Publications

Denis Donadel, Matteo Soldà, Mauro Conti, Massimo Merro (2026). Towards a Secure Network Architecture for Social Robots. Proceedings of the Italian Conference on Cybersecurity (ITASEC) 2026.

Denis Donadel, Gabriele Crestanello, Giulio Morandini, Daniele Antonioli, Mauro Conti, Massimo Merro (2025). SimProcess: High Fidelity Simulation of Noisy ICS Physical Processes. Proceedings of the 11th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop. Best paper award 🏆.

Emad Efatinasab, Alessandro Brighente, Denis Donadel, Mauro Conti, Mirco Rampazzo (2025). Towards Robust Stability Prediction in Smart Grids: GAN-based Approach under Data Constraints and Adversarial Challenges. Internet of Things.

Francesco Marchiori, Denis Donadel, Alessandro Brighente, Mauro Conti (2025). Profiling Electric Vehicles via Early Charging Voltage Patterns. Proceedings of the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (AI&CCPS Workshop 2025)..

Denis Donadel, Kavya Balasubramanian, Alessandro Brighente, Bhaskar Ramasubramanian, Mauro Conti, Radha Poovendran (2025). CANTXSec: A Deterministic Intrusion Detection and Prevention System for CAN Bus Monitoring ECU Activations. ACNS 2025: International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security.

Kavya Balasubramanian, Adithya Gowda Baragur, Denis Donadel, Dinuka Sahabandu, Alessandro Brighente, Bhaskar Ramasubramanian, Mauro Conti, Radha Poovendran (2025). CANLP: NLP-Based Intrusion Detection System for CAN. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.

Francesco Marchiori, Denis Donadel, Mauro Conti (2025). Can LLMs Classify CVEs? Investigating LLMs Capabilities in Computing CVSS Vectors. Proceedings of the 30th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications - International Workshop on Trusted Computing and Artificial Intelligence applied to Cybersecurity. (TrustAICyberSec 2025).

Frederik Ondrikov, Denis Donadel, Francesco Lupia, Daniel Dos Santos, Massimo Merro, Emmanuele Zambon, Nicola Zannone (2025). A Comparative Study of ICS Honeypot Deployments. Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Security for Critical Infrastructures Protection, CPS4CIP 2025.

Emad Efatinasab, Francesco Marchiori, Denis Donadel, Alessandro Brighente, Mauro Conti (2024). When Authentication Is Not Enough: On the Security of Behavioral-Based Driver Authentication Systems. arXiv.

arXiv

Alessandro Brighente, Mauro Conti, Denis Donadel, Federico Turrin (2024). EVScout2.0: Electric Vehicle Profiling through Charging Profile. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems.

DOI

Denis Donadel, Francesco Marchiori, Luca Pajola, Mauro Conti (2024). Can LLMs Understand Computer Networks? Towards a Virtual System Administrator. IEEE LCN 2024.

arXiv

Alessandro Brighente, Mauro Conti, Denis Donadel, Radha Poovendran, Federico Turrin, Jianying Zhou (2024). Electric Vehicles Security and Privacy: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Needs. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems.

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Kavya Balasubramanian, Adithya Gowda Baragur, Denis Donadel, Dinuka Sahabandu, Alessandro Brighente, Bhaskar Ramasubramanian, Mauro Conti, Radha Poovendran (2024). CANLP: NLP-Based Intrusion Detection System for CAN. ACM SAC 2024.

Federico Carboni, Mauro Conti, Denis Donadel, Mariano Sciacco (2023). If You're Scanning This, It's Too Late! A QR Code-Based Fuzzing Methodology to Identify Input Vulnerabilities in Mobile Apps. Applied Cryptography and Network Security Workshops.

DOI

Alessandro Brighente, Mauro Conti, Denis Donadel, Federico Turrin (2022). Hyperloop: A Cybersecurity Perspective. ACSW Workshop (in conjuction with IEEE EuroS&P).

arXiv

Mauro Conti, Denis Donadel, Radha Poovendran, Federico Turrin (2022). EVExchange: A Relay Attack on~Electric Vehicle Charging System. Computer Security – ESORICS 2022.

DOI

Luca Attanasio, Mauro Conti, Denis Donadel, Federico Turrin (2021). MiniV2G: An Electric Vehicle Charging Emulator. Proceedings of the 7th ACM on Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop.

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Mauro Conti, Denis Donadel, Federico Turrin (2021). A Survey on Industrial Control System Testbeds and Datasets for Security Research. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.

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