Publications

Journals

  1. Shreyas Srinivasa, Jens Myrup Pedersen, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: Gotta catch ’em all: a Multistage Framework for honeypot fingerprinting. ACM Digital Threats: Research and Practice (2023) [doi]
  2. Dimitrios Georgoulias, Jens Myrup Pedersen, Morten Falch, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: Botnet business models, takedown attempts, and the darkweb market: a survey. ACM Computing Surveys (2022) [doi] [pdf]
  3. Irini Lygerou, Shreyas Srinivasa, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, George Stergiopoulos, Dimitris Gritzalis: A decentralized honeypot for IoT Protocols based on Android devices. Springer’s International Journal of Information Security (2022) [doi]
  4. Dimitrios Georgoulias, Jens Myrup Pedersen, Morten Falch, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: COVID-19 vaccination certificates in the Darkweb. ACM Digital Threats: Research and Practice (2022) [doi]
  5. Leon Böck, Martin Fejrskov, Katerina Demetzou, Shankar Karuppayah, Max Mühlhäuser, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis. Processing of Botnet Tracking Data under the GDPR. Elsevier Computer Law and Security Review (2022) [doi]
  6. Carlos Garcia Cordero, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Aidmar Wainakh, Max Mühlhäuser, Simin Nadjm-Tehrani. On generating network traffic datasets with synthetic attacks for intrusion detection. ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, vol. 24, No 2 (2021) [doi] [pdf]
  7. Leon Böck, Shankar Karuppayah, Max Mühlhäuser, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis. An overview of the botnet simulation framework. The Journal on Cybercrime & Digital Investigations, vol 6, No 1 (2020) [doi] [pdf]
  8. Václav Bartoš, Martin Zadnik, Sheikh Mahbub Habib, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: Network entity characterization and attack prediction. Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems – vol. 97 pp. 674-686 (2019)[doi][pdf]
  9. Leon Böck, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Jan Helge Wolf, Max Mühlhäuser: Autonomously Detecting Sensors in Fully Distributed Botnets. Elsevier Computers & Security – vol. 83 pp. 1-13 (2019) [doi] [pdf]
  10. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Max Mühlhäuser: Detection and Mitigation of Monitor Identification Attacks in Collaborative Intrusion Detection Systems. International Journal of Network Management – 2018;e2059. (2018) [doi] [pdf]
  11. Carlos Garcia Cordero, Giulia Traverso, Mehrdad Nojoumian, Sheikh Mahbub Habib, Max Mühlhäuser, Johannes Buchmann, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: Sphinx: a Colluder-Resistant Trust Mechanism for Collaborative Intrusion Detection. IEEE ACCESS – Vol. 6 pp. 72427-72438 (2018) [doi] [pdf]
  12. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Shankar Karuppayah, Max Mühlhäuser, Mathias Fischer: Taxonomy and Survey of Collaborative Intrusion Detection. ACM Comput. Surv. 47(4): 55:1-55:33 (2015) [doi] [pdf]

International Conferences & Workshops

(* selected papers, peer-reviewed only)
  1. Rishabh Singla, Shreyas Srinivasa, Narasimha Reddy, Jens Myrup Pedersen, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Riccardo Bettati. An analysis of war impact on Ukrainian critical infrastructure through network measurements. Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA) 2023 [pdf] [doi]
  2. Mohamed Msaad, Shreyas Srinivasa, Mikkel M. Andersen, David H. Audran, Charity Uche Orji, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: Honeysweeper: Towards stealthy Honeytoken fingerprinting techniques. The 27th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems (NORDSEC) 2022 [doi]
  3. Shreyas Srinivasa, Jens Myrup Pedersen, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: Interaction matters: a comprehensive analysis and a dataset of hybrid IoT/OT honeypots. ACSAC 2022 [pdf] [doi]
  4. Martin Fejrskov Andersen, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Jens Myrup Pedersen, : Detecting DNS hijacking by using NetFlow data. IEEE CNS 2022 [pdf] [doi]
  5. Daniel Christopher Mølmark-O’Connor, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: Is your password sexist? A gamification-based analysis of the cultural context of leaked passwords. ESORICS 2022 (short paper) [pdf] [doi]
  6. David Holm Audran, Marcus Braunschweig Andersen, Mark Højer Hansen, Mikkel Møller Andersen, Thomas B. Thomas, Kasper H. Hansen, Dimitrios Georgoulias, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: Tick Tock Break The Clock: Breaking CAPTCHAs on the darkweb. International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT) 2022 [pdf] [doi]
  7. Shreyas Srinivasa, Dimitrios Georgoulias, Jens Myrup Pedersen, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: A Bad IDEa: Weaponizing uncontrolled online-IDEs in availability attacks. EuroS&P WACCO Workshop 2022 [doi]
  8. Shreyas Srinivasa, Jens Myrup Pedersen, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: Deceptive directories and “vulnerable” logs: a honeypot study of the LDAP and log4j attack landscape. EuroS&P AD&D Workshop 2022 [pdf] [doi]
  9. Martin Fejrskov Andersen, Jens Myrup Pedersen, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: A study on the use of 3rd party DNS resolvers for malware filtering or censorship circumvention. IFIPSEC 2022 [doi]
  10. Dimitrios Georgoulias, Jens Myrup Pedersen, Morten Falch, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: A qualitative mapping of Darkweb marketplaces. eCrime 2021 [pdf] [doi]
  11. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Shreyas Srinivasa, Abhimanyu Rawat: RIoTPot: a modular hybrid-interaction IoT/OT honeypot. Black Hat Europe (Arsenal) 2021 [code]
  12. Shreyas Srinivasa, Jens Myrup Pedersen, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: Open for hire: attack trends and misconfiguration pitfalls of IoT devices. ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2021 [pdf] [doi]
  13. Martin Fejrskov Andersen, Jens Myrup Pedersen, Leon Böck, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: An uneven game of hide and seek: Hiding botnet CnC by encrypting IPs in DNS records. IEEE CNS 2021 [pdf] [doi]
  14. Shreyas Srinivasa, Jens Myrup Pedersen, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: RIoTPot: a modular hybrid-interaction IoT/OT honeypot. ESORICS 2021 (short paper) [pdf] [doi]
  15. Martin Fejrskov Andersen, Jens Myrup Pedersen, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: Using NetFlow to measure the impact of deploying DNS-based blacklists. SecureComm 2021 [pdf] [doi]
  16. Leon Böck, Shankar Karuppayah, Max Mühlhäuser and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: An overview of the Botnet Simulation Framework. Botconf 2020
  17. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Shreyas Srinivasa, Eirini Lygerou: HosTaGe: mobile honeypots for rapid deployment. Black Hat Europe 2020 (Arsenal) [code]
  18. Shreyas Srinivasa, Jens Myrup Pedersen, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: Towards systematic honeytoken fingerprinting. International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (ACM SIN) 2020 [pdf] [doi]
  19. Johannes Mols, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: Visualizing the Bitcoin’s OP_RETURN operator. ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (Mobihoc) 2020 [pdf] [doi]
  20. Leon Böck, Shankar Karuppayah, Jens Keim, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: Botnet Simulation Framework (BSF). Black Hat USA 2020 (Arsenal) [code]
  21. Martin Fejrskov Andersen, Jens Myrup Pedersen, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: Cyber-security research by ISPs: A NetFlow and DNS Anonymization Policy. International Conference on Cyber Security and Protection of Digital Services (IEEE Cyber Security) 2020 [pdf] [doi]
  22. Johannes Mols, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: ethVote: Towards secure voting with distributed ledgers. International Conference on Cyber Security and Protection of Digital Services (IEEE Cyber Security) 2020 [pdf] [doi]
  23. Nikolaos Alexopoulos, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Stephane Le Roux, Steven Rowe and Max Mühlhäuser: TRIDEnT: Towards a Decentralized Threat Indicator Marketplace. ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC) 2020 [doi] [pdf]
  24. Martin Fejrskov Andersen, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Jens Myrup Pedersen: ISP-level identification of malicious traffic: Challenges and opportunities. 24th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems (NordSec) 2019 (poster session)
  25. Leon Böck, Nikolaos Alexopoulos, Emine Saracoglu, Max Mühlhäuser, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: Assessing the Threat of Blockchain-based Botnets. Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime) 2019 [doi] [pdf]

  26. Leon Böck, Shankar Karuppayah, Kory Fong, Max Mühlhäuser, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: Challenges of Accurately Measuring Churn in P2P Botnets. ACM CSS 2019 (poster session) [doi] [pdf]

  27. Leon Böck, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Max Mühlhäuser, Shankar Karuppayah: Next Generation P2P Botnets: Monitoring under Adverse Conditions. RAID 2018 [doi] [pdf]
  28. Jörg Daubert, Dhanasekar Boopalan, Max Mühlhäuser, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: HoneyDrone: a medium-interaction Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Honeypot. IEEE/IFIP DISSECT 2018 [doi] [pdf]
  29. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Jörg Daubert, Dhanasekar Boopalan, Max Mühlhäuser: Don’t Steal my Drone: Catching Attackers with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Honeypot. IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2018 (demo session) [doi] [pdf]
  30. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Sheikh Mahbub Habib, Pavlos Milaszewicz, Rabee Sohail Malik, Max Mühlhäuser: Towards Trust-Aware Collaborative Intrusion Detection: Challenges and Solutions. IFIPTM 2017: 94-109 [doi] [pdf]
  31. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Noorulla Sharief, Max Mühlhäuser: Defending against Probe-Response Attacks. IEEE/IFIP DISSECT@IM 2017: 1046-1051 [doi] [pdf]
  32. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Jan Helge Wolf, Leon Böck, Max Mühlhäuser, Shankar Karuppayah: I Trust my Zombies: a Trust-enabled Botnet. Black Hat Europe 2017 [pdf]
  33. Carlos Garcia Cordero, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Max Mühlhäuser: ID2T – The Intrusion Detection Dataset Generation Toolkit. Black Hat Europe 2017 (demo session) [code]
  34. Nikolaos Alexopoulos, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Natalia Reka Ivanko, Max Mühlhäuser: Towards Blockchain-Based Collaborative Intrusion Detection Systems. CRITIS 2017 [doi] [pdf]
  35. Nikolaos Alexopoulos, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Natalia Reka Ivanko, Tamara Frieß, Max Mühlhäuser: TRIDEnT: Trustworthy collaboRative Intrusion DETection. USENIX Security 2017 (poster session) [pdf]
  36. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Michael Stahn, Carlos Garcia Cordero, Max Mühlhäuser: On Probe-Response Attacks in Collaborative Intrusion Detection Systems. IEEE CNS 2017: 279-286 [doi] [pdf]
  37. Shankar Karuppayah, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Steffen Haas, Mathias Fischer, Max Mühlhäuser: BoobyTrap: On Autonomously Detecting and Characterizing Crawlers in P2P Botnets. IEEE ICC 2016:1-7 [doi] [pdf]
  38. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Shreyas Srinivasa, Carlos Garcia Cordero, Max Mühlhäuser: Multi-stage Attack Detection and Signature Generation with ICS Honeypots. IEEE/IFIP DISSECT@NOMS 2016:1227-1232 [pdf] [code]
  39. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Carlos Garcia Cordero, Nikolay Milanov, Max Mühlhäuser: Towards the creation of synthetic, yet realistic, intrusion detection datasets. IEEE/IFIP DISSECT@NOMS 2016:1209-1214 [code][pdf]
  40. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Matthias Kruegl, Carlos Garcia Cordero, Mathias Fischer, Max Mühlhäuser: SkipMon: a Locality-Aware Collaborative Intrusion Detection System. IEEE IPCCC 2015:1-8 [doi] [pdf]
  41. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Michael Stahn, Carlos Garcia Cordero, Max Mühlhäuser: Probe-response attacks on collaborative intrusion detection systems: effectiveness and countermeasures. IEEE CNS 2015:699-700 [doi] [pdf]
  42. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Shreyas Srinivasa, Max Mühlhäuser: Did you really hack a nuclear power plant? An industrial control mobile honeypot. IEEE CNS 2015:729-730 [doi] [pdf] [code]
  43. Carlos Garcia Cordero, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Nikolay Milanov, Christian Koch, David Hausheer, Max Mühlhäuser: ID2T: a DIY dataset creation toolkit for Intrusion Detection Systems. IEEE CNS 2015:739-740 [code] [pdf]
  44. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Jörg Daubert, Manisha Luthra, Vangelis Gazis, Alexander Wiesmaier, Panagiotis Kikiras: On the Security and Privacy of Internet of Things Architectures and Systems. SIoT@ESORICS 2015:49-57 [doi] [pdf]
  45. Vangelis Gazis, Manuel Görtz, Marco Huber, Alessandro Leonardi, Kostas Mathioudakis, Alexander Wiesmaier, Florian Zeiger, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis:
    A Survey of Technologies for the Internet of Things. IWCMC 2015:1090-1095 [doi] [pdf]
  46. Carlos Garcia Cordero, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Mathias Fischer, Max Mühlhäuser: Community-based Collaborative Intrusion Detection. ATCS@SecureComm 2015: 665-681 [doi] [pdf]
  47. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Shankar Karuppayah, Panayotis Kikiras, Max Mühlhäuser: A honeypot-driven cyber incident monitor: lessons learned and steps ahead. ACM SIN 2015:158-164 [doi] [pdf]
  48. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Shankar Karuppayah, Mathias Fischer, Max Mühlhäuser: HosTaGe: a Mobile Honeypot for Collaborative Defense. ACM SIN 2014:330-333 [doi] [pdf] [code]
  49. Vangelis Gazis, Carlos Garcia Cordero, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Panayotis Kikiras, Alexander Wiesmaier: Security Perspectives for Collaborative Data Acquisition in the Internet of Things. SaSeIoT 2014:271-282 [doi] [pdf]
  50. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Shankar Karuppayah, Mathias Fischer, Mihai Plasoianu, Wulf Pfeiffer, Lars Pandikow, Max Mühlhäuser: This Network is Infected: HosTaGe – a Low-Interaction Honeypot for Mobile Devices. SPSM@CCS 2013:43-48 [doi] [pdf] [code]
  51. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Mathias Fischer, Peter Ebinger, Panayotis Kikiras, Sebastian Schmerl, Max Mühlhäuser: Collaborative Intrusion Detection in Smart Energy Grids. ICS-CSR 2013:97-100 [pdf]

Theses

  1. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: On Collaborative Intrusion Detection. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany 2016, pp. 1-205, Ph.D. thesis [pdf] [doi]
  2. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: Honeypots and Information Systems Security. University of the Aegean, National Center of Scientific Research “Demokritos”, 2011, pp. 1-183, M.Sc. Thesis
  3. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Sokratis Vavilis: A Study of the Security Offered by Modern Hash Functions. University of the Aegean, 2009, pp. 1-215, Diploma Thesis
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