Ransomware and Artificial Intelligence: A Comprehensive Systematic Review of Reviews

This study provides a comprehensive synthesis of Artificial Intelligence AI, especially Machine Learning ML and Deep Learning DL, in ransomware defense. Using a "review of reviews" methodology based on PRISMA, this paper gathers insights on how AI is transforming ransomware detection, prevention,...

A Systematic Review of Algorithmic Red Teaming Methodologies for Assurance and Security of AI Applications

Cybersecurity threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated, making traditional defense mechanisms and manual red teaming approaches insufficient for modern organizations. While red teaming has long been recognized as an effective method to identify vulnerabilities by simulating real-world...

A Systematic Literature Review on LLM Defenses against Prompt Injection and Jailbreaking: Expanding NIST Taxonomy

The rapid advancement and widespread adoption of generative artificial intelligence GenAI and large language models LLMs has been accompanied by the emergence of new security vulnerabilities and challenges, such as jailbreaking and other prompt injection attacks. These maliciously crafted inputs...

SoK: Reviewing Two Decades of Security, Privacy, Accessibility, and Usability Studies on Internet of Things for Older Adults

The Internet of Things IoT has the potential to enhance older adults' independence and quality of life, but it also exposes them to security, privacy, accessibility, and usability SPAU risks. We conducted a systematic review of 44 peer-reviewed studies published between 2004 and 2024 using a...

Cybersecurity Policy Adoption in South Africa: Does Public Trust Matter?

This study examines how public perception influences the implementation and adoption of cybersecurity frameworks in South Africa. Using the PRISMA methodology, a systematic literature review was conducted across reputable scholarly databases, yielding 34 relevant sources aligned with predefined...

Adversarial Defense in Cybersecurity: a Systematic Review of GANs for Threat Detection and Mitigation

Machine learning-based cybersecurity systems are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks, while Generative Adversarial Networks GANs act as both powerful attack enablers and promising defenses. This survey systematically reviews GAN-based adversarial defenses in cybersecurity 2021--August 31,...

SoK: a Systematic Review of Malware Ontologies and Taxonomies and Implications for the Quantum Era

The threat of quantum malware is real and a growing security concern that will have catastrophic scientific and technological impacts, if not addressed early. If weaponised or exploited especially by the wrong hands, malware will undermine highly sophisticated critical systems supported by...

State-Of-The-Art in Software Security Visualization: a Systematic Review

Software security visualization is an interdisciplinary field that combines the technical complexity of cybersecurity, including threat intelligence and compliance monitoring, with visual analytics, transforming complex security data into easily digestible visual formats. As software systems get...

A Systematic Survey of Empirical User Studies of Unintentional Information Disclosure in Everyday Digital Interaction

The exchange of personal information in digital environments poses significant risks, including identity theft, privacy breaches, and data misuse. Addressing these challenges requires a deep understanding of user behavior and mental models in diverse contexts. This paper presents a systematic...

Cyber Security Educational Games for Children: a Systematic Literature Review

Educational games have been widely used to teach children about cyber security. This systematic literature review reveals evidence of positive learning outcomes, after analysing 91 such games reported in 68 papers published between 2010 and 2024. However, critical gaps have also been identified...

Never Compromise to Vulnerabilities: a Comprehensive Survey on AI Governance

The rapid advancement of AI has expanded its capabilities across domains, yet introduced critical technical vulnerabilities, such as algorithmic bias and adversarial sensitivity, that pose significant societal risks, including misinformation, inequity, security breaches, physical harm, and eroded...

Metaverse Security and Privacy Research: a Systematic Review

The rapid growth of metaverse technologies, including virtual worlds, augmented reality, and lifelogging, has accelerated their adoption across diverse domains. This rise exposes users to significant new security and privacy challenges due to sociotechnical complexity, pervasive connectivity, and...

AI-Based Software Vulnerability Detection: a Systematic Literature Review

Software vulnerabilities in source code pose serious cybersecurity risks, prompting a shift from traditional detection methods e.g., static analysis, rule-based matching to AI-driven approaches. This study presents a systematic review of software vulnerability detection SVD research from 2018 to...

LLM-Driven APT Detection for 6G Wireless Networks: a Systematic Review and Taxonomy

Sixth Generation 6G wireless networks, which are expected to be deployed in the 2030s, have already created great excitement in academia and the private sector with their extremely high communication speed and low latency rates. However, despite the ultra-low latency, high throughput, and...