Publications

Private Links, Public Leaks: Consequences of Frictionless User Experience on the Security and Privacy Posture of SMS-Delivered URLs PDF Muhammad Danish, Enrique Sobrados, Priya Kaushik, Bhupendra Acharya, Muhammad Saad, Abdullah Mueen, Sazzadur Rahaman, and Afsah Anwar ArxivWeb / MobileMobile

Silent Subversion: Sensor Spoofing Attacks via Supply Chain Implants in Satellite Systems PDF Jack Vanlyssel, Catalin Roman, and Afsah Anwar In The 47th IEEE Aerospace Conference (2026)Space Systems

SpyChain: Multi-Vector Supply Chain Attacks on Small Satellite Systems PDF Jack Vanlyssel, Enrique Sobrados, Ramsha Anwar, Catalin Roman, and Afsah Anwar ArXivSpace Systems

MVPNalyzer: An Investigative Framework for the Security & Privacy Audit of Mobile VPNs PDF Wayne Wang, Aaron Ortwein, Enrique Sobrados*, Robert Stanley, Piyush Kumar, Afsah Anwar, and Roya Ensafi In The Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium (2026)VPN SecurityMobile

Exposing the Limitations of Machine Learning for Malware Detection Under Concept Drift PDF Abusnaina, A., Anwar, A., Saad, M., Alabduljabbar, A., Jang, R., Salem, S., & Mohaisen, D. In International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (2025)Malware

A Recent Year On the Internet: Measuring and Understanding the Threats to Everyday Internet Devices PDF A. Anwar, Y. H. Chen, R. Hodgman, T. Sellers, E. Kirda, and A. Oprea The Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (2022)Malware

Systematically Evaluating the Robustness of ML-based IoT Malware Detection Systems PDF A. Abusnaina, A. Anwar, A. Alabduljabbar, S. Alshamrani, R. Jang, D. Nyang, and D. Mohaisen The 25th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (2022)Malware

Cleaning the NVD: Comprehensive quality assessment, improvements, and analyses PDF Anwar, A., Abusnaina, A., Chen, S., Li, F. and Mohaisen, D. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (2022)Malware

Revisiting nakamoto consensus in asynchronous networks: A comprehensive analysis of bitcoin safety and chainquality PDF Saad, M., Anwar, A., Ravi, S. and Mohaisen, D. Proceedings of the ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (2021)Malware

Dl-fhmc: Deep learning-based fine-grained hierarchical learning approach for robust malware classification PDF Abusnaina, A., Abuhamad, M., Alasmary, H., Anwar, A., Jang, R., Salem, S., Nyang, D. and Mohaisen, D. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (2021)Malware

Systemically Evaluating the Robustness of ML-based IoT Malware Detectors PDF Abusnaina, A., Anwar, A., Alshamrani, S., Alabduljabbar, A., Jang, R., Nyang, D. and Mohaisen, D. IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks – Supplemental Volume (2021)Malware

Statically Dissecting Internet of Things Malware: Analysis, Characterization, and Detection PDF Afsah Anwar, Hisham Alasmary, Jeman Park, An Wang, Songqing Chen, and David Mohaisen The 22nd International Conference on Information and Communications Security (2020)Malware

Soteria: Detecting adversarial examples in control flow graph-based malware classifiers PDF Alasmary, H., Abusnaina, A., Jang, R., Abuhamad, M., Anwar, A., Nyang, D. and Mohaisen, D. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (2020)Malware

Adversarial Learning Attacks on Graph-based IoT Malware Detection Systems PDF A. Abusnaina, A. Khormali, H. Alasmary, J. Park, A. Anwar and A. Mohaisen IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (2019)Malware

RouteChain: Towards Blockchain-based Secure and Efficient BGP Routing PDF M. Saad, A. Anwar, A. Ahmad, H. Alasmary, M. Yukesl, and A. Mohaisen IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (2019)Malware

Understanding the Hidden Cost of Software Vulnerabilities: Measurements and Predictions PDF A. Anwar, A. Khormali, and A. Mohaisen International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (2018)Malware

Honor Among Thieves: Towards Understanding the Dynamics and Interdependencies in IoT Botnets PDF J. Choi, A. Abusnaina, A. Anwar, A. Wang, S. Chen, D. Nyang and A. Mohaisen IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (2019)Malware

Analyzing and Detecting Emerging Internet of Things Malware: A Graph-based Approach PDF H. Alasmary, A. Khormali, A. Anwar, J. Park, J. Choi, A. Abusnaina, A. Awad, D. Nyang, A. Mohaisen IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2019)Malware

Understanding Internet of Things malware by analyzing endpoints in their static artifacts PDF J. Choi, A. Anwar, A. Alabduljabbar, H. Alasmary, J. Spaulding, A. Wang, S. Chen, D. Nyang, A. Awad, and D. Mohaisen Computer Networks (2022)Malware