ITASEC & SERICS 2026
Joint National Conference on Cybersecurity 2026

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 161 papers submitted for peer-review to this conference. Out of these, 71 papers were accepted for this volume.

• A Methodology Combining NLP, Machine Learning, and LLM for the Detection of Phishing Emails
  Danilo Rosati , Alessandro Aldini
• SA-SOINN: A Self-Adaptive Neural Network for Continuous Intrusion Detection in Dynamic Environments
  Dennis Glenn Ejeh , Gian Luca Foresti , Marino Miculan , Axel De Nardin
• The Double Spending Dilemma: From Traditional Cash Systems to Interoperable Blockchain Systems
  Aradhita Mukherjee , Luca Olivieri , Nabendu Chaki , Agostino Cortesi
• Predicting known Vulnerabilities from Attack News: A Transformer-Based Approach
  Refat Othman , Diaeddin Rimawi , Bruno Rossi , Barbara Russo
• Federated Learning for Robust Malware Detection under Noisy Labels and Malicious Sybils
  Andrea Augello , Alessandra De Paola , Giuseppe Lo Re
• AI-Driven Microlearning for Proactive DevSecOps: Closing the Security Skill Gap
  Giampiero Granatella , Maura Cerioli , Giovanni Lagorio , Angelo Lupo
• The Agentic Kill Chain: A Cognitive Threat Framework for Autonomous Agent Ecosystems
  Giorgio Piccardo , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Alessio Martino
• SecureRF-Net: RF Device Classification and Unauthorized Transmitter Detection for Model-Identical Radios
  Nour Badini , Carlos Fernando Quiroga Ruiz , Fabio Patrone , Mario Marchese
• Secure-by-Design Re-Engineering of Anti-Mafia Processes and Investigative Workflows
  Mario Varlese , Simon Pietro Romano , Giancarlo Sperlì , Andrea Vignali
• From Raw Social Data to Actionable Intelligence: The SocHunter Approach
  Stefano Bistarelli , Cristian Cerami , Francesco Santini
• Software Evolution Metrics for the Detection of Trojan Code in npm Packages
  Giacomo Benedetti , Luca Caviglione , Giovanni Lagorio , Marco Zoratti
• Shared Libraries Bloating in 3D Graphics Software
  Giacomo Benedetti , Luca Caviglione , Michela Spagnuolo
• A Privacy-Preserving Protocol to Prevent Fraudulent SPID Registrations
  Francesco Buccafurri , Carmen Licciardi , Matteo Cecilia , Marco De Iacovo , Rocco Mammoliti
• A Forensic Analysis of the WebView2-based Microsoft Teams Client
  Chiara Bertolotti , Mattia Epifani , Giovanni Lagorio
• Approximate and Private String Set Intersection
  Paolo D'Arco , Vito Troisi
• Addressing concept drift in 5G CVE classification with LLMs
  Pierpaolo Bene , Andrea Bernardini , Leonardo Sagratella , Nicolò Maunero
• Cybersecurity and the Digitalisation of Public Administration: Transforming the Concept of Administrative Legality
  Alessandra Lizzio
• Beyond Checklists: Automated Legal Compliance Check in Regulatory Sandboxes
  Pietro Bernabei , Salvatore Bramante , Ludovica Ciarravano , Fernando Pannullo
• Implementing the NIS 2 Directive: Towards Harmonisation or Further Fragmentation?
  Federica Casarosa , Giovanni Comandé
• An Experimental Approach for Establishing TLS Trusted Channels with Device Identification in IoT Environments
  Diana Gratiela Berbecaru , Silvia Sisinni , Francesco Virga , Antonio Lioy
• Enhancing CTI Awareness of Small and Medium Enterprises with LLMs and Knowledge Graphs
  Francesco Panebianco , Nicolò Amigoni , Gabriele Ruini , Tommaso Paladini , Stefano Longari , Stefano Zanero , Michele Carminati
• Integrating Post-Quantum Cryptography Within Existing Public Key Infrastructures for Complex Corporate Ecosystems
  Davide Varcasia , Michele Amoretti
• A Hybrid Honeypot for Cyber Detection and Deception in Industrial Control Systems
  Silvio Russo , Isabella Marasco , Michele Colajanni
• Addressing Cybersecurity and Nodes Localization on LoRaWAN Networks
  Amirhossein Noshadi , Taregh Khanjari , Zhansaya Amangeldiyeva , Enrico Cambiaso , Matteo Repetto , Sandro Zappatore , Fabio Patrone
• Evading ML Network Intrusion Detection Systems for Modbus TCP with Problem-Space Perturbations
  Dimitri Galli , Giovanni Gambigliani Zoccoli , Daniele Bianchini , Dario Stabili , Mirco Marchetti
• Benchmarking Multimodal LLMs on Closed-World Image Geolocation
  Maria Di Gisi , Giuseppe Fenza , Mariacristina Gallo , Maria Palomba
• LSB-based Fragile Watermarking for Image Integrity Verification Under Morphing Attacks
  Davide Ghiani , Sergio Soggiu , Jefferson David Rodriguez Chivata , Simone Maurizio La Cava , Marco Micheletto , Giulia Orrù , Federico Lama , Gian Luca Marcialis
• TC-ACN-Based Cyber Incident Reporting Using Large Language Models
  Manuel Zambelli , Refat Othman , Barbara Russo
• Preliminary Insights in the Language of Extortion in Ransomware Dialogues
  Federico Cerutti , Massimiliano Giacomin , Andrea Loreggia , Enrico Scala
• Divide and Conquer: Stealth Code injection via Split Memory Permission Manipulation Across Processes
  Michele Salvatori , Pasquale Caporaso , Francesco Quaglia , Giuseppe Bianchi
• Towards a Secure Network Architecture for Social Robots
  Denis Donadel , Matteo Soldà , Mauro Conti , Massimo Merro
• Accelerating Incident Response: A Hybrid Approach for Data Breach Reporting
  Aurora Arrus , Maria Di Gisi , Sara Lilli , Marco Quadrini
• LLM-Based Auto-Categorization of Android Applications
  Pierangelo Loi , Diego Soi , Leonardo Regano , Giorgio Giacinto
• Empirical Evaluation of the Resistance of Novel Non-Algebraic AES S-Boxes to Power Side-Channel Attacks
  Samuele Yves Cerini , Gianluca Roascio , Nicolò Maunero , Paolo Prinetto
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Two Faces of LLMs
  Matteo Gioele Collu , Tom Janssen-Groesbeek , Stefanos Koffas , Mauro Conti , Stjepan Picek
• AndroWasm: an Empirical Study on Android Malware Obfuscation through WebAssembly
  Diego Soi , Silvia Lucia Sanna , Lorenzo Pisu , Leonardo Regano , Giorgio Giacinto
• A Formal Control Plane for Fuzzing Campaigns: Leveraging Attribute Grammars for Dynamic Policy Selection
  Pierciro Caliandro , Matteo Ciccaglione , Alessandro Pellegrini
• The Postman: A Journey of Ethical Hacking in PosteID/SPID Borderland
  Gabriele Costa
• A Temporal Study on Memory Forensics Artifacts Extraction: the Volatility Reliability
  Aurora Arrus , Silvia Lucia Sanna , Antonio Aracri , Giorgio Giacinto
• DICE-anchored Realms on Arm CCA
  Lorenzo Ferro , Silvia Sisinni , Flavio Ciravegna , Enrico Bravi , Antonio Lioy
• Profiles as Payloads: Exploiting eSIM Applet Behavior
  Lorenzo Valeriani , Simone Festa , Matteo Fanfarillo , Giuseppe Bianchi
• Deepfake Detection, Attribution, and Authentication: Insights from the FF4ALL Project
  Irene Amerini , Mauro Barni , Sebastiano Battiato , Paolo Bestagini , Giulia Boato , Pietro Bongini , Vittoria Bruni , Roberto Casula , Lorenzo Cirillo , Roberto Caldelli , Giuseppe Daidone , Francesco De Natale , Rocco De Nicola , Luca Guarnera , Simone Maurizio La Cava , Sara Mandelli , Gian Luca Marcialis , Marco Micheletto , Andrea Montibeller , Viola Negroni , Giulia Orrù , Pericle Perazzo , Giovanni Puglisi , Davide Salvi , Benedetta Tondi , Stefano Tubaro , Massimo Villari , Domenico Vitulano
• MPTCPcap: A Practical Framework for Security Testing of Multipath TCP
  Riccardo Mancini , Federica Bianchi , Angelo Spognardi
• Secure and Sustainable FUOTA in Constrained IoT Infrastructures
  Maurizio Giacobbe , Salvatore Distefano
• Graph-Based Modelling of the Italian Criminal Code as a Knowledge Base for AI-Assisted Inference
  Samuele Yves Cerini , Nicola Deidda , Yilian Huang , Sara Lilli , Luca Lobascio , Lavinia Russo , Maria Vittoria Zucca , Giorgio Fumera , Giorgio Giacinto , Paolo Prinetto , Salvatore Marsocci
• Integrating Human-in-the-Loop AI Systems in the Italian Judicial System
  Samuele Yves Cerini , Nicola Deidda , Sara Lilli , Maria Vittoria Zucca , Giorgio Fumera , Giorgio Giacinto , Paolo Prinetto , Salvatore Marsocci
• A Static Workflow for Cryptography Verification in 4G/5G Basebands
  Lorenzo Lucca , Sara Da Canal , Giuseppe Bianchi , Andrea Visconti
• ADA: An AI-Powered Assistant for Managed Service Providers
  Eleonora Breci , Sediola Ruko , Luigi V. Mancini , Dorjan Hitaj
• AI Governance: A Security and Privacy Organizational Standard Architecture (SPOSA)
  Sergio Barezzani
• Enhancing Vulnerability Management in Cybersecurity Certification: Leveraging Attack Potential and CVSS score
  Mirko Malacario , Samuela Persia , Ivan Di Pietro
• Enhancing SSH/Telnet Honeypot for Attack Classification and Malware Research
  Michele Castellaneta , Abraham Gebrehiwot , Filippo Maria Lauria , Claudio Porta
• Bullet Signaling: Precise Message Spoofing Against 4G/5G Access Security
  Andrea Paci , Matteo Chiacchia , Riccardo Marizilli , Giuseppe Bianchi
• A Hierarchical Hybrid Deep Learning Framework for Unknown Attack Detection in SDN Networks
  Francesco Di Gennaro , Andrea Giuliani , Christian Morbidoni , Alessandro Cucchiarelli , Luca Spalazzi
• Online Framework for Intrusion Detection Systems with Explainable Concept Drift Detection and Adaptation Phases
  Salvatore Drago , Manuel Lorusso , Pierluca Ferraro , Alessandra De Paola , Giuseppe Lo Re
• Obfuscation-Resistant Feature Extraction for Macro-based Office Malware Detection
  Sergio Imperiale , Marco Morana , Giuseppe Lo Re
• Integration of Post-Quantum Cryptography in the Keylime Agent for Quantum-Safe Remote Attestation
  Francesco Vaccaro , Enrico Bravi , Antonio Lioy
• Cutting Out the Middle Man: A Game-Theoretic Analysis in Computability Logic of the Needham-Schroeder Protocol
  Cosimo Perini Brogi , Stella Spadoni
• The Ghidra Metrics Toolkit for obfuscated native code
  Jonathan Gobbo , Federica Sarro , Paolo Falcarin
• Automatic Verification of Security Properties in Containerized IoT Applications via Bigraphical Modeling
  Cristian Coppo , Francesco Longo , Giovanni Merlino , Antonio Puliafito , Marino Miculan
• Iris Super-Resolution for Images Sourced from Websites and Social Media
  Nikoo Fakhraei , Ruggero Donida Labati , Vincenzo Piuri , Fabio Scotti
• Heuristic Quality Assessment of Textual Adversarial Examples
  Giuseppe Rizzo , Samuele Lo Cascio , Marco Morana , Giuseppe Lo Re
• Cybersecurity Of and Through Regulatory Sandboxes: An Analytical Approach
  Ludovica Ciarravano , Fabio Seferi
• Conceptual Modeling of Cybersecurity Threats and Their Impact on Fundamental Rights
  Nicolò Maunero , Andrea Bernardini , Mario Lezoche , Francesco D'Alterio , Federica Casarosa , Giovanni Comandé , Marina Settembre , Stefano Solari
• Hybrid Post-Quantum Cryptography and Ethereum Signatures: A Comprehensive Performance Benchmarking Study
  Mishaal Ahmed , Silvia Sisinni
• A Preliminary Investigation of a Methodology for Technically Informed Drafting and Revision of Technology Regulations
  Ida Gioia Cristiano , Marco Angelini
• SAGE-5GC: Security-Aware Guidelines for Evaluating Anomaly Detection in the 5G Core Network
  Cristian Manca , Christian Scano , Giorgio Piras , Fabio Brau , Maura Pintor , Battista Biggio
• Zero-Trust Software-Defined Vehicles: a Security Paradigm for the Automotive Cloud-Edge Continuum
  Giovanni Lombardo , Vincenzo Alessio Bucaria , Giovanni Merlino , Francesco Longo
• Automation in Cyber Risk Management: A Literature Review of Evidence, Gaps, and Emerging Directions
  Antonio Belli , Nicolò Maunero , Paolo Prinetto
• EWACS as a Backbone for Wargaming and Decision Support in the Information Environment
  Alberto F. Olivieri , Rosanna E. Guadagno , Stefano Solari , Enrico Russo
• Risk-based Authorization in Safety Critical Microservice Architectures
  Giorgia Sirigu , Alessandro Burastero , Alessandro Armando
• CTI Dataset Construction from Telegram
  Dincy R. Arikkat , Sneha B. T , Serena Nicolazzo , Antonino Nocera , Vinod P , Rafidha Rehiman K. A , Karthika R