and its requirements for cloud computing environments	15
RLET: a lightweight model for ubiquitous multi-class intrusion detection in sustainable and secured smart environment	14
Spatial de-correlation of generated keys from wireless channels using adversarial deep learning	14
Adversarial attack detection framework based on optimized weighted conditional stepwise adversarial network	14
WEFT: a consistent and tamper-proof methodology for acquisition of automatically verifiable forensic web evidence	14
A generic framework for blockchain-assisted on-chain auditing for off-chain storage	14
Exploring the potential of deep learning and machine learning techniques for randomness analysis to enhance security on IoT	14
Multi-cloud applications: data and code fragmentation for improved security	14
DevSecOps practices and tools	14
A fog-based anonymous authentication scheme with location privacy for wireless body area network with FPGA implementation	13

Malicious uses of blockchains by malware: from the analysis to Smart-Zephyrus	13
Estimating vulnerability metrics with word embedding and multiclass classification methods	13
Comprehensive review on machine learning and deep learning techniques for malware detection in android and IoT devices	13
Multi-user covert communication in power internet of things networks	13
A Comprehensive User Study on Medical Device Threat Modeling Methodologies and CyberLlama2 - MEDICALHARM Threat Modeling Assistant.	13
A first look at references from the dark to the surface web world: a case study in Tor	13
Adversarial attacks against mouse- and keyboard-based biometric authentication: black-box versus domain-specific techniques	13
Cyber-security gamification in federation of cyber ranges: design, implementation, and evaluation	13
A blockchain-based trust and reputation model resilient to forgery attacks for data sharing scenarios (RWS-BTRM)	12
A Data-centric approach for safe and secure large language models against threatening and toxic content	12
Toward a unified and secure approach for extraction of forensic digital evidence from an IoT device	12
Identifying factors influencing the duration of zero-day vulnerabilities	12
Trust attack prevention based on Spark-blockchain in social IoT: a survey	12
Two-stage advanced persistent threat (APT) attack on an IEC 61850 power grid substation	11
A comprehensive Blockchain-oriented secure framework for SDN/Fog-based IoUT	11
Revisiting QUIC attacks: a comprehensive review on QUIC security and a hands-on study	11
Anonymous provision of privacy-sensitive services using blockchain and decentralised storage	11
A systematic overview on methods to protect sensitive data provided for various analyses	11
Abuse-freeness in contract signing: a blockchain-based proposal	11
Analysis of OSPU security effect and data assembly verification under semi-network OS architecture	11
A conflict-aware active BLE state machine learning and state coverage-guided gray-box fuzz testing method	11
International journal of information security: a bibliometric study, 2007–2023	11
ANS-based compression and encryption with 128-bit security	11
Protection of centralized SDN control plane from high-rate Packet-In messages	11
TENET: a new hybrid network architecture for adversarial defense	11
A comprehensive analysis of cryptocurrency breaches at endpoint	10
Generating ICS vulnerability playbooks with open standards	10
A Framework for Drift Detection and Adaptation in AI-driven Anomaly and Threat Detection Systems	10
Correction: Maritime cybersecurity: protecting digital seas	10
An overview of proposals towards the privacy-preserving publication of trajectory data	10
PayScan: Detection and Security Analysis of Payment Libraries in Android Apps	10
Challenges of post-quantum digital signing in real-world applications: a survey	10
Novel mechanism for anonymous reporting and anonymous rewarding using blockchain technology	10
Cyber–physical risk assessment for false data injection attacks considering moving target defences	10
Selfish mining attack in blockchain: a systematic literature review	10
A unit-based symbolic execution method for detecting memory corruption vulnerabilities in executable codes	9
Federated learning for misbehaviour detection with variational autoencoders and Gaussian mixture models	9
Securing the IoT ecosystem: ASIC-based hardware realization of Ascon lightweight cipher	9
Retraction Note: Deep learning based network intrusion detection system: a systematic literature review and future scopes	9
Deep behavioral analysis of machine learning algorithms against data poisoning	9
Efficient and interpretable SRU combined with TabNet for network intrusion detection in the big data environment	9
Non-Alpha-Num: a novel architecture for generating adversarial examples for bypassing NLP-based clickbait detection mechanisms	9
Performance analysis of capsule networks for detecting GPS spoofing attacks on unmanned aerial vehicles	9
Factors influencing Swedish citizens’ willingness to provide their mobile phones to forensic examination	9
Correction: Cryptocurrency recovery framework using pre-signed transaction	9
A computationally efficient dimensionality reduction and attack classification approach for network intrusion detection	8
Scalable, password-based and threshold authentication for smart homes	8
Email bombing attack detection and mitigation using machine learning	8
Maritime decision-makers and cyber security: deck officers’ perception of cyber risks towards IT and OT systems	8
Identifying Open-Source Threat Detection Resources on GitHub: A Scalable Machine Learning Approach	8
Detecting malicious nodes using game theory and reinforcement learning in software-defined networks	8
Pioneering automated vulnerability detection for smart contracts in blockchain using KEVM: Guardian ADRGAN	8
Balancing the act? Resampling versus imbalanced data for Wi-Fi IDS	8
SCAnME - scanner comparative analysis and metrics for evaluation	8
Progressive attack graph: a technique for scalable and adaptive attack graph generation	8
Federated learning-based intrusion detection system for Internet of Things	7
Short- versus long-term performance of detection models for obfuscated MSOffice-embedded malware	7
CARNYX: A framework for vulnerability detection via power consumption analysis in embedded systems	7
Vulnerability discovery based on source code patch commit mining: a systematic literature review	7
A deep learning approach based on multi-view consensus for SQL injection detection	7
SmartiPhish: a reinforcement learning-based intelligent anti-phishing solution to detect spoofed website attacks	7
A personalized learning theory-based cyber-security training exercise	7
IoT device security audit tools: a comprehensive analysis and a layered architecture approach for addressing expanded security requirements	7
An end-to-end intrusion detection system with IoT dataset using deep learning with unsupervised feature extraction	7
Large language models for software vulnerability detection: a guide for researchers on models, methods, techniques, datasets, and metrics	7
Intrusion detection in IoT network using temporal wavelet augmented deep dense and LSTM auto-encoders	7
Bridging cybersecurity with digital twin technology: a thematic analysis	7
DFTMicroagg: a dual-level anonymization algorithm for smart grid data	7
From sinking to saving: MITRE ATT &CK and D3FEND frameworks for maritime cybersecurity	7
Citizens’ engagement with cybersecurity measures in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study	7
Transformer or Autoencoder? Who is the ultimate adversary for attack detectors?	7
Aldp-fl: an adaptive local differential privacy-based federated learning mechanism for IoT	7
Enhancing DevSecOps practice with Large Language Models and Security Chaos Engineering	7
Security analysis and improvement of a privacy-preserving authentication scheme in VANET	7
A comprehensive survey of phishing: mediums, intended targets, attack and defence techniques and a novel taxonomy	7
Investigation of application layer DDoS attacks in legacy and software-defined networks: A comprehensive review	7