Scientific publications

The Adaptive Arms Race: Redefining Robustness in AI Security

by Ilias Tsingenopoulos, Vera Rimmer, Fabio Pierazzi, Lorenzo Cavallaro, Wouter Joosen
DistriNet, KU Leuven, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
The 28th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2025)
October 2025

Designing AI Systems with Correction Mechanisms Towards Attack-Resilient Architectures

by Efi Kafali; Christoforos N. Spartalis; Theodoros Semertzidis; Charalampos Z. Patrikakis; Petros Daras

CERTH, GR-57001 Thessaloniki, Greece

2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR)

August 2025

Enhancing Bot Detection With Causally and Temporally Constrained Counterfactual Examples for Targeted Retraining

by Davy Preuveneers, Wouter Joosen
DistriNet, KU Leuven, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
APWG.EU Tech Summit and Researchers Forum 2025
May 2025

Dynamic Trade-Offs in Adversarial Training: Exploring Efficiency, Robustness, Forgetting, and Interpretability

by Efi Kafali, Theodoros Semertzidis, Petros Daras
CERTH, GR-57001 Thessaloniki, Greece
Neural Processing Letters
May 2025
Defending Against AI Threats with a User-Centric Trustworthiness Assessment Framework

Defending Against AI Threats with a User-Centric Trustworthiness Assessment Framework

by Efi Kafali, Davy Preuveneers, Theodoros Semertzidis, Petros Daras
CERTH, GR-57001 Thessaloniki, Greece
DistriNet, KU Leuven, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
Big Data and Cognitive Computing
October 2024

CYBERSHIELD: A Competitive Simulation Environment for Training AI in Cybersecurity

by Alvaro Fernandez, Iñigo Amonarriz, Raúl Orduna, Rodrigo Román
Vicomtech, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA) Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain
Network Information and Computer Security Lab, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain
The 11th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2024)
October 2024

KINAITICS: Enhancing Cybersecurity Education Using AI-Based Tools and Gamification Approaches

by Francesco Zola, Xabier Echeberria-Barrio, Jokin Petisco, Nikos Vakakis, Antonis Voulgaridis, Konstantinos Votis
Vicomtech, Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain
CERTH, GR-57001 Thessaloniki, Greece

ICETC ’24: Proceedings of the 2024 16th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers

September 2024
How to Train your Antivirus: RL-based Hardening through the Problem Space

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

by Ilias Tsingenopoulos, Jacopo Cortellazzi, Branislav Bosansky, Simone Aonzo, Davy Preuveneers, Wouter Joosen, Fabio Pierazzi, Lorenzo Cavallaro
DistriNet, KU Leuven, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
The 27th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2024)
September 2024
Building a Use Case-Driven Adversarial Threat Matrix: A Comprehensive Approach

Building a Use Case-Driven Adversarial Threat Matrix: A Comprehensive Approach

by Prodromos Kiriakidis, Efi Kafali, Georgios Rizos, Antonis Voulgaridis, Theodoros Semertzidis, Stephane Gazut, Petros Daras and Konstantinos Votis
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, CERTH, GR 57001 Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece
CEA LIST, DIGITEO Saclay, 91 191 Gif sur Yyvette, France
2024 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR)
September 2024
On Adaptive Decision-Based Attacks and Defenses

On Adaptive Decision-Based Attacks and Defenses

by Ilias Tsingenopoulos, Vera Rimmer, Davy Preuveneers, Fabio Pierazzi, Lorenzo Cavallaro and Wouter Joosen
DistriNet, KU Leuven, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
7th Deep Learning Security and Privacy Workshop co-located with the 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
May 2024
NeuralSentinel: Safeguarding Neural Network Reliability and Trustworthiness

NeuralSentinel: Safeguarding Neural Network Reliability and Trustworthiness

by Xabier Echeberria-Barrio, Mikel Gorricho, Selene Valencia, and Francesco Zola
Vicomtech Foundation, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Donostia 20009, Spain
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) 2024, 2
An Ontology-Based Cybersecurity Framework for AI-Enabled Systems and Applications.

An Ontology-Based Cybersecurity Framework for AI-Enabled Systems and Applications.

by Davy Preuveneers and Wouter Joosen
DistriNet, KU Leuven, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
Future Internet 2024, 16(3), 69