Publications

  1. Karagiannis, Stylianos, Christoforos Ntantogian, Emmanouil Magkos, Aggeliki Tsohou, and Luis Landeiro Ribeiro. "Mastering data privacy: leveraging K-anonymity for robust health data sharing." International Journal of Information Security 23, Springer no. 3, (2024)
  2. Karagiannis, Stylianos, Emmanouil Magkos, Eleftherios Karavaras, Antonios Karnavas, Maria Nefeli Nikiforos,Christoforos Ntantogian . "Towards NICE-by-Design Cybersecurity Learning Environments: A Cyber Range for SOC Teams", Journal of Network and Systems Management, Springer, 32(2), 42, 2024
  3. Stylianos Karagiannis, Luis Landeiro Ribeiro, Christoforos Ntantogian, Emmanouil Magkos and Luis Miguel Campos, "Chidroid: A Mobile Android Application for Log Collection and Security Analysis in Healthcare and IoMT", Applied Sciences, (13)5, 3061,, Feb. 2023
  4. Panagiotis Bountakas, Christoforos Ntantogian, and Christos Xenakis. "EKnad: Exploit Kits Network Activity Detection." Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, 134, pp.219-235, Sep. 2022
  5. Eleni Veroni, Christoforos Ntantogian, and Christos Xenakis. "A large-scale analysis of Wi-Fi passwords." Journal of Information Security and Applications, Elsevier, 67, Jun. 2022
  6. Christos Lyvas, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, "[m]allotROPism: A Metamorphic Engine for Malicious Software Variation Development", International Journal of Information Security, Springer, Vol. 21, No 1, Feb. 2022
  7. Stylianos Karagiannis, Christoforos Ntantogian, Emmanouil Magkos, Luis L. Ribeiro, Luis Campos, "PocketCTF: A Fully Featured Approach for Hosting Portable Attack and Defense Cybersecurity Exercises", Information, MDPI, Vol. 12, Issue 8, Aug. 2021
  8. Christoforos Ntantogian, Panagiotis Bountakas, Dimitris Antonaropoulos, Constantinos Patsakis, Christos Xenakis, "NodeXP: NOde. js server-side JavaScript injection vulnerability DEtection and eXPloitation", Journal of Information Security and Applications, Elsevier Science, Vol. 58, pp:2214 - 2126", May 2021
  9. Aristeidis Farao, Eleni Veroni, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, "P4G2Go: A Privacy-Preserving Scheme for Roaming Energy Consumers of the Smart Grid-to-Go" ,Sensors, MDPI, Vol. 21, Issue 8, Article 2686, Apr. 2021.
  10. Nikolaos Koutroumpouchos, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, "Building Trust for Smart Connected Devices: The Challenges and Pitfalls of TrustZone." Sensors, MDPI, Vol. 21, No 2, 520", January 2021.
  11. Vaios Bolgouras, Christoforos Ntantogian, Manos Panaousis, Christos Xenakis, "Distributed Key Management in Microgrids", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 2125-2133, March 2020.
  12. Christoforos Ntantogian, Eleni Veroni, Georgios Karopoulos, Christos Xenakis, " A survey of voice and communication protection solutions against wiretapping," Computers & Electrical Engineering, Elsevier, Vol. 77, pp:163-178, July, 2019
  13. Christoforos Ntantogian, Giorgos Poulios, Georgios Karopoulos, Christos Xenakis, "Transforming Malicious Code to ROP Gadgets for Antivirus Evasion", IET Information Security, 2019
  14. Christoforos Ntantogian, Stefanos Malliaros, Christos Xenakis, "Evaluation of password hashing schemes in open source web platforms", Computers & Security, Elsevier, Vol. 84, pp 206-224, July 2019
  15. Anastasios Stasinopoulos, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, "Commix: Automating Evaluation and Exploitation of Command Injection Vulnerabilities in Web Applications", International Journal of Information Security, Springer, Volume 18, Issue 1, pp:49-72, Feb. 2019.
  16. Giorgos Karopoulos, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, "MASKER: Masking for privacy-preserving aggregation in the smart grid ecosystem", Computers & Security, Elsevier, Volume 73, pp: 307-325, March 2018
  17. Christoforos Panos, Christoforos Ntantogian, Stefanos Malliaros, Christos Xenakis, "Quantifying, Analyzing and Evaluating Blackhole Attacks in Infrastructure-less Networks", Computer Networks, Elsevier, Vol. 113, February 2017, pp: 94-110
  18. Christos Xenakis, Christoforos Ntantogian, Orestis Panos, "(U)SimMonitor: A Mobile Application for Security Evaluation of Cellular Networks", Computers & Security, Elsevier, Vol. 60, Issue 1, pp: 62-70, July 2016
  19. Alexia Chatzikonstantinou, Christoforos Ntantogian, Georgios Karopoulos, Christos Xenakis "Evaluation of Cryptography Usage in Android Applications", EAI Endorsed Trans. Security Safety 3(9): e4 (2016)
  20. Christoforos Ntantogian, Stefanos Maliaros, Christos Xenakis, "Gaithashing: a two-factor authentication scheme based on gait features", Computers and Security, Elsevier Science, Vol. 52, Issue 1, pp: 17-32, July. 2015.
  21. Christoforos Ntantogian, Dimitris Apostolopoulos, Giannis Marinakis, Christos Xenakis, "Evaluating the privacy of Android mobile applications under forensic analysis", Computers and Security, Elsevier Science, Vol. 42, pp:66-76, May 2014.
  22. Christos Xenakis, Christoforos Ntantogian, "An Advanced Persistent Threat in 3G Networks: Attacking the Home Network from Roaming Networks", Computers and Security, Elsevier Science, Vol. 40, Issue 1, pp:84-94, February 2014
  23. Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, "Questioning the Feasibility of UMTS-GSM Interworking Attacks," Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, Vol. 65, No. 1, pp:157-163, July 2012.
  24. Christoforos Ntantogian,Christos Xenakis, Ioannis Stavrakakis, "Reducing False Synchronizations in 3G-WLAN Integrated Networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications , Vol. 10, No. 11, pp: 3765-3773, Nov. 2011.
  25. Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, Ioannis Stavrakakis, "A Generic Mechanism for Efficient Authentication in B3G Networks", Computers & Security, Elsevier Science, Vol.29, Issue 4, pp:460-475, June 2010.
  26. Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, "One pass EAP-AKA Authentication in 3G-WLAN Integrated Networks,Wireless Personal Communications", Springer, Vol. 48, Issue 4, pp: 569-584, March 2009.
  27. Christos Xenakis, Christoforos Ntantogian, Ioannis Stavrakakis, "A Network-Assisted Mobile VPN deployment for securing users data in UMTS, Computer Communications, Elsevier, vol. 31, No. 14, pp. 3315-3327 September 2008.
  28. Christos Xenakis, Christoforos Ntantogian, "Security Architectures for B3G Mobile Networks", Telecommunication Systems, Springer, Vol.35, pp: 123-139, Aug. 2007.
  1. Farao, Aristeidis, Christoforos Ntantogian, Stylianos Karagiannis, Emmanouil Magkos, Alexandra Dritsa, Christos Xenakis. "NITRO: an Interconnected 5G-IoT Cyber Range." In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), pp. 1-6. 2024.
  2. Karagiannis, Stylianos, Camilla Fusco, Leonidas Agathos, Wissam Mallouli, Valentina Casola, Christoforos Ntantogian, Emmanouil Magkos. "AI-Powered Penetration Testing using Shennina: From Simulation to Validation." In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), pp. 1-7. 2024.
  3. Christian Leka, Christoforos Ntantogian, Stylianos Karagiannis, Emmanouil Magkos, Vasilios Verykios, "A comparative Analysis of VirusTotal and Desktop Antivirus Detection Capabilities" 13th IEEE International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems & Applications (IISA), July 2022
  4. Stylianos Karagiannis, Emmanouil Magkos, Christoforos Ntantogian & Luis Ribeiro,"Sandboxing the Cyberspace for Cybersecurity Education and Learning". 1st Workshop on Dependability and Safety Emerging Cloud & Fog Systems (DeSECSys), In European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), pp. 181-196. Springer, September 2020
  5. Nikolaos Koutroumpouchos, Georgios Lavdanis, Eleni Veroni, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis , "ObjectMap: Detecting Insecure Object Deserialization. " In Proc. 23rd Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI 2019), Nicosia, Cyprus, Nov. 2019.
  6. Neofytos Gerosavva, Manos Athanatos, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, Cristina Costa, Alberto Mozo, Matthias Ghering, and Angela Brignone, "A cyberSecurity Platform for vIrtualiseD 5G cybEr Range Services (SPIDER), Research Challenges in Information Science, RCIS 2020, Limassol, Cyprus, Sept. 2020
  7. Farnaz Mohammadi, Angeliki Panou, Christoforos Ntantogian, Eirini Karapistoli, Emmanouil Panaousis, Christos Xenakis , "CUREX: seCUre and pRivate hEalth data eXchange. " In Proc. Web Intelligence 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece, Oct. 2019.
  8. Michail Bampatsikos, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, Stelios C.A. Thomopoulos , "BARRETT BlockchAin Regulated REmote aTTestation. " In Proc. Web Intelligence 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece, Oct. 2019.
  9. Aristeidis Farao, Juan Enrique Rubio, Cristina Alcaraz, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis and Javier Lopez, "SealedGRID: A Secure Interconnection Technologies for Smart Grid Applications " In Proc. 14th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security, CRITIS 2019, Linköping, Sweden, Sept. 2019.
  10. Aristeidis Farao, Christoforos Ntantogian, Cristiana Istrate, George Suciu, Christos Xenakis, "SealedGRID: Scalable, trustEd, and interoperAble pLatform for sEcureD smartGRID, " In Proc. Industrial Control System- Cyber Security Research (ICS-CSR) 2019, Athens, Greece, Sept. 2019.
  11. Nikolaos Koutroumpouchos, Christoforos Ntantogian, Sofia Anna Menesidou, Kaitai Liang, Panagiotis Gouvas, Christos Xenakis, Thanassis Giannetsos, "Secure Edge Computing with Lightweight Control-Flow Property-based Attestation", SecSoft 2019, Paris, France
  12. Ioanna Kitsaki, Anna Angelogianni, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, "A Forensic Investigation of Android Mobile Applications" In Proc. 22st Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI 2018), Athens, Greece, Nov. 2018.
  13. Angeliki Panou, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, "RiSKi: A Framework for Modeling Cyber Threats to Estimate Risk for Data Breach Insurance," In Proc. 21st Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI 2017), Larisa, Greece, Sept. 2017.
  14. Christoforos Panos, Stefanos Malliaros, Christoforos Ntantogian, and Christos Xenakis, "A Security Evaluation of FIDO's UAF Protocol in Mobile and Embedded Devices", 28th International Tyrrhenian Workshop (TIWDC), Palermo, Italy, September 18-20, 2017
  15. Stefanos Malliaros, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, "Protecting sensitive information in the volatile memory from disclosure attacks, " In Proc. 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2016), Salzburg, Austria, August 2016.
  16. Alexia Chatzikonstantinou, Christoforos Ntantogian, Georgios Karopoulos, Christos Xenakis, " Evaluation of Cryptography Usage in Android Applications, " In Proc. 9th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies, New York City, New York, USA, Dec. 2015.
  17. Anastasios Stasinopoulos, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, "Commix: Detecting and Exploiting Command Injection Flaws", BlackHat Europe, Amsterdam, November 2015
  18. Giorgos Poulios, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, "ROPInjector: Using Return Oriented Programming for Polymorphism and Antivirus Evasion," BlackHat USA 2015, Las Vegas NV, USA, August 2015.
  19. Christoforos Ntantogian, Grigoris Valtas, Faidon Lalagianis, Christos Xenakis, Giorgos Karopoulos, "Attacking GSM Networks as a Script Kiddie Using Commodity Hardware and Software", 12th International Conference on Trust, Privacy & Security in Digital Business (Trustbus15), Sept. 2015, Valencia, Spain
  20. Christos Xenakis, Christoforos Ntantogian, "Attacking the baseband modem of mobile phones to breach the users privacy and network security", 7th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon 2015), Talinn, Esthonia, May 2015.
  21. Anastasios Stasinopoulos, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, "Bypassing XSS Auditor: Taking Advantage of Badly Written PHP Code, " In Proc. 14th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2014), Noida, India, Dec 2014.
  22. Anastasios Stasinopoulos, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, "The weakest link on the network: exploiting ADSL routers to perform cyber-attacks", 13th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, (ISSPIT 2013), Athens, Greece, December 2013.
  23. Haralampos Petrou, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, "A better time approximation scheme for e-passports", In Proc. of 10th International Conference on Trust, Privacy & Security in Digital Business (TrustBus 2013), Prague, Czech Republic, August 2013.
  24. Dimitris Apostolopoulos, Giannis Marinakis, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, "Discovering authentication credentials in volatile memory of Android mobile devices", In Proc. 12th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, e-Society (I3E 2013), Athens, Greece, April 2013.
  25. Christoforos Ntantogian, Dimitris Gkikakis, Christos Xenakis, "PRIPAY: A Privacy Preserving Architecture for Secure Micropayments", ICSNC 2012, Lisbon, Portugal, Nov 2012
  26. Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, Ioannis Stavrakakis, "Analysis and Modeling of False Synchronizations in 3G-WLAN Integrated Networks", International Information Security and Privacy Conference (IFIP SEC2012), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 2012
  27. Eleni Darra, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, Sokratis Katsikas, "A Mobility and Energy-aware Hierarchical Intrusion Detection System for Mobile ad hoc Networks," In Proc. 8th International Conference on Trust, Privacy & Security in Digital Business (TrustBus 2011), Toulouse France, August 2011
  28. Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, Ioannis Stavrakakis, "Reducing the User Authentication Cost in Next Generation Networks", In Proc. In the Fifth Annual Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2008), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Jan 2008.
  29. Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, Ioannis Stavrakakis, "Efficient Authentication for Users Autonomy in Next Generation All-IP Networks", In Proc. In Proc. 2nd International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems (BIONETICS 2007), Budapest, Hungary, Dec 2007.
  30. Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, "Reducing Authentication Traffic in 3G-WLAN Integrated Networks", In Proc. 18th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, (PIMRC 2007), Athens, Greece, Sept 2007.
  31. Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, "A Security Protocol for Mutual Authentication and Mobile VPN Deployment in B3G Networks", In Proc. 18th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, (PIMRC 2007), Athens, Greece, Sept 2007.
  32. Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, "A Security Binding for Efficient Authentication in 3G-WLAN Heterogeneous Networks", PhD poster presented in the 6th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net 2007), Corfu, Greece, June 2007.
  33. Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, Lazaros Merakos, “An Enhanced EAP-SIM Authentication Scheme for Securing WLAN”, 15th IST Mobile & Wireless Communications, Mykonos, Greece, June 2006.
  1. Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Laoudias, Antonio Jesus Diaz Honrubia, Christos Xenakis, "Cybersecurity Threats in the Healthcare Domain and Technical Solutions", Handbook of Computational Neurodegeneration, Springer (To appear)
  2. Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, Security in Distributed Systems," Chapter in Information and Systems Security in Cyberspace (Sokratis Katsikas, Stefanos Gkritzalis and Konstantinos Labrinoudakis), New Technology Publications, 2021.
  3. Georgios Karopoulos, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, "Privacy-Preserving Aggregation in the Smart Grid," Chapter in Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications (Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Ahmed Ahmim), IGI Global, August 2016.
  4. Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, “Privacy Mechanisms in 4th Generation Networks,” book chapter in “Protection Privacy in Information and Communication Technologies: Technical and Legal Issues,” Papasotiriou (2009), editor: K. Labrinoudakis, L. Mitrou, S. Gkritzalis, S. Katsikas.
  5. Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, “Security Architectures for B3G Mobile Networks,” book chapter in “Handbook of Research on Wireless Security,” Information Science Reference (2008), editor: Yan Zhang, Jun Zheng, Miao Ma, ISBN: 978-1-59904-899-4.
  1. Christoforos Ntantogian, "Security Architectures in 4th Generation Mobile Networks", 9th Conference of Greek Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Forum, Organized by Ministry of Economy and Finance, Athens, October 2007.