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. 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]
  2. Shreyas Srinivasa, Jens Myrup Pedersen, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: Interaction matters: a comprehensive analysis and a dataset of hybrid IoT/OT honeypots. ACSAC 2022 [pdf] [doi]
  3. Martin Fejrskov Andersen, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Jens Myrup Pedersen, : Detecting DNS hijacking by using NetFlow data. IEEE CNS 2022 [pdf] [doi]
  4. 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]
  5. 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]
  6. 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]
  7. 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]
  8. 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]
  9. Dimitrios Georgoulias, Jens Myrup Pedersen, Morten Falch, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: A qualitative mapping of Darkweb marketplaces. eCrime 2021 [pdf] [doi]
  10. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Shreyas Srinivasa, Abhimanyu Rawat: RIoTPot: a modular hybrid-interaction IoT/OT honeypot. Black Hat Europe (Arsenal) 2021 [code]
  11. 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]
  12. 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]
  13. Shreyas Srinivasa, Jens Myrup Pedersen, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: RIoTPot: a modular hybrid-interaction IoT/OT honeypot. ESORICS 2021 (short paper) [pdf] [doi]
  14. Martin Fejrskov Andersen, Jens Myrup Pedersen, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: Using NetFlow to measure the impact of deploying DNS-based blacklists. SecureComm 2021 [pdf] [doi]
  15. Leon Böck, Shankar Karuppayah, Max Mühlhäuser and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: An overview of the Botnet Simulation Framework. Botconf 2020
  16. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Shreyas Srinivasa, Eirini Lygerou: HosTaGe: mobile honeypots for rapid deployment. Black Hat Europe 2020 (Arsenal) [code]
  17. Shreyas Srinivasa, Jens Myrup Pedersen, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: Towards systematic honeytoken fingerprinting. International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (ACM SIN) 2020 [pdf] [doi]
  18. 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]
  19. Leon Böck, Shankar Karuppayah, Jens Keim, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: Botnet Simulation Framework (BSF). Black Hat USA 2020 (Arsenal) [code]
  20. 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]
  21. 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]
  22. 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]
  23. 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)
  24. 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]

  25. 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]

  26. Leon Böck, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Max Mühlhäuser, Shankar Karuppayah: Next Generation P2P Botnets: Monitoring under Adverse Conditions. RAID 2018 [doi] [pdf]
  27. Jörg Daubert, Dhanasekar Boopalan, Max Mühlhäuser, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis: HoneyDrone: a medium-interaction Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Honeypot. IEEE/IFIP DISSECT 2018 [doi] [pdf]
  28. 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]
  29. 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]
  30. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Noorulla Sharief, Max Mühlhäuser: Defending against Probe-Response Attacks. IEEE/IFIP DISSECT@IM 2017: 1046-1051 [doi] [pdf]
  31. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Jan Helge Wolf, Leon Böck, Max Mühlhäuser, Shankar Karuppayah: I Trust my Zombies: a Trust-enabled Botnet. Black Hat Europe 2017 [pdf]
  32. Carlos Garcia Cordero, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Max Mühlhäuser: ID2T – The Intrusion Detection Dataset Generation Toolkit. Black Hat Europe 2017 (demo session) [code]
  33. Nikolaos Alexopoulos, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Natalia Reka Ivanko, Max Mühlhäuser: Towards Blockchain-Based Collaborative Intrusion Detection Systems. CRITIS 2017 [doi] [pdf]
  34. Nikolaos Alexopoulos, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Natalia Reka Ivanko, Tamara Frieß, Max Mühlhäuser: TRIDEnT: Trustworthy collaboRative Intrusion DETection. USENIX Security 2017 (poster session) [pdf]
  35. 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]
  36. 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]
  37. 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]
  38. 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]
  39. 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]
  40. 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]
  41. 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]
  42. 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]
  43. 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]
  44. 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]
  45. Carlos Garcia Cordero, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Mathias Fischer, Max Mühlhäuser: Community-based Collaborative Intrusion Detection. ATCS@SecureComm 2015: 665-681 [doi] [pdf]
  46. 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]
  47. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Shankar Karuppayah, Mathias Fischer, Max Mühlhäuser: HosTaGe: a Mobile Honeypot for Collaborative Defense. ACM SIN 2014:330-333 [doi] [pdf] [code]
  48. 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]
  49. 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]
  50. 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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