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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (13)
Assessing the impact of packing on static machine learning-based malware detection and classification systems (opens in new window)

Author(s): Daniel Gibert; Nikolaos Totosis; Constantinos Patsakis; Quan Le; Giulio Zizzo
Published in: Computers & Security, 2024, ISSN 1872-6208
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.COSE.2025.104495

Digital drug trading ecologies in context: Technological, geographic, and linguistic variation across darknet platforms (opens in new window)

Author(s): Piotr Siuda, Mikko Aaltonen, Ari Haasio, Angus Bancroft, Juha Nurmi, Haitao Shi, J․Tuomas Harviainen
Published in: International Journal of Drug Policy, Issue 145, 2025, ISSN 0955-3959
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.DRUGPO.2025.104984

Measuring the impact of post quantum cryptography in Industrial IoT scenarios (opens in new window)

Author(s): Luis Cruz-Piris, Andrés Marín-López, Manuel Álvarez-Campana, Mario Sanz, José Ignacio Moreno, David Arroyo
Published in: Internet of Things, 2025, ISSN 2542-6605
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.IOT.2025.101793

Not on my watch: ransomware detection through classification of high-entropy file segments (opens in new window)

Author(s): Fran Casino , Darren Hurley-Smith , Julio Hernandez-Castro , Constantinos Patsakis
Published in: Journal of Cybersecurity, Issue 11, 2025, ISSN 2057-2093
Publisher: Oxford academic
DOI: 10.1093/CYBSEC/TYAF009

Factors Associated with Help-Seeking Among Online Child Sexual Abuse Material Offenders (opens in new window)

Author(s): Tegan Insoll, Valeriia Soloveva, Eva Díaz Bethencourt, Anna Katariina Ovaska, Juha Nurmi, Arttu Paju, Mikko Aaltonen, Nina Vaaranen-Valkonen
Published in: Journal of Online Trust and Safety, Issue 2, 2024, ISSN 2770-3142
Publisher: Stanford Internet Observatory
DOI: 10.54501/JOTS.V2I4.205

Your PIN is Mine: Uncovering Users' PINs at Point of Sale Machines (opens in new window)

Author(s): Stefano Cecconello, Matteo Cardaioli, Luca Pasa, Stjepan Picek, Georgios Smaragdakis
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2025, ISSN 1545-5971
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2025.3594630

Unveiling the multifaceted concept of cognitive security: Trends, perspectives, and future challenges (opens in new window)

Author(s): Casino, Fran
Published in: Technology in Society, 2025, ISSN 1879-3274
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.TECHSOC.2025.102956

Beyond the sandbox: Leveraging symbolic execution for evasive malware classification (opens in new window)

Author(s): Vasilis Vouvoutsis, Fran Casino, Constantinos Patsakis
Published in: Computers & Security, Issue 149, 2024, ISSN 0167-4048
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2024.104193

Beyond the sandbox: Leveraging symbolic execution for evasive malware classification (opens in new window)

Author(s): Vasilis Vouvoutsis, Fran Casino, Constantinos Patsakis
Published in: Computers & Security, Issue 149, 2024, ISSN 0167-4048
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2024.104193

Investigating the disparities among child sexual abuse material users: Anonymous self-reports from both charged and uncharged individuals (opens in new window)

Author(s): Hanna-Mari Lahtinen, Kirsi Honkalampi, Tegan Insoll, Juha Nurmi, Ethel Quayle, Anna Katariina Ovaska, Nina Vaaranen-Valkonen
Published in: Child Abuse & Neglect, Issue 161, 2025, ISSN 0145-2134
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.CHIABU.2025.107299

Cloud continuum testbeds and next-generation ICTs: Trends, challenges, and perspectives (opens in new window)

Author(s): Fran Casino, Peio Lopez-Iturri, Constantinos Patsakis
Published in: Computer Science Review, Issue 56, 2024, ISSN 1574-0137
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosrev.2024.100696

A Digital Twin Threat Survey (opens in new window)

Author(s): Manuel Suárez-Román, Mario Sanz-Rodrigo, Andrés Marín-López, David Arroyo
Published in: Big Data and Cognitive Computing, Issue 9, 2025, ISSN 2504-2289
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/BDCC9100252

Relational anonymity in reducing the harms of illicit drug use: accounts of users of dark web- and street-based services in Finland (opens in new window)

Author(s): Johanna Ranta, Teemu Kaskela, Juha Nurmi, Teemu Ruokolainen, Gillian W. Shorter
Published in: Harm Reduction Journal, Issue 21, 2024, ISSN 1477-7517
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/S12954-024-01139-Y

Conference proceedings (25)
Have you SYN me? Characterizing Ten Years of Internet Scanning (opens in new window)

Author(s): Harm Griffioen, Georgios Koursiounis, Georgios Smaragdakis, Christian Doerr
Published in: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference, 2024
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3646547.3688409

Poster: The State of Malware Loaders (opens in new window)

Author(s): Cristian Munteanu, Georgios Smaragdakis, Anja Feldmann
Published in: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference, 2024
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3646547.3689659

Measuring Onion Website Discovery and Tor Users' Interests with Honeypots (opens in new window)

Author(s): Arttu Paju, Waris Abdullah, Juha Nurmi
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/BIGDATA66926.2025.11401606

EMOBAF: Multi-objective Stealthy and Robust Black-box Backdoor Attack in Dual Domains via Evolutionary Algorithm (opens in new window)

Author(s): Dazhuang Liu, Yanqi Qiao, Rui Wang, Kaitai Liang, Georgios Smaragdakis
Published in: Proceedings 2025 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2025
Publisher: Internet Society
DOI: 10.14722/ndss.2025.241061

Trust but Verify: An Assessment of Vulnerability Tagging Services

Author(s): Szu-Chun Huang, Harm Griffioen, Max van der Horst, Georgios Smaragdakis, Michel van Eeten, and Yury Zhauniarovich
Published in: USENIX Security Symposium 2025, 2025
Publisher: USENIX Association

Endless Subscriptions: Open RAN is Open to RIC E2 Subscription Denial of Service Attacks (opens in new window)

Author(s): Felix Klement, Alessandro Brighente, Anup Kiran Bhattacharjee, Stefano Cecconello, Fernando Kuipers, Georgios Smaragdakis, Mauro Conti, Stefan Katzenbeisser
Published in: 2025 IEEE 10th European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EUROSP63326.2025.00048

Characterizing and Mitigating Phishing Attacks at ccTLD Scale (opens in new window)

Author(s): Giovane C. M. Moura; Thomas Daniels 0002; Maarten Bosteels; Sebastian Castro; Moritz Müller; Thymen Wabeke; Thijs van Den Hout; Maciej Korczynski; Georgios Smaragdakis
Published in: Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2024
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3658644.3690192

Decoy Databases: Analyzing Attacks on Public Facing Databases (opens in new window)

Author(s): Yuqian Song, Georgios Smaragdakis, Harm Griffioen
Published in: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Internet Measurement Conference, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3730567.3764481

Inside LockBit: Technical, Behavioral, and Financial Anatomy of a Ransomware Empire (opens in new window)

Author(s): Felipe Castaño, Constantinos Patsakis, Francesco Zola, Fran Casino
Published in: 2025 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ECRIME66972.2025.11327742

From Lamborghinis to Ladas: Empirical Analysis of LockBit’s Business Operations (opens in new window)

Author(s): Ian Gray, Dalyapraz Manatova, Kris Oosthoek, Damon McCoy
Published in: 2025 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ECRIME66972.2025.11327913

Analysing Multidisciplinary Approaches to Fight Large-Scale Digital Influence Operations (opens in new window)

Author(s): David Arroyo, Rafael Mata Milla, Marc Almeida Ros, Nikolaos Lykousas, Ivan Homoliak, Constantinos Patsakis, Fran Casino
Published in: International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy
Publisher: SCITEPRESS
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2512.15919

Attacks Come to Those Who Wait: Long-Term Observations in an SSH Honeynet (opens in new window)

Author(s): Cristian Munteanu, Yogesh Bhargav Suriyanarayanan, Georgios Smaragdakis, Anja Feldmann, Tobias Fiebig
Published in: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Internet Measurement Conference, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3730567.3764475

Have you SYN What I See? Analyzing TCP SYN Payloads in the Wild (opens in new window)

Author(s): Dario Ferrero, Enrico Bassetti, Harm Griffioen, Georgios Smaragdakis
Published in: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Internet Measurement Conference, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3730567.3764498

Characterizing and Mitigating Phishing Attacks at ccTLD Scale (opens in new window)

Author(s): Giovane C. M. Moura, Thomas Daniels, Maarten Bosteels, Sebastian Castro, Moritz Müller, Thymen Wabeke, Thijs van den Hout, Maciej Korczyński, Georgios Smaragdakis
Published in: Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2024
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3658644.3690192

Just in Plain Sight: Unveiling CSAM Distribution Campaigns on the Clear Web (opens in new window)

Author(s): Nikolaos Lykousas, Constantinos Patsakis
Published in: 2025 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ECRIME66972.2025.11327714

Topological Analysis of Mixer Activities in the Bitcoin Network (opens in new window)

Author(s): Francesco Zola, Jon Ander Medina, Andrea Venturi, Raul Orduna
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICBC64466.2025.11185066

Coding Malware in Fancy Programming Languages for Fun and Profit (opens in new window)

Author(s): Theodoros Apostolopoulos, Vasilios Koutsokostas, Nikolaos Totosis, Constantinos Patsakis, Georgios Smaragdakis
Published in: Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3714393.3726506

Revealing Informed Scanners by Colocating Reactive and Passive Telescopes (opens in new window)

Author(s): Dario Ferrero, George Smaragdakis, Harm Griffioen
Published in: 2025 28th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/RAID67961.2025.00056

ART:A Graph-based Framework for Investigating Illicit Activity in Monero via Address-Ring-Transaction Structures

Author(s): Andrea Venturi, Imanol Jerico-Yoldi, Francesco Zola, Raul Orduna
Published in: BLOCKCHAIN & CRYPTOCURRENCY CONFERENCE, 2025
Publisher: IFSA

All that Glitters is not Gold: Uncovering Exposed Industrial Control Systems and Honeypots in the Wild (opens in new window)

Author(s): Martin Mladenov, László Erdődi, Georgios Smaragdakis
Published in: 2025 IEEE 10th European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EUROSP63326.2025.00017

Bitcoin Battle: Burning Bitcoin for Geopolitical Fun and Profit (opens in new window)

Author(s): Kris Oosthoek, Kelvin Lubbertsen, Georgios Smaragdakis
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICBC64466.2025.11114529

Clair Obscur: The Light and Shadow of System Call Interposition – From Pitfalls to Solutions with K23 (opens in new window)

Author(s): Jesús María Gómez Moreno, Vissarion Moutafis, Antreas Dionysiou, Fernando Kuipers, Georgios Smaragdakis, Bart Coppens, Alexios Voulimeneas
Published in: Proceedings of the 26th International Middleware Conference, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3721462.3770772

Catch-22: Uncovering Compromised Hosts using SSH Public Keys

Author(s): Cristian Munteanu, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Georgios Smaragdakis⁩, Anja Feldmann and Tobias Fiebig
Published in: USENIX Security Symposium 2025, 2025
Publisher: USENIX Association

LADDER: Multi-objective Backdoor Attack via Evolutionary Algorithm (opens in new window)

Author(s): Liu, Dazhuang; Wang, Rui; Liang, Kaitai; Smaragdakis, Georgios
Published in: Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2025
Publisher: The Internet Society
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2411.19075

Provable Co-Owned Data Deletion with Zero-Residuals and Verifiability in Multi-Cloud Environment (opens in new window)

Author(s): Marwan Adnan Darwish, Evangelia Anna Markatou, Georgios Smaragdakis
Published in: Proceedings of the 18th European Workshop on Systems Security, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3722041.3723104

Book chapters (1)
The Malware as a Service Ecosystem (opens in new window)

Author(s): Constantinos Patsakis, David Arroyo, Fran Casino
Published in: Advances in Information Security, Malware, 2024, ISBN 978-3-031-66245-4
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-66245-4_16

Other (1)
Dataset: Drug trade messages on Tor in Finnish, English and Polish (opens in new window)

Author(s): Juha Nurmi
Published in: Dataset, 2025
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15300502

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