Publications

Trust Without Boundaries: An Architectural Analysis of Satellite Flight Software Jack Vanlyssel, Gruia-Catalin Roman, Kendra Cook, Sazzadur Rahaman, Afsah Anwar ArxivSpace

The Tragedy of Convenience: Cascading User-Data Leakage from SMS-delivered URLs Muhammad Danish, Enrique Sobrados, Priya Kaushik, Bhupendra Acharya, Muhammad Saad, Abdullah Mueen, Sazzadur Rahaman, and Afsah Anwar To Appear at CCS 2026 (Arxiv)WebMobile

MVPNalyzer: An Investigative Framework for the Security & Privacy Audit of Mobile VPNs 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)VPNMobile

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

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

Exposing the Limitations of Machine Learning for Malware Detection Under Concept Drift 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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