Publications

@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2502-09788,

title = {MANTIS: Detection of Zero-Day Malicious Domains Leveraging Low Reputed 

 Hosting Infrastructure},

author = {Fatih Deniz and Mohamed Nabeel and Ting Yu and Issa Khalil},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.09788},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2502.09788},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2502.09788},

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2502-11853,

title = {StructTransform: A Scalable Attack Surface for Safety-Aligned Large 

 Language Models},

author = {Shehel Yoosuf and Temoor Ali and Ahmed Lekssays and Mashael AlSabah and Issa Khalil},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.11853},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2502.11853},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2502.11853},

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2503-21305,

title = {DeBackdoor: A Deductive Framework for Detecting Backdoor Attacks 

 on Deep Models with Limited Data},

author = {Dorde Popovic and Amin Sadeghi and Ting Yu and Sanjay Chawla and Issa Khalil},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.21305},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2503.21305},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2503.21305},

keywords = {},

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2504-12875,

title = {A Client-level Assessment of Collaborative Backdoor Poisoning in Non-IID 

 Federated Learning},

author = {Phung Lai and Guanxiong Liu and NhatHai Phan and Issa Khalil and Abdallah Khreishah and Xintao Wu},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.12875},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2504.12875},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2504.12875},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2504-14985,

title = {aiXamine: Simplified LLM Safety and Security},

author = {Fatih Deniz and Dorde Popovic and Yazan Boshmaf and Euisuh Jeong and Minhaj Ahmad and Sanjay Chawla and Issa Khalil},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.14985},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2504.14985},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2504.14985},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2504-19212,

title = {CapsFake: A Multimodal Capsule Network for Detecting Instruction-Guided 

 Deepfakes},

author = {Tuan Nguyen and Naseem Khan and Issa Khalil},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.19212},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2504.19212},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2504.19212},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2505-18035,

title = {CAMME: Adaptive Deepfake Image Detection with Multi-Modal Cross-Attention},

author = {Naseem Khan and Tuan Nguyen and Amine Bermak and Issa Khalil},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.18035},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2505.18035},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2505.18035},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2507-04372,

title = {Adaptive Malware Detection using Sequential Feature Selection: A 

 Dueling Double Deep Q-Network (D3QN) Framework for Intelligent Classification},

author = {Naseem Khan and Aref Al-Tamimi and Amine Bermak and Issa M. Khalil},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.04372},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2507.04372},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2507.04372},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2507-16585,

title = {LLMxCPG: Context-Aware Vulnerability Detection Through Code Property 

 Graph-Guided Large Language Models},

author = {Ahmed Lekssays and Hamza Mouhcine and Khang Tran and Ting Yu and Issa Khalil},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.16585},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2507.16585},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2507.16585},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2507-18031,

title = {ViGText: Deepfake Image Detection with Vision-Language Model Explanations 

 and Graph Neural Networks},

author = {Ahmad Albarqawi and Mahmoud Nazzal and Issa Khalil and Abdallah Khreishah and NhatHai Phan},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.18031},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2507.18031},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2507.18031},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2507-21157,

title = {Unmasking Synthetic Realities in Generative AI: A Comprehensive 

 Review of Adversarially Robust Deepfake Detection Systems},

author = {Naseem Khan and Tuan Nguyen and Amine Bermak and Issa Khalil},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.21157},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2507.21157},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2507.21157},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2509-26272,

title = {PRPO: Paragraph-level Policy Optimization for Vision-Language Deepfake 

 Detection},

author = {Tuan Nguyen and Naseem Khan and Khang Tran and NhatHai Phan and Issa Khalil},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.26272},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2509.26272},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2509.26272},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2510-23455,

title = {SGFusion: Stochastic Geographic Gradient Fusion in Federated Learning},

author = {Khoa Nguyen and Khang Tran and NhatHai Phan and Cristian Borcea and Ruoming Jin and Issa Khalil},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.23455},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2510.23455},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2510.23455},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2509-20957,

title = {Tool Calling for Arabic LLMs: Data Strategies and Instruction Tuning},

author = {Asim Ersoy and Enes Altinisik and Husrev Taha Sencar and Kareem Darwish},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.20957},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2509.20957},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2509.20957},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2507-16576,

title = {From Text to Actionable Intelligence: Automating STIX Entity and 

 Relationship Extraction},

author = {Ahmed Lekssays and Husrev Taha Sencar and Ting Yu},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.16576},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2507.16576},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2507.16576},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2505-19766,

title = {SGM: A Framework for Building Specification-Guided Moderation 

 Filters},

author = {Masoomali Fatehkia and Enes Altinisik and Husrev Taha Sencar},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.19766},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2505.19766},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2505.19766},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2505-11988,

title = {TechniqueRAG: Retrieval Augmented Generation for Adversarial Technique 

 Annotation in Cyber Threat Intelligence Text},

author = {Ahmed Lekssays and Utsav Shukla and Husrev Taha Sencar and Md. Rizwan Parvez},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.11988},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2505.11988},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2505.11988},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2501-13944,

title = {Fanar: An Arabic-Centric Multimodal Generative AI Platform},

author = {Ummar Abbas and Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad and Firoj Alam and Enes Altinisik and Ehsaneddin Asgari and Yazan Boshmaf and Sabri Boughorbel and Sanjay Chawla and Shammur A. Chowdhury and Fahim Dalvi and Kareem Darwish and Nadir Durrani and Mohamed Elfeky and Ahmed K. Elmagarmid and Mohamed Y. Eltabakh and Masoomali Fatehkia and Anastasios Fragkopoulos and Maram Hasanain and Majd Hawasly and Mus'ab Husaini and Soon-Gyo Jung and Ji Kim Lucas and Walid Magdy and Safa Messaoud and Abubakr Mohamed and Tasnim Mohiuddin and Basel Mousi and Hamdy Mubarak and Ahmad Musleh and Zan Naeem and Mourad Ouzzani and Dorde Popovic and Amin Sadeghi and Husrev Taha Sencar and Mohammed Shinoy and Omar Sinan and Yifan Zhang and Ahmed Ali and Yassine El Kheir and Xiaosong Ma and Chaoyi Ruan},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.13944},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2501.13944},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2501.13944},

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pubstate = {published},

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@article{DBLP:journals/ojcs/AnanNKKPS25,

title = {STING: A Stealthy Backdoor Attack on GNN-Based Malicious Domain 

 Detection via DNS Perturbations},

author = {Muhammad Anan and Mahmoud Nazzal and Abdallah Khreishah and Issa Khalil and NhatHai Phan and Ahmad Sawalmeh},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/OJCOMS.2025.3610784},

doi = {10.1109/OJCOMS.2025.3610784},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

journal = {IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc.},

volume = {6},

pages = {7823–7841},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2405-17130,

title = {Exploiting the Layered Intrinsic Dimensionality of Deep Models for 

 Practical Adversarial Training},

author = {Enes Altinisik and Safa Messaoud and Husrev Taha Sencar and Hassan Sajjad and Sanjay Chawla},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.17130},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2405.17130},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2405.17130},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2403-17068,

title = {Semantic Ranking for Automated Adversarial Technique Annotation in 

 Security Text},

author = {Udesh Kumarasinghe and Ahmed Lekssays and Husrev Taha Sencar and Sabri Boughorbel and Charitha Elvitigala and Preslav Nakov},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2403.17068},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2403.17068},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2403.17068},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2409-16639,

title = {Examining the Rat in the Tunnel: Interpretable Multi-Label Classification 

 of Tor-based Malware},

author = {Ishan Karunanayake and Mashael AlSabah and Nadeem Ahmed and Sanjay K. Jha},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.16639},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2409.16639},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2409.16639},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

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@article{DBLP:journals/tnn/LiuKSK24,

title = {An Adaptive Black-Box Defense Against Trojan Attacks (TrojDef)},

author = {Guanxiong Liu and Abdallah Khreishah and Fatima Sharadgah and Issa Khalil},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/TNNLS.2022.3204283},

doi = {10.1109/TNNLS.2022.3204283},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

journal = {IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst.},

volume = {35},

number = {4},

pages = {5367–5381},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2408-03335,

title = {Explainable AI-based Intrusion Detection System for Industry 5.0: 

 An Overview of the Literature, associated Challenges, the existing 

 Solutions, and Potential Research Directions},

author = {Naseem Khan and Kashif Ahmad and Aref Al-Tamimi and Mohammed M. Alani and Amine Bermak and Issa Khalil},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.03335},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2408.03335},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2408.03335},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2409-07368,

title = {Demo: SGCode: A Flexible Prompt-Optimizing System for Secure Generation 

 of Code},

author = {Khiem Ton and Nhi Nguyen and Mahmoud Nazzal and Abdallah Khreishah and Cristian Borcea and NhatHai Phan and Ruoming Jin and Issa Khalil and Yelong Shen},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.07368},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2409.07368},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2409.07368},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2409-12699,

title = {PromSec: Prompt Optimization for Secure Generation of Functional Source 

 Code with Large Language Models (LLMs)},

author = {Mahmoud Nazzal and Issa Khalil and Abdallah Khreishah and NhatHai Phan},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.12699},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2409.12699},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2409.12699},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

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@article{DBLP:journals/tissec/ChooNAKYW23,

title = {DeviceWatch: A Data-Driven Network Analysis Approach to Identifying 

 Compromised Mobile Devices with Graph-Inference},

author = {Euijin Choo and Mohamed Nabeel and Mashael AlSabah and Issa Khalil and Ting Yu and Wei Wang},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3558767},

doi = {10.1145/3558767},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

journal = {ACM Trans. Priv. Secur.},

volume = {26},

number = {1},

pages = {9:1–9:32},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2308-11754,

title = {Multi-Instance Adversarial Attack on GNN-Based Malicious Domain Detection},

author = {Mahmoud Nazzal and Issa Khalil and Abdallah Khreishah and NhatHai Phan and Yao Ma},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.11754},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2308.11754},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2308.11754},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

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@article{DBLP:journals/pomacs/ChooNKSYK23,

title = {A Large Scale Study and Classification of VirusTotal Reports on Phishing 

 and Malware URLs},

author = {Euijin Choo and Mohamed Nabeel and Doowon Kim and Ravindu De Silva and Ting Yu and Issa Khalil},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3626790},

doi = {10.1145/3626790},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

journal = {Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst.},

volume = {7},

number = {3},

pages = {59:1–59:26},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{DBLP:journals/ml/AltinisikMSC23,

title = {A3T: accuracy aware adversarial training},

author = {Enes Altinisik and Safa Messaoud and Husrev Taha Sencar and Sanjay Chawla},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-023-06341-w},

doi = {10.1007/S10994-023-06341-W},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

journal = {Mach. Learn.},

volume = {112},

number = {9},

pages = {3191–3210},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2309-03647,

title = {ProvG-Searcher: A Graph Representation Learning Approach for Efficient 

 Provenance Graph Search},

author = {Enes Altinisik and Fatih Deniz and Husrev Taha Sencar},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2309.03647},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2309.03647},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2309.03647},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2305-16474,

title = {FairDP: Certified Fairness with Differential Privacy},

author = {Khang Tran and Ferdinando Fioretto and Issa Khalil and My T. Thai and NhatHai Phan},

url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.16474},

doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2305.16474},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

journal = {CoRR},

volume = {abs/2305.16474},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

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