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Journal papers
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[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)
[BibTeX] [DOI]@article{gangwal2024authentication, title={De-Authentication Using Ambient Light Sensor}, author={Gangwal, Ankit and Paliwal, Aashish and Conti, Mauro}, journal={IEEE Access}, volume={12}, pages={28225--28234}, year={2024}, publisher={IEEE} } -
[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)
[BibTeX] [DOI]@article{gangwal2022survey, title={A Survey of Layer-Two Blockchain Protocols}, author={Gangwal, Ankit and Gangavalli, Haripriya Ravali and Thirupathi, Apoorva}, journal={Journal of Network and Computer Applications}, volume={209}, pages={1--17}, year={2022}, publisher={Elsevier} } -
[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)
[BibTeX] [DOI]@article{conti2020road, title={The Road Ahead for Networking: A Survey on ICN-IP Coexistence Solutions}, author={Conti, Mauro and Gangwal, Ankit and Hassan, Muhammad and Lal, Chhagan and Losiouk, Eleonora}, journal={IEEE Communications Surveys \& Tutorials}, volume={22}, number={3}, pages={2104--2129}, year={2020}, publisher={IEEE} } -
[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)
[BibTeX] [DOI]@article{gangwal2019cryptomining, title={Cryptomining cannot Change its Spots: Detecting Covert Cryptomining using Magnetic Side-channel}, author={Gangwal, Ankit and Conti, Mauro}, journal={IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security}, volume={15}, number={1}, pages={1630--1639}, year={2019}, publisher={IEEE} } -
[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)
[BibTeX] [DOI] [Project's page]
[Media coverage: MIT Technology Review, Mozilla Internet Health Report 2019]@article{conti2018economic, title={On the Economic Significance of Ransomware Campaigns: A Bitcoin Transactions Perspective}, author={Conti, Mauro and Gangwal, Ankit and Ruj, Sushmita}, journal={Computers \& Security}, volume={79}, pages={162--189}, year={2018}, publisher={Elsevier} }
Conference & Workshop papers
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[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)
[BibTeX] [DOI]@inproceedings{gangwal2024csum, title={CSUM: A Novel Mechanism for Updating CubeSat While Preserving Authenticity and Integrity}, author={Gangwal, Ankit and Paliwal, Aashish}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks}, pages={1--7}, year={2024} } -
[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.
[BibTeX] [DOI]@inproceedings{gangwal2023first, title={A First Look at Shill Looping in NFT Ecosystem}, author={Gangwal, Ankit and Thirupathi, Apoorva and Brighente, Alessandro and Conti, Mauro}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security}, pages={1--6}, year={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)
[BibTeX] [DOI]@inproceedings{gangwal2023feasibility, title={On the Feasibility of Profiling Electric Vehicles through Charging Data}, author={Gangwal, Ankit and Jain, Aakash and Conti, Mauro}, booktitle={Proceedings of the Inaugural Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (NDSS 2023 workshop: VehicleSec 2023)}, pages={1--8}, year={2023} } -
[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)
[BibTeX] [DOI] [BlackHat Europe Briefings]
[Media coverage: Android Police, Ars Technica, Dark Reading, Europa Press, Forbes, iSMG, TechCrunch, The Times of India, and more]@inproceedings{gangwal2023autospill, title={AutoSpill: Credential Leakage from Mobile Password Managers}, author={Gangwal, Ankit and Singh, Shubham and Srivastava, Abhijeet}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy}, pages={39--47}, year={2023} } -
[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)
[BibTeX] [DOI] [Project's page]@inproceedings{gangwal2022analyzing, title={Analyzing Price Deviations in DeFi Oracles}, author={Gangwal, Ankit and Valluri, Rahul and Conti, Mauro}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security}, pages={329--338}, year={2022} } -
[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%)
[BibTeX] [DOI]@inproceedings{gangwal2022blewhisperer, title={BLEWhisperer: Exploiting BLE Advertisements for Data Exfiltration}, author={Gangwal, Ankit and Singh, Shubham and Spolaor, Riccardo and Srivastava, Abhijeet}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security}, pages={698--717}, year={2022} } -
[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%)
[BibTeX] [DOI] [Project's page]
[Media coverage: EdTech Magazine]@inproceedings{pasquini2021improving, title={Improving Password Guessing via Representation Learning}, author={Pasquini, Dario and Gangwal, Ankit and Ateniese, Giuseppe and Bernaschi, Massimo and Conti, Mauro}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy}, pages={1382--1399}, year={2021} } -
[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%)
[BibTeX] [DOI] [Project's page]@inproceedings{gangwal2020detecting, title={Detecting Covert Cryptomining Using HPC}, author={Gangwal, Ankit and Piazzetta, Samuele Giuliano and Lain, Gianluca and Conti, Mauro}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security}, pages={344--364}, year={2020} } -
[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.
[BibTeX] [DOI]@inproceedings{leverett2020averages, title={Averages don't Characterise the Heavy Tails of Ransoms}, author={Leverett, {\'E}ireann and Jardine, Eric and Burns, Erin and Gangwal, Ankit and Geer, Dan}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th APWG/IEEE Symposium on Electronic Crime Research}, pages={1--12}, year={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%)
[BibTeX] [DOI]@inproceedings{conti2019blockchain, title={Blockchain Trilemma Solver Algorand has Dilemma over Undecidable Messages}, author={Conti, Mauro and Gangwal, Ankit and Todero, Michele}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security}, pages={1--8}, year={2019} } -
[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%)
[BibTeX] [DOI]@inproceedings{berenjestanaki2019exploitation, title={On the Exploitation of Online SMS Receiving Services to Forge ID Verification}, author={Berenjestanaki, Md Hajian and Conti, Mauro and Gangwal, Ankit}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security}, pages={1--5}, year={2019} } -
[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-)
[BibTeX] [DOI]@inproceedings{aiolli2019mind, title={Mind Your Wallet's Privacy: Identifying Bitcoin Wallet Apps and User's Actions through Network Traffic Analysis}, author={Aiolli, Fabio and Conti, Mauro and Gangwal, Ankit and Polato, Mirko}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing}, pages={1484--1491}, year={2019} } -
[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.
[BibTeX] [DOI] [Project's page]@inproceedings{conti2018spot, title={Spot the Difference: Your Bucket is Leaking - A Novel Methodology to Expose A/B Testing Effortlessly}, author={Conti, Mauro and Gangwal, Ankit and Gochhayat, Sarada Prasad and Tolomei, Gabriele}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Workshop on Security and Privacy in the Cloud (IEEE CNS 2018 workshop: SPC 2018)}, pages={1--7}, year={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.
[BibTeX] [DOI]@inproceedings{conti2017blocking, title={Blocking Intrusions at Border using Software Defined-Internet Exchange Point (SD-IXP)}, author={Conti, Mauro and Gangwal, Ankit}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks}, pages={1--6}, year={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%)
[BibTeX] [DOI]@inproceedings{conti2017comprehensive, title={A Comprehensive and Effective Mechanism for DDoS Detection in SDN}, author={Conti, Mauro and Gangwal, Ankit and Gaur, Manoj Singh}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications}, pages={1--8}, year={2017} } -
[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)
[BibTeX] [DOI] [Project's page]@inproceedings{gangwal2017panorama, title={PANORAMA: Real-time Bird's Eye View of an OpenFlow Network}, author={Gangwal, Ankit and Conti, Mauro and Gaur, Manoj Singh}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control}, pages={204--209}, year={2017} } -
[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-)
[BibTeX] [DOI]@inproceedings{gangwal2016elba, title={ELBA: Efficient Layer Based Routing Algorithm in SDN}, author={Gangwal, Ankit and Gupta, Megha and Gaur, Manoj Singh and Laxmi, Vijay and Conti, Mauro}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks}, pages={1--7}, year={2016} }
Hacking conferences (w/o published proceedings)
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[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.
Book chapters
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[K1] Mauro Conti, Ankit Gangwal, Chhagan Lal, Sushmita Ruj.
Bitcoin Blockchain System: An Overview of Security and Privacy Aspects.
In Blockchains: A Handbook on Fundamentals, Platforms and Applications, vol. 105, pp 75-108, 2023.
(Springer) (Editors: Sushmita Ruj, Salil Kanhere, Mauro Conti).
[BibTeX] [DOI]@inbook{conti2023bitcoin, chapter={Bitcoin Blockchain System: An Overview of Security and Privacy Aspects}, author={Conti, Mauro and Gangwal, Ankit and Lal, Chhagan and Ruj, Sushmita}, title={Blockchains: A Handbook on Fundamentals, Platforms and Applications}, volume={105}, pages={75--108}, year={2023}, publisher={Springer} }
Theses
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[PT] Ankit Gangwal.
Security and Privacy Implications of Cryptocurrencies.
Doctoral Thesis, October 2019.
Supervisor: Prof. Mauro Conti.
Co-supervisor: Prof. Anna Spagnolli.
University of Padua, Italy. -
[MT] Ankit Gangwal.
Efficient SVC Video Streaming over Software Defined Networks.
Master Thesis, June 2016.
Supervisor: Prof. Manoj Singh Gaur.
Malaviya National Institute of Technology, India.