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Mahboubi A; Camtepe S; Ansari K; Bui TH; Aboutorab H, 2026, 'Privacy Risks and Leakage Pathways in Agentic and Multi-Agent AI Systems', ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3848128

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


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