Research

Elevating Cybersecurity Vigilance: Fusing Knowledge Dissemination via the Understanding Cybersecurity Series (UCS) Knowledge Mobilization Program

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain (July 2026) Cybersecurity for All: Raising Awareness Across the Digital Landscape Another successful annual international #UnderstandingCybersecuritySeries (#UCS) workshop and talk series in Europe, delivered as part of #28DIGITAL and #EMAI4EU. The sessions brought together students, researchers, faculty, and professionals to explore emerging cyber threats, trustworthy and resilient AI, and the […]

New Analyzer Alert! (QUICFlowLyzer-V1.0)

QUIC Flow Traffic AnLyzer (QUICFlowLyzer- V1.0) We released the first version of the QUICFlowLyzer tool as a Python open-source project to extract 180 features from QUIC network traffic flows.

UDP-QUIC Network Threat Dataset (BCCC-UDP-QUIC-IDS-2025)

Using UDPFlowLyzer and QUICFlowLyzer, the dataset provides a realistic cloud-based benchmark for UDP and QUIC intrusion detection research, specifically designed to analyze volumetric and application-specific UDP DDoS attacks in enterprise environments. The dataset combines realistic, benign organizational activities with multiple UDP attack campaigns executed over a multi-tier cloud infrastructure and captured through packet-level monitoring and […]

Shaping Young Minds: Cybersecurity Career Exploration in Schools

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 […]

Two sides of the same microchip!

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!

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!

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 […]

New Article Alert!

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 […]

Shaping Young Minds: Cybersecurity Career Exploration in Schools

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 […]

New Article Alert!

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 […]