OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Privacy-Preserving Training of Support Vector Machines via Secure Multiparty Computation	53
Security Implications of the Morello Platform: An Empirical Threat Model-Based Analysis	50
TLS-MHSA: An Efficient Detection Model for Encrypted Malicious Traffic based on Multi-Head Self-Attention Mechanism	49
Secure and Reliable Network Updates	43
Swarm Learning: A Survey of Concepts, Applications, and Trends	39
Site Inspector: Improving Browser Communication of Website Security Information	38
Deep PackGen: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Adversarial Network Packet Generation	38
A Secret Sharing-Inspired Robust Distributed Backdoor Attack to Federated Learning	35
Binsec/Rel: Symbolic Binary Analyzer for Security with Applications to Constant-Time and Secret-Erasure	32
Dimensional Robustness Certification for Deep Neural Networks in Network Intrusion Detection Systems	30
AXECC: Benchmarking the Privacy and Accessibility Impact of Browser Extensions	28
symbSODA: Configurable and Verifiable Orchestration Automation for Active Malware Deception	27
CBAs: Character-level Backdoor Attacks against Chinese Pre-trained Language Models	26
SPArch: A Hardware-oriented Sketch-based Architecture for High-speed Network Flow Measurements	26
Differentially Private Real-Time Release of Sequential Data	24
Bi-objective Optimization in Role Mining	23
Spoofing Against Spoofing: Toward Caller ID Verification in Heterogeneous Telecommunication Systems	22
PredicTor: A Global, Machine Learning Approach to Tor Path Selection	21
VFLGAN-TS: Vertical Federated Learning-based Generative Adversarial Networks for Publication of Vertically Partitioned Time-series Data	20
A Decentralized Private Data Marketplace using Blockchain and Secure Multi-Party Computation	20
An Experimental Assessment of Inconsistencies in Memory Forensics	20
Valued Authorization Policy Existence Problem: Theory and Experiments	19
Generalizable Multi-Model Fusion for Multi-Class DoS Detection Using Cognitive Diversity and Rank-Score Analysis	18
Fraud Detection under Siege: Practical Poisoning Attacks and Defense Strategies	17
VoiceFormer: Fusing Non-Acoustic Motion Sensors for High-Fidelity Voice Synthesis in Mobile Devices	16

Adversarial Attack and Defense for Commercial Black-box Chinese-English Speech Recognition Systems	16
A Policy-Based Conjunctive Scheme for Digital Forgetting of Co-Owned Data	14
Exploring Visual Explanations for Defending Federated Learning against Poisoning Attacks: Enhancing LayerCAM with Autoencoders	14
FairQuanti: Enhancing Fairness in Deep Neural Network Quantization via Neuron Role Contribution	13
CySecBERT : A Domain-Adapted Language Model for the Cybersecurity Domain	12
Generating Quality Threat Intelligence Leveraging OSINT and a Cyber Threat Unified Taxonomy	12
Semi-Supervised Classification of Malware Families Under Extreme Class Imbalance via Hierarchical Non-Negative Matrix Factorization with Automatic Model Selection	12
So Near and Yet So Far – Symbolic Verification of Distance-Bounding Protocols	12
Performance and Usability Evaluation of Brainwave Authentication Techniques with Consumer Devices	12
What Users Want From Cloud Deletion and the Information They Need: A Participatory Action Study	12
Assessment Framework for the Identification and Evaluation of Main Features for Distributed Usage Control Solutions	11
B ³ : Backdoor Attacks against Black-box Machine Learning Models	11
Privacy Against Agnostic Inference Attacks in Vertical Federated Learning	11
ZTA-IoT: A Novel Architecture for Zero-Trust in IoT Systems and an Ensuing Usage Control Model	10
MGAN: A Multi-view Graph Adaptive Network for Robust Malicious Traffic Detection	10
Balancing Security and Privacy in Genomic Range Queries	10
Swarm: A Distributed Ledger-based Framework to Enhance Air Traffic Control Security Using ADS-B Protocol	10
Sphinx-in-the-Head: Group Signatures from Symmetric Primitives	9
Robust Large-Scale Detection of Living-Off-the-Land Reverse Shells via Data Synthesis	9
A Comparison of Systemic and Systematic Risks of Malware Encounters in Consumer and Enterprise Environments	9
Identifying Fraudulent Users in E-commerce Applications through Spatiotemporal Fusion and Selective Aggregation	8
Cyber Threat Intelligence meets the Analytic Tradecraft	8
Euler : Detecting Network Lateral Movement via Scalable Temporal Link Prediction	8
SoK: Human-centered Phishing Susceptibility	8
AutoFR: Automated Filter Rule Generation for Adblocking	8
RansomShield: A Visualization Approach to Defending Mobile Systems Against Ransomware	8
End-to-End Security for Distributed Event-driven Enclave Applications on Heterogeneous TEEs	8
Boost Your Immunity: VACCINE for Preventing a Novel Stealthy Slice Selection Attack in 5G and Beyond	7
Evaluating Honeyfile Realism and Enticement Metrics	7
Accountable Private Set Cardinality for Distributed Measurement	7
Computation on Encrypted Data Using Dataflow Authentication	7
Risk Prediction of IoT Devices Based on Vulnerability Analysis	7
Measures of Information Leakage for Incomplete Statistical Information: Application to a Binary Privacy Mechanism	7
TIMESAFE: Timing Interruption Monitoring and Security Assessment for Fronthaul Environments.	6
VPT: Privacy Preserving Energy Trading and Block Mining Mechanism for Blockchain Based Virtual Power Plants	6
End-to-Same-End Encryption: Modularly Augmenting an App with an Efficient, Portable, and Blind Cloud Storage	6
Privacy Policies across the Ages: Content of Privacy Policies 1996–2021	6
Intriguing Properties of Adversarial ML Attacks in the Problem Space [Extended Version]	6
InkFiltration: Using Inkjet Printers for Acoustic Data Exfiltration from Air-Gapped Networks	5
Resilient Dynamic Analysis for Windows Malware Technique Discovery against Behavior Obfuscation	5
Formal Security Analysis of the OpenID FAPI 2.0 Family of Protocols: Accompanying a Standardization Process	5
Quantifying and Exploiting Adversarial Vulnerability: Gradient-Based Input Pre-Filtering for Enhanced Performance in Black-Box Attacks	5
Is Bitcoin Future as Secure as We Think? Analysis of Bitcoin Vulnerability to Bribery Attacks Launched through Large Transactions	5
TV-AVN: Training Verdict Based on Random Forest for Misbehavior Detection in Autonomous Vehicle Networks	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
Integrating Remote Quantum Random Number Generator as a Shared Resource into GNU/Linux via D-Bus	4
Rectifying Multi-Attack Adversarial Perturbations in Deep Neural Network based Image Classifier	4
Comprehensive Kernel Safety in the Spectre Era: Mitigations and Performance Evaluation	4
SatIQ: Extensible and Stable Satellite Authentication using Hardware Fingerprinting	4

Learning Relationship-Based Access Control Policies from Black-Box Systems	4
Specifying and Verifying Information Flow Control in SELinux Configurations	4
Cheesecloth: Zero-Knowledge Proofs of Real-World Vulnerabilities	4
Performance Enhancement of Intrusion Detection System in Cloud by Using Boruta Algorithm	4
Flexichain: Flexible Payment Channel Network to Defend Against Channel Exhaustion Attack	4
Toward a Robust Detection of PowerShell Malware against Code Mixing and Obfuscation by Using Sentence Transformer and Similarity Learning	4
A Metric Differential Privacy Mechanism for Sentence Embeddings	4
Resilience-by-design in Adaptive Multi-agent Traffic Control Systems	4
Assessing Cyber Risk in Cyber-Physical Systems Using the ATT&CK Framework	4
A Formal Lens on Android Permissions System: Modeling, Verification, and Exploitation Using LLMs and Model Checking	4
Privacy-preserving Resilient Consensus for Multi-agent Systems in a General Topology Structure	4
The Dark Side of Native Code on Android	4
The Effect of Domain Terms on Password Security	3
PEBASI: A Privacy preserving, Efficient Biometric Authentication Scheme based on Irises	3
Attack Detection Using Item Vector Shift in Matrix Factorisation Recommenders	3
Uncovering CWE-CVE-CPE Relations with Threat Knowledge Graphs	3
ZT-SDN: An ML-Powered Zero-Trust Architecture for Software-Defined Networks	3
VulANalyzeR: Explainable Binary Vulnerability Detection with Multi-task Learning and Attentional Graph Convolution	3
Stateful Protocol Composition in Isabelle/HOL	3
Multi-Stage Enhanced Zero Trust Intrusion Detection System for Unknown Attack Detection in Internet of Things and Traditional Networks	3
A Novel Cross-Network Embedding for Anchor Link Prediction with Social Adversarial Attacks	3
Pump Up Password Security! Evaluating and Enhancing Risk-Based Authentication on a Real-World Large-Scale Online Service	3
OptiClass : An Optimized Classifier for Application Layer Protocols Using Bit Level Signatures	3
DP-Poison: Poisoning Federated Learning under the Cover of Differential Privacy	3
Understanding Information Disclosure from Secure Computation Output: A Comprehensive Study of Average Salary Computation	3
Revisiting GPS Spoofing in Phasor Measurement: Real-World Exploitation and Practical Detection in Power Grids	3
Beyond the Screen: Exploring Privacy Boundaries through Automated User Profiling	3
Assessing and Mitigating the Privacy Implications of Eye Tracking on Handheld Mobile Devices	3
DELM: Deep Ensemble Learning Model for Anomaly Detection in Malicious Network Traffic-based Adaptive Feature Aggregation and Network Optimization	3
Paralinguistic Privacy Protection at the Edge	3