Julio C. Hernandez-Castro

93 papers A 2B 7C 5Misc 2Journal 54Unranked 20
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
Secure in the dark? An in-depth analysis of dark web markets security.
Int. J. Inf. Sec.
Yichao Wang, Budi Arief, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2024 — conf
A Metric to Assess the Reliability of Crowd-sourced SUS Scores: A Case Study on the PoPLar Authentication Tool.
EuroUSEC
Yonas Leguesse, Mark Vella, Christian Colombo, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2024 J jnl
An Empirical Evaluation of Large Language Models in Static Code Analysis for PHP Vulnerability Detection.
J. Univers. Comput. Sci.
Orçun Çetin, Emre Ekmekcioglu, Budi Arief, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2024 — conf
Analysis of Security Mechanisms of Dark Web Markets.
EICC
Yichao Wang, Budi Arief, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2024 A conf
Assessing the Silent Frontlines: Exploring the Impact of DDoS Hacktivism in the Russo-Ukrainian War.
ACSAC
Yagiz Yilmaz, Orçun Çetin, Omer Said Ozturk, Emre Ekmekcioglu, Budi Arief, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2024 J jnl
Cashing out crypto: state of practice in ransom payments.
Int. J. Inf. Sec.
Constantinos Patsakis, Eugenia A. Politou, Efthimios Alepis, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2024 — conf
Honeypot's Best Friend? Investigating ChatGPT's Ability to Evaluate Honeypot Logs.
EICC
Meryem Berfin Ozkok, Baturay Birinci, Orçun Çetin, Budi Arief, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2023 J jnl
A Greedy Global Framework for LLL.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Sanjay Bhattacherjee, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Jack Moyler
2023 C conf
Dark Ending: What Happens when a Dark Web Market Closes down.
ICISSP
Yichao Wang, Budi Arief, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2023 B conf
Game Theoretic Modelling of a Ransom and Extortion Attack on Ethereum Validators.
ARES
Alpesh Bhudia, Anna Cartwright, Edward J. Cartwright, Darren Hurley-Smith, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2023 J jnl
Game Theoretic Modelling of a Ransom and Extortion Attack on Ethereum Validators.
CoRR
Alpesh Bhudia, Anna Cartwright, Edward J. Cartwright, Darren Hurley-Smith, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2023 J jnl
Introduction to the Special Issue on Ransomware.
DTRAP
Budi Arief, Lena Yuryna Connolly, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Allan Liska, Peter Y. A. Ryan
2023 — conf
New Tricks to Old Codes: Can AI Chatbots Replace Static Code Analysis Tools?
EICC
Omer Said Ozturk, Emre Ekmekcioglu, Orçun Çetin, Budi Arief, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2023 J jnl
Personality Types and Ransomware Victimisation.
DTRAP
Yagiz Yilmaz, Orçun Çetin, Claudia Grigore, Budi Arief, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2023 J jnl
StringENT test suite: ENT battery revisited for efficient P value computation.
J. Cryptogr. Eng.
Elena Almaraz Luengo, Bittor Alaña Olivares, Luis Javier García-Villalba, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Darren Hurley-Smith
2023 C conf
Using Infrastructure-Based Agents to Enhance Forensic Logging of Third-Party Applications.
ICISSP
Jennifer Bellizzi, Mark Vella, Christian Colombo, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2022 J jnl
A new approach to analyze the independence of statistical tests of randomness.
Appl. Math. Comput.
Elena Almaraz Luengo, Marcos Brian Leiva Cerna, Luis Javier García-Villalba, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2022 — ch.
Artificial Intelligence for the Design of Symmetric Cryptographic Primitives.
Security and Artificial Intelligence
Luca Mariot, Domagoj Jakobovic, Thomas Bäck, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2022 J jnl
Critical Analysis of Hypothesis Tests in Federal Information Processing Standard (140-2).
Entropy
Elena Almaraz Luengo, Marcos Brian Leiva Cerna, Luis Javier García-Villalba, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Darren Hurley-Smith
2022 J jnl
Explanation Method for Anomaly Detection on Mixed Numerical and Categorical Spaces.
CoRR
Iñigo López-Riobóo Botana, Carlos Eiras-Franco, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos
2022 — conf
Extortion of a Staking Pool in a Proof-of-Stake Consensus Mechanism.
COINS
Alpesh Bhudia, Anna Cartwright, Edward J. Cartwright, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Darren Hurley-Smith
2022 — conf
Identifying Incentives for Extortion in Proof of Stake Consensus Protocols.
DBB
Alpesh Bhudia, Anna Cartwright, Edward J. Cartwright, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Darren Hurley-Smith
2022 J jnl
On the Unbearable Lightness of FIPS 140-2 Randomness Tests.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur.
Darren Hurley-Smith, Constantinos Patsakis, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2021 — ch.
Challenges in Certifying Small-Scale (IoT) Hardware Random Number Generators.
Security of Ubiquitous Computing Systems
Darren Hurley-Smith, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2021 — conf
Industrialising Blackmail: Privacy Invasion Based IoT Ransomware.
NordSec
Calvin Brierley, Budi Arief, David J. Barnes, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2021 J jnl
Intercepting Hail Hydra: Real-time detection of Algorithmically Generated Domains.
J. Netw. Comput. Appl.
Fran Casino, Nikolaos Lykousas, Ivan Homoliak, Constantinos Patsakis, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2021 J jnl
Investigating the impact of ransomware splash screens.
J. Inf. Secur. Appl.
Yagiz Yilmaz, Orçun Çetin, Budi Arief, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2021 J jnl
On the Effectiveness of Ransomware Decryption Tools.
Comput. Secur.
Burak Filiz, Budi Arief, Orçun Çetin, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2021 J jnl
PoPL: Proof-of-Presence and Locality, or How to Secure Financial Transactions on Your Smartphone.
IEEE Access
Yonas Leguesse, Christian Colombo, Mark Vella, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2021 C conf
Responding to Living-Off-the-Land Tactics using Just-In-Time Memory Forensics (JIT-MF) for Android.
SECRYPT
Jennifer Bellizzi, Mark Vella, Christian Colombo, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2021 J jnl
Responding to Living-Off-the-Land Tactics using Just-in-Time Memory Forensics (JIT-MF) for Android.
CoRR
Jennifer Bellizzi, Mark Vella, Christian Colombo, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2021 — book
Security of Ubiquitous Computing Systems
Security of Ubiquitous Computing Systems
Gildas Avoine, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2020 J jnl
Intercepting Hail Hydra: Real-Time Detection of Algorithmically Generated Domains.
CoRR
Fran Casino, Nikolaos Lykousas, Ivan Homoliak, Constantinos Patsakis, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2020 B conf
PaperW8: an IoT bricking ransomware proof of concept.
ARES
Calvin Brierley, Jamie Pont, Budi Arief, David J. Barnes, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2020 — conf
Persistence in Linux-Based IoT Malware.
NordSec
Calvin Brierley, Jamie Pont, Budi Arief, David J. Barnes, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2020 J jnl
Quantum Leap and Crash: Searching and Finding Bias in Quantum Random Number Generators.
ACM Trans. Priv. Secur.
Darren Hurley-Smith, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2020 — conf
Real-Time Triggering of Android Memory Dumps for Stealthy Attack Investigation.
NordSec
Jennifer Bellizzi, Mark Vella, Christian Colombo, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2020 — conf
Reducing the Forensic Footprint with Android Accessibility Attacks.
STM
Yonas Leguesse, Mark Vella, Christian Colombo, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2020 C conf
Using Eyetracker to Find Ways to Mitigate Ransomware.
ICISSP
Budi Arief, Andy Periam, Orçun Çetin, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2020 B conf
What Is Your MOVE: Modeling Adversarial Network Environments.
EvoApplications
Karlo Knezevic, Stjepan Picek, Domagoj Jakobovic, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2020 C conf
Why Current Statistical Approaches to Ransomware Detection Fail.
ISC
Jamie Pont, Budi Arief, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2019 — conf
A Roadmap for Improving the Impact of Anti-ransomware Research.
NordSec
Jamie Pont, Osama Abu Oun, Calvin Brierley, Budi Arief, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2019 J jnl
To pay or not: game theoretic models of ransomware.
J. Cybersecur.
Edward J. Cartwright, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Anna Cartwright
2018 J jnl
Certifiably Biased: An In-Depth Analysis of a Common Criteria EAL4+ Certified TRNG.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur.
Darren Hurley-Smith, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2018 J jnl
Digital Image Tamper Detection Technique Based on Spectrum Analysis of CFA Artifacts.
Sensors
Edgar González Fernández, Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco, Luis Javier García-Villalba, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2018 J jnl
Digital Images Authentication Technique Based on DWT, DCT and Local Binary Patterns.
Sensors
Esteban Alejandro Armas Vega, Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco, Luis Javier García-Villalba, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2018 J jnl
Dismantling OpenPuff PDF steganography.
Digit. Investig.
Thomas Sloan, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2018 — conf
Great Expectations: A Critique of Current Approaches to Random Number Generation Testing & Certification.
SSR
Darren Hurley-Smith, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2018 B conf
Security Analysis of Contiki IoT Operating System.
EWSN
Jack McBride, Budi Arief, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2017 J jnl
A PRNU-based counter-forensic method to manipulate smartphone image source identification techniques.
Future Gener. Comput. Syst.
Luis Javier García-Villalba, Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco, Jocelin Rosales Corripio, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2017 — conf
An Analysis of Bitcoin Laundry Services.
NordSec
Thibault de Balthasar, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2017 J jnl
Detecting discussion communities on vaccination in twitter.
Future Gener. Comput. Syst.
Gema Bello Orgaz, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, David Camacho
2017 — conf
Earworms Make Bad Passwords: An Analysis of the Nokē Smart Lock Manual Override.
SIoT
Jack McBride, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Budi Arief
2017 J jnl
Economic Analysis of Ransomware.
CoRR
Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Edward J. Cartwright, Anna Stepanova
2017 B conf
Evolutionary generation and degeneration of randomness to assess the indepedence of the Ent test battery.
CEC
Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, David F. Barrero
2017 — conf
GenFace: Improving Cyber Security Using Realistic Synthetic Face Generation.
CSCML
Margarita Osadchy, Yan Wang, Orr Dunkelman, Stuart J. Gibson, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Christopher J. Solomon
2017 J jnl
No Bot Expects the DeepCAPTCHA! Introducing Immutable Adversarial Examples, With Applications to CAPTCHA Generation.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur.
Margarita Osadchy, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Stuart J. Gibson, Orr Dunkelman, Daniel Pérez-Cabo
2017 J jnl
Quam Bene Non Quantum: Bias in a Family of Quantum Random Number Generators.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Darren Hurley-Smith, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2016 J jnl
A Survey of Security and Privacy Issues in ePassport Protocols.
ACM Comput. Surv.
Gildas Avoine, Antonin Beaujeant, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Louis Demay, Philippe Teuwen
2016 — conf
Bias in the Mifare DESFire EV1 TRNG.
RFIDSec
Darren Hurley-Smith, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2016 J jnl
No Bot Expects the DeepCAPTCHA! Introducing Immutable Adversarial Examples with Applications to CAPTCHA.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Margarita Osadchy, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Stuart J. Gibson, Orr Dunkelman, Daniel Pérez-Cabo
2016 J jnl
Pitfalls in Ultralightweight Authentication Protocol Designs.
IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput.
Gildas Avoine, Xavier Carpent, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2016 J jnl
Theia: a tool for the forensic analysis of mobile devices pictures.
Computing
Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco, Jocelin Rosales Corripio, David Manuel Arenas González, L. Javier García-Villalba, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2015 J jnl
Automatic detection of potentially illegal online sales of elephant ivory via data mining.
PeerJ Comput. Sci.
Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, David L. Roberts
2015 J jnl
Forensic analysis of video steganography tools.
PeerJ Comput. Sci.
Thomas Sloan, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2015 J jnl
Forensic analysis of video steganography tools.
PeerJ Prepr.
Thomas Sloan, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2015 J jnl
On the limits of engine analysis for cheating detection in chess.
Comput. Secur.
David J. Barnes, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2015 J jnl
Smartphone image acquisition forensics using sensor fingerprint.
IET Comput. Vis.
Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco, Luis Javier García-Villalba, David Manuel Arenas González, Jocelin Rosales Corripio, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Stuart James Gibson
2015 J jnl
Steganalysis of OpenPuff through atomic concatenation of MP4 flags.
Digit. Investig.
Thomas Sloan, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2014 Misc conf
A Survey of Social Web Mining Applications for Disease Outbreak Detection.
IDC
Gema Bello Orgaz, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, David Camacho
2014 J jnl
Detecting fraudulent activity in a cloud using privacy-friendly data aggregates.
CoRR
Marc Solanas, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Debojyoti Dutta
2013 J jnl
A study on the false positive rate of Stegdetect.
Digit. Investig.
Omed S. Khalind, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Benjamin Aziz
2013 J jnl
Measuring Software Diversity, with Applications to Security.
CoRR
Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Jeremy Rossman
2013 — conf
Source smartphone identification using sensor pattern noise and wavelet transform.
ICDP
Jocelin Rosales Corripio, David Manuel Arenas González, Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco, Luis Javier García-Villalba, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Stuart James Gibson
2013 J jnl
Steganography using the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP).
CoRR
Reshad Patuck, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2012 J jnl
A secure distance-based RFID identification protocol with an off-line back-end database.
Pers. Ubiquitous Comput.
Pedro Peris-Lopez, Agustín Orfila, Esther Palomar, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2012 J jnl
Online Randomization Strategies to Obfuscate User Behavioral Patterns.
J. Netw. Syst. Manag.
Juan E. Tapiador, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Pedro Peris-Lopez
2012 — conf
Weaknesses in another Gen2-based RFID authentication protocol.
RFID-TA
Masoumeh Safkhani, Nasour Bagheri, Pedro Peris-Lopez, Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2011 J jnl
Cryptanalysis of Song's advanced smart card based password authentication protocol
CoRR
Juan E. Tapiador, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Pedro Peris-Lopez, John A. Clark
2011 J jnl
Cryptanalysis of an EPC Class-1 Generation-2 standard compliant authentication protocol.
Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell.
Pedro Peris-Lopez, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Juan E. Tapiador, Jan C. A. van der Lubbe
2011 J jnl
Flaws on RFID grouping-proofs. Guidelines for future sound protocols.
J. Netw. Comput. Appl.
Pedro Peris-Lopez, Agustín Orfila, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Jan C. A. van der Lubbe
2010 J jnl
Blind Steganalysis of Mp3stego.
J. Inf. Sci. Eng.
Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Juan E. Tapiador, Esther Palomar, Angel Romero-Gonzalex
2010 J jnl
Lightweight Props on the Weak Security of EPC Class-1 Generation-2 Standard.
IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst.
Pedro Peris-Lopez, Tieyan Li, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro
2010 J jnl
Vulnerability analysis of RFID protocols for tag ownership transfer.
Comput. Networks
Pedro Peris-Lopez, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Juan E. Tapiador, Tieyan Li, Yingjiu Li
2009 A conf
Metaheuristic traceability attack against SLMAP, an RFID lightweight authentication protocol.
IPDPS
Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Juan E. Tapiador, Pedro Peris-Lopez, John A. Clark, El-Ghazali Talbi
2009 J jnl
Practical attacks on a mutual authentication scheme under the EPC Class-1 Generation-2 standard.
Comput. Commun.
Pedro Peris-Lopez, Tieyan Li, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Juan E. Tapiador
2009 J jnl
Security Flaws in a Recent Ultralightweight RFID Protocol
CoRR
Pedro Peris-Lopez, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Juan M. Estévez-Tapiador, Jan C. A. van der Lubbe
2009 — conf
Security Flaws in an Efficient Pseudo-Random Number Generator for Low-Power Environments.
SEWCN
Pedro Peris-Lopez, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Juan M. Estévez-Tapiador, Enrique San Millán, Jan C. A. van der Lubbe
2009 Misc conf
Weaknesses in Two Recent Lightweight RFID Authentication Protocols.
Inscrypt
Pedro Peris-Lopez, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Juan E. Tapiador, Tieyan Li, Jan C. A. van der Lubbe
2007 — conf
Solving the Simultaneous Scanning Problem Anonymously: Clumping Proofs for RFID Tags.
SECPerU
Pedro Peris-Lopez, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Juan M. Estévez-Tapiador, Arturo Ribagorda
2006 B conf
Wheedham: An Automatically Designed Block Cipher by means of Genetic Programming.
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Juan M. Estévez-Tapiador, Arturo Ribagorda Garnacho, Benjamín Ramos Álvarez
2003 B conf
Finding efficient distinguishers for cryptographic mappings, with an application to the block cipher TEA.
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Pedro Isasi
2001 J jnl
Genetic Algorithms Can be Used to Obtain Good Linear Congruential Generators.
Cryptologia
Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Arturo Ribagorda, Pedro Isasi, José M. Sierra