Innovations in Detecting and Disrupting Crime-as-a-Service Operations

Project Information

SafeHorizon

Grant agreement ID: 101168562

DOI

10.3030/101168562

EC signature date 19 July 2024

Start date 1 September 2024

End date 31 August 2027

Funded under

• Civil Security for Society

Total cost

€ 3 998 925,00

EU contribution

€ 3 998 925,00

Coordinated by

ATHINA-EREVNITIKO KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS STIS TECHNOLOGIES TIS PLIROFORIAS, TON EPIKOINONION KAI TIS GNOSIS
Greece

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (8)

Digital drug trading ecologies in context: Technological, geographic, and linguistic variation across darknet platforms

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

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

Your PIN is Mine: Uncovering Users' PINs at Point of Sale Machines

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

Beyond the sandbox: Leveraging symbolic execution for evasive malware classification

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

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

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

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

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

Conference proceedings (10)

Poster: The State of Malware Loaders

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

EMOBAF: Multi-objective Stealthy and Robust Black-box Backdoor Attack in Dual Domains via Evolutionary Algorithm

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

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

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

Coding Malware in Fancy Programming Languages for Fun and Profit

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

All that Glitters is not Gold: Uncovering Exposed Industrial Control Systems and Honeypots in the Wild

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

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

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

Provable Co-Owned Data Deletion with Zero-Residuals and Verifiability in Multi-Cloud Environment

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

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

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