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20062026
most citedTLS in the wild: an Internet-wide analysis of TLS-based protocols for electronic communication

51 citations · 590 across the 70 of their papers we have counts for

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75 papers

cs.CR2026

Johnny Still Receives Spam SMS: Assessing the Robustness of SMS Spam Detection

Muhammad Salman, Muhammad Islam, Muhammad Ikram +1

SMS spam detection systems often achieve high accuracy in controlled environments but struggle against adversarial attacks and increasingly sophisticated spam tactics in real-world…

cs.SI2026

Scalable AI-Driven Analytics for User Engagement and Stance Detection on Social Media

Thammitage Piyumi Wathsala Seneviratne, Muhammad Ikram, Dinusha Vatsalan +2

Social media platforms have become a major vector for the large-scale dissemination of misinformation and conspiracy content, posing significant risks to public trust, health, and…

cs.CR2026

Pro-ZD: A Transferable Graph Neural Network Approach for Proactive Zero-Day Threats Mitigation

Nardine Basta, Firas Ben Hmida, Houssem Jmal +3

In today's enterprise network landscape, the combination of perimeter and distributed firewall rules governs connectivity. To address challenges arising from increased traffic and…

cs.CY2025

RINSER: Accurate API Prediction Using Masked Language Models

Muhammad Ejaz Ahmed, Christopher Cody, Muhammad Ikram +5

Malware authors commonly use obfuscation to hide API identities in binary files, making analysis difficult and time-consuming for a human expert to understand the behavior and inte…

cs.CR2025

Enhancing Malware Fingerprinting through Analysis of Evasive Techniques

Alsharif Abuadbba, Sean Lamont, Ejaz Ahmed +6

As malware detection evolves, attackers adopt sophisticated evasion tactics. Traditional file-level fingerprinting, such as cryptographic and fuzzy hashes, is often overlooked as a…

cs.CR2025

SpaLLM-Guard: Pairing SMS Spam Detection Using Open-source and Commercial LLMs

Muhammad Salman, Muhammad Ikram, Nardine Basta +1

The increasing threat of SMS spam, driven by evolving adversarial techniques and concept drift, calls for more robust and adaptive detection methods. In this paper, we evaluate the…