Publications

Peer-reviewed papers and preprints from our team, spanning AI security, autonomous cyber defence, and applied systems.

2026

Self-Healing AI Security via Autonomous Patch Generation & LLM Autovaccination

Diagnosing and Repairing Factual Errors in RAG under Budget Constraints

Soroush Hashemifar, Havva Alizadeh Noughabi, Fattane Zarrinkalam, Ali Dehghantanha

arXiv (preprint) · 2026

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Self-Healing AI Security via Autonomous Patch Generation & LLM Autovaccination

MCP-Scanner: Detecting Security Risks in Model Context Protocol Systems

Parya Abadeh, Martin Lochner, Taha Ansari, Fattane Zarrinkalam

Proceedings of the 2026 ACM/IEEE 7th International Workshop on Engineering and Cybersecurity of Critical Systems (EnCyCriS) · 2026

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Cyber Threat Triage and Intelligence in Critical Infrastructure

Windows-APT 2025: A dataset for APT-inspired attack scenarios on Windows systems

Maryam Mozaffari, Abbas Yazdinejad, Ali Dehghantanha

Data in Brief · 2026

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2025

Agri-Food Cybersecurity

"I grow food, IT people do cybersecurity": Addressing cybersecurity risks in Canada’s agri-food sector

Conor Russell, Janos Botschner, Emily Duncan, Ali Dehghantanha, Evan D.G. Fraser

Smart Agricultural Technology · 2025

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Self-Healing AI Security via Autonomous Patch Generation & LLM Autovaccination

Uncovering the Persuasive Fingerprint of LLMs in Jailbreaking Attacks

Havva Alizadeh Noughabi, Julien Serbanescu, Fattane Zarrinkalam, Ali Dehghantanha

Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '25) · 2025

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Self-Healing AI Security via Autonomous Patch Generation & LLM Autovaccination

Quantifying Security Vulnerabilities: A Metric-Driven Security Analysis of Gaps in Current AI Standards

Keerthana Madhavan, Abbas Yazdinejad, Fattane Zarrinkalam, Ali Dehghantanha

arXiv (preprint) · 2025

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Self-Healing AI Security via Autonomous Patch Generation & LLM Autovaccination

RedHit: Adaptive Red-Teaming of Large Language Models via Search, Reasoning, and Preference Optimization

Mohsen Sorkhpour, Abbas Yazdinejad, Fattane Zarrinkalam, Ali Dehghantanha

Proceedings of the First Workshop on LLM Security (LLMSEC 2025) · 2025

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Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructures

Symbiotic Federated Learning for Giant AI Threat Detection in 6G-IoT Infrastructures

Abbas Yazdinejad, Ali Dehghantanha, Fattane Zarrinkalam, Gautam Srivastava

IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 2025

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Cyber Threat Triage and Intelligence in Critical Infrastructure

TrollSleuth: Behavioral and Linguistic Fingerprinting of State-Sponsored Trolls

Havva Alizadeh Noughabi, Fattane Zarrinkalam, Abbas Yazdinejad, Ali Dehghantanha

2025 22nd Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust (PST) · 2025

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Unlocking Security Insights Through Log Analysis in LLM-Powered Applications

United We Log, Divided We Identify: A Decentralized Approach for Automated Log Analysis

Elnaz Rabieinejad, Ali Dehghantanha, Fattane Zarrinkalam, J. Schwartzentruber

Applied Cryptography and Network Security Workshops (ACNS 2025) · 2025

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2024

Cyber Threat Triage and Intelligence in Critical Infrastructure

A Federated Learning Approach for Multi-stage Threat Analysis in Advanced Persistent Threat Campaigns

Florian Nelles, Abbas Yazdinejad, Ali Dehghantanha, Reza M. Parizi, Gautam Srivastava

arXiv (preprint) · 2024

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Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructures

Two-Level Privacy-Preserving Framework: Federated Learning for Attack Detection in the Consumer Internet of Things

Elnaz Rabieinejad, Abbas Yazdinejad, Ali Dehghantanha, Gautam Srivastava

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics · 2024

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2023

Self-Healing AI Security via Autonomous Patch Generation & LLM Autovaccination

Unscrambling the Rectification of Adversarial Attacks Transferability across Computer Networks

Ehsan Nowroozi, Samaneh Ghelichkhani, Imran Haider, Ali Dehghantanha

arXiv (preprint) · 2023

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Applications

Evaluating the adoption of cybersecurity and its influence on organizational performance

Tahereh Hasani, Norman O’Reilly, Ali Dehghantanha, Davar Rezania, Nadège Levallet

SN Business & Economics · 2023

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Cyber Threat Triage and Intelligence in Critical Infrastructure

An ensemble deep federated learning cyber-threat hunting model for Industrial Internet of Things

Amir Namavar Jahromi, Hadis Karimipour, Ali Dehghantanha

Computer Communications · 2023

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Cyber Threat Triage and Intelligence in Critical Infrastructure

Generative Adversarial Networks for Cyber Threat Hunting in Ethereum Blockchain

Elnaz Rabieinejad, Abbas Yazdinejad, Reza M. Parizi, Ali Dehghantanha

Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice · 2023

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Cyber Threat Triage and Intelligence in Critical Infrastructure

Accurate threat hunting in industrial internet of things edge devices

Abbas Yazdinejad, Behrouz Zolfaghari, Ali Dehghantanha, Hadis Karimipour, Gautam Srivastava, Reza M. Parizi

Digital Communications and Networks · 2023

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Cyber Threat Triage and Intelligence in Critical Infrastructure

P3GNN: A Privacy-Preserving Provenance Graph-Based Model for APT Detection in Software Defined Networking

Hedyeh Nazari, Abbas Yazdinejad, Ali Dehghantanha, Fattane Zarrinkalam, Gautam Srivastava

Proceedings of the Workshop on Autonomous Cybersecurity · 2023

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2022

Self-Healing AI Security via Autonomous Patch Generation & LLM Autovaccination

Deep Fake Detection, Deterrence and Response: Challenges and Opportunities

Amin Azmoodeh, Ali Dehghantanha

arXiv (preprint) · 2022

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Self-Healing AI Security via Autonomous Patch Generation & LLM Autovaccination

Proactive Detection of Query-based Adversarial Scenarios in NLP Systems

Mohammad Maghsoudimehrabani, Amin Azmoodeh, Ali Dehghantanha, Behrouz Zolfaghari, Gautam Srivastava

Proceedings of the 15th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security · 2022

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2021

Cyber Threat Triage and Intelligence in Critical Infrastructure

Generative adversarial network to detect unseen Internet of Things malware

Zahra Moti, Sattar Hashemi, Hadis Karimipour, Ali Dehghantanha, Amir Namavar Jahromi, Lida Abdi, Fatemeh Alavi

Ad Hoc Networks · 2021

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Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructures

SteelEye: An Application-Layer Attack Detection and Attribution Model in Industrial Control Systems using Semi-Deep Learning

Sanaz Nakhodchi, Behrouz Zolfaghari, Abbas Yazdinejad, Ali Dehghantanha

2021 18th International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST) · 2021

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2020

Self-Healing AI Security via Autonomous Patch Generation & LLM Autovaccination

An Empirical Evaluation of AI Deep Explainable Tools

Yoseph Hailemariam, Abbas Yazdinejad, Reza M. Parizi, Gautam Srivastava, Ali Dehghantanha

2020 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps · 2020

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Self-Healing AI Security via Autonomous Patch Generation & LLM Autovaccination

Making Sense of Blockchain for AI Deepfakes Technology

Abbas Yazdinejad, Reza M. Parizi, Gautam Srivastava, Ali Dehghantanha

2020 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps · 2020

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Cyber Threat Triage and Intelligence in Critical Infrastructure

Cryptocurrency malware hunting: A deep Recurrent Neural Network approach

Abbas Yazdinejad, Hamed HaddadPajouh, Ali Dehghantanha, Reza M. Parizi, Gautam Srivastava, Mu-Yen Chen

Applied Soft Computing · 2020

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Cyber Threat Triage and Intelligence in Critical Infrastructure

MVFCC: A Multi-View Fuzzy Consensus Clustering Model for Malware Threat Attribution

Hamed Haddadpajouh, Amin Azmoodeh, Ali Dehghantanha, Reza M. Parizi

IEEE Access · 2020

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Cyber Threat Triage and Intelligence in Critical Infrastructure

Know Abnormal, Find Evil: Frequent Pattern Mining for Ransomware Threat Hunting and Intelligence

Sajad Homayoun, Ali Dehghantanha, Marzieh Ahmadzadeh, Sattar Hashemi, Raouf Khayami

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing · 2020

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2019

Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructures

Threats on the horizon: understanding security threats in the era of cyber-physical systems

Steven Walker-Roberts, Mohammad Hammoudeh, Omar Aldabbas, Mehmet Aydin, Ali Dehghantanha

The Journal of Supercomputing · 2019

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2017

Cyber Threat Triage and Intelligence in Critical Infrastructure

Machine learning aided Android malware classification

Nikola Milosevic a, Ali Dehghantanha b, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

Computers & Electrical Engineering · 2017

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Cyber Threat Triage and Intelligence in Critical Infrastructure

Intelligent OS X malware threat detection with code inspection

Hamed Haddad Pajouh, Ali Dehghantanha, Raouf Khayami, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques · 2017

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