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most citedA Threat Modelling Approach to Analyze and Mitigate Botnet Attacks in Smart Home Use Case

16 citations · 17 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CR2026

RISK: Auditing Industrial Control Systems for Too-Late-to-Recover Vulnerabilities

Syed Ghazanfar Abbas, Gang Wang, Dongyan Xu

The security of industrial control systems (ICS) is important. Yet most ICS security efforts focus on the detection of ICS attacks, with much less attention to the recovery after d…

cs.CR2026

MARS: Detecting Unauthorized Variable Manipulations in Multi-Application PLC Runtimes

Syed Ghazanfar Abbas, Dongyan Xu

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) increasingly run multiple applications alongside the main control program, with shared access to PLC variables. Yet, Industrial Control System…

cs.CR2026

Trust Me, I'm Your Developer: Self-Issued Authentication in Large Language Models

Syed Ghazanfar Abbas, Dongyan Xu

Large language model (LLM) security has largely focused on role-playing jailbreaks, with less attention to what happens when a user asks an LLM to verify an identity claim through…

cs.CR2021★ 16 cited

A Threat Modelling Approach to Analyze and Mitigate Botnet Attacks in Smart Home Use Case

Syed Ghazanfar Abbas, Shahzaib Zahid, Faisal Hussain +2

Despite the surging development and utilization of IoT devices, the security of IoT devices is still in infancy. The security pitfalls of IoT devices have made it easy for hackers…

cs.CR2020★ 1 cited

IoT DoS and DDoS Attack Detection using ResNet

Faisal Hussain, Syed Ghazanfar Abbas, Muhammad Husnain +3

The network attacks are increasing both in frequency and intensity with the rapid growth of internet of things (IoT) devices. Recently, denial of service (DoS) and distributed deni…

cs.CR2020

Towards a Universal Features Set for IoT Botnet Attacks Detection

Faisal Hussain, Syed Ghazanfar Abbas, Ubaid U. Fayyaz +3

The security pitfalls of IoT devices make it easy for the attackers to exploit the IoT devices and make them a part of a botnet. Once hundreds of thousands of IoT devices are compr…