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2025

Nguyen, Khoa; Tran, Khang; Phan, NhatHai; Borcea, Cristian; Jin, Ruoming; Khalil, Issa

SGFusion: Stochastic Geographic Gradient Fusion in Federated Learning Proceedings Article

In: IEEE International Conference on Big Data, BigData 2025, Macau, China, December 8-11, 2025, pp. 1486–1493, IEEE, 2025.

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2024

Liu, Guanxiong; Khreishah, Abdallah; Sharadgah, Fatima; Khalil, Issa

An Adaptive Black-Box Defense Against Trojan Attacks (TrojDef) Journal Article

In: IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst., vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 5367–5381, 2024.

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Nazzal, Mahmoud; Khalil, Issa; Khreishah, Abdallah; Phan, NhatHai

PromSec: Prompt Optimization for Secure Generation of Functional Source Code with Large Language Models (LLMs) Proceedings Article

In: Luo, Bo; Liao, Xiaojing; Xu, Jun; Kirda, Engin; Lie, David (Ed.): Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2024, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, October 14-18, 2024, pp. 2266–2280, ACM, 2024.

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Ton, Khiem; Nguyen, Nhi; Nazzal, Mahmoud; Khreishah, Abdallah; Borcea, Cristian; Phan, NhatHai; Jin, Ruoming; Khalil, Issa; Shen, Yelong

Demo: SGCode: A Flexible Prompt-Optimizing System for Secure Generation of Code Proceedings Article

In: Luo, Bo; Liao, Xiaojing; Xu, Jun; Kirda, Engin; Lie, David (Ed.): Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2024, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, October 14-18, 2024, pp. 5078–5080, ACM, 2024.

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Choo, Euijin; Nabeel, Mohamed; Kim, Doowon; Silva, Ravindu De; Yu, Ting; Khalil, Issa

A Large Scale Study and Classification of VirusTotal Reports on Phishing and Malware URLs Proceedings Article

In: Garetto, Michele; Marin, Andrea; Ciucu, Florin; Fanti, Giulia; Righter, Rhonda (Ed.): Abstracts of the 2024 ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP PERFORMANCE Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE 2024, Venice, Italy, June 10-14, 2024, pp. 55–56, ACM, 2024.

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Nazzal, Mahmoud; Khalil, Issa; Khreishah, Abdallah; Phan, NhatHai; Ma, Yao

Multi-Instance Adversarial Attack on GNN-Based Malicious Domain Detection Proceedings Article

In: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2024, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 19-23, 2024, pp. 1236–1254, IEEE, 2024.

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Thirumuruganathan, Saravanan; Deniz, Fatih; Khalil, Issa; Yu, Ting; Nabeel, Mohamed; Ouzzani, Mourad

Detecting and Mitigating Sampling Bias in Cybersecurity with Unlabeled Data Proceedings Article

In: Balzarotti, Davide; Xu, Wenyuan (Ed.): 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX Security 2024, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 14-16, 2024, USENIX Association, 2024.

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Khan, Naseem; Ahmad, Kashif; Al-Tamimi, Aref; Alani, Mohammed M.; Bermak, Amine; Khalil, Issa

Explainable AI-based Intrusion Detection System for Industry 5.0: An Overview of the Literature, associated Challenges, the existing Solutions, and Potential Research Directions Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2408.03335, 2024.

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Ton, Khiem; Nguyen, Nhi; Nazzal, Mahmoud; Khreishah, Abdallah; Borcea, Cristian; Phan, NhatHai; Jin, Ruoming; Khalil, Issa; Shen, Yelong

Demo: SGCode: A Flexible Prompt-Optimizing System for Secure Generation of Code Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2409.07368, 2024.

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Nazzal, Mahmoud; Khalil, Issa; Khreishah, Abdallah; Phan, NhatHai

PromSec: Prompt Optimization for Secure Generation of Functional Source Code with Large Language Models (LLMs) Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2409.12699, 2024.

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Nakov, Preslav; An, Jisun; Kwak, Haewoon; Manzoor, Muhammad Arslan; Mujahid, Zain Muhammad; Sencar, Husrev T.

A Survey on Predicting the Factuality and the Bias of News Media Proceedings Article

In: Ku, Lun-Wei; Martins, Andre; Srikumar, Vivek (Ed.): Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2024, Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting, August 11-16, 2024, pp. 15947–15962, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024.

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Kumarasinghe, Udesh; Lekssays, Ahmed; Sencar, Husrev Taha; Boughorbel, Sabri; Elvitigala, Charitha; Nakov, Preslav

Semantic Ranking for Automated Adversarial Technique Annotation in Security Text Proceedings Article

In: Zhou, Jianying; Quek, Tony Q. S.; Gao, Debin; Cárdenas, Alvaro A. (Ed.): Proceedings of the 19th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, ASIA CCS 2024, Singapore, July 1-5, 2024, ACM, 2024.

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Kumarasinghe, Udesh; Lekssays, Ahmed; Sencar, Husrev Taha; Boughorbel, Sabri; Elvitigala, Charitha; Nakov, Preslav

Semantic Ranking for Automated Adversarial Technique Annotation in Security Text Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2403.17068, 2024.

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Altinisik, Enes; Messaoud, Safa; Sencar, Husrev Taha; Sajjad, Hassan; Chawla, Sanjay

Exploiting the Layered Intrinsic Dimensionality of Deep Models for Practical Adversarial Training Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2405.17130, 2024.

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Karunanayake, Ishan; AlSabah, Mashael; Ahmed, Nadeem; Jha, Sanjay K.

Examining the Rat in the Tunnel: Interpretable Multi-Label Classification of Tor-based Malware Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2409.16639, 2024.

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Alhanahnah, Mohannad; Boshmaf, Yazan; Gehani, Ashish

SoK: Software Debloating Landscape and Future Directions Proceedings Article

In: Craven, Ryan; Mickelson, Matthew S. (Ed.): Proceedings of the 2024 Workshop on Forming an Ecosystem Around Software Transformation, FEAST 2024, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, October 14-18, 2024, pp. 11–18, ACM, 2024.

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Alhanahnah, Mohannad; Boshmaf, Yazan; Baudry, Benoit

DepsRAG: Towards Managing Software Dependencies using Large Language Models Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2405.20455, 2024.

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Alhanahnah, Mohannad; Boshmaf, Yazan; Gehani, Ashish

SoK: Software Debloating Landscape and Future Directions Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2407.11259, 2024.

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Zhang, Huaifeng; Alhanahnah, Mohannad; Ahmed, Fahmi Abdulqadir; Fatih, Dyako; Leitner, Philipp; Ali-Eldin, Ahmed

Machine Learning Systems are Bloated and Vulnerable Journal Article

In: Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst., vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 6:1–6:30, 2024.

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Alhanahnah, Mohannad; Jhumka, Arshad

Software Debloating from Exception-Handler Lenses Proceedings Article

In: Craven, Ryan; Mickelson, Matthew S. (Ed.): Proceedings of the 2024 Workshop on Forming an Ecosystem Around Software Transformation, FEAST 2024, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, October 14-18, 2024, pp. 19–24, ACM, 2024.

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Zhang, Huaifeng; Alhanahnah, Mohannad; Ahmed, Fahmi Abdulqadir; Fatih, Dyako; Leitner, Philipp; Ali-Eldin, Ahmed

Machine Learning Systems are Bloated and Vulnerable Proceedings Article

In: Garetto, Michele; Marin, Andrea; Ciucu, Florin; Fanti, Giulia; Righter, Rhonda (Ed.): Abstracts of the 2024 ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP PERFORMANCE Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE 2024, Venice, Italy, June 10-14, 2024, pp. 37–38, ACM, 2024.

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Alhanahnah, Mohannad; Hasan, Md Rashedul; Bagheri, Hamid

An Empirical Evaluation of Pre-trained Large Language Models for Repairing Declarative Formal Specifications Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2404.11050, 2024.

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2023

Choo, Euijin; Nabeel, Mohamed; Kim, Doowon; Silva, Ravindu De; Yu, Ting; Khalil, Issa

A Large Scale Study and Classification of VirusTotal Reports on Phishing and Malware URLs Journal Article

In: Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst., vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 59:1–59:26, 2023.

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Choo, Euijin; Nabeel, Mohamed; AlSabah, Mashael; Khalil, Issa; Yu, Ting; Wang, Wei

DeviceWatch: A Data-Driven Network Analysis Approach to Identifying Compromised Mobile Devices with Graph-Inference Journal Article

In: ACM Trans. Priv. Secur., vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 9:1–9:32, 2023.

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Tran, Khang; Fioretto, Ferdinando; Khalil, Issa; Thai, My T.; Phan, NhatHai

FairDP: Certified Fairness with Differential Privacy Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2305.16474, 2023.

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Nazzal, Mahmoud; Khalil, Issa; Khreishah, Abdallah; Phan, NhatHai; Ma, Yao

Multi-Instance Adversarial Attack on GNN-Based Malicious Domain Detection Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2308.11754, 2023.

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Altinisik, Enes; Messaoud, Safa; Sencar, Husrev Taha; Chawla, Sanjay

A3T: accuracy aware adversarial training Journal Article

In: Mach. Learn., vol. 112, no. 9, pp. 3191–3210, 2023.

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Altinisik, Enes; Sajjad, Hassan; Sencar, Husrev T.; Messaoud, Safa; Chawla, Sanjay

Impact of Adversarial Training on Robustness and Generalizability of Language Models Proceedings Article

In: Rogers, Anna; Boyd-Graber, Jordan L.; Okazaki, Naoaki (Ed.): Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023, pp. 7828–7840, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023.

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Altinisik, Enes; Deniz, Fatih; Sencar, Hüsrev Taha

ProvG-Searcher: A Graph Representation Learning Approach for Efficient Provenance Graph Search Proceedings Article

In: Meng, Weizhi; Jensen, Christian Damsgaard; Cremers, Cas; Kirda, Engin (Ed.): Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 26-30, 2023, pp. 2247–2261, ACM, 2023.

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Altinisik, Enes; Deniz, Fatih; Sencar, Husrev Taha

ProvG-Searcher: A Graph Representation Learning Approach for Efficient Provenance Graph Search Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2309.03647, 2023.

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Boshmaf, Yazan; Perera, Isuranga; Kumarasinghe, Udesh; Liyanage, Sajitha; Jawaheri, Husam Al

Dizzy: Large-Scale Crawling and Analysis of Onion Services Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2023, Benevento, Italy, 29 August 2023- 1 September 2023, pp. 9:1–9:11, ACM, 2023.

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Lekssays, Ahmed; Carminati, Barbara; Ferrari, Elena

MalCon: A blockchain-based malware containment framework for Internet of Things Journal Article

In: Comput. Networks, vol. 233, pp. 109853, 2023.

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Coglio, Filippo; Lekssays, Ahmed; Carminati, Barbara; Ferrari, Elena

Early-Stage Ransomware Detection Based on Pre-attack Internal API Calls Proceedings Article

In: Barolli, Leonard (Ed.): Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2023), Juiz de Fora, Brazil, 29-31 March 2023, Volume 2, pp. 417–429, Springer, 2023.

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Hoang, Anh-Tu; Lekssays, Ahmed; Carminati, Barbara; Ferrari, Elena

Privacy-preserving Decentralized Learning of Knowledge Graph Embeddings Proceedings Article

In: Fletcher, George; Kantere, Verena (Ed.): Proceedings of the Workshops of the EDBT/ICDT 2023 Joint Conference, Ioannina, Greece, March, 28, 2023, CEUR-WS.org, 2023.

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Roy, Debaditya; Lekssays, Ahmed; Girdzijauskas, Sarunas; Carminati, Barbara; Ferrari, Elena

Private, Fair and Secure Collaborative Learning Framework for Human Activity Recognition Proceedings Article

In: Tentori, Monica; Weibel, Nadir; Laerhoven, Kristof Van; Zhou, Zhongyi (Ed.): Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing & the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing, Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico, October 8-12, 2023, pp. 352–358, ACM, 2023.

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Alhanahnah, Mohannad; Stevens, Clay; Chen, Bocheng; Yan, Qiben; Bagheri, Hamid

IoTCom: Dissecting Interaction Threats in IoT Systems Journal Article

In: IEEE Trans. Software Eng., vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 1523–1539, 2023.

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Alhanahnah, Mohannad; Ma, Shiqing; Gehani, Ashish; Ciocarlie, Gabriela F.; Yegneswaran, Vinod; Jha, Somesh; Zhang, Xiangyu

autoMPI: Automated Multiple Perspective Attack Investigation With Semantics Aware Execution Partitioning Journal Article

In: IEEE Trans. Software Eng., vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 2761–2775, 2023.

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Zhang, Huaifeng; Alhanahnah, Mohannad; Ali-Eldin, Ahmed

BLAFS: A Bloat Aware File System Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2305.04641, 2023.

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Su, Do-Men; Alhanahnah, Mohannad

Unleashing the Adversarial Facet of Software Debloating Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2309.08058, 2023.

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Alhanahnah, Mohannad; Schubert, Philipp Dominik; Reps, Thomas W.; Jha, Somesh; Bodden, Eric

slash: A Technique for Static Configuration-Logic Identification Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2310.06758, 2023.

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2022

Tran, Khang; Lai, Phung; Phan, NhatHai; Khalil, Issa; Ma, Yao; Khreishah, Abdallah; Thai, My T.; Wu, Xintao

Heterogeneous Randomized Response for Differential Privacy in Graph Neural Networks Proceedings Article

In: Tsumoto, Shusaku; Ohsawa, Yukio; Chen, Lei; Poel, Dirk Van; Hu, Xiaohua; Motomura, Yoichi; Takagi, Takuya; Wu, Lingfei; Xie, Ying; Abe, Akihiro; Raghavan, Vijay (Ed.): IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2022, Osaka, Japan, December 17-20, 2022, pp. 1582–1587, IEEE, 2022.

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Abdallah, Mustafa; Woods, Daniel; Naghizadeh, Parinaz; Khalil, Issa; Cason, Timothy N.; Sundaram, Shreyas; Bagchi, Saurabh

TASHAROK: Using Mechanism Design for Enhancing Security Resource Allocation in Interdependent Systems Proceedings Article

In: 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2022, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 22-26, 2022, pp. 249–266, IEEE, 2022.

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Thirumuruganathan, Saravanan; Nabeel, Mohamed; Choo, Euijin; Khalil, Issa; Yu, Ting

SIRAJ: A Unified Framework for Aggregation of Malicious Entity Detectors Proceedings Article

In: 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2022, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 22-26, 2022, pp. 507–521, IEEE, 2022.

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Lai, Phung; Phan, NhatHai; Khreishah, Abdallah; Khalil, Issa; Wu, Xintao

Model Transferring Attacks to Backdoor HyperNetwork in Personalized Federated Learning Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2201.07063, 2022.

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Choo, Euijin; Nabeel, Mohamed; Silva, Ravindu De; Yu, Ting; Khalil, Issa

A Large Scale Study and Classification of VirusTotal Reports on Phishing and Malware URLs Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2205.13155, 2022.

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Altinisik, Enes; Sencar, Husrev Taha; Nabeel, Mohamed; Khalil, Issa; Yu, Ting

Exploration of Enterprise Server Data to Assess Ease of Modeling System Behavior Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2206.05679, 2022.

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Liu, Guanxiong; Khreishah, Abdallah; Sharadgah, Fatima; Khalil, Issa

An Adaptive Black-box Defense against Trojan Attacks (TrojDef) Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2209.01721, 2022.

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Chawla, Sanjay; Nakov, Preslav; Ali, Ahmed; Hall, Wendy; Khalil, Issa; Ma, Xiaosong; Sencar, Husrev Taha; Weber, Ingmar; Wooldridge, Michael A.; Yu, Ting

Ten Years after ImageNet: A 360° Perspective on AI Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2210.01797, 2022.

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Tran, Khang; Lai, Phung; Phan, NhatHai; Khalil, Issa; Ma, Yao; Khreishah, Abdallah; Thai, My Tra; Wu, Xintao

Heterogeneous Randomized Response for Differential Privacy in Graph Neural Networks Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2211.05766, 2022.

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Altinisik, Enes; Sencar, Hüsrev Taha; Tabaa, Diram

Video Source Characterization Using Encoding and Encapsulation Characteristics Journal Article

In: IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur., vol. 17, pp. 3211–3224, 2022.

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