publications

2025

1. SatML

   SoK: On the offensive potential of AI

   Saskia Laura Schröer, Giovanni Apruzzese, Soheil Human, Pavel Laskov, Hyrum S Anderson, Edward WN Bernroider, and 10 more authors

   In 3rd IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning, 2025

   arXiv Bib

   @inproceedings{schroer2025sok,
     title = {SoK: On the offensive potential of AI},
     author = {Schröer, Saskia Laura and Apruzzese, Giovanni and Human, Soheil and Laskov, Pavel and Anderson, Hyrum S and Bernroider, Edward WN and Fass, Aurore and Nassi, Ben and Rimmer, Vera and Roli, Fabio and Salam, Samer and Shen, Ashley and Sunyaev, Ali and Wadwha-Brown, Tim and Wagner, Isabel and Wang, Gang},
     booktitle = {3rd IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning},
     year = {2025},
   }

2023

1. arXiv

   Adversarial Markov Games: On Adaptive Decision-Based Attacks and Defenses

   Ilias Tsingenopoulos, Vera Rimmer, Davy Preuveneers, Fabio Pierazzi, Lorenzo Cavallaro, and Wouter Joosen

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.13435, 2023

   arXiv Bib

   @article{tsingenopoulos2023adversarial,
     title = {Adversarial Markov Games: On Adaptive Decision-Based Attacks and Defenses},
     author = {Tsingenopoulos, Ilias and Rimmer, Vera and Preuveneers, Davy and Pierazzi, Fabio and Cavallaro, Lorenzo and Joosen, Wouter},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.13435},
     year = {2023},
   }

2022

1. PETS

   Trace Oddity: Methodologies for Data-Driven Traffic Analysis on Tor

   Vera Rimmer, Theodor Schnitzler, Tom Van Goethem, Abel Rodrı́guez Romero, Wouter Joosen, and Katharina Kohls

   Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2022

   Bib

   @article{rimmer2022trace,
     title = {Trace Oddity: Methodologies for Data-Driven Traffic Analysis on Tor},
     author = {Rimmer, Vera and Schnitzler, Theodor and Van Goethem, Tom and Romero, Abel Rodr{\'\i}guez and Joosen, Wouter and Kohls, Katharina},
     journal = {Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies},
     volume = {3},
     pages = {314--335},
     year = {2022},
   }

2. WoRMA

   Position Paper: On Advancing Adversarial Malware Generation Using Dynamic Features

   Ali Shafiei, Vera Rimmer, Ilias Tsingenopoulos, Lieven Desmet, and Wouter Joosen

   In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Robust Malware Analysis, 2022

   Bib

   @inproceedings{shafiei2022position,
     title = {Position Paper: On Advancing Adversarial Malware Generation Using Dynamic Features},
     author = {Shafiei, Ali and Rimmer, Vera and Tsingenopoulos, Ilias and Desmet, Lieven and Joosen, Wouter},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Robust Malware Analysis},
     pages = {15--20},
     year = {2022},
   }

3. Springer

   Open-World Network Intrusion Detection

   Vera Rimmer, Azqa Nadeem, Sicco Verwer, Davy Preuveneers, and Wouter Joosen

   In Security and Artificial Intelligence: A Crossdisciplinary Approach, 2022

   Bib

   @incollection{rimmer2022open,
     title = {Open-World Network Intrusion Detection},
     author = {Rimmer, Vera and Nadeem, Azqa and Verwer, Sicco and Preuveneers, Davy and Joosen, Wouter},
     booktitle = {Security and Artificial Intelligence: A Crossdisciplinary Approach},
     pages = {254--283},
     year = {2022},
     publisher = {Springer},
   }

4. Springer

   Intelligent malware defenses

   Azqa Nadeem, Vera Rimmer, Wouter Joosen, and Sicco Verwer

   In Security and Artificial Intelligence: A Crossdisciplinary Approach, 2022

   Bib

   @incollection{nadeem2022intelligent,
     title = {Intelligent malware defenses},
     author = {Nadeem, Azqa and Rimmer, Vera and Joosen, Wouter and Verwer, Sicco},
     booktitle = {Security and Artificial Intelligence: A Crossdisciplinary Approach},
     pages = {217--253},
     year = {2022},
     publisher = {Springer},
   }

2021

1. WTMC

   Troubleshooting an intrusion detection dataset: the CICIDS2017 case study

   Gints Engelen, Vera Rimmer, and Wouter Joosen

   In 2021 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW), 2021

   Bib

   @inproceedings{engelen2021troubleshooting,
     title = {Troubleshooting an intrusion detection dataset: the CICIDS2017 case study},
     author = {Engelen, Gints and Rimmer, Vera and Joosen, Wouter},
     booktitle = {2021 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW)},
     pages = {7--12},
     year = {2021},
     organization = {IEEE},
   }

2018

1. NDSS

   Automated Website Fingerprinting through Deep Learning

   Vera Rimmer, Davy Preuveneers, Marc Juarez, Tom Van
Goethem, and Wouter Joosen

   In Proceedings of the 25nd Network and Distributed System
Security Symposium (NDSS 2018), 2018

   Bib

   @inproceedings{rimmer2018automated,
     title = {Automated Website Fingerprinting through Deep Learning},
     author = {Rimmer, Vera and Preuveneers, Davy and Juarez, Marc and Van
Goethem, Tom and Joosen, Wouter},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 25nd Network and Distributed System
Security Symposium (NDSS 2018)},
     year = {2018},
     organization = {Internet Society},
   }

2. WOOT

   Fishy faces: Crafting adversarial images to poison face authentication

   In 12th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT 18), 2018

   Bib

   @inproceedings{garofalo2018fishy,
     title = {Fishy faces: Crafting adversarial images to poison face authentication},
     author = {},
     booktitle = {12th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT 18)},
     year = {2018},
   }

3. App.Sci.

   Chained anomaly detection models for federated learning: An intrusion detection case study

   Davy Preuveneers, Vera Rimmer, Ilias Tsingenopoulos, Jan Spooren, Wouter Joosen, and Elisabeth Ilie-Zudor

   Applied Sciences, 2018

   Bib

   @article{preuveneers2018chained,
     title = {Chained anomaly detection models for federated learning: An intrusion detection case study},
     author = {Preuveneers, Davy and Rimmer, Vera and Tsingenopoulos, Ilias and Spooren, Jan and Joosen, Wouter and Ilie-Zudor, Elisabeth},
     journal = {Applied Sciences},
     volume = {8},
     number = {12},
     pages = {2663},
     year = {2018},
     publisher = {MDPI},
   }

2017

1. SECURWARE

   Frictionless authentication systems: Emerging trends, research challenges and opportunities

   Davy Preuveneers, Wouter Joosen, Mustafa A Mustafa, Aysajan Abidin, and Enrique Argones Rúa

   In 11th Int. Conf. on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies, SECURWARE, 2017

   Bib

   @inproceedings{preuveneers17frictionless,
     title = {Frictionless authentication systems: Emerging trends, research challenges and opportunities},
     author = {Preuveneers, Davy and Joosen, Wouter and Mustafa, Mustafa A and Abidin, Aysajan and R{\'u}a, Enrique Argones},
     booktitle = {11th Int. Conf. on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies, SECURWARE},
     volume = {17},
     year = {2017},
   }