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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Attack Detection Using Item Vector Shift in Matrix Factorisation Recommenders	69
Secure Selections on Encrypted Multi-writer Streams	33
Category-Based Administrative Access Control Policies	29
Privacy-preserving Dynamic Symmetric Searchable Encryption with Controllable Leakage	28
Towards Better Understanding of User Authorization Query Problem via Multi-variable Complexity Analysis	28
Two-factor Password-authenticated Key Exchange with End-to-end Security	24
Large-scale and Robust Code Authorship Identification with Deep Feature Learning	24
So Near and Yet So Far – Symbolic Verification of Distance-Bounding Protocols	23
OptiClass : An Optimized Classifier for Application Layer Protocols Using Bit Level Signatures	20
Formal Security Analysis of the OpenID FAPI 2.0 Family of Protocols: Accompanying a Standardization Process	19
Pump Up Password Security! Evaluating and Enhancing Risk-Based Authentication on a Real-World Large-Scale Online Service	18
Improving Unlinkability of Attribute-based Authentication through Game Theory	18
Privacy-Preserving Decision Trees Training and Prediction	18
Uncovering CWE-CVE-CPE Relations with Threat Knowledge Graphs	16
Secure and Reliable Network Updates	16
In the Land of MMUs: Multiarchitecture OS-Agnostic Virtual Memory Forensics	16
Resilience-by-design in Adaptive Multi-agent Traffic Control Systems	15
What Users Want From Cloud Deletion and the Information They Need: A Participatory Action Study	15
Semi-Supervised Classification of Malware Families Under Extreme Class Imbalance via Hierarchical Non-Negative Matrix Factorization with Automatic Model Selection	14
End-to-Same-End Encryption: Modularly Augmenting an App with an Efficient, Portable, and Blind Cloud Storage	13
Deep PackGen: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Adversarial Network Packet Generation	13
Eyes See Hazy while Algorithms Recognize Who You Are	13
ZT-SDN: An ML-Powered Zero-Trust Architecture for Software-Defined Networks	13
TLS-MHSA: An Efficient Detection Model for Encrypted Malicious Traffic based on Multi-Head Self-Attention Mechanism	12
Generating Quality Threat Intelligence Leveraging OSINT and a Cyber Threat Unified Taxonomy	12

CySecBERT : A Domain-Adapted Language Model for the Cybersecurity Domain	12
Design, Development, and Evaluation of a Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Digital Literacy Game for Tweens	11
Performance and Usability Evaluation of Brainwave Authentication Techniques with Consumer Devices	10
Sound-based Two-factor Authentication: Vulnerabilities and Redesign	10
Exploitation Techniques for Data-oriented Attacks with Existing and Potential Defense Approaches	9
Level Up with ML Vulnerability Identification: Leveraging Domain Constraints in Feature Space for Robust Android Malware Detection	9
DeepMark: A Scalable and Robust Framework for DeepFake Video Detection	9
Time Series Analysis Neural Networks for Detecting False Data Injection Attacks of Different Rates on Power Grid State Estimation	8
Beyond the Screen: Exploring Privacy Boundaries through Automated User Profiling	8
DELM: Deep Ensemble Learning Model for Anomaly Detection in Malicious Network Traffic-based Adaptive Feature Aggregation and Network Optimization	8
A Secret Sharing-Inspired Robust Distributed Backdoor Attack to Federated Learning	8
FENCE: Feasible Evasion Attacks on Neural Networks in Constrained Environments	7
A Systematic Analysis of the Capital One Data Breach: Critical Lessons Learned	7
Quantifying and Exploiting Adversarial Vulnerability: Gradient-Based Input Pre-Filtering for Enhanced Performance in Black-Box Attacks	7
HotFuzz: Discovering Temporal and Spatial Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities Through Guided Micro-Fuzzing	7
Lightbox: Sensor Attack Detection for Photoelectric Sensors via Spectrum Fingerprinting	7
Automated Security Assessments of Amazon Web Services Environments	6
InkFiltration: Using Inkjet Printers for Acoustic Data Exfiltration from Air-Gapped Networks	6
System Auditing for Real-Time Systems	6
Flexible Mechanisms for Remote Attestation	6
Forward Security with Crash Recovery for Secure Logs	6
VeriBin: A Malware Authorship Verification Approach for APT Tracking through Explainable and Functionality-Debiasing Adversarial Representation Learning	6
Revisiting the Security of Biometric Authentication Systems Against Statistical Attacks	5
On Detecting and Measuring Exploitable JavaScript Functions in Real-world Applications	5
Hidden in Plain Sight: Exploring Privacy Risks of Mobile Augmented Reality Applications	5
Paralinguistic Privacy Protection at the Edge	5
Balancing Security and Privacy in Genomic Range Queries	5
Binsec/Rel: Symbolic Binary Analyzer for Security with Applications to Constant-Time and Secret-Erasure	5
DP-Poison: Poisoning Federated Learning under the Cover of Differential Privacy	4
Combining Cyber Security Intelligence to Refine Automotive Cyber Threats	4
B ³ : Backdoor Attacks against Black-box Machine Learning Models	4
A Novel Cross-Network Embedding for Anchor Link Prediction with Social Adversarial Attacks	4
Beyond Gradients: Exploiting Adversarial Priors in Model Inversion Attacks	4
Assessment Framework for the Identification and Evaluation of Main Features for Distributed Usage Control Solutions	4
Vulnerabilities of Unattended Face Verification Systems to Facial Components-based Presentation Attacks: An Empirical Study	4
VulANalyzeR: Explainable Binary Vulnerability Detection with Multi-task Learning and Attentional Graph Convolution	3
Mechanized Proofs of Adversarial Complexity and Application to Universal Composability	3
Bi-objective Optimization in Role Mining	3
A Lightweight Privacy-Aware Continuous Authentication Protocol-PACA	3
CBAs: Character-level Backdoor Attacks against Chinese Pre-trained Language Models	3
Site Inspector: Improving Browser Communication of Website Security Information	3
Stateful Protocol Composition in Isabelle/HOL	3
Understanding Information Disclosure from Secure Computation Output: A Comprehensive Study of Average Salary Computation	3
Friendly Fire	3
ZTA-IoT: A Novel Architecture for Zero-Trust in IoT Systems and an Ensuing Usage Control Model	3
A Comparison of Systemic and Systematic Risks of Malware Encounters in Consumer and Enterprise Environments	3
ZPredict: ML-Based IPID Side-channel Measurements	3
symbSODA: Configurable and Verifiable Orchestration Automation for Active Malware Deception	3
Information Leakage Games: Exploring Information as a Utility Function	3
PEBASI: A Privacy preserving, Efficient Biometric Authentication Scheme based on Irises	2

PRShare: A Framework for Privacy-preserving, Interorganizational Data Sharing	2
Assessing Cyber Risk in Cyber-Physical Systems Using the ATT&CK Framework	2
Energy Efficient and Secure Neural Network–based Disease Detection Framework for Mobile Healthcare Network	2
Sphinx-in-the-Head: Group Signatures from Symmetric Primitives	2
Is Bitcoin Future as Secure as We Think? Analysis of Bitcoin Vulnerability to Bribery Attacks Launched through Large Transactions	2
Differentially Private Real-Time Release of Sequential Data	2
Multi-Stage Enhanced Zero Trust Intrusion Detection System for Unknown Attack Detection in Internet of Things and Traditional Networks	2
Privacy Analysis of Query-Set-Size Control	2
The Effect of Domain Terms on Password Security	2
SPArch: A Hardware-oriented Sketch-based Architecture for High-speed Network Flow Measurements	2
Optimal Packet Camouflage Against Traffic Analysis	2
#PrettyFlyForAWiFi	2
Backdoor Attacks in Peer-to-Peer Federated Learning	2
Privacy-preserving Decentralized Federated Learning over Time-varying Communication Graph	2