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Journal papers

• [J6] Yizhong Liu, Peiyuan Li, Dongyu Li, Chengqi Wu, Nan Jiang, Qianhong Wu, Ankit Gangwal, Prayag Tiwari, Mauro Conti. SharHSC: A Sharding-based Hybrid State Channel to Realize Blockchain Scalability and Security. In (IEEE) Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, in press, 2024. (JCR IF 2023: 7.0)


• [J5] Ankit Gangwal, Aashish Paliwal, Mauro Conti. De-authentication using Ambient Light Sensor. In (IEEE) Access, 12: 28225-28234, 2024. (JCR IF 2022: 3.9)


• [J4] Ankit Gangwal, Haripriya Ravali Gangavalli, Apoorva Thirupathi. A Survey of Layer-Two Blockchain Protocols. In (Elsevier) Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 209: 1-17, 2022. (JCR IF 2021: 7.574)


• [J3] Mauro Conti, Ankit Gangwal, Muhammad Hassan, Chhagan Lal, Eleonora Losiouk. The Road Ahead for Networking: A Survey on ICN-IP Coexistence Solutions. In (IEEE) Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 22(3): 2104-2129, 2020. (JCR IF 2019: 22.973)


• [J2] Ankit Gangwal, Mauro Conti. Cryptomining cannot Change its Spots: Detecting Covert Cryptomining using Magnetic Side-channel. In (IEEE) Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, 15(1): 1630-1639, 2019. (JCR IF 2018: 6.211)


• [J1] Mauro Conti, Ankit Gangwal, Sushmita Ruj. On the Economic Significance of Ransomware Campaigns: A Bitcoin Transactions Perspective. In (Elsevier) Computers & Security, 79: 162-189, 2018. (JCR IF 2017: 2.650)

Conference & Workshop papers

• [C19] Ankit Gangwal, P. Sahithi Reddy, C. Y. K. Sagar. Swiss Cheese CAPTCHA: A Novel Multi-barrier Mechanism for Bot Detection. In Proceedings of the 40th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2025), in press, Sicily, Italy, March 31 - April 4, 2025. (GGS: 2/A-; CORE: B; LiveSHINE: A; MA: A)


• [C18] Martina Soleti, Ankit Gangwal, Mauro Conti. Attacking Anonymity Set in Tornado Cash via Wallet Fingerprints. In Proceedings of the 40th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2025), in press, Sicily, Italy, March 31 - April 4, 2025. (GGS: 2/A-; CORE: B; LiveSHINE: A; MA: A)


• [C17] Ankit Gangwal, Aashish Paliwal. CSUM: A Novel Mechanism for Updating CubeSat While Preserving Authenticity and Integrity. In Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN 2024), pages 1-7, Caen, France, October 8-10, 2024. (CORE: B; LiveSHINE: A-; MA: B)


• [C16] Ankit Gangwal, Apoorva Thirupathi, Alessandro Brighente, Mauro Conti. A First Look at Shill Looping in NFT Ecosystem. In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE WIFS 2023), pages 1-6, Nuremberg, Germany, December 4-7, 2023.


• [C15] Ankit Gangwal, Aakash Jain, Mauro Conti. On the Feasibility of Profiling Electric Vehicles through Charging Data. In Proceedings of the Inaugural Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (NDSS 2023 workshop: VehicleSec 2023), pages 1-8, San Diego, USA, February 27, 2023. (Zoox Best Paper Runner-up Award)


• [C14] Ankit Gangwal, Shubham Singh, Abhijeet Srivastava. AutoSpill: Credential Leakage from Mobile Password Managers. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (ACM CODASPY 2023), pages 39-47, Charlotte, USA, April 24-26, 2023. (Best Paper Award)


• [C13] Ankit Gangwal, Rahul Valluri, Mauro Conti. Analyzing Price Deviations in DeFi Oracles. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS 2022), pages 329-338, Abu Dhabi, UAE, November 13-16, 2022. (CORE: B; MA: C)


• [C12] Ankit Gangwal, Shubham Singh, Riccardo Spolaor, Abhijeet Srivastava. BLEWhisperer: Exploiting BLE Advertisements for Data Exfiltration. In Proceedings of the 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2022), pages 698-717, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 26-30, 2022. (GGS: 1/A+; CORE: A; LiveSHINE: A+; MA: A+; Acceptance rate: 18.50%)


• [C11] Dario Pasquini, Ankit Gangwal, Giuseppe Ateniese, Massimo Bernaschi, Mauro Conti. Improving Password Guessing via Representation Learning. In Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P 2021 Oakland), pages 1382-1399, San Francisco, USA, May 23-27, 2021. (GGS: 1/A++; CORE: A++; LiveSHINE: A++; MA: A++; Acceptance rate: 12.08%)


• [C10] Ankit Gangwal, Samuele Giuliano Piazzetta, Gianluca Lain, Mauro Conti. Detecting Covert Cryptomining using HPC. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Cryptology And Network Security (CANS 2020), pages 344-364, Vienna, Austria, December 14-16, 2020. (CORE: B; MA: C; Acceptance rate: 25.42%)


• [C9] Éireann Leverett, Eric Jardine, Erin Burns, Ankit Gangwal, Dan Geer. Averages don't Characterise the Heavy Tails of Ransoms. In Proceedings of the 15th APWG/IEEE Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (APWG/IEEE eCrime 2020), pages 1-12, Boston, USA, November 16-19, 2020.


• [C8] Mauro Conti, Ankit Gangwal, Michele Todero. Blockchain Trilemma Solver Algorand has Dilemma over Undecidable Messages. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2019), pages 1-8, Canterbury, England, August 26-29, 2019. (GGS: 3/B; CORE: B; LiveSHINE: A-; Acceptance rate: 20.75%)


• [C7] Md. Hajian Berenjestanaki, Mauro Conti, Ankit Gangwal. On the Exploitation of Online SMS Receiving Services to Forge ID Verification. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2019), pages 1-5, Canterbury, England, August 26-29, 2019. (GGS: 3/B; CORE: B; LiveSHINE: A-; Acceptance rate: 20.75%)


• [C6] Fabio Aiolli, Mauro Conti, Ankit Gangwal, Mirko Polato. Mind Your Wallet's Privacy: Identifying Bitcoin Wallet Apps and User's Actions through Network Traffic Analysis. In Proceedings of the 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2019), pages 1484-1491, Limassol, Cyprus, April 8-12, 2019. (GGS: 2/A-; CORE: B; LiveSHINE: A; MA: A-)


• [C5] Mauro Conti, Ankit Gangwal, Sarada Prasad Gochhayat, Gabriele Tolomei. Spot the Difference: Your Bucket is Leaking - A Novel Methodology to Expose A/B Testing Effortlessly. In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Workshop on Security and Privacy in the Cloud (IEEE CNS 2018 workshop: SPC 2018), pages 1-7, Beijing, China, May 30, 2018.


• [C4] Mauro Conti, Ankit Gangwal. Blocking Intrusions at Border using Software Defined-Internet Exchange Point (SD-IXP). In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (IEEE NFV-SDN 2017), pages 1-6, Berlin, Germany, November 6-8, 2017.


• [C3] Mauro Conti, Ankit Gangwal, Manoj Singh Gaur. A Comprehensive and Effective Mechanism for DDoS Detection in SDN. In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (IEEE WiMob 2017), pages 1-8, Rome, Italy, October 9-11, 2017. (GGS: 3/B; LiveSHINE: B; MA: B; Acceptance rate: 28.00%)


• [C2] Ankit Gangwal, Mauro Conti, Manoj Singh Gaur. PANORAMA: Real-time Bird's Eye View of an OpenFlow Network. In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (IEEE ICNSC 2017), pages 204-209, Falerna, Italy, May 16-18, 2017. (GGS: 3/B; LiveSHINE: B; MA: B)


• [C1] Ankit Gangwal, Megha Gupta, Manoj Singh Gaur, Vijay Laxmi, Mauro Conti. ELBA: Efficient Layer Based Routing Algorithm in SDN. In Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (IEEE ICCCN 2016), pages 1-7, Waikoloa, USA, August 1-4, 2016. (GGS: 2/A-; CORE: A; LiveSHINE: A-; MA: A-)

Hacking conferences (w/o published proceedings)

• [H3] Ankit Gangwal, Shubham Singh, Abhijeet Srivastava. AutoSpill: Zero Effort Credential Stealing from Mobile Password Managers. In BlackHat Europe Briefings, London, United Kingdom, December 4-7, 2023.


• [H2] Éireann Leverett, Ankit Gangwal, Jurriaan Bremer. Risk and Ransomware. In 31st FIRSTCON, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 16-21, 2019.


• [H1] Éireann Leverett, Ankit Gangwal. Come to the Dark Side! We have Radical Insurance Groups & Ransomware. In 14th hack.lu, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, October 16-18, 2018.