An innovative Virtual Reality based intrusion detection, incident investigation and response approach for enhancing the resilience, security, privacy and accountability of complex and heterogeneous digital systems and infrastructures

Project Information

CyberSecDome

Grant agreement ID: 101120779

DOI

10.3030/101120779

Project closed

EC signature date 19 July 2023

Start date 1 September 2023

End date 31 August 2026

Funded under

• Civil Security for Society

Total cost

€ 6 992 875,00

EU contribution

€ 5 749 637,50

Coordinated by

MAGGIOLI S.P.A.
Italy

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (3)

Intermidiary Report on Contribution to Certification Standardisation

The report will describe the contributions to the standardization bodies, consortiums and Alliance.

Dissemination and Communication Strategy

This report will describe the plan for the dissemination activities and strategies for engaging stakeholders.

Intermediary Report on Dissemination and Communication Activities

The report will explain the dissemination activities that were carried out during the first reporting period.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (17)

Vulnerability detection using BERT based LLM model with transparency obligation practice towards trustworthy AI

Author(s): Jean Haurogné, Nihala Basheer, Shareeful Islam
Published in: Machine Learning with Applications, Issue 18, 2024, ISSN 2666-8270
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.mlwa.2024.100598

Adoption of Deep-Learning Models for Managing Threat in API Calls with Transparency Obligation Practice for Overall Resilience

Author(s): Nihala Basheer, Shareeful Islam, Mohammed K. S. Alwaheidi, Spyridon Papastergiou
Published in: Sensors, Issue 24, 2025, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14806311

Decentralized Anomaly Detection Using Deep Feed-Forward Neural Networks

Author(s): C. Lübben & M.O. Pahl
Published in: International Journal of Network Management, 2025, ISSN 1055-7148
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/NEM.70032

A Stakeholder Needs Analysis in Cybersecurity: A Systemic Approach to Enhancing Digital Infrastructure Resilience

Author(s): Panagiotis Katrakazas, Spyros Papastergiou
Published in: Businesses, Issue 4, 2024, ISSN 2673-7116
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/BUSINESSES4020015

Explainable AI based dynamic cybersecurity risk management for cyber insurability

Author(s): Spyridon Papastergiou, Nihala Basheer, Kostas Lampropoulos, Panayiotis Verrios, Shareeful Islam
Published in: International Journal of Information Security, Issue 25, 2026, ISSN 1615-5262
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.20935205

Hybrid AI-Based dynamic risk assessment framework with explainable AI practices for composite product cybersecurity certification

Author(s): Shareeful Islam, Bilal Sardar, Eleni Maria Kalogeraki, Kostas Lampropoulos, Spyridon Papastergiou
Published in: International Journal of Information Security, Issue 25, 2026, ISSN 1615-5270
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.20935379

Large language model based hybrid framework for automatic vulnerability detection with explainable AI for cybersecurity enhancement

Author(s): N. Basheer, S. Islam, M. K. S. Alwaheidi, H. Mouratidis & S. Papastergiou
Published in: Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, Issue 33, 2025, ISSN 1875-8835
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
DOI: 10.1177/10692509251368663

Securing the Precision Time Protocol with SDN-enabled Cyclic Path Asymmetry Analysis

Author(s): A. Finkenzeller, A. Fucks, E. Regnath, M. Hamad & S. Steinhorst
Published in: ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, Issue 9, 2025, ISSN 2378-9638
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
DOI: 10.1145/3728363

Federated Learning-Based Personalized Recommendation Systems: An Overview on Security and Privacy Challenges

Author(s): Danish Javeed, Muhammad Shahid Saeed, Prabhat Kumar, Alireza Jolfaei, Shareeful Islam, A. K. M. Najmul Islam
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Issue 70, 2024, ISSN 0098-3063
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2023.3318754

Enhancing Security Through Task Migration in Software-Defined Vehicles

Author(s): M. Hamad, Z. A. H. Hammadeh, D. Alessi, M. Hasan, M. Pese, D. Luedtke & S. Steinhorst
Published in: IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Issue 12, 2025, ISSN 2327-4662
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2025.3611875

Automated penetration testing: Formalization and realization

Author(s): Charilaos Skandylas; Mikael Asplund
Published in: Computers & Security, Issue 155, 2025, ISSN 1872-6208
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2412.12745

RESCUE: A Reconfigurable Scheduling Framework for Securing Multi-Core Real-Time Systems

Author(s): Z. A. H. Hammadeh, M. Hasan & M. Hamad
Published in: ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, Issue 9, 2025, ISSN 2378-9638
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
DOI: 10.1145/3728364

A responsible AI-driven framework for robust and transparent software vulnerability detection

Author(s): N. Basheer, S. Islam, P. Kumar, D. Javeed, N. Islam
Published in: Information and Software Technology, Issue 195, 2026, ISSN 0950-5849
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
DOI: 10.1016/J.INFSOF.2026.108126

Cyber Threat Assessment and Management for Securing Healthcare Ecosystems using Natural Language Processing

Author(s): Stefano Silvestri; Shareful Islam; Dmitry Amelin; Gabriele Weiler; Spyridon Papastergiou; Mario Ciampi
Published in: International Journal of Information Security, Issue 23, 2023, ISSN 1615-5270
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/S10207-023-00769-W

Digital Twins-enabled Zero Touch Network: A smart contract and explainable AI integrated cybersecurity framework

Author(s): Randhir Kumar, Ahamed Aljuhani, Danish Javeed, Prabhat Kumar, Shareeful Islam, A.K.M. Najmul Islam
Published in: Future Generation Computer Systems, Issue 156, 2024, ISSN 0167-739X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2024.02.015

Generative AI and Cognitive Computing-Driven Intrusion Detection System in Industrial CPS

Author(s): Islam, Shareeful; Javeed, Danish; Saeed, Muhammad Shahid; Kumar, Prabhat; Jolfaei, Alireza; Islam, A. K. M. Najmul Islam
Published in: Cognitive Computation, Issue 16, 2024, ISSN 1866-9964
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13254989

Securing the Future of Railway Systems: A Comprehensive Cybersecurity Strategy for Critical On-Board and Track-Side Infrastructure

Author(s): N. Ibadah, C. Benavente-Peces & M.O. Pahl
Published in: Sensors, Issue 24, 2024, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/S24248218

Conference proceedings (27)

Enhancing Malware Detection through Machine Learning using XAI with SHAP Framework

Author(s): N. Basheer, B. Pranggono, S. Islam, S.Papastergiou, H. Mouratidis
Published in: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIPAICT), Volume 711, 2024, ISSN 1868-4238
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-63211-2_24

Sensor Fusion Desynchronization Attacks

Author(s): Andreas Finkenzeller; Andrew Roberts; Mauro Bellone; Olaf Maennel; Mohammad Hamad; Sebastian Steinhorst
Published in: 37th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2025), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 335, 2025, ISSN 1868-8969
Publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
DOI: 10.4230/LIPICS.ECRTS.2025.6

Pouvez-vous détecter le piège? Détection de pots de miel face à l’évolution des tactiques d’évasion

Author(s): Mathis Durand; Alexandre Dey; Yvon Kermarrec; Marc-Oliver Pahl
Published in: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 4143 – Proceedings of the 32nd Computer & Electronics Security Application Rendezvous (C&ESAR 2025), 2025, ISSN 1613-0073
Publisher: CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org)
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.20924239

Cybersecurity Challenges of Autonomous Systems

Author(s): Mohammad Hamad; Christian Prehofer; Mikael Asplund; Tobias Löhr; Lucas Bublitz; Alexander Zeh; Mridula Singh; Sebastian Steinhorst
Published in: 2025 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2025, ISSN 1558-1101
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.23919/DATE64628.2025.10992708

A Gamified Learning Approach for IoT Security Education Using Capture-the-Flag Competitions: Architecture and Insights

Author(s): M. Hamad, A. Finkenzeller, M. Hasan, M.O. Pahl & S. Steinhorst
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Volume 15396, 2025, ISSN 1611-3349
Publisher: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-79007-2_9

Closing the Loop in Embedded Security: Evolution of an AIOps Framework for Threat Hunting

Author(s): Mohammed Mezaouli, Yehya Nasser, Samir Saoudi, Marc-Oliver Pahl
Published in: NOMS 2026-2026 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2026, ISSN 2374-9709
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.20931759

Dredging the River Styx: Fortifying the Web through Robust and Real-Time Script Attribution

Author(s): Kostas Drakonakis; Sotiris Ioannidis; Jason Polakis
Published in: 2025 IEEE 10th European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), 2025, ISSN 2995-1356
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/EUROSP63326.2025.00020

PTPsec: Securing the Precision Time Protocol Against Time Delay Attacks Using Cyclic Path Asymmetry Analysis

Author(s): Andreas Finkenzeller, Oliver Butowski, Emanuel Regnath, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst
Published in: IEEE INFOCOM 2024 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, 2024, ISSN 2641-9874
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14806692

Real-Time Instruction-Level Anomaly Detection for Embedded Applications Using AI

Author(s): Mohammed Mezaouli, Yehya Nasser, Samir Saoudi, Marc-Oliver Pahl
Published in: NOMS 2026-2026 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2026, ISSN 2374-9709
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.20931666

Analysis of Autonomous Driving Software to Low-Level Sensor Cyber Attacks

Author(s): Andrew Roberts; Mohsen Malayjerdi; Mauro Bellone; Raivo Sell; Olaf Maennel; Mohammad Hamad; Sebastian Steinhorst
Published in: 2025 IEEE/ACM 20th Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS), 2025, ISSN 2157-2321
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/SEAMS66627.2025.00021

Industrialized Deception: The Collateral Effects of LLM-Generated Misinformation on Digital Ecosystems

Author(s): Alexander Loth; Martin Kappes; Marc-Oliver Pahl
Published in: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026 (WWW Companion ’26), 2026
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
DOI: 10.1145/3774905.3795471

The Verification Crisis: Expert Perceptions of GenAI Disinformation and the Case for Reproducible Provenance

Author(s): Alexander Loth; Martin Kappes; Marc-Oliver Pahl
Published in: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026 (WWW Companion ’26), 2026
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
DOI: 10.1145/3774905.3795484

Advanced IDPS Architecture for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

Author(s): Sherin Kalli Valappil, Lars Vogel, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst
Published in: 2024 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2024, ISSN 2642-7214
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14806852

Security Challenges in Autonomous Systems Design

Author(s): Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst
Published in: Communications in Computer and Information Science, Computational Technologies and Electronics, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-81981-0_13

Securing Real-Time Systems using Schedule Reconfiguration

Author(s): Zain A. H. Hammadeh, Monowar Hasan, Mohammad Hamad
Published in: 2024 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC), 2024, ISSN 2770-1611
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/ISORC61049.2024.10551328

Similarity-Based Selective Federated Learning for Distributed Device-Specific Anomaly Detection

Author(s): Christian Lübben, Marc-Oliver Pahl
Published in: NOMS 2024-2024 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2024, ISSN 2374-9709
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/NOMS59830.2024.10575258

CATI – An Open-Source Framework to Evaluate Attacks on Cameras for Autonomous Vehicles

Author(s): Michael Kühr; Maximilian Mittmann; Mohammad Hamad; Sebastian Steinhorst
Published in: 2025 28th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD), 2025, ISSN 2771-2508
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/DSD67783.2025.00078

Eroding the Truth-Default: A Causal Analysis of Human Susceptibility to Foundation Model Hallucinations and Disinformation in the Wild

Author(s): Alexander Loth; Martin Kappes; Marc-Oliver Pahl
Published in: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026 (WWW Companion ’26), 2026
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
DOI: 10.1145/3774905.3795832

L’Apprentissage Machine au Sein des Jumeaux Numériques pour l’Estimation et la Détection des Menaces

Author(s): Hugo Bourreau; Marc-Oliver Pahl; Fabien Dagnat; Fehmi Jaafar
Published in: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 4143 – Proceedings of the 32nd Computer & Electronics Security Application Rendezvous (C&ESAR 2025), 2025, ISSN 1613-0073
Publisher: CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org)
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.20925979

SoK: Security of the Image Processing Pipeline for Camera-based Sensing in Autonomous Vehicles

Author(s): Michael Kühr; Mohammad Hamad; Pedram MohajerAnsari; Mert D. Pesé; Sebastian Steinhorst
Published in: Proceedings of the ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS ’26), 2026
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
DOI: 10.1145/3779208.3785267

Multi-Partner Project: CyberSecDome - Framework for Secure, Collaborative, and Privacy-Aware Incident Handling for Digital Infrastructure

Author(s): Mohammad Hamad; Michael Kühr; Haralambos Mouratidis; Eleni-Maria Kalogeraki; Christos A. Gizelis; Dimitris Papanikas; Athanasios Bountioukos-Spinaris; Charilaos Skandylas; Evangelos Raptis; Andreas Alexopoulos; Grigorios Chrysos; Mina Marmpena; Sevasti Po
Published in: 2025 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2025, ISSN 1558-1101
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.23919/DATE64628.2025.10992768

Revealing Embedded System Behaviors: A Comparative Analysis of Power Consumption and Hardware Performance Counters

Author(s): Mohammed Mezaouli; Yehya Nasser; Samir Saoudi; Marc-Oliver Pahl
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 16233, 2026
Publisher: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-16165-9_21

Origin Lens: Reclaiming Trust on the AI-Mediated Web Through On-Device Image Provenance Verification

Author(s): Alexander Loth; Dominique Conceicao Rosario; Peter Ebinger; Martin Kappes; Marc-Oliver Pahl
Published in: Companion Publication of the 2026 18th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci Companion ’26), 2026
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
DOI: 10.1145/3795513.3806658

Synthetic Data Generation and Impact Analysis of Machine Learning Models for Enhanced Credit Card Fraud Detection

Author(s): A. A. Khaled, Md M. Hasan, S. Islam, S. Papastergiou, H. Mouratidis
Published in: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIPAICT), Volume 711, 2024, ISSN 1868-4238
Publisher: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-63211-2_27

Creating a Security Enforcement Environment for a Vehicular Platform

Author(s): Tsantekidis, Marinos; Abdelghani, Souleima; Hamad, Mohammad; Prevelakis, Vassilis
Published in: 2023 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), 2023, ISSN 2644-3252
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10282179

Perspective-Shift Attacks Against Optical Perception Sensors: A Novel Attack Vector on LiDAR and Camera

Author(s): Marco Calipari, Michael Kühr, Dominik Kulmer, Maximilian Luedecke, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst
Published in: 4th USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec 26), 2026
Publisher: USENIX Association
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.20395591

Shells Bells: Cyber-Physical Anomaly Detection in Data Centers

Author(s): Lars Wüstrich, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Stephan Günther, Georg Carle, Marc-Oliver Pahl
Published in: NOMS 2024-2024 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2024, ISSN 2374-9709
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14807181

Other (1)

REACT: Autonomous intrusion response system for intelligent vehicles

Author(s): Mohammad Hamad; Andreas Finkenzeller; Michael Kühr; Andrew Roberts; Olaf Maennel; Vassilis Prevelakis; Sebastian Steinhorst
Published in: Computers & Security, 2024
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2401.04792

Book chapters (1)

AI-Enhanced Security Tools with Virtual Reality for Ensuring Digital Resilience

Author(s): Shareeful Islam, Spyridon Papastergiou, Armend Duzha, Kostas Drakonakis, Grigorios Chrysos, Sotiris Ioannidis, Iordanis Xanthopoulos, George Spanoudakis, Marc-Oliver Pahl, Haralambos Mouratidis, Michael Kühr, Mohammad Hamad
Published in: Technology-Enabled Resilience: Innovations in Critical Infrastructure Protection, 2026, ISBN 978-3-032-25916-5
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-25917-2_10