Selected Publications
The following are some of my peer-reviewed publications. For proper citations (and a complete list) of my publications, please refer to Google Scholar.
Auditing and Attributing Behaviours of Suspicious Android Health Applications
Muhammad Salman, I Wayan Budi Sentana, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kaafar
In the 18th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS), [https://asiaccs2024.sutd.edu.sg/](https://wise2024-qatar.com/](https://nsclab.org/nss-socialsec2024/), 2024.On Adversarial Training with Incorrect Labels
Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Junda Lu, Xiaowei Zhou, Dinusha Vatsalan, Muhammad Ikram, and Mohamed Ali Kaafar
In the 25th Web Information Systems Engineering Society (WISE), https://asiaccs2024.sutd.edu.sg/, 2024.More Than Just a Random Number Generator! Unveiling the Security and Privacy Risks of Mobile OTP Authenticator Apps
Muhammad Ikram, I Wayan Budi Sentana, Hassan Asghar, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Michal Kepkowski
In the 25th Web Information Systems Engineering Society (WISE), https://asiaccs2024.sutd.edu.sg/, 2024.SoK: False Information, Bots and Malicious Campaigns: Demystifying Elements of Social Media Manipulations
Mohammad Majid Akhtar, Rahat Masood, Muhammad Ikram, Salil S. Kanhere
In the 19th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), https://asiaccs2024.sutd.edu.sg/, 2024.SPGNN-API: A Transferable Graph Neural Network for Attack Paths Identification and Autonomous Mitigation
Houssem Jmal, Firas Ben Hmida, Nardine Basta, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Andy Walker
In IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE T-IFS), https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=10206, 2024. (Impact Factor: 6.8)Use of Cryptography in Malware Obfuscation
Hassan Jameel Asghar, Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Muhammad Ikram, Giang Nguyen, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Sean Lamont, Daniel Coscia
In The Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques, 2023. (Impact Factor: 3.5)Don’t be a Victim During a Pandemic! Analysing Security and Privacy Threats in Twitter During COVID-19
Bibhas Sharma, Ishan Karunanayake, Rahat Masood, Muhammad Ikram
In IEEE Access, https://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/, 2023. (Impact Factor: 3.9)An Empirical Analysis of Security and Privacy Risks in Android Cryptocurrency Wallet Apps
I Wayan Budi Sentana, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kaafar
In The 21st International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), 2023.A longitudinal study of the top 1% toxic Twitter profiles
Hina Qayyum, Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Ian D. Wood, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Nicolas Kourtellis
In WebSci, 2023.Towards a Zero-Trust Micro-segmentation Network Security Strategy: An Evaluation Framework
Nardine Basta, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Andy Walker
In NOMS, 2022.Longitudinal Compliance Analysis of Android Applications with Privacy Policies
Saad Sajid Hashmi, Nazar Waheed, Gioacchino Tangari, Muhammad Ikram, Stephen Smith
In Mobiquitous, 2021. (Outstanding Paper Award)Analyzing security issues of android mobile health and medical applications
Gioacchino Tangari, Muhammad Ikram, I Wayan Budi Sentana, Kiran Ijaz, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Shlomo Berkovsky
In Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), ocab131, https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocab131, 2021. (Impact Factor: 7.9)Mobile health and privacy: cross-sectional study
Gioacchino Tangari, Muhammad Ikram, Kiran Ijaz, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Shlomo Berkovsky
In The Britisch Medical Journal (BMJ), 2021. (Impact Factor: 107.7)Security and Privacy in IoT Using Machine Learning and Blockchain: Threats and Countermeasures
Nazar Waheed, Xiangjian He, Muhammad Ikram, Muhammad Usman, Saad Sajid Hashmi, Muhammad Usman
In ACM Comput. Surv., Vol. 53, No. 3, 2020.iOS, Your OS, Everybody’s OS: Vetting and Analyzing Network Services of iOS Apps
Zhushou Tang, Ke Tang, Minhui Xue, Yuan Tian, Sen Chen, Muhammad Ikram, Tielei Wang, Haojin Zhu
In the 29th Usenix Security Symposium (Usenix Security), 2020.Measuring and Analysing the Chain of Implicit Trust: A Study of Third-party Resources Loading
Muhammad Ikram, Rahat Masood, Gareth Tyson, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Roya Ensafi
In ACM Transaction on Privacy and Security (TOPS), 2020.Decentralized Control: A Case Study of Russia
Reethika Ramesh, Ram Sundara Raman, Matthew Bernhard, Victor Ongkowijaya, Leonid Evdokimov, Anne Edmundson, Steven Sprecher, Muhammad Ikram, and Roya Ensafi
In NDSS, 2020.A Decade of Mal-Activity Reporting: A Retrospective Analysis of Internet Malicious Activity Blacklists
Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Muhammad Ikram, Hassan Asghar, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Abdelberi Chaabane, and Kanchana Thilakarathna
In AsiaCCS, 2019. (Best Paper Award)DaDiDroid: An Obfuscation Resilient Tool for Detecting Android Malware via Weighted Directed Call Graph Modelling
Muhammad Ikram, Pierrick Beaume, Mohamed Ali Kaafar
In Secrypt, 2019.The Chain of Implicit Trust: An Analysis of the Web Third-party Resources Loading
Muhammad Ikram, Rahat Masood, Gareth Tyson, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Noha Loizon, and Roya Ensafi
In WWW, 2019.Incognito: A Method for Obfuscating Web Data
Rahat Masood, Dinusha Vatsalan, Muhammad Ikram and Mohamed Ali Kaafar
In WWW, 2018.Measuring, Characterizing, Detecting Facebook Like Farms
Muhammad Ikram, Lucky Onwuzurike, Shehroze Farooqi, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Arik Friedman, Guillaume Jourjon, Mohamed Ali Kaafar and Zubair Shafiq
In ACM Transaction on Privacy and Security (TOPS), 2017.Characterizing Key Stakeholders in an Online Black-Hat Marketplace
Farooqi, Shehroze, Muhammad Ikram, Guillaume Jourjon, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Zubair Shafiq, Arik Friedman, and Fareed Zaffar.
In APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), 2017.A First Look at Ad Blocking Apps
Muhammad Ikram and Mohamed Ali Kaafar
In NCA, 2017.Towards Seamless Tracking-Free Web: Improved Detection of Trackers via One-class Learning
Muhammad Ikram, Hassan Jameel Asghar, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Anirban Mahanti, and Balachander Krishnamurthy
In PETS, 2017.An analysis of the Privacy and Security Risks of Android VPN Permission-enabled Apps
Muhammad Ikram, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Suranga Seneviratne, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, and Vern Paxson
In IMC, 2016.
