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

Información del proyecto

SafeHorizon

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 101168562

DOI

10.3030/101168562

Fecha de la firma de la CE 19 Julio 2024

Fecha de inicio 1 Septiembre 2024

Fecha de finalización 31 Agosto 2027

Financiado con arreglo a

• Civil Security for Society

Coste total

€ 3 998 925,00

Aportación de la UE

€ 3 998 925,00

Coordinado por

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

CORDIS proporciona enlaces a los documentos públicos y las publicaciones de los proyectos de los programas marco HORIZONTE.

Los enlaces a los documentos y las publicaciones de los proyectos del Séptimo Programa Marco, así como los enlaces a algunos tipos de resultados específicos, como conjuntos de datos y «software», se obtienen dinámicamente de OpenAIRE .

Publicaciones

Peer reviewed articles (13)

Assessing the impact of packing on static machine learning-based malware detection and classification systems

Autores: Daniel Gibert; Nikolaos Totosis; Constantinos Patsakis; Quan Le; Giulio Zizzo
Publicado en: Computers & Security, 2024, ISSN 1872-6208
Editor: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.COSE.2025.104495

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

Autores: Piotr Siuda, Mikko Aaltonen, Ari Haasio, Angus Bancroft, Juha Nurmi, Haitao Shi, J․Tuomas Harviainen
Publicado en: International Journal of Drug Policy, Edición 145, 2025, ISSN 0955-3959
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.DRUGPO.2025.104984

Measuring the impact of post quantum cryptography in Industrial IoT scenarios

Autores: Luis Cruz-Piris, Andrés Marín-López, Manuel Álvarez-Campana, Mario Sanz, José Ignacio Moreno, David Arroyo
Publicado en: Internet of Things, 2025, ISSN 2542-6605
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.IOT.2025.101793

Not on my watch: ransomware detection through classification of high-entropy file segments

Autores: Fran Casino , Darren Hurley-Smith , Julio Hernandez-Castro , Constantinos Patsakis
Publicado en: Journal of Cybersecurity, Edición 11, 2025, ISSN 2057-2093
Editor: Oxford academic
DOI: 10.1093/CYBSEC/TYAF009

Factors Associated with Help-Seeking Among Online Child Sexual Abuse Material Offenders

Autores: Tegan Insoll, Valeriia Soloveva, Eva Díaz Bethencourt, Anna Katariina Ovaska, Juha Nurmi, Arttu Paju, Mikko Aaltonen, Nina Vaaranen-Valkonen
Publicado en: Journal of Online Trust and Safety, Edición 2, 2024, ISSN 2770-3142
Editor: Stanford Internet Observatory
DOI: 10.54501/JOTS.V2I4.205

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

Autores: Stefano Cecconello, Matteo Cardaioli, Luca Pasa, Stjepan Picek, Georgios Smaragdakis
Publicado en: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2025, ISSN 1545-5971
Editor: 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

Autores: Casino, Fran
Publicado en: Technology in Society, 2025, ISSN 1879-3274
Editor: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.TECHSOC.2025.102956

Beyond the sandbox: Leveraging symbolic execution for evasive malware classification

Autores: Vasilis Vouvoutsis, Fran Casino, Constantinos Patsakis
Publicado en: Computers & Security, Edición 149, 2024, ISSN 0167-4048
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2024.104193

Beyond the sandbox: Leveraging symbolic execution for evasive malware classification

Autores: Vasilis Vouvoutsis, Fran Casino, Constantinos Patsakis
Publicado en: Computers & Security, Edición 149, 2024, ISSN 0167-4048
Editor: 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

Autores: Hanna-Mari Lahtinen, Kirsi Honkalampi, Tegan Insoll, Juha Nurmi, Ethel Quayle, Anna Katariina Ovaska, Nina Vaaranen-Valkonen
Publicado en: Child Abuse & Neglect, Edición 161, 2025, ISSN 0145-2134
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.CHIABU.2025.107299

Cloud continuum testbeds and next-generation ICTs: Trends, challenges, and perspectives

Autores: Fran Casino, Peio Lopez-Iturri, Constantinos Patsakis
Publicado en: Computer Science Review, Edición 56, 2024, ISSN 1574-0137
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosrev.2024.100696

A Digital Twin Threat Survey

Autores: Manuel Suárez-Román, Mario Sanz-Rodrigo, Andrés Marín-López, David Arroyo
Publicado en: Big Data and Cognitive Computing, Edición 9, 2025, ISSN 2504-2289
Editor: 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

Autores: Johanna Ranta, Teemu Kaskela, Juha Nurmi, Teemu Ruokolainen, Gillian W. Shorter
Publicado en: Harm Reduction Journal, Edición 21, 2024, ISSN 1477-7517
Editor: 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

Autores: Harm Griffioen, Georgios Koursiounis, Georgios Smaragdakis, Christian Doerr
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference, 2024
Editor: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3646547.3688409

Poster: The State of Malware Loaders

Autores: Cristian Munteanu, Georgios Smaragdakis, Anja Feldmann
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference, 2024
Editor: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3646547.3689659

Measuring Onion Website Discovery and Tor Users' Interests with Honeypots

Autores: Arttu Paju, Waris Abdullah, Juha Nurmi
Publicado en: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 2026
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/BIGDATA66926.2025.11401606

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

Autores: Dazhuang Liu, Yanqi Qiao, Rui Wang, Kaitai Liang, Georgios Smaragdakis
Publicado en: Proceedings 2025 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2025
Editor: Internet Society
DOI: 10.14722/ndss.2025.241061

Trust but Verify: An Assessment of Vulnerability Tagging Services

Autores: Szu-Chun Huang, Harm Griffioen, Max van der Horst, Georgios Smaragdakis, Michel van Eeten, and Yury Zhauniarovich
Publicado en: USENIX Security Symposium 2025, 2025
Editor: USENIX Association

Endless Subscriptions: Open RAN is Open to RIC E2 Subscription Denial of Service Attacks

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

Characterizing and Mitigating Phishing Attacks at ccTLD Scale

Autores: Giovane C. M. Moura; Thomas Daniels 0002; Maarten Bosteels; Sebastian Castro; Moritz Müller; Thymen Wabeke; Thijs van Den Hout; Maciej Korczynski; Georgios Smaragdakis
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2024
Editor: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3658644.3690192

Decoy Databases: Analyzing Attacks on Public Facing Databases

Autores: Yuqian Song, Georgios Smaragdakis, Harm Griffioen
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Internet Measurement Conference, 2025
Editor: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3730567.3764481

Inside LockBit: Technical, Behavioral, and Financial Anatomy of a Ransomware Empire

Autores: Felipe Castaño, Constantinos Patsakis, Francesco Zola, Fran Casino
Publicado en: 2025 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), 2026
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ECRIME66972.2025.11327742

From Lamborghinis to Ladas: Empirical Analysis of LockBit’s Business Operations

Autores: Ian Gray, Dalyapraz Manatova, Kris Oosthoek, Damon McCoy
Publicado en: 2025 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), 2026
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ECRIME66972.2025.11327913

Analysing Multidisciplinary Approaches to Fight Large-Scale Digital Influence Operations

Autores: David Arroyo, Rafael Mata Milla, Marc Almeida Ros, Nikolaos Lykousas, Ivan Homoliak, Constantinos Patsakis, Fran Casino
Publicado en: International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy
Editor: SCITEPRESS
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2512.15919

Attacks Come to Those Who Wait: Long-Term Observations in an SSH Honeynet

Autores: Cristian Munteanu, Yogesh Bhargav Suriyanarayanan, Georgios Smaragdakis, Anja Feldmann, Tobias Fiebig
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Internet Measurement Conference, 2025
Editor: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3730567.3764475

Have you SYN What I See? Analyzing TCP SYN Payloads in the Wild

Autores: Dario Ferrero, Enrico Bassetti, Harm Griffioen, Georgios Smaragdakis
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Internet Measurement Conference, 2025
Editor: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3730567.3764498

Characterizing and Mitigating Phishing Attacks at ccTLD Scale

Autores: Giovane C. M. Moura, Thomas Daniels, Maarten Bosteels, Sebastian Castro, Moritz Müller, Thymen Wabeke, Thijs van den Hout, Maciej Korczyński, Georgios Smaragdakis
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2024
Editor: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3658644.3690192

Just in Plain Sight: Unveiling CSAM Distribution Campaigns on the Clear Web

Autores: Nikolaos Lykousas, Constantinos Patsakis
Publicado en: 2025 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), 2026
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ECRIME66972.2025.11327714

Topological Analysis of Mixer Activities in the Bitcoin Network

Autores: Francesco Zola, Jon Ander Medina, Andrea Venturi, Raul Orduna
Publicado en: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), 2025
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICBC64466.2025.11185066

Coding Malware in Fancy Programming Languages for Fun and Profit

Autores: Theodoros Apostolopoulos, Vasilios Koutsokostas, Nikolaos Totosis, Constantinos Patsakis, Georgios Smaragdakis
Publicado en: Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, 2025
Editor: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3714393.3726506

Revealing Informed Scanners by Colocating Reactive and Passive Telescopes

Autores: Dario Ferrero, George Smaragdakis, Harm Griffioen
Publicado en: 2025 28th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), 2026
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/RAID67961.2025.00056

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

Autores: Andrea Venturi, Imanol Jerico-Yoldi, Francesco Zola, Raul Orduna
Publicado en: BLOCKCHAIN & CRYPTOCURRENCY CONFERENCE, 2025
Editor: IFSA

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

Autores: Martin Mladenov, László Erdődi, Georgios Smaragdakis
Publicado en: 2025 IEEE 10th European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), 2025
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EUROSP63326.2025.00017

Bitcoin Battle: Burning Bitcoin for Geopolitical Fun and Profit

Autores: Kris Oosthoek, Kelvin Lubbertsen, Georgios Smaragdakis
Publicado en: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), 2025
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICBC64466.2025.11114529

Clair Obscur: The Light and Shadow of System Call Interposition – From Pitfalls to Solutions with K23

Autores: Jesús María Gómez Moreno, Vissarion Moutafis, Antreas Dionysiou, Fernando Kuipers, Georgios Smaragdakis, Bart Coppens, Alexios Voulimeneas
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 26th International Middleware Conference, 2025
Editor: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3721462.3770772

Catch-22: Uncovering Compromised Hosts using SSH Public Keys

Autores: Cristian Munteanu, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Georgios Smaragdakis⁩, Anja Feldmann and Tobias Fiebig
Publicado en: USENIX Security Symposium 2025, 2025
Editor: USENIX Association

LADDER: Multi-objective Backdoor Attack via Evolutionary Algorithm

Autores: Liu, Dazhuang; Wang, Rui; Liang, Kaitai; Smaragdakis, Georgios
Publicado en: Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2025
Editor: The Internet Society
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2411.19075

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

Autores: Marwan Adnan Darwish, Evangelia Anna Markatou, Georgios Smaragdakis
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 18th European Workshop on Systems Security, 2025
Editor: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3722041.3723104

Book chapters (1)

The Malware as a Service Ecosystem

Autores: Constantinos Patsakis, David Arroyo, Fran Casino
Publicado en: Advances in Information Security, Malware, 2024, ISBN 978-3-031-66245-4
Editor: 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

Autores: Juha Nurmi
Publicado en: Dataset, 2025
Editor: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15300502