By Dr Arash Mahboubi

Book Chapters

Jiang Y; Bewong M; Mahboubi A; Halder S; Islam R; Islam MZ; Ip RHL; Gauravaram P; Xue J, 2025, 'A Graph-Based Approach for Software Functionality Classification on the Web', in , pp. 58 - 73, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-0576-7_5

Mahboubi A; Bui HT; Aboutorab H; Luong K; Camtepe S; Ansari K, 2025, 'A Lightweight Detection of Sequential Patterns in File System Events During Ransomware Attacks', in , pp. 204 - 215, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-0576-7_16

Mahboubi A; Aboutorab H; Camtepe S; Bui HT; Luong K; Ansari K; Wang S; Barry B, 2025, 'Ransomware Encryption Detection: Adaptive File System Analysis Against Evasive Encryption Tactics', in , pp. 399 - 414, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-9101-2_21

Zhang Y; Kwashie S; Bewong M; Hu J; Mahboubi A; Guo X; Feng Z, 2024, 'Discovering Graph Differential Dependencies', in Databases Theory and Applications, Springer Nature, pp. 259 - 272, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47843-7_18

Mahboubi A; Ansari K; Camtepe S, 2021, 'Using Process Mining to Identify File System Metrics Impacted by Ransomware Execution', in , pp. 57 - 71, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67550-9_5

Journal articles

Ferdous J; Islam R; Mahboubi A; Islam MZ, 2026, 'TL-RL-FusionNet: Reinforcement Learning-Guided Residual MLP with Fused CNN Embeddings for Efficient and Adaptive Ransomware Detection', Sensors, 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s26154775

Ferdous J; Islam R; Mahboubi A; Islam MZ, 2025, 'A novel technique for ransomware detection using image based dynamic features and transfer learning to address dataset limitations', Scientific Reports, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-17647-1

Luong K; Mahboubi A; Jarrad G; Camtepe S; Bewong M; Bahutair M; Aboutorab H; Bui HT, 2025, 'ConceptUML: Multiphase unsupervised threat detection via latent concept learning, Hidden Markov Models and topic modelling', Journal of Information Security and Applications, 93, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jisa.2025.104160

Mahboubi A; Luong K; Aboutorab H; Bui HT; Camtepe S; Ansari K; Barry B, 2025, 'The evolving threat landscape of botnets: Comprehensive analysis of detection techniques in the age of artificial intelligence', Internet of Things the Netherlands, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.iot.2025.101728

Halder S; Rafiqul Islam M; Mamun Q; Mahboubi A; Walsh P; Zahidul Islam M, 2025, 'A comprehensive survey on AI-enabled secure social industrial Internet of Things in the agri-food supply chain', Smart Agricultural Technology, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atech.2025.100902

Chen P; Yan S; Janicke H; Mahboubi A; Bui HT; Aboutorab H; Bewong M; Islam R, 2025, 'A Survey on Unauthorized UAV Threats to Smart Farming', Drones, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/drones9040251

Mahboubi A; Luong K; Jarrad G; Camtepe S; Bewong M; Bahutair M; Pogrebna G, 2025, 'Lurking in the shadows: Unsupervised decoding of beaconing communication for enhanced cyber threat hunting', Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 236, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2025.104127

Pieprzyk J; Pawłowski M; Morawiecki P; Mahboubi A; Duda J; Camtepe S, 2025, 'Pseudorandom bit generation with asymmetric numeral systems', International Journal of Information Security, 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10207-025-00995-4

Ferdous J; Islam R; Mahboubi A; Islam MZ, 2025, 'A Survey on ML Techniques for Multi-Platform Malware Detection: Securing PC, Mobile Devices, IoT, and Cloud Environments', Sensors, 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s25041153

Foster K; Costadopoulos N; Mahboubi A; Ur Rehman S; Zahidul Islam M, 2025, 'Toward Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing - An Australian Healthcare Perspective', IEEE Access, 13, pp. 39405 - 39427, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3545778

Mahboubi A; Luong K; Aboutorab H; Bui HT; Jarrad G; Bahutair M; Camtepe S; Pogrebna G; Ahmed E; Barry B; Gately H, 2024, 'Evolving techniques in cyber threat hunting: A systematic review', Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 232, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2024.104004

Gao Y; Camtepe SA; Sultan NH; Bui HT; Mahboubi A; Aboutorab H; Bewong M; Islam R; Islam MZ; Chauhan A; Gauravaram P; Singh D, 2024, 'Security threats to agricultural artificial intelligence: Position and perspective', Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 227, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2024.109557

Mahboubi A; Camtepe S; Ansari K; Pawłowski M; Morawiecki P; Aboutorab H; Pieprzyk J; Duda J, 2024, 'Shared file protection against unauthorised encryption using a Buffer-Based Signature Verification Method', Journal of Information Security and Applications, 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jisa.2024.103873

Bui HT; Aboutorab H; Mahboubi A; Gao Y; Sultan NH; Chauhan A; Parvez MZ; Bewong M; Islam R; Islam Z; Camtepe SA; Gauravaram P; Singh D; Ali Babar M; Yan S, 2024, 'Agriculture 4.0 and beyond: Evaluating cyber threat intelligence sources and techniques in smart farming ecosystems', Computers and Security, 140, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2024.103754

Ferdous J; Islam R; Mahboubi A; Zahidul Islam M, 2024, 'AI-Based Ransomware Detection: A Comprehensive Review', IEEE Access, 12, pp. 136666 - 136695, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3461965

Pieprzyk J; Duda J; Pawłowski M; Camtepe S; Mahboubi A; Morawiecki P, 2023, 'The Compression Optimality of Asymmetric Numeral Systems', Entropy, 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e25040672

Ferdous J; Islam R; Mahboubi A; Islam MZ, 2023, 'A Review of State-of-the-Art Malware Attack Trends and Defense Mechanisms', IEEE Access, 11, pp. 121118 - 121141, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3328351

Camtepe S; Duda J; Mahboubi A; Morawiecki P; Nepal S; Pawłowski M; Pieprzyk J, 2022, 'ANS-based compression and encryption with 128-bit security', International Journal of Information Security, 21, pp. 1051 - 1067, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10207-022-00597-4

Camtepe S; Duda J; Mahboubi A; Morawiecki P; Nepal S; Pawlowski M; Pieprzyk J, 2021, 'Compcrypt-Lightweight ANS-Based Compression and Encryption', IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 16, pp. 3859 - 3873, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2021.3096026

Mahboubi A; Camtepe S; Ansari K, 2020, 'Stochastic Modeling of IoT Botnet Spread: A Short Survey on Mobile Malware Spread Modeling', IEEE Access, 8, pp. 228818 - 228830, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3044277

Mahboubi A; Camtepe S; Morarji H, 2017, 'A Study on Formal Methods to Generalize Heterogeneous Mobile Malware Propagation and Their Impacts', IEEE Access, 5, pp. 27740 - 27756, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2772787

Conference Papers

Sultan NH; Bo Y; Gao Y; Camtepe S; Mahboubi A; Bui HT; Chauhan A; Aboutorab H; Bewong M; Gauravaram P; Singh D; Islam R; Abuadbba S, 2026, 'Setup Once, Secure Always: A Single-Setup Secure Federated Learning Aggregation Protocol with Forward and Backward Secrecy for Dynamic Users', in Asia Ccs 2026 Proceedings of the 21st ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pp. 1074 - 1090, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3779208.3785414

Mahboubi A; Ansari K; Camtepe S, 2025, 'Multi-Stage Payload Execution with Fragmented Double-Layer Encoding', in Proceedings of IEEE ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications Aiccsa, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AICCSA66935.2025.11315276

Thomson S; Bewong M; Mahboubi A; Zia T, 2025, 'Social Engineering Attacks: A Systemisation of Knowledge on People Against Humans', in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data Bigdata, pp. 3752 - 3761, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BigData66926.2025.11402315

Halder S; Bewong M; Mahboubi A; Jiang Y; Islam MR; Islam MZ; Ip RHL; Ahmed ME; Ramachandran GS; Ali Babar M, 2024, 'Malicious Package Detection using Metadata Information', in Www 2024 Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference, pp. 1779 - 1789, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3589334.3645543

Mahboubi A; Camtepe S; Ansari K; Pawłowski M; Morawiecki P; Duda J; Pieprzyk J, 2024, 'File System Shield (FSS): A Pass-Through Strategy Against Unwanted Encryption in Network File Systems', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 213 - 233, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7737-2_12

Mahboubi A; Camtepe S; Morarji H, 2018, 'Reducing USB Attack Surface: A Lightweight Authentication and Delegation Protocol', in 2018 International Conference on Smart Computing and Electronic Enterprise Icscee 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSCEE.2018.8538400

Preprints

Ferdous J; Islam R; Mahboubi A; Islam MZ, 2026, TL-RL-FusionNet: An Adaptive and Efficient Reinforcement Learning-Driven Transfer Learning Framework for Detecting Evolving Ransomware Threats, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2604.20260

Thomson S; Bewong M; Mahboubi A; Zia T, 2025, Social Engineering Attacks: A Systemisation of Knowledge on People Against Humans, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2601.04215

Sultan NH; Bo Y; Gao Y; Camtepe S; Mahboubi A; Bui HT; Chauhan A; Aboutorab H; Bewong M; Singh D; Gauravaram P; Islam R; Abuadbba S, 2025, Setup Once, Secure Always: A Single-Setup Secure Federated Learning Aggregation Protocol with Forward and Backward Secrecy for Dynamic Users, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2502.08989

Mahboubi A; Aboutorab H; Camtepe S; Bui HT; Luong K; Ansari K; Wang S; Barry B, 2025, Data Encryption Battlefield: A Deep Dive into the Dynamic Confrontations in Ransomware Attacks, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2504.20681

Halder S; Bewong M; Mahboubi A; Jiang Y; Islam R; Islam Z; Ip R; Ahmed E; Ramachandran G; Babar A, 2024, Malicious Package Detection using Metadata Information, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2402.07444

Pieprzyk J; Duda J; Pawlowski M; Camtepe S; Mahboubi A; Morawiecki P, 2022, Compression Optimality of Asymmetric Numeral Systems, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2209.02228

Mahboubi A; Ansari K; Camtepe S; Duda J; Morawiecki P; Pawłowski M; Pieprzyk J, Digital Immunity Module: Preventing Unwanted Encryption using Source Coding, http://dx.doi.org/10.36227/techrxiv.17789735.v1

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