Events/conferences/workshops

RAID 2025 – October 2025 – KU Leuven 

The 28th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2025) will be held at Gold Coast, Australia, on 19-22 October, 2025. DistriNet, KULeuven together with colleagues from other institutes has a paper accepted which will be published as open access afterwards.

Title: The Adaptive Arms Race: Redefining Robustness in AI Security
Authors: Ilias Tsingenopoulos, Vera Rimmer, Fabio Pierazzi, Lorenzo Cavallaro, and Wouter Joosen

Adversarial Threats on Real Life Learning Systems – September 2025 – CEA

On September 17th 2025, CEA and Sorbonne University organized the Adversarial Threats on Real Life Learning Systems workshop in Paris. It focused on adversarial and backdoor attacks targeting real-life machine learning systems. The participants explored vulnerabilities in deployed learning systems, examine attack vectors in practical scenarios, and discuss defense mechanisms for robust ML deployment.

AI4Cyber 2025 – September 2025 – CEA

On September 16th 2025, CEA organised workshop AI4Cyber 2025 in Paris. It was dedicated to exploring the cutting-edge applications of Artificial Intelligence in strengthening cybersecurity and securing cyber-physical systems. The aim was to delve into novel AI-driven approaches for threat intelligence, proactive defense mechanisms, anomaly detection, and automated incident response.

ICOSXperience – September 2025 – PLURIBUS

Pluribus proudly disseminated the European project KINAITICS, exploring the deep and complex relationship between Artificial Intelligence and cyber-physical security. We were thrilled to share KINAITICS’ vision and progress with the ICOS community and to contribute to the conversation on the future of secure, AI-driven systems.

OWASP Italy Day – June 2025 – PLURIBUS

KINAITICS was proudly showcased during 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, which this year featured the OWASP Italy Day on June 19th in Cagliari.

APWG.EU Tech Summit – June 2025 – PLURIBUS

At the APWG.eu Tech Summit & Researchers Forum 2025, we explored a fresh perspective on bot detection! Davy Preuveneers, Industrial Research Manager at KU Leuven, shared his latest work on: “Enhancing Bot Detection With Causally and Temporally Constrained Counterfactual Examples for Targeted Retraining.”

KINAITICS 3rd Hackathon – June 2025 – CERTH

Third Hackathon Event was organised on 3rd June 2025i n Thessaloniki. Participants explored the complex world of artificial intelligence security.

RSA Conference – April 2025 – PLURIBUS

Pluribus took the opportunity to disseminate the KINAITICS results and to present KINAITICS as a clear example of how applied research can lead to impactful innovation. Engaging with an international audience of cybersecurity experts and stakeholders, the company highlighted the strategic relevance of AI in both offensive and defensive cyber operations.

Hospitals HL7 FHIR

Hospitals on FHIR User Days – November 2024 – FTGM – CEA – KUL

During the KINAITICS roundtable of the Hospitals on FHIR User Days, after a brief introduction on the project objectives and innovation aspects, research centers in cybersecurity (CEA), hospitals (FTGM and CHU Toulouse), and academia (KUL and FORTH) discussed what the current experiences were and how hospitals can benefit from the adoption of the KINAITICS tools, in respect of the current regulatory framework.

APWG.EU Tech Summit 2024

APWG.EU Tech Summit – November 2024 – PLURIBUS

The APWG.EU Tech Summit 2024 in Málaga gathers global experts to tackle challenges in cybercrime defense. Davide Ariu from Pluribus One presented Kinaitics, an innovative project for infrastructure protection and combating cybercrime.

How to Train your Antivirus: RL-based Hardening through the Problem Space

RAID 2024 – September 2024 – KU Leuven 

The 27th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2024) will be held in Padua on September 30 – October 2, 2024. DistriNet, KULeuven together with colleagues from other institutes has a paper accepted which will be published as open access afterwards.

Title: How to Train your Antivirus: RL-based Hardening through the Problem Space
Authors: Ilias Tsingenopoulos, KU Leuven; Jacopo Cortellazzi, King’s College London; Branislav Bosansky, Gen Digital; Simone Aonzo, EURECOM; Davy Preuveneers, KU Leuven; Wouter Joosen, KU Leuven; Fabio Pierazzi, King’s College London; Lorenzo Cavallaro, University College London.

KINAITICS @ EuskalHack Security Congress

EuskalHack Security Congress – June 2024 – Vicomtech 

EuskalHack Security Congress was held in Donostia, Spain on June 21st and 22nd 2024. VICOM participated in this event via 2 presentations detailing the KINAITICS hackathons and the CyberShield tool of KINAITICS. This event combines presentations and collective activities such as hackathons, workshops and cybersecurity challenges.

Cyber Kinetic attacks using artificial intelligence

KINAITICS 2nd Hackathon – June 2024 – Vicomtech

Second Hackathon Event to be organised remotely on 3rd June 2024

TECNOSEC Exhibition & Congress – May 2024 – VICOM

TECNOSEC Exhibition & Congress – May 2024 – VICOM

TECNOSEC  an Exhibition & Congress of High Police, Security Institutions and Critical Infrastructure, which offers a unique national and international opportunity to generate contacts and share knowledge about the latest advances in security, intelligence and resilience with Spanish suppliers, government technicians and key decision-makers in the various bodies responsible for public and anti-terrorist security and critical infrastructure.

Vicomtech participated in the roundtable on “Al in the security domain: Automation of processes before the crime, support in criminologist and forensics in treating large volumes of information”. In its booth, Vicomtech discuss the major achievements obtained in related European projects in which it is involved, such as FALCON, CEDAR, KINAITICS, ATLANTIS, LAGO.

INOC 2024

INOC Conference – March 2024 – VICOM

VICOM presented the work/abstract developed under WP5 and called “Generation of Industrial Protocol Traffic via Enhanced Wasserstein GAN” at the International Network Optimization Conference (INOC) 2024.

EU CYBER ACTS Conference – March 2024 – Pluribus

EU CYBER ACTS Conference – March 2024 – Pluribus

KINAITICS results were disseminated during the EU CYBER ACTS conference in 11-13 March 2024.

ITADATA

ITADATA – September 2023 – Pluribus One

KINAITICS was also presented during the 2nd Italian Conference on Big Data and Data Science organized by CINI in Naples in September 2023. The conference covered theoretical and practical research and application pertaining to data, and also in related domains where data and data science technologies are key and finally it analysed the evolution of big data and data science at EU and national level.

ECSO

ECSO – European Cyber Security Organisation – September 2023 – Engineering

KINAITICS results were disseminated during the ECSO’s September 2023 edition of the Cybersecurity Awareness Calendar.

HACKATHON

KINAITICS 1st Hackathon – July 2023 – Vicomtech

First Hackathon Event organised remotely on 20th July 2023

CyberJourney_Europe Edition

CyberJourney – Europe Edition – June 2023 – Pluribus One

A special focus was placed on EU-funded cybersecurity research at Pluribus’ highly regarded Cyber Journey event in Sardinia on June 22nd 2023. The entire event focused on software security and solutions that enable software security. A roundtable has been organized to discuss the application of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity and their security.

In the round table discussion, KINAITICS outlined the project vision and what the consortium expects to achieve over the next two years.

Viva

VivaTech – June 2023 – Pluribus One

KINAITICS results were disseminated during a major European technology event, Viva Technology that took place from June 14-17 2023 and is considered one of the most important in the industry. During this technological festival, start-ups, technological leaders, investors and companies from all over the world are invited to present the major challenges and solutions in this field. The Viva Technology event featured speakers and panellists from leading companies in the industry who discussed the latest trends defining the field of innovation and technology.