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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
BitCracker: BitLocker meets GPUs	128
The rise of “security and privacy”: bibliometric analysis of computer privacy research	117
Verifiability for privacy-preserving computing on distributed data — a survey	79
AutoPKI: public key infrastructure for IoT with automated trust transfer	54
Anomalous behavior detection-based approach for authenticating smart home system users	52
Outlier-oriented poisoning attack: a grey-box approach to disturb decision boundaries by perturbing outliers in multiclass learning	50
An intrusion detection approach based on incremental long short-term memory	43
Feature engineering impact on position falsification attacks detection in vehicular ad-hoc network	43
Using machine learning to detect network intrusions in industrial control systems: a survey	36
A content-based deep intrusion detection system	32
Systematic review of SIEM technology: SIEM-SC birth	31
Efficient arabic and english social spam detection using a transformer and 2D convolutional neural network-based deep learning filter	30
Fast but approximate homomorphic k-means based on masking technique	29
Malware classification approaches utilizing binary and text encoding of permissions	28
Fairness as a Service (FaaS): verifiable and privacy-preserving fairness auditing of machine learning systems	25
A comprehensive approach for mitigating impersonation in online assessment: integrity policy and random authentication	25
Random resampling algorithms for addressing the imbalanced dataset classes in insider threat detection	25
Automated broken object-level authorization attack detection in REST APIs through OpenAPI to colored petri nets transformation	25
Xai-driven black-box adversarial attacks on network intrusion detectors	25
can-sleuth: Sleuthing out the capabilities, limitations, and performance impacts of automotive intrusion detection datasets	25
Balancing usability, user experience, security and privacy in XR systems: a multidimensional approach	24
Adaptive trust evaluation model based on container security analysis in the Docker platform	24
Survey on image encryption techniques using chaotic maps in spatial, transform and spatiotemporal domains	23
Weighted quality criteria for cyber threat intelligence: assessment and prioritisation in the MISP data model	23
BLoCNet: a hybrid, dataset-independent intrusion detection system using deep learning	22

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

Adversarial attack detection framework based on optimized weighted conditional stepwise adversarial network	13
Identifying factors influencing the duration of zero-day vulnerabilities	12
Comprehensive review on machine learning and deep learning techniques for malware detection in android and IoT devices	12
A Comprehensive User Study on Medical Device Threat Modeling Methodologies and CyberLlama2 - MEDICALHARM Threat Modeling Assistant.	12
Multi-user covert communication in power internet of things networks	12
International journal of information security: a bibliometric study, 2007–2023	12
Toward a unified and secure approach for extraction of forensic digital evidence from an IoT device	12
DevSecOps practices and tools	12
Trust attack prevention based on Spark-blockchain in social IoT: a survey	12
A Data-centric approach for safe and secure large language models against threatening and toxic content	12
A fog-based anonymous authentication scheme with location privacy for wireless body area network with FPGA implementation	12
Adversarial attacks against mouse- and keyboard-based biometric authentication: black-box versus domain-specific techniques	12
ANS-based compression and encryption with 128-bit security	11
Malicious uses of blockchains by malware: from the analysis to Smart-Zephyrus	11
PayScan: Detection and Security Analysis of Payment Libraries in Android Apps	11
Two-stage advanced persistent threat (APT) attack on an IEC 61850 power grid substation	11
Abuse-freeness in contract signing: a blockchain-based proposal	11
A comprehensive Blockchain-oriented secure framework for SDN/Fog-based IoUT	11
A first look at references from the dark to the surface web world: a case study in Tor	11
A systematic overview on methods to protect sensitive data provided for various analyses	11
Correction: Maritime cybersecurity: protecting digital seas	11
Novel mechanism for anonymous reporting and anonymous rewarding using blockchain technology	10
Analysis of OSPU security effect and data assembly verification under semi-network OS architecture	10
A comprehensive analysis of cryptocurrency breaches at endpoint	10
Anonymous provision of privacy-sensitive services using blockchain and decentralised storage	10
Generating ICS vulnerability playbooks with open standards	10
Selfish mining attack in blockchain: a systematic literature review	10
Challenges of post-quantum digital signing in real-world applications: a survey	10
An overview of proposals towards the privacy-preserving publication of trajectory data	10
A conflict-aware active BLE state machine learning and state coverage-guided gray-box fuzz testing method	10
TENET: a new hybrid network architecture for adversarial defense	10
Deep behavioral analysis of machine learning algorithms against data poisoning	9
A unit-based symbolic execution method for detecting memory corruption vulnerabilities in executable codes	9
Revisiting QUIC attacks: a comprehensive review on QUIC security and a hands-on study	9
Vulnerability discovery based on source code patch commit mining: a systematic literature review	9
Federated learning for misbehaviour detection with variational autoencoders and Gaussian mixture models	9
Non-Alpha-Num: a novel architecture for generating adversarial examples for bypassing NLP-based clickbait detection mechanisms	9
Cyber–physical risk assessment for false data injection attacks considering moving target defences	9
Factors influencing Swedish citizens’ willingness to provide their mobile phones to forensic examination	9
Efficient and interpretable SRU combined with TabNet for network intrusion detection in the big data environment	9
Retraction Note: Deep learning based network intrusion detection system: a systematic literature review and future scopes	9
Protection of centralized SDN control plane from high-rate Packet-In messages	9
Performance analysis of capsule networks for detecting GPS spoofing attacks on unmanned aerial vehicles	9
Correction: Cryptocurrency recovery framework using pre-signed transaction	9
SCAnME - scanner comparative analysis and metrics for evaluation	8
A computationally efficient dimensionality reduction and attack classification approach for network intrusion detection	8
Securing the IoT ecosystem: ASIC-based hardware realization of Ascon lightweight cipher	8
Large language models for software vulnerability detection: a guide for researchers on models, methods, techniques, datasets, and metrics	8
Email bombing attack detection and mitigation using machine learning	8
Pioneering automated vulnerability detection for smart contracts in blockchain using KEVM: Guardian ADRGAN	8
Scalable, password-based and threshold authentication for smart homes	8
Enhancing DevSecOps practice with Large Language Models and Security Chaos Engineering	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
Balancing the act? Resampling versus imbalanced data for Wi-Fi IDS	8
A deep learning approach based on multi-view consensus for SQL injection detection	8
Transformer or Autoencoder? Who is the ultimate adversary for attack detectors?	7
Federated learning-based intrusion detection system for Internet of Things	7
A comprehensive survey of phishing: mediums, intended targets, attack and defence techniques and a novel taxonomy	7
DFTMicroagg: a dual-level anonymization algorithm for smart grid data	7
CARNYX: A framework for vulnerability detection via power consumption analysis in embedded systems	7
An end-to-end intrusion detection system with IoT dataset using deep learning with unsupervised feature extraction	7
Aldp-fl: an adaptive local differential privacy-based federated learning mechanism for IoT	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
Short- versus long-term performance of detection models for obfuscated MSOffice-embedded malware	7