• Security Challenges in Autonomous Systems Design
    Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst (12/2023)
    International Conference on Computational Technologies and Electronics
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/14806580
  • Creating a Security Enforcement Environment for a Vehicular Platform
    Marinos Tsantekidis, Souleima Abdelghani, Mohammad Hamad, Vassilis Prevelakis (03/2024)
    2023 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (IEEE CSCN)
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/10282180
  • Securing Real-Time Systems using Schedule Reconfiguration
    Zain A. H. Hammadeh, Monowar Hasan, Mohammad Hamad (06/2024)
    2024 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC)
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/14806788
  • Enhancing Malware Detection through Machine Learning using XAI with SHAP Framework
    N. Basheer, B. Pranggono, S. Islam, S.Papastergiou, H. Mouratidis (06/2024)
    20th AIAI (Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations)
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/14832484
  • Synthetic Data Generation and Impact Analysis of Machine Learning Models for Enhanced Credit Card Fraud Detection
    A. A. Khaled, Md M. Hasan, S. Islam, S. Papastergiou, H. Mouratidis (06/2024)
    20th AIAI (Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations)
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/14832599
  • Similarity-Based Selective Federated Learning for Distributed Device-Specific Anomaly Detection
    Christian Lübben, Marc-Oliver Pahl (07/2024)
    IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2024)
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/17413566
  • Shells Bells: Cyber-Physical Anomaly Detection in Data Centers
    Lars Wustrich, Sebastian Gallenmuller, Stephan Gunther, Georg Carle, Marc-Oliver Pahl (07/2024)
    NOMS 2024 – IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/14807181
  • Advanced IDPS Architecture for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
    Sherin Kalli Valappil, Lars Vogela, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst (07/2024)
    35th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IEEE IV)
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/14806852
  • PTPsec: Securing the Precision Time Protocol Against Time Delay Attacks Using Cyclic Path Asymmetry Analysis
    Andreas Finkenzeller, Oliver Butowski, Emanuel Regnath, Mohammad Hamad, and Sebastian Steinhorst (08/2024)
    IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2024)
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/14806692
  • A Gamified Learning Approach for IoT Security Education Using Capture-the-Flag Competitions: Architecture and Insights
    Mohammad Hamad, Andreas Finkenzeller, Monowar Hasan, Marc-Oliver Pahl, Sebastian Steinhorst (01/2025)
    Secure IT Systems: 29th Nordic Conference, NordSec 2024
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/17413094
  • Multi-Partner Project: CyberSecDome – Framework for Secure, Collaborative, and Privacy-Aware Incident Handling for Digital Infrastructure
    Mohammad Hamad, Michael Kühr, Haralambos Mouratidis, Eleni-Maria Kalogeraki, Christos Gizelis, Dimitris Papanikas (05/2025)
    2025 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference (DATE)
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/17413298
  • Cybersecurity Challenges of Autonomous Systems
    Mohammad Hamad, Christian Prehofer, Mikael Asplund, Tobias Löhr, Lucas Bublitz, Alexander Zeh (05/2025)
    2025 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference (DATE)
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/17413463
  • Analysis of Autonomous Driving Software to Low-Level Sensor Cyber Attacks
    Andrew Roberts, Mohsen Malayjerdi, Mauro Bellone, Raivo Sell, Olaf Maennel, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst (06/2025)
    20th International Conference on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/17769909
  • Sensor Fusion Desynchronization Attacks
    Andreas Finkenzeller, Andrew Roberts, Mauro Bellone, Olaf Maennel, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst (07/2025)
    Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2025)
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/17294590
  • Dredging the River Styx: Fortifying the Web through Robust and Real-Time Script Attribution
    K. Drakonakis, S. Ioannidis & J. Polakis (08/2025)
    2025 IEEE 10th European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P).
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/17770342
  • CATI – An Open-Source Framework to Evaluate Attacks on Cameras for Autonomous Vehicles
    M. Kühr, M. Mittmann, M. Hamad & S. Steinhorst (12/2025)
    28th Euromicro Conference Series on Digital System Design (DSD) 2025.
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/18467252
  • Pouvez-vous détecter le piège? Détection de pots de miel face à l’évolution des tactiques d’évasion
    M. Durand, A. Dey, Y. Kermarrec & M.O. Pahl (12/2025)
    32nd Computer & Electronics Security Application Rendezvous (C&ESAR 2025 by DGA), co-located with the 10th European Cyber Week (ECW 2025).
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/20924239
  • L’Apprentissage Machine au Sein des Jumeaux Numériques pour l’Estimation et la Détection des Menaces
    H. Bourreau, M.O. Pahl, F. Dagnat & F. Jaafar (12/2025)
    32nd Computer & Electronics Security Application Rendezvous (C&ESAR 2025 by DGA), co-located with the 10th European Cyber Week (ECW 2025).
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/20925979
  • Real-time Instruction-Level Anomaly Detection for Embedded Applications using AI
    M. Mezaouli, Y. Nasser, S. Saoudi & M.O. Pahl (05/2026)
    IEEE/IFIP Workshop on Management of Complex Threats (MCT).
    Status: Accepted
  • Closing the Loop in Embedded Security: Evolution of an AIOps Framework for Threat Hunting
    M. Mezaouli, Y. Nasser, S. Saoudi & M.O. Pahl (05/2026)
    1st IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on AI-driven Management and ML Ops at IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2026.
    Status: Accepted
  • Revealing Embedded System Behaviors: A Comparative Analysis of Power Consumption and Hardware Performance Counters
    M. Mezaouli, Y. Nasser, S. Saoudi & M.O. Pahl (04/2026)
    1st Workshop on Hardware-Supported Software Security, co-located with the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2025).
    Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-032-16165-9_21
  • Origin Lens: Reclaiming Trust on the AI-Mediated Web Through On-Device Image Provenance Verification
    A. Loth, D. C. Rosario, P. Ebinger, M. Kappes & M.O. Pahl (05/2026)
    18th ACM Web Science Conference 2026.
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/20931944
  • The Verification Crisis: Expert Perceptions of GenAI Disinformation and the Case for Reproducible Provenance
    A. Loth, M. Kappes & M.O. Pahl (05/2026)
    ACM Web Conference 2026.
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/20932208
  • Eroding the Truth-Default: A Causal Analysis of Human Susceptibility to Foundation Model Hallucinations and Disinformation in the Wild
    A. Loth, M. Kappes & M.O. Pahl (05/2026)
    ACM Web Conference 2026.
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/20932354
  • Industrialized Deception: The Collateral Effects of LLM-Generated Misinformation on Digital Ecosystems
    A. Loth, M. Kappes & M.O. Pahl (05/2026)
    ACM Web Conference 2026.
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/20932487
  • An empirical study of privacy-utility trade-offs in gaze-based authentication for extended reality
    G. E. Raptis, E. Chrysopoulou & C. Katsini (05/2026)
    2026 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA ’26).
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/20932660
  • SoK: Security of the Image Processing Pipeline for Camera-based Sensing in Autonomous Vehicles
    M. Kühr, M. Hamad, P. MohajerAnsari, M. D. Pesé & S. Steinhorst (06/2026)
    The 21st ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2026).
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/20932815
  • Secure Automotive Ethernet: Implementing and Benchmarking MACsec, IPsec, and TLS
    Lukas Eugster, Friedrich Wiemer, Mert D. Pese, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst (06/2026)
    The 2026 IEEE 103rd Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2026-Spring.
    Status: Accepted
  • Perspective-Shift Attacks Against Optical Perception Sensors: A Novel Attack Vector on LiDAR and Camera
    Marco Calipari, Michael Kühr, Dominik Kulmer, Maximilian Luedecke, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst (08/2026)
    4th USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy.
    Status: Accepted
  • Federated Learning-based Personalized Recommendation Systems: An Overview on Security and Privacy Challenges
    Danish Javeed, Muhammad Shahid Saeed, Prabhat Kumar, Alireza Jolfaei, Shareeful Islam, A. K. M. Najmul Islam (09/2023)
    IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics.
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/10598308
  • Cyber threat assessment and management for securing healthcare ecosystems using natural language processing
    Stefano Silvestri, Shareful Islam, Dmitry Amelin, Gabriele Weiler, Spyridon Papastergiou, Mario Ciampi (10/2023)
    International Journal of Information Security, 23, pages 31–50.
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/10211760
  • Digital twins-enabled zero-touch network: A smart contract and explainable AI integrated cybersecurity framework
    Randhir Kumar, Ahamed Aljuhani, Danish Javeed, Prabhat Kumar, Shareeful Islam, A.K.M. Najmul Islam (02/2024)
    Future Generation Computer Systems (Τ. 156, July 2024, pp. 191–205).
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/11074335
  • Generative AI and Cognitive Computing-Driven Intrusion Detection System in Industrial CPS
    Shareeful Islam, Danish Javeed, Muhammad Shahid Saeed, Prabhat Kumar, Alireza Jolfaei & A. K. M. Najmul Islam (06/2024)
    Cognitive Computing (>V. 16, pages 2611–2625).
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/13254989
  • A Stakeholder Needs Analysis in Cybersecurity: A Systemic Approach to Enhancing Digital Infrastructure Resilience
    Panagiotis Katrakazas, Spyros Papastergiou (06/2024)
    Businesses 2024, 4(2), 225-240;
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/13254710
  • REACT: Autonomous intrusion response system for intelligent vehicles
    Mohammad Hamad, Andreas Finkenzeller, Michael Kühr, Andrew Roberts, Olaf Maennel, Vassilis Prevelakis, Sebastian Steinhorst (07/2024)
    Computers & Security (V. 145).
    Link:https://zenodo.org/records/13255072
  • Adoption of deep-learning models for managing threats in API calls with transparency obligation practice for overall resilience
    Nihala Basheer, Shareeful Islam, Mohammed K. S. Alwaheidi and Spyridon Papastergiou (07/2024)
    Sensors, 24(15), 4859.
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/14806311
  • Vulnerability detection using BERT-based LLM model with transparency obligation practice towards trustworthy AI
    Jean Haurogné, Nihala Basheer, Shareeful Islam (11/2024)
    Machine Learning with Applications
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/14806381
  • Securing the Future of Railway Systems: A Comprehensive Cybersecurity Strategy for Critical On-board and Track-side Infrastructure
    N. Ibadah, C. Benavente-Peces & M.O. Pahl (12/2024)
    Sensors.
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/20934551
  • RESCUE: A Reconfigurable Scheduling Framework for Securing Multi-Core Real-Time Systems
    Zain A. H. Hammadeh, Monowar Hasan, Mohammad Hamad (08/2025)
    ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/17293964
  • Securing the Precision Time Protocol with SDN-enabled Cyclic Path Asymmetry Analysis
    Andreas Finkenzeller, Arne Fucks, Emanuel Regnath, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst (08/2025)
    ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/17294266
  • Large language model based hybrid framework for automatic vulnerability detection with explainable AI for cybersecurity enhancement
    N. Basheer, S. Islam, M. K. S. Alwaheidi, H. Mouratidis & S. Papastergiou (08/2025)
    Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering.
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/20934686
  • Enhancing Security Through Task Migration in Software-Defined Vehicles
    M. Hamad, Z. A. H. Hammadeh, D. Alessi, M. Hasan, M. Pese, D. Luedtke & S. Steinhorst (09/2025)
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/18401165
  • Decentralized Anomaly Detection Using Deep Feed-Forward Neural Networks
    C. Lübben & M.O. Pahl (11/2025)
    International Journal of Network Management.
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/20934958
  • Explainable AI based dynamic cybersecurity risk management for cyber insurability
    S. Papastergiou, N. Basheer, K. Lampropoulos, P. Verrios & S. Islam (01/2026)
    International Journal of Information Security.
    Status: Accepted
  • Hybrid AI-Based dynamic risk assessment framework with explainable AI practices for composite product cybersecurity certification
    S. Islam, B. Sardar, E. M. Kalogeraki, K. Lampropoulos & S. Papastergiou (02/2026)
    International Journal of Information Security.
    Status: Accepted
  • A responsible AI-driven framework for robust and transparent software vulnerability detection
    N. Basheer, S. Islam, P. Kumar, D. Javeed, N. Islam (03/2026)
    Information and Software Technology.
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/20935464
  • Gaze as an implicit second authentication factor when using PIN mechanisms in extended reality
    E. Chrysopoulou, M. Karlaki, G. E. Raptis & C. Katsanos (05/2026)
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 10(3), Article ETRA014.
    Link: https://zenodo.org/records/20935609