C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute Secondary School (May 7, 2026) EShaping Young Minds: Cybersecurity Career Exploration in Schools Prof. Arash Habibi Lashkari, Founder and Director of the Behaviour-Centric Cybersecurity Center (BCCC), recently participated as a Career Coach at Ontario Career Lab, engaging with Grade 9 and 10 students at C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute Secondary School. As […]
Detecting vulnerability in network systems through AI York University researchers are exploring how to better secure a digital world increasingly shaped by the Internet of Things (IoT) by understanding how malicious bots operate and developing stronger defences against them. IoT devices are everyday objects that connect to the internet so they can send, receive and […]
Celebrating Sepideh’s DAAD Research Grant Achievement Congratulations to our PhD student Sepideh HajiHosseinKhani on receiving the prestigious DAAD Research Grant. She will be joining the Institute for Data Science, Cloud Computing and IT Security (IDACUS) at Furtwangen University in Germany to advance her research on secure AI and decentralized finance. This achievement reflects her excellent […]
How York researchers are strengthening cybersecurity York University researchers are exploring how to better secure a digital world increasingly shaped by the Internet of Things (IoT) by understanding how malicious bots operate and developing stronger defences against them. IoT devices are everyday objects that connect to the internet so they can send, receive and act […]
Unveiling malicious PDF behavior: Interpretable classification and profiling of malicious PDF using TabNet With the inevitable growth of information digitization, Portable Document Format (PDF) has become one of the most popular exploited file formats for document exchange among various applications and platforms. Consequently, PDF files have become an attractive target for attackers to infect and […]
James Cardinal McGuigan Catholic High School (April 22, 2026) EShaping Young Minds: Cybersecurity Career Exploration in Schools Prof. Arash Habibi Lashkari, Founder and Director of the Behaviour-Centric Cybersecurity Center (BCCC), recently participated as a Career Coach at Ontario Career Lab, engaging with Grade 9 and 10 students at James Cardinal McGuigan Catholic High School. As […]
Unveiling intruders’ behaviors: explainable AI-based profiling of malicious bot activities in IoT networks The rapid proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has improved connectivity but introduced new cybersecurity risks, particularly from botnets. Detecting and identifying malicious botnet activities is crucial for early attack mitigation, understanding attack patterns, and deploying effective countermeasures. However, state-of-the-art IoT […]
UWORCS 2026, Western University (April 10, 2026) Elevating Cybersecurity Vigilance: Fusing Knowledge Dissemination via the Understanding Cybersecurity Series (UCS) knowledge mobilization Program We continue advancing cybersecurity awareness through our Understanding Cybersecurity Series (UCS), designed for students, researchers, developers, and industry professionals. UCS aims to equip communities with the knowledge and tools needed to address evolving […]
MQTTFlowLyzer: interpretable TabNet-based flow-level MQTT intrusion detection for IoT MQTT is widely used in IoT systems but remains vulnerable due to its lightweight design. This paper proposes an interpretable deep learning-based intrusion detection framework that processes raw PCAP data through flow-based analysis. It introduces MQTTFlowLyzer for extracting protocol-aware features and presents the BCCC-IoT-MQTT-IDS-2025 dataset, which […]
Malware Memory Snapshot and process-level behavioral Log Dataset (BCCC-MalMem-SnapLog-2025) The dataset was systematically developed to capture memory-level behavioral dynamics of malware and benign processes through interval-based snapshot analysis. Unlike prior datasets that predominantly rely on static binaries or network-level observations, this dataset focuses on runtime memory behavior and process persistence, enabling a deeper understanding of how malicious activities […]