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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
BitCracker: BitLocker meets GPUs	115
Fast but approximate homomorphic k-means based on masking technique	90
The rise of “security and privacy”: bibliometric analysis of computer privacy research	70
Feature engineering impact on position falsification attacks detection in vehicular ad-hoc network	47
An intrusion detection approach based on incremental long short-term memory	46
Using machine learning to detect network intrusions in industrial control systems: a survey	38
AutoPKI: public key infrastructure for IoT with automated trust transfer	38
Anomalous behavior detection-based approach for authenticating smart home system users	34
Outlier-oriented poisoning attack: a grey-box approach to disturb decision boundaries by perturbing outliers in multiclass learning	32
A content-based deep intrusion detection system	29
Verifiability for privacy-preserving computing on distributed data — a survey	26
Systematic review of SIEM technology: SIEM-SC birth	26
Efficient arabic and english social spam detection using a transformer and 2D convolutional neural network-based deep learning filter	26
Random resampling algorithms for addressing the imbalanced dataset classes in insider threat detection	24
Malware classification approaches utilizing binary and text encoding of permissions	24
Optimization of parallel firewalls filtering rules	23
A comprehensive approach for mitigating impersonation in online assessment: integrity policy and random authentication	23
Fairness as a Service (FaaS): verifiable and privacy-preserving fairness auditing of machine learning systems	22
BLoCNet: a hybrid, dataset-independent intrusion detection system using deep learning	20
Xai-driven black-box adversarial attacks on network intrusion detectors	20
Balancing usability, user experience, security and privacy in XR systems: a multidimensional approach	20
Survey on image encryption techniques using chaotic maps in spatial, transform and spatiotemporal domains	20
Automated broken object-level authorization attack detection in REST APIs through OpenAPI to colored petri nets transformation	20
Unmasking the common traits: an ensemble approach for effective malware detection	18
Acnn: arbitrary trace attacks based on leakage area detection	18

A cyber defense system against phishing attacks with deep learning game theory and LSTM-CNN with African vulture optimization algorithm (AVOA)	18
MEDICALHARM: A threat modeling designed for modern medical devices and a comprehensive study on effectiveness, user satisfaction, and security perspectives	18
Phish-Sight: a new approach for phishing detection using dominant colors on web pages and machine learning	17
Enhancing phishing email detection with stylometric features and classifier stacking	17
Adversarial robustness of deep reinforcement learning-based intrusion detection	17
Detection, characterization, and profiling DoH Malicious traffic using statistical pattern recognition	16
Restricting data-leakage using fine-grained access control on OSN objects	16
A survey of anomaly detection methods for power grids	16
Improving spam email classification accuracy using ensemble techniques: a stacking approach	15
Model-Agnostic Utility-Preserving Biometric Information Anonymization	15
GaTeBaSep: game theory-based security protocol against ARP spoofing attacks in software-defined networks	15
Tracing the evolution of cyber resilience: a historical and conceptual review	15
“Animation” URL in NFT marketplaces considered harmful for privacy	15
Secure outsourcing of manufacturing compliance checks	15
A perspective–retrospective analysis of diversity in signature-based open-source network intrusion detection systems	15
A systematic mapping study on security for systems of systems	15
Attribute inference privacy protection for pre-trained models	14
Efficient authentication scheme for heterogeneous signcryption with cryptographic reverse firewalls for VANETs	14
Semi-supervised approach for detecting malicious domains in TLDs in their first query	14
Privacy information propagation in online social networks - a case study based on Weibo data	14
Certified unlearning for a trustworthy machine learning-based access control administration	14
Deceiving supervised machine learning models via adversarial data poisoning attacks: a case study with USB keyboards	14
Unmasking SDN flow table saturation: fingerprinting, attacks and defenses	14
Business process models and simulation to enable GDPR compliance	14
Developers’ mindset on self-adaptive privacy and its requirements for cloud computing environments	14
Analyzing shared keys in X.509 certificates with domain ownership	13
Generating adversarial examples with collaborative generative models	13
Blockchain-based data integrity framework for Internet of Things	12
A systematic literature review on wearable health data publishing under differential privacy	12
Exploring the potential of deep learning and machine learning techniques for randomness analysis to enhance security on IoT	12
Generative AI for pentesting: the good, the bad, the ugly	12
Authentication in Internet of Things, protocols, attacks, and open issues: a systematic literature review	12
Automated cybersecurity impact propagation across business processes using process mining techniques	12
Advancements and challenges in privacy-preserving split learning: experimental findings and future directions	12
RLET: a lightweight model for ubiquitous multi-class intrusion detection in sustainable and secured smart environment	12
A generic framework for blockchain-assisted on-chain auditing for off-chain storage	11
A fog-based anonymous authentication scheme with location privacy for wireless body area network with FPGA implementation	11
ANS-based compression and encryption with 128-bit security	11
Spatial de-correlation of generated keys from wireless channels using adversarial deep learning	11
Cyber-security gamification in federation of cyber ranges: design, implementation, and evaluation	11
Multi-cloud applications: data and code fragmentation for improved security	11
Security beyond cybersecurity: side-channel attacks against non-cyber systems and their countermeasures	11
Toward a unified and secure approach for extraction of forensic digital evidence from an IoT device	11
Estimating vulnerability metrics with word embedding and multiclass classification methods	11
DevSecOps practices and tools	11
Adversarial attacks against mouse- and keyboard-based biometric authentication: black-box versus domain-specific techniques	11
Multi-user covert communication in power internet of things networks	11
Adversarial attack detection framework based on optimized weighted conditional stepwise adversarial network	11
WEFT: a consistent and tamper-proof methodology for acquisition of automatically verifiable forensic web evidence	11
Comprehensive review on machine learning and deep learning techniques for malware detection in android and IoT devices	10

International journal of information security: a bibliometric study, 2007–2023	10
Malicious uses of blockchains by malware: from the analysis to Smart-Zephyrus	10
Two-stage advanced persistent threat (APT) attack on an IEC 61850 power grid substation	9
Abuse-freeness in contract signing: a blockchain-based proposal	9
Trust attack prevention based on Spark-blockchain in social IoT: a survey	9
A comprehensive analysis of cryptocurrency breaches at endpoint	9
A first look at references from the dark to the surface web world: a case study in Tor	9
Identifying factors influencing the duration of zero-day vulnerabilities	9
Analysis of OSPU security effect and data assembly verification under semi-network OS architecture	9
An overview of proposals towards the privacy-preserving publication of trajectory data	9
A Data-centric approach for safe and secure large language models against threatening and toxic content	9
A comprehensive Blockchain-oriented secure framework for SDN/Fog-based IoUT	9
A systematic overview on methods to protect sensitive data provided for various analyses	9
Cyber–physical risk assessment for false data injection attacks considering moving target defences	9
TENET: a new hybrid network architecture for adversarial defense	9
A conflict-aware active BLE state machine learning and state coverage-guided gray-box fuzz testing method	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
Performance analysis of capsule networks for detecting GPS spoofing attacks on unmanned aerial vehicles	8
Factors influencing Swedish citizens’ willingness to provide their mobile phones to forensic examination	8
Vulnerability discovery based on source code patch commit mining: a systematic literature review	8
Generating ICS vulnerability playbooks with open standards	8
A unit-based symbolic execution method for detecting memory corruption vulnerabilities in executable codes	8
Non-Alpha-Num: a novel architecture for generating adversarial examples for bypassing NLP-based clickbait detection mechanisms	8
Federated learning for misbehaviour detection with variational autoencoders and Gaussian mixture models	8
Deep behavioral analysis of machine learning algorithms against data poisoning	8
Enhancing DevSecOps practice with Large Language Models and Security Chaos Engineering	8
Large language models for software vulnerability detection: a guide for researchers on models, methods, techniques, datasets, and metrics	8
Novel mechanism for anonymous reporting and anonymous rewarding using blockchain technology	8
Selfish mining attack in blockchain: a systematic literature review	8
Anonymous provision of privacy-sensitive services using blockchain and decentralised storage	8
Securing the IoT ecosystem: ASIC-based hardware realization of Ascon lightweight cipher	8
Retraction Note: Deep learning based network intrusion detection system: a systematic literature review and future scopes	8
Email bombing attack detection and mitigation using machine learning	8
Correction: Cryptocurrency recovery framework using pre-signed transaction	8
Revisiting QUIC attacks: a comprehensive review on QUIC security and a hands-on study	8
A computationally efficient dimensionality reduction and attack classification approach for network intrusion detection	7
The Agent Web Model: modeling web hacking for reinforcement learning	7
Maritime decision-makers and cyber security: deck officers’ perception of cyber risks towards IT and OT systems	7
Scalable, password-based and threshold authentication for smart homes	7
Balancing the act? Resampling versus imbalanced data for Wi-Fi IDS	7
Detecting malicious nodes using game theory and reinforcement learning in software-defined networks	7
Pioneering automated vulnerability detection for smart contracts in blockchain using KEVM: Guardian ADRGAN	7
A deep learning approach based on multi-view consensus for SQL injection detection	7
Efficient and interpretable SRU combined with TabNet for network intrusion detection in the big data environment	7
SCAnME - scanner comparative analysis and metrics for evaluation	7
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
Transformer or Autoencoder? Who is the ultimate adversary for attack detectors?	6
From sinking to saving: MITRE ATT &CK and D3FEND frameworks for maritime cybersecurity	6
SmartiPhish: a reinforcement learning-based intelligent anti-phishing solution to detect spoofed website attacks	6
DFTMicroagg: a dual-level anonymization algorithm for smart grid data	6
Federated learning-based intrusion detection system for Internet of Things	6
Security analysis and improvement of a privacy-preserving authentication scheme in VANET	6
Start thinking in graphs: using graphs to address critical attack paths in a Microsoft cloud tenant	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
Investigation of application layer DDoS attacks in legacy and software-defined networks: A comprehensive review	6
Mobile botnet detection: a comprehensive survey	6
An end-to-end intrusion detection system with IoT dataset using deep learning with unsupervised feature extraction	6