Muhammad Ikram

97 papers A* 4A 5B 11C 8Journal 54Unranked 13
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Pro-ZD: A Transferable Graph Neural Network Approach for Proactive Zero-Day Threats Mitigation.
CoRR
Nardine Basta, Firas Ben Hmida, Houssem Jmal, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Andy Walker
2025 J jnl
A Large-Scale Empirical Analysis of Custom GPTs' Vulnerabilities in the OpenAI Ecosystem.
CoRR
Sunday Oyinlola Ogundoyin, Muhammad Ikram, Hassan Jameel Asghar, Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Dali Kaafar
2025 J jnl
BotSSCL: Social Bot Detection with Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning.
Online Soc. Networks Media
Mohammad Majid Akhtar, Navid Shadman Bhuiyan, Rahat Masood, Muhammad Ikram, Salil S. Kanhere
2025 A conf
CARE: Enhancing LLM Instruction Following via Dual-Agent Prompt Refinement.
ECAI
Nardine Basta, Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2025 J jnl
Classifying Ransomware-Bitcoin Nodes using Graph Embeddings.
Pac. Asia J. Assoc. Inf. Syst.
Adam Brian Turner, Muhammad Ikram, Allon J. Uhlmann
2025 A conf
Deception Meets Diagnostics: Deception-based Real-Time Threat Detection in Healthcare Web Systems.
RAID
Zeeshan Zulkifl Shah, Muhammad Ikram, Hassan Jameel Asghar, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2025 J jnl
Enhancing Malware Fingerprinting through Analysis of Evasive Techniques.
CoRR
Alsharif Abuadbba, Sean Lamont, M. Ejaz Ahmed, Cody James Christopher, Muhammad Ikram, Udaya Kiran Tupakula, Daniel Coscia, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Surya Nepal
2025 — conf
Facing the Challenge of Leveraging Untrained Humans in Malware Analysis.
SEC (1)
Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Hassan Jameel Asghar, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Sean Lamont, Daniel Coscia
2025 J jnl
Measuring, Characterizing, and Analyzing the Free Web Games Ecosystem.
IEEE Trans. Games
Hina Qayyum, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Gareth Tyson
2025 J jnl
On challenges of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks: A comprehensive survey of requirements, applications, and security issues.
J. Netw. Comput. Appl.
Muhammad Sajjad Akbar, Zawar Hussain, Muhammad Ikram, Quan Z. Sheng, Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay
2025 J jnl
RINSER: Accurate API Prediction Using Masked Language Models.
CoRR
Muhammad Ejaz Ahmed, Cody James Christopher, Muhammad Ikram, Sean Lamont, Alsharif Abuadbba, Seyit Camtepe, Surya Nepal, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2025 J jnl
SpaLLM-Guard: Pairing SMS Spam Detection Using Open-source and Commercial LLMs.
CoRR
Muhammad Salman, Muhammad Ikram, Nardine Basta, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2025 — conf
Unsafe by Design? A First Look at Security and Privacy Risks in OpenAI's Custom GPT Ecosystem.
WPES
Sunday Oyinlola Ogundoyin, Muhammad Ikram, Hassan Jameel Asghar, Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Dali Kaafar
2025 — conf
Unveiling Usability Challenges in Web Privacy Controls.
WPES
Rahat Masood, Sunday Oyinlola Ogundoyin, Muhammad Ikram
2025 J jnl
Unveiling Usability Challenges in Web Privacy Controls.
CoRR
Rahat Masood, Sunday Oyinlola Ogundoyin, Muhammad Ikram, Alex Ye
2024 B conf
Auditing and Attributing Behaviours of Suspicious Android Health Applications.
NSS
Muhammad Salman, I Wayan Budi Sentana, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2024 J jnl
BotSSCL: Social Bot Detection with Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning.
CoRR
Mohammad Majid Akhtar, Navid Shadman Bhuiyan, Rahat Masood, Muhammad Ikram, Salil S. Kanhere
2024 J jnl
Exploring the Distinctive Tweeting Patterns of Toxic Twitter Users.
CoRR
Hina Qayyum, Muhammad Ikram, Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Ian D. Wood, Nicolas Kourtellis, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2024 J jnl
GPTs Window Shopping: An analysis of the Landscape of Custom ChatGPT Models.
CoRR
Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2024 J jnl
Investigating Evasive Techniques in SMS Spam Filtering: A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Models.
IEEE Access
Muhammad Salman, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2024 — conf
More Than Just a Random Number Generator! Unveiling the Security and Privacy Risks of Mobile OTP Authenticator Apps.
WISE (5)
Muhammad Ikram, I Wayan Budi Sentana, Hassan Jameel Asghar, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Michal Kepkowski
2024 — conf
On Adversarial Training with Incorrect Labels.
WISE (4)
Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Junda Lu, Xiaowei Zhou, Dinusha Vatsalan, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2024 J jnl
On mission Twitter Profiles: A Study of Selective Toxic Behavior.
CoRR
Hina Qayyum, Muhammad Ikram, Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Ian D. Wood, Nicolas Kourtellis, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2024 — conf
On the Robustness of Malware Detectors to Adversarial Samples.
ESORICS Workshops (2)
Muhammad Salman, Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Hassan Jameel Asghar, Muhammad Ikram, Sidharth Kaushik, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2024 J jnl
On the Robustness of Malware Detectors to Adversarial Samples.
CoRR
Muhammad Salman, Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Hassan Jameel Asghar, Muhammad Ikram, Sidharth Kaushik, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2024 C conf
Performance Evaluation of Quantum-Secure Symmetric Key Agreement.
SIN
Amin Rois Sinung Nugroho, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2024 J jnl
Proper choice of location cumulative sum control charts for different environments.
Qual. Reliab. Eng. Int.
Hafiz Zafar Nazir, Muhammad Ikram, Muhammad Wasim Amir, Noureen Akhtar, Zameer Abbas, Muhammad Riaz
2024 J jnl
SPGNN-API: A Transferable Graph Neural Network for Attack Paths Identification and Autonomous Mitigation.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur.
Houssem Jmal, Firas Ben Hmida, Nardine Basta, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamad Ali Kâafar, Andy Walker
2024 J jnl
SenTopX: Benchmark for User Sentiment on Various Topics.
CoRR
Hina Qayyum, Muhammad Ikram, Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Ian D. Wood, Mohamad Ali Kâafar, Nicolas Kourtellis
2024 A conf
SoK: False Information, Bots and Malicious Campaigns: Demystifying Elements of Social Media Manipulations.
AsiaCCS
Mohammad Majid Akhtar, Rahat Masood, Muhammad Ikram, Salil S. Kanhere
2024 J jnl
Use of cryptography in malware obfuscation.
J. Comput. Virol. Hacking Tech.
Hassan Jameel Asghar, Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Muhammad Ikram, Giang Linh Duc Nguyen, Dali Kaafar, Sean Lamont, Daniel Coscia
2023 — conf
A longitudinal study of the top 1% toxic Twitter profiles.
WebSci
Hina Qayyum, Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Ian D. Wood, Muhammad Ikram, Nicolas Kourtellis, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2023 J jnl
A longitudinal study of the top 1% toxic Twitter profiles.
CoRR
Hina Qayyum, Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Ian D. Wood, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Nicolas Kourtellis
2023 B conf
An Empirical Analysis of Security and Privacy Risks in Android Cryptocurrency Wallet Apps.
ACNS
I Wayan Budi Sentana, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2023 J jnl
Don't Be a Victim During a Pandemic! Analysing Security and Privacy Threats in Twitter During COVID-19.
IEEE Access
Bibhas Sharma, Ishan Karunanayake, Rahat Masood, Muhammad Ikram
2023 B conf
Exploring the Distinctive Tweeting Patterns of Toxic Twitter Users.
IEEE Big Data
Hina Qayyum, Muhammad Ikram, Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Ian D. Wood, Nicolas Kourtellis, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2023 J jnl
False Information, Bots and Malicious Campaigns: Demystifying Elements of Social Media Manipulations.
CoRR
Mohammad Majid Akhtar, Rahat Masood, Muhammad Ikram, Salil S. Kanhere
2023 B conf
On mission Twitter Profiles: A Study of Selective Toxic Behavior.
IEEE Big Data
Hina Qayyum, Muhammad Ikram, Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Ian D. Wood, Nicolas Kourtellis, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2023 J jnl
SPGNN-API: A Transferable Graph Neural Network for Attack Paths Identification and Autonomous Mitigation.
CoRR
Houssem Jmal, Firas Ben Hmida, Nardine Basta, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Andy Walker
2023 B conf
Towards Automatic Annotation and Detection of Fake News.
LCN
Mohammad Majid Akhtar, Ishan Karunanayake, Bibhas Sharma, Rahat Masood, Muhammad Ikram, Salil S. Kanhere
2022 J jnl
5G-Enabled Pseudonymity for Cooperative Intelligent Transportation System.
CoRR
Nardine Basta, Ming Ding, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2022 B conf
A First Look at Android Apps' Third-Party Resources Loading.
NSS
Hina Qayyum, Muhammad Salman, I Wayan Budi Sentana, Giang Linh Duc Nguyen, Muhammad Ikram, Gareth Tyson, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2022 J jnl
A Study of Third-party Resources Loading on Web.
CoRR
Muhammad Ikram, Rahat Masood, Gareth Tyson, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Roya Ensafi
2022 J jnl
A deep dive into the consistently toxic 1% of Twitter.
CoRR
Hina Qayyum, Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Ian D. Wood, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Nicolas Kourtellis
2022 J jnl
An Empirical Analysis of SMS Scam Detection Systems.
CoRR
Muhammad Salman, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2022 J jnl
An Empirical Assessment of Security and Privacy Risks of Web based-Chatbots.
CoRR
Nazar Waheed, Muhammad Ikram, Saad Sajid Hashmi, Xiangjian He, Priyadarsi Nanda
2022 B conf
An Empirical Assessment of Security and Privacy Risks of Web-Based Chatbots.
WISE
Nazar Waheed, Muhammad Ikram, Saad Sajid Hashmi, Xiangjian He, Priyadarsi Nanda
2022 J jnl
Analysing Security and Privacy Threats in the Lockdown Periods of COVID-19 Pandemic: Twitter Dataset Case Study.
CoRR
Bibhas Sharma, Ishan Karunanayake, Rahat Masood, Muhammad Ikram
2022 J jnl
Machine Learning-based Automatic Annotation and Detection of COVID-19 Fake News.
CoRR
Mohd Majid Akhtar, Bibhas Sharma, Ishan Karunanayake, Rahat Masood, Muhammad Ikram, Salil S. Kanhere
2022 J jnl
SoK: Use of Cryptography in Malware Obfuscation.
CoRR
Hassan Jameel Asghar, Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Muhammad Ikram, Giang L. D. Nguyen, Dali Kaafar, Sean Lamont, Daniel Coscia
2022 J jnl
SoK: Use of Cryptography in Malware Obfuscation.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Hassan Jameel Asghar, Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Muhammad Ikram, Giang Linh Duc Nguyen, Dali Kaafar, Sean Lamont, Daniel Coscia
2022 B conf
Towards a Zero-Trust Micro-segmentation Network Security Strategy: An Evaluation Framework.
NOMS
Nardine Basta, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Andy Walker
2021 J jnl
Analyzing security issues of android mobile health and medical applications.
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc.
Gioacchino Tangari, Muhammad Ikram, I Wayan Budi Sentana, Kiran Ijaz, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Shlomo Berkovsky
2021 J jnl
BlockJack: Towards Improved Prevention of IP Prefix Hijacking Attacks in Inter-Domain Routing Via Blockchain.
CoRR
I Wayan Budi Sentana, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2021 C conf
BlockJack: Towards Improved Prevention of IP Prefix Hijacking Attacks in Inter-domain Routing via Blockchain.
SECRYPT
I Wayan Budi Sentana, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2021 J jnl
Empirical Security and Privacy Analysis of Mobile Symptom Checking Applications on Google Play.
CoRR
I Wayan Budi Sentana, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Shlomo Berkovsky
2021 C conf
Empirical Security and Privacy Analysis of Mobile Symptom Checking Apps on Google Play.
SECRYPT
I Wayan Budi Sentana, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Shlomo Berkovsky
2021 C conf
Longitudinal Compliance Analysis of Android Applications with Privacy Policies.
MobiQuitous
Saad Sajid Hashmi, Nazar Waheed, Gioacchino Tangari, Muhammad Ikram, Stephen Smith
2021 J jnl
Longitudinal Compliance Analysis of AndroidApplications with Privacy Policies.
CoRR
Saad Sajid Hashmi, Nazar Waheed, Gioacchino Tangari, Muhammad Ikram, Stephen Smith
2021 J jnl
Security and Privacy in IoT Using Machine Learning and Blockchain: Threats and Countermeasures.
ACM Comput. Surv.
Nazar Waheed, Xiangjian He, Muhammad Ikram, Muhammad Usman, Saad Sajid Hashmi, Muhammad Usman
2021 J jnl
Towards a Zero-Trust Micro-segmentation Network Security Strategy: An Evaluation Framework.
CoRR
Nardine Basta, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Andy Walker
2020 — conf
BlockJack: Blocking IP Prefix Hijacker in Inter-Domain Routing.
StudentWorkshop@CoNEXT
I Wayan Budi Sentana, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2020 A* conf
Decentralized Control: A Case Study of Russia.
NDSS
Reethika Ramesh, Ram Sundara Raman, Matthew Bernhard, Victor Ongkowijaya, Leonid Evdokimov, Anne Edmundson, Steven Sprecher, Muhammad Ikram, Roya Ensafi
2020 J jnl
Measuring and Analysing the Chain of Implicit Trust: A Study of Third-party Resources Loading.
ACM Trans. Priv. Secur.
Muhammad Ikram, Rahat Masood, Gareth Tyson, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Noha Loizon, Roya Ensafi
2020 A* conf
iOS, Your OS, Everybody's OS: Vetting and Analyzing Network Services of iOS Applications.
USENIX Security Symposium
Zhushou Tang, Ke Tang, Minhui Xue, Yuan Tian, Sen Chen, Muhammad Ikram, Tielei Wang, Haojin Zhu
2019 J jnl
A Cartography of Web Tracking using DNS Records.
Comput. Commun.
Jingxiu Su, Zhenyu Li, Stéphane Grumbach, Muhammad Ikram, Kavé Salamatian, Gaogang Xie
2019 A conf
A Decade of Mal-Activity Reporting: A Retrospective Analysis of Internet Malicious Activity Blacklists.
AsiaCCS
Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Muhammad Ikram, Hassan Jameel Asghar, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Abdelberi Chaabane, Kanchana Thilakarathna
2019 J jnl
A Decade of Mal-Activity Reporting: A Retrospective Analysis of Internet Malicious Activity Blacklists.
CoRR
Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Muhammad Ikram, Hassan Jameel Asghar, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Abdelberi Chaabane, Kanchana Thilakarathna
2019 — conf
A Longitudinal Analysis of Online Ad-Blocking Blacklists.
LCN Symposium
Saad Sajid Hashmi, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2019 J jnl
A Longitudinal Analysis of Online Ad-Blocking Blacklists.
CoRR
Saad Sajid Hashmi, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2019 — conf
DaDiDroid: An Obfuscation Resilient Tool for Detecting Android Malware via Weighted Directed Call Graph Modelling.
ICETE (2)
Muhammad Ikram, Pierrick Beaume, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2019 J jnl
DaDiDroid: An Obfuscation Resilient Tool for Detecting Android Malware via Weighted Directed Call Graph Modelling.
CoRR
Muhammad Ikram, Pierrick Beaume, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2019 C conf
On optimization of ad-blocking lists for mobile devices.
MobiQuitous
Saad Sajid Hashmi, Muhammad Ikram, Stephen Smith
2019 A* conf
The Chain of Implicit Trust: An Analysis of the Web Third-party Resources Loading.
WWW
Muhammad Ikram, Rahat Masood, Gareth Tyson, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Noha Loizon, Roya Ensafi
2019 J jnl
The Chain of Implicit Trust: An Analysis of the Web Third-party Resources Loading.
CoRR
Muhammad Ikram, Rahat Masood, Gareth Tyson, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Noha Loizon, Roya Ensafi
2018 — —
Analysis and design of secure and privacy preserving systems.
Muhammad Ikram
2018 A* conf
Incognito: A Method for Obfuscating Web Data.
WWW
Rahat Masood, Dinusha Vatsalan, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2018 C conf
Web Tracking Cartography with DNS Records.
IPCCC
Jingxiu Su, Zhenyu Li, Stéphane Grumbach, Muhammad Ikram, Kavé Salamatian, Gaogang Xie
2017 J jnl
A First Look at Ad Blocking Apps on Google Play.
CoRR
Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2017 B conf
A first look at mobile Ad-Blocking apps.
NCA
Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar
2017 — conf
Characterizing key stakeholders in an online black-hat marketplace.
eCrime
Shehroze Farooqi, Guillaume Jourjon, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Muhammad Zubair Shafiq, Arik Friedman, Fareed Zaffar
2017 J jnl
Measuring, Characterizing, and Detecting Facebook Like Farms.
CoRR
Muhammad Ikram, Lucky Onwuzurike, Shehroze Farooqi, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Arik Friedman, Guillaume Jourjon, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, M. Zubair Shafiq
2017 J jnl
Measuring, Characterizing, and Detecting Facebook Like Farms.
ACM Trans. Priv. Secur.
Muhammad Ikram, Lucky Onwuzurike, Shehroze Farooqi, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Arik Friedman, Guillaume Jourjon, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, M. Zubair Shafiq
2017 J jnl
Towards Seamless Tracking-Free Web: Improved Detection of Trackers via One-class Learning.
Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol.
Muhammad Ikram, Hassan Jameel Asghar, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Anirban Mahanti, Balachander Krishnamurthy
2016 A conf
An Analysis of the Privacy and Security Risks of Android VPN Permission-enabled Apps.
Internet Measurement Conference
Muhammad Ikram, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Suranga Seneviratne, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Vern Paxson
2016 J jnl
Towards Seamless Tracking-Free Web: Improved Detection of Trackers via One-class Learning.
CoRR
Muhammad Ikram, Hassan Jameel Asghar, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Anirban Mahanti
2015 J jnl
Characterizing Seller-Driven Black-Hat Marketplaces.
CoRR
Shehroze Farooqi, Muhammad Ikram, Gohar Irfan, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Arik Friedman, Guillaume Jourjon, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Muhammad Zubair Shafiq, Fareed Zaffar
2015 J jnl
Spying on Spammers: Tracking Like Farm Accounts on Facebook.
CoRR
Muhammad Ikram, Lucky Onwuzurike, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Arik Friedman, Guillaume Jourjon, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, M. Zubair Shafiq
2014 — conf
On the Intrusiveness of JavaScript on the Web.
CoNEXT Student Workshop
Muhammad Ikram, Hassan Asghar, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Anirban Mahanti
2014 J jnl
Power Efficient Clustering for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network.
Int. J. Distributed Sens. Networks
Seng-Kyoun Jo, Muhammad Ikram, Ilgu Jung, Won Ryu, Jinsul Kim
2013 — ch.
Service Overlays.
Benchmarking Peer-to-Peer Systems
Kamill Panitzek, Muhammad Ikram, Michael Stein
2012 J jnl
Smooth Resilient Service Provision in Large Heterogeneous Networks.
Prax. Inf.verarb. Kommun.
Kamill Panitzek, Muhammad Ikram, Max Mühlhäuser, Thorsten Strufe
2009 B conf
A simple lightweight authentic bootstrapping protocol for IPv6-based low rate wireless personal area networks (6LoWPANs).
IWCMC
Muhammad Ikram, Aminul Haque Chowdhury, Bilal Zafar, Hyon-Soo Cha, Ki-Hyung Kim, Seung-Wha Yoo, Dong-Kyoo Kim
2009 — conf
Image Retrieval in Multimedia Databases: A Survey.
IIH-MSP
Yihun Alemu, Jong-bin Koh, Muhammad Ikram, Dong-Kyoo Kim
2009 B conf
Route-over vs mesh-under routing in 6LoWPAN.
IWCMC
Aminul Haque Chowdhury, Muhammad Ikram, Hyon-Soo Cha, Hassen Redwan, S. M. Saif Shams, Ki-Hyung Kim, Seung-Wha Yoo
2008 C conf
A Lightweight Mutual Authentication Scheme for Mobile Radio Frequency IDentification (mRFID) Systems.
IPCCC
Muhammad Ikram, Aminul Haque Chowdhury, Hassen Redwan, Jong-bin Koh, Ki-Hyung Kim, Dong-Kyoo Kim
2008 C conf
Secure and Survivable Group Communication over MANET Using CRTDH Based on a Virtual Subnet Model.
APSCC
Aminul Haque Chowdhury, Muhammad Ikram, Ki-Hyung Kim