2026

• Al-Naimi, Aysha, Ali Baydoun, Moutaz Alazab, Hafeez Ur Rehman, Jihad Al Ja'am, and Sumaya Al-Maadeed. "AI-Driven IoT Botnet Detection: Strengthening Cybersecurity Through Advanced Machine Learning Techniques." International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks 2026, no. 1 (2026): 5883106.

• Al Siam, Abdullah, Moutaz Alazab, Areej Obeidat, Nuruzzaman Faruqui, and Imran Mahmud. "An Explainable and Robust Ensemble-Based Framework for Malware Detection." Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications 19, no. 3 (2026): 81.

• Karim, Nader Abdel, Moutaz Alazab, Omar A. Alzubi, Waleed K. Abdulraheem, Hasan Kanaker, Mohammad Alshinwan, Abdulkarim Albanna, and Vansh Jatana. "VoicePass: Multi-Factor User Authentication Method for E-Wallet." SN Computer Science 7, no. 1 (2026): 61.

• Yasin, Muhammad Waqas, Mobeen Akhtar, Moutaz Alazab, Mustafa Inc, Zafarullah Baber, Muhammad Sajid Iqbal, and Shahram Rezapour. "Spatiotemporal Dynamics of a Reaction-Diffusion Nutrient-Algae Model." Modeling Earth Systems and Environment 12, no. 1 (2026): 29.

2025

• Alfadhil, Maha Jawad, Ali Baydoun, Moutaz Alazab, Hafeez Ur Rehman, Jihad Al Jaam, and Sumaya Ali S. A. Al-Maadeed. "Enhancing Federated Learning for IoT-Based Anomaly Detection: A Reputation-Based Client Selection Approach." Alexandria Engineering Journal 130 (2025): 889–909.

• Alazzam, Hadeel, Orieb Abualghanam, and Moutaz Alazab. "Optimizing Malware Detection Across Platforms Using the Firefly Algorithm in Cyber Threat Intelligence." Cluster Computing 28, no. 16 (2025): 1049.

• Alazab, Moutaz, Albara Awajan, Areej Obeidat, Nuruzzaman Faruqui, and Hafeez Ur Rehman. "IntruSafe: A FCNN-LSTM Hybrid IoMT Intrusion Detection System for Both String and 2D-Spatial Data Using Sandwich Architecture." Neural Computing and Applications 37, no. 28 (2025): 23395–23422.

• Khraisat, Ansam, Ammar Alazab, Moutaz Alazab, Areej Obeidat, Sarabjot Singh, and Tony Jan. "Federated Learning for Intrusion Detection in IoT Environments: A Privacy-Preserving Strategy." Discover Internet of Things 5, no. 1 (2025): 72.

• Abu Alghanam, Orieb, Hadeel Alazzam, Mohammad Qatawneh, Moutaz Alazab, and Mohammad Al Sharaiah. "Elevating Mobile Security: An Ensemble Approach for Enhanced Malware Detection with M-iForest." International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies 19, no. 10 (2025): 129–151.

• Hussain, Sumaira, Islam Zada, Moutaz Alazab, Hessa Alfraihi, Manal Aldhayan, Inam Ullah, and Mohammad Asmat Ullah Khan. "Optimizing Malicious Website Prediction: An Advanced XGBoost-Based Machine Learning Model." Nonlinear Engineering 14, no. 1 (2025): 20240069.

• Al Siam, Abdullah, Moutaz Alazab, Albara Awajan, Md Rakibul Hasan, Areej Obeidat, and Nuruzzaman Faruqui. "IP Safeguard: An AI-Driven Malicious IP Detection Framework." IEEE Access 13 (2025): 90249–90261.

• Alazab, Moutaz, Albara Awajan, Areej Obeidat, Nuruzzaman Faruqui, Aaron Bere, Saqib Ali, and Wei Wei. "Adaptive Protocols for Hypervisor Security in Cloud Infrastructure Using Federated Learning-Based Anomaly Detection." Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 152 (2025): 110750.

• Al-Ofeishat, Hussein A., Jawdat S. Alkasassbeh, Albara Awajan, and Moutaz Alazab. "Analysis and Comparison of Raw Network Packet Datasets Using Machine Learning Classification and Grey Wolf Optimization." International Journal of Advances in Soft Computing and Its Applications 17, no. 1 (2025): 233.

• Khraisat, Ansam, Ammar Alazab, Moutaz Alazab, Tony Jan, Sarabjot Singh, and Md Ashraf Uddin. "Securing Federated Learning: A Defense Strategy against Targeted Data Poisoning Attack." Discover Internet of Things 5, no. 1 (2025): 16.

• Al-Hyari, Abeer, Mua'ad Abu-Faraj, Charlie Obimbo, and Moutaz Alazab. "Chaotic Hénon–Logistic Map Integration: A Powerful Approach for Safeguarding Digital Images." Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy 5, no. 1 (2025): 8.

• Al Siam, Abdullah, Moutaz Alazab, Albara Awajan, and Nuruzzaman Faruqui. "A Comprehensive Review of AI's Current Impact and Future Prospects in Cybersecurity." IEEE Access 13 (2025): 14029–14050.

• Atoum, Mohammed Salem, Ala Abdulsalam Alarood, Eesa Abdullah Alsolmi, Areej Obeidat, and Moutaz Alazab. "Predictive Analysis of Global Terrorist Attacks Using Lexical Patterns Across Multiple Datasets." Expert Systems 42, no. 1 (2025): e13808.

• Fazal, Sumaiya, Hafeez Ur Rehman, and Moutaz Alazab. "Towards Precision Medicine in Glioblastoma: Unraveling MGMT Methylation Status in Glioblastoma Using Adaptive Sparse Autoencoders." Egyptian Informatics Journal 29 (2025): 100583.

2024

• Kaleem, Sidrah, Zakia Jalil, Muhammad Nasir, and Moutaz Alazab. "Word Embedding Empowered Topic Recognition in News Articles." PeerJ Computer Science 10 (2024): e2300.

• Akhtar, Md Amir Khusru, Mohit Kumar, Sahil Verma, Korhan Cengiz, Pawan Kumar Verma, Ruba Abu Khurma, and Moutaz Alazab. "Unifying Optimization Forces: Harnessing the Fine-Structure Constant in an Electromagnetic-Gravity Optimization Framework." Journal of Intelligent Systems 33, no. 1 (2024): 20230306.

• Alazab, Moutaz, Ruba Abu Khurma, Maribel García-Arenas, Vansh Jatana, Ali Baydoun, and Robertas Damaševičius. "Enhanced Threat Intelligence Framework for Advanced Cybersecurity Resilience." Egyptian Informatics Journal 27 (2024): 100521.

• Alazab, Moutaz, and Ammar Alazab. "Advances in Cybersecurity and Reliability." Information 15, no. 6 (2024): 361. (Editorial)

• Alazab, Moutaz, Ruba Abu Khurma, David Camacho, and Alejandro Martín. "Enhanced Android Ransomware Detection Through Hybrid Simultaneous Swarm-Based Optimization." Cognitive Computation 16, no. 5 (2024): 2154–2168.

• Alazab, Moutaz, Albara Awajan, Hadeel Alazzam, Mohammad Wedyan, Bandar Alshawi, and Ryan Alturki. "A Novel IDS with a Dynamic Access Control Algorithm to Detect and Defend Intrusion at IoT Nodes." Sensors 24, no. 7 (2024): 2188.

• Quraan, Addy, Fatima N. AL-Aswadi, Rami S. Alkhawaldeh, Moutaz Alazab, and Albara Awajan. "Integration Approaches for Heterogeneous Big Data: A Survey." Cybernetics and Information Technologies 24, no. 1 (2024): 3–20.

• Karim, Nader Abdel, Osama A. Khashan, Waleed K. Abdulraheem, Moutaz Alazab, Hasan Kanaker, Mahmoud E. Farfoura, and Mohammad Alshinwan. "Performance Comparison of Hyper-V and KVM for Cryptographic Tasks in Cloud Computing." Computers, Materials and Continua 78, no. 2 (2024): 2023–2045.

• Alazab, Moutaz, and Salah Alhyari. "Industry 4.0 Innovation: A Systematic Literature Review on the Role of Blockchain Technology in Creating Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Facilities." Information 15, no. 2 (2024): 78.

• Alazab, Moutaz, Ruba Abu Khurma, Pedro A. Castillo, Bilal Abu-Salih, Alejandro Martín, and David Camacho. "An Effective Networks Intrusion Detection Approach Based on Hybrid Harris Hawks and Multi-Layer Perceptron." Egyptian Informatics Journal 25 (2024): 100423.

• Alazab, Moutaz. "Android Ransomware Detection Using Binary Jaya Optimization Algorithm." Expert Systems 41, no. 1 (2024): e13479.

• Abu-Salih, Bilal, Mohammed Alweshah, Moutaz Alazab, Manaf Al-Okaily, Muteeb Alahmari, Mohammad Al-Habashneh, and Saleh Al-Sharaeh. "Natural Language Inference Model for Customer Advocacy Detection in Online Customer Engagement." Machine Learning 113, no. 4 (2024): 2249–2275.

2023

• Omar, Maryam, Hafeez Ur Rehman, Omar Bin Samin, Moutaz Alazab, Gianfranco Politano, and Alfredo Benso. "CapGAN: Text-to-Image Synthesis Using Capsule GANs." Information 14, no. 10 (2023): 552.

• Chebil, Wiem, Mohammad Wedyan, Moutaz Alazab, Ryan Alturki, and Omar Elshaweesh. "Improving Semantic Information Retrieval Using Multinomial Naive Bayes Classifier and Bayesian Networks." Information 14, no. 5 (2023): 272.

• Achar, Sandesh, Nuruzzaman Faruqui, Md Whaiduzzaman, Albara Awajan, and Moutaz Alazab. "Cyber-Physical System Security Based on Human Activity Recognition through IoT Cloud Computing." Electronics 12, no. 8 (2023): 1892.

• Jalil, Zakia, Muhammad Nasir, Moutaz Alazab, Jamal Nasir, Tehmina Amjad, and Abdullah Alqammaz. "Grapharizer: A Graph-Based Technique for Extractive Multi-Document Summarization." Electronics 12, no. 8 (2023): 1895.

• Martín, Alejandro, Alfonso Hernández, Moutaz Alazab, Jason Jung, and David Camacho. "Evolving Generative Adversarial Networks to Improve Image Steganography." Expert Systems with Applications 222 (2023): 119841.

• Alshaweesh, Omar, Mohammad Wedyan, Moutaz Alazab, Bilal Abu-Salih, and Adel Al-Jumaily. "A New Augmented Reality System for Calculating Social Distancing between Children at School." Electronics 12, no. 2 (2023): 358.

2022

• Alazab, Moutaz, Ruba Abu Khurma, Albara Awajan, and David Camacho. "A New Intrusion Detection System Based on Moth–Flame Optimizer Algorithm." Expert Systems with Applications 210 (2022): 118439.

• Hasan, Mohammad Kamrul, Md Akhtaruzzaman, S. Rayhan Kabir, Thippa Reddy Gadekallu, Shayla Islam, Pritheega Magalingam, Rosilah Hassan, Mamoun Alazab, and Moutaz Alazab. "Evolution of Industry and Blockchain Era: Monitoring Price Hike and Corruption Using BIoT for Smart Government and Industry 4.0." IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 18, no. 12 (2022): 9153–9161.

• Alzubi, Omar, Jafar Alzubi, Moutaz Alazab, Adnan Alrabea, Albara Awajan, and Issa Qiqieh. "Optimized Machine Learning-Based Intrusion Detection System for Fog and Edge Computing Environment." Electronics 11, no. 19 (2022): 3007.

• Awajan, Albara, Moutaz Alazab, Salah Alhyari, Issa Qiqieh, and Mohammad Wedyan. "Machine Learning Techniques for Automated Policy Violation Reporting." International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions 12, no. 5 (2022): 387–405.

• Wedyan, Mohammad, Jannat Falah, Omar Elshaweesh, Salsabeel F. M. Alfalah, and Moutaz Alazab. "Augmented Reality-Based English Language Learning: Importance and State of the Art." Electronics 11, no. 17 (2022): 2692.

• Alazab, Ammar, Ansam Khraisat, Moutaz Alazab, and Sarabjot Singh. "Detection of Obfuscated Malicious JavaScript Code." Future Internet 14, no. 8 (2022): 217.

• Wedyan, Mohammad, Omar Al-Shaweesh, Moutaz Alazab, and Albara Awajan. "Educating Children on the Preventive Measures of COVID-19 Transmission Using Augmented Reality." IJCSNS International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security 22, no. 5 (2022): 610–617.

• Alazab, Moutaz, Ruba Abu Khurma, Reem Alsaadeh, Mohammad Wedyan, and Ajith Abraham. "Fake News Detection and Prevention Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques: A Review of a Decade of Research." International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications 14 (2022): 326–338.

• Alazab, Moutaz, Albara Awajan, Ammar Alazab, Ansam Khraisat, Abeer Alhyari, and Reem Saadeh. "Fake-News Detection System Using Machine-Learning Algorithms for Arabic-Language Content." Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology 100, no. 16 (2022).

• Alazab, Moutaz. "A Discrete Time-Varying Grey Wolf IoT Botnet Detection System." Computer Communications 192 (2022): 405–416.

• Alazab, Moutaz, Ruba Abu Khurma, Albara Awajan, and Mohammad Wedyan. "Digital Forensics Classification Based on a Hybrid Neural Network and the Salp Swarm Algorithm." Electronics 11, no. 12 (2022): 1903.

2021 and earlier

• Alazab, Moutaz, Salah Alhyari, Albara Awajan, and Ayman Bahjat Abdallah. "Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management: An Empirical Study of the Factors Affecting User Adoption/Acceptance." Cluster Computing 24, no. 1 (2021): 83–101.

• Suifan, Taghrid, Raeda Saa'da, Moutaz Alazab, Rateb Sweis, Ayman Abdallah, and Salah Alhyari. "Quality of Information Sharing, Agility, and Sustainability of Humanitarian Aid Supply Chains: An Empirical Investigation." International Journal of Supply Chain Management 9, no. 5 (2020): 118–131.

• Alazab, Moutaz, Albara Awajan, Abdelwadood Mesleh, Ajith Abraham, Vansh Jatana, and Salah Alhyari. "COVID-19 Prediction and Detection Using Deep Learning." International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications 12 (2020): 168–181.

• Alazab, Moutaz. "Automated Malware Detection in Mobile App Stores Based on Robust Feature Generation." Electronics 9, no. 3 (2020): 435.

• Alazab, Moutaz, Mamoun Alazab, Andrii Shalaginov, Abdelwadood Mesleh, and Albara Awajan. "Intelligent Mobile Malware Detection Using Permission Requests and API Calls." Future Generation Computer Systems 107 (2020): 509–521.

• Suifan, Taghrid, Moutaz Alazab, and Salah Alhyari. "Trade-Off among Lean, Agile, Resilient and Green Paradigms: An Empirical Study on Pharmaceutical Industry in Jordan Using a TOPSIS-Entropy Method." International Journal of Advanced Operations Management 11, no. 1–2 (2019): 69–101.

• Masadeh, Shadi R., Jamal S. Zraqou, and Moutaz Alazab. "A Novel Authentication and Authorization Model Based on Multiple Encryption Techniques for Adopting Secure E-Learning System." Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology 96, no. 6 (2018): 1600–1610.

• Alhyari, Salah, Moutaz Alazab, Sitalakshmi Venkatraman, Mamoun Alazab, and Ammar Alazab. "Performance Evaluation of E-Government Services Using Balanced Scorecard: An Empirical Study in Jordan." Benchmarking: An International Journal 20, no. 4 (2013): 512–536.

• Moonsamy, Veelasha, Moutaz Alazab, and Lynn Batten. "Towards an Understanding of the Impact of Advertising on Data Leaks." International Journal of Security and Networks 7, no. 3 (2012): 181–193.

• Alhyari, Salah, Moutaz Alazab, Sitalakshmi Venkatraman, Mamoun Alazab, and Ammar Alazab. "Six Sigma Approach to Improve Quality in E-Services: An Empirical Study in Jordan." International Journal of Electronic Government Research 8, no. 2 (2012): 57–74.

• Alazab, Moutaz, and Lynn M. Batten. "Survey in Smartphone Malware Analysis Techniques." In New Threats and Countermeasures in Digital Crime and Cyber Terrorism, 105–130. IGI Global, 2015.

• Alazab, Mamoun, Sitalakshmi Venkatraman, Paul Watters, and Moutaz Alazab. "Information Security Governance: The Art of Detecting Hidden Malware." In IT Security Governance Innovations: Theory and Research, 293–315. IGI Global, 2013.

• Al Siam, Abdullah, Moutaz Alazab, Areej Obeidat, Nuruzzaman Faruqui, and Somaya Al-Maadeed. "Real-Time Multi-Source Threat Intelligence Fusion Using Large Language Models." 2026 IEEE 5th International Conference on AI in Cybersecurity (ICAIC), 1–6. IEEE, 2026.

• Al Siam, Abdullah, Moutaz Alazab, Areej Obeidat, Nuruzzaman Faruqui, and Somaya Al-Maadeed. "TransCall: A Transformer-Driven Framework for Zero-Day Malware Detection Using System Call Sequences." 2026 IEEE 5th International Conference on AI in Cybersecurity (ICAIC), 1–6. IEEE, 2026.

• Vara, Nidadavolu Venkat Durga Sai Siva, Prasad Raju, Nuruzzaman Faruqui, Moutaz Alazab, and Olivia-Roxana Alecsoiu. "Neural-Heatmap: An Innovative Predictive Data Visualization Technique Using Deep Learning to Strengthen Cybersecurity." 2026 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Systems, and Emerging Technologies (ICAISET), 1–6. IEEE, 2026.

• Al Siam, Abdullah, Sadequzzaman Shohan, Nuruzzaman Faruqui, and Moutaz Alazab. "Explainable Intrusion Detection and Prevention Framework for Next-Generation Networks." 2025 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Information, Communication and Systems (SPICSCON), 105–109. IEEE, 2025.

• Al-Nassr, Asma Nasser, Moutaz Alazab, and Essa H. M. Al-Siddiqi. "A Study on Viability of Cryptocurrency Adoption in Qatar: A Thematic Coding Approach of Fifty Reviews." 2024 International Conference on Computer and Applications (ICCA), 1–15. IEEE, 2024.

• Babar, Ibrar, Asjid Tahir, Arslan Haider, Hafeez Ur Rehman, and Moutaz Alazab. "Unifying Genetics and Imaging: MRI-Based Classification of MGMT Genetic Subtypes Using Visual Transformers." 2023 18th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), 122–128. IEEE, 2023.

• Abu Khurma, Ruba, Moutaz Alazab, Juan Julián Merelo, and Pedro A. Castillo. "New Evolutionary Selection Operators for Snake Optimizer." Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI), 82–90. 2022.

• Batten, Lynn M., Veelasha Moonsamy, and Moutaz Alazab. "Smartphone Applications, Malware and Data Theft." Computational Intelligence, Cyber Security and Computational Models: Proceedings of ICC3 2015, 15–24. Springer, 2015.

• Alazab, Moutaz, Veelasha Moonsamy, Lynn Batten, Patrik Lantz, and Ronghua Tian. "Analysis of Malicious and Benign Android Applications." 2012 32nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW), 608–616. IEEE, 2012.

• Alazab, Ammar, Michael Hobbs, Jemal Abawajy, and Moutaz Alazab. "Using Feature Selection for Intrusion Detection System." 2012 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT), 296–301. IEEE, 2012.

• Alazab, Mamoun, Sitalakshmi Venkatraman, Paul A. Watters, and Moutaz Alazab. "Zero-Day Malware Detection Based on Supervised Learning Algorithms of API Call Signatures." Proceedings of the Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM), 171–182. 2011.

• Alazab, Mamoun, Sitalakshmi Venkatraman, Paul Watters, Moutaz Alazab, and Ammar Alazab. "Cybercrime: The Case of Obfuscated Malware." Global Security, Safety and Sustainability & e-Democracy (ICGS3/e-Democracy 2011), 204–211. Springer, 2011.

• Alazab, Ammar, Moutaz Alazab, Jemal Abawajy, and Michael Hobbs. "Web Application Protection against SQL Injection Attack." Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA), 1–7. 2011.

• Moutaz Alazab, and Hisham Alawamelh “Intelligent Robot Car” faculty of Engineering, Al-Balqa Applied university, August 2009. Al Salt, Jordan. Page 8 

• Moutaz Alazab "Detecting Malware on the smartphone devices". Kioloa NSW Oct 2011, Australia.

• Moutaz Alazab “Toward understanding malware analysis”, December 2018, Doha- Qatar. 

• Moutaz Alazab “Malware detection using machine learning techniques”, November 2018, Doha- Qatar. 

• Moutaz Alazab “Analysis of Malicious and Benign Android “June 2012. Macau, China. 

• Moutaz Alazab “Mobile Malware Detection Based on Behavioural Features” Student Association, Deakin University, May 2011, Victoria, Australia. 

• Moutaz Alazab “Overview of Behavioural-Based Detection for Android-Based Devices” Deakin University, May 2011, Vic, Australia. 

• Moutaz Alazab “Malware Analysis, Detection and Prevention on Smartphone” Deakin University, May 2011, Victoria, Australia. 

• Moutaz Alazab “Smartphone’s Threats” 10th Safeguarding Australia Conference: Recalibrating the security response, September 2011. Canberra, Australia.