2024IEEE ComSoc Internet Technical Committee (ITC)
Best Paper Award
Towards identifying neglected, obsolete, and abandoned iot and ot devices
May 20248th Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA)
Best Paper Award
Towards identifying neglected, obsolete, and abandoned iot and ot devices
Aug. 2023DTU Compute, PhD Bazaar
Best Poster Award
Digital Ghost Ships: Abandoned Internet-enabled Devices
Grants and Projects
Jan. 2026–Dec. 2027PostdocTechnical University of Denmark (DTU)
Clearsight: Protecting Denmark’s Digital Infrastructure
A 2-year grant to monitor critical infrastructure in Europe and detect
security weaknesses in exposed OT systems.
Awarded by
DIREC, National Defence Centre (NFC), and Security Tech Space (STS)
Partners
CSIS Security Group A/S, National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”
Jan. 2023–Dec. 2025PhD StudentTechnical University of Denmark (DTU)
Digital ghost ships: unveiling the threat of misconfigured and obsolete systems
Introduces the term Digital Ghost Ships (DGSs) for abandoned internet-connected devices,
and develops new methods to identify them using specially crafted probes aided by machine
learning models, while studying the human factors that lead to their creation.
8th Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA)
Publications
2026Preprint
Is That Really My X-Ray? Measuring Internet-Exposed DICOM Services in the Presence of Deception
Ricardo Yaben, Karina Elzer, Alberto Mongardini, and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
2026Preprint
DICOMHawk: A Cyber Deception Framework for Medical Imaging Infrastructure
Karina Elzer, Ricardo Yaben, Alberto Mongardini, and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
2026Preprint
A Systematic Meta-Survey of Cyber Deception: Unified Taxonomy and Research Directions
Alberto Mongardini, Arthur Cordeiro, Karina Elzer, Ilaria Giacometti, Dario Maddaloni, Anastasia Safargalieva, Ricardo Yaben, and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
2026PhD Thesis
Identifying systemic cyber-security weaknesses in Internet-facing OT and consumer IoT networks
Ricardo Yaben
2025JournalComputers & Security
Measuring What Matters: Revisiting Internet Exposure of OT Networks
Ricardo Yaben, Mathias Anguita, and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
2025Poster9th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA)
Rolling the DICE: A Device Identification and Classification Engine to detect vulnerable devices facing the Internet
Ricardo Yaben, and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
202510th International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity
Drifting away: a cyber-security study of Internet-exposed OPC UA servers
Ricardo Yaben, and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
2025JournalIEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
Digital ghost ships: abandoned, neglected, and obsolete IoT & OT devices exposed to the Internet
Ricardo Yaben, and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
20248th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA)
Towards identifying neglected, obsolete, and abandoned iot and ot devices
Ricardo Yaben, Niels Lundsgaard, Jacob August, and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
Best Paper Award (TMA); Best Paper Award IEEE ComSoc Internet Technical Committee (ITC)
2023Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES)
Cheaper than you thought? A dive into the darkweb market of cyber-crime products
Dimitrios Georgoulias, Ricardo Yaben, and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
Teaching
2023-nowAcademic Support TeacherDTU Compute
Special Educational Support (SPS)
I assist students navigating the educational system
2026Guest LecturerDTU Compute
Advanced Cybersecurity (02271)
OPSEC
2024Guest LecturerDTU Compute
Operating Systems (02335)
OS security, and basic notions of cybersecurity
2023-2025Teaching AssistantDTU Compute
Network Security (02233)
2023Teaching AssistantDTU Compute
Applied Cryptography (02232)
Supervision
2026MSc ThesisDTU
Discovery of OT devices using a protocol Omron FINS and its correlation to other devices in the industrial control system
Michal Ignacy Kunkel
2026MSc ThesisDTU
Monitoring Internet-Exposed OT Devices in Denmark
Mats den Ouden
2025MSc ThesisDTU
Identifying vulnerable and obsolete Operational Technology (OT) systems
Mathias Axel Anguita Andersen
2024MSc ThesisDTU
Unmasking digital ghost ships: Comprehensive scanning, statistical analysis, and ethical disclosure of vulnerable IoT and OT devices in Denmark and beyond
Niels Peter Vinkel Ahle and Jacob August Indahl
2024MSc ThesisDTU
Analysis of devices connected to the Internet with an interest on digital ghosts
Oliver Rømer Hansen
2024MSc ThesisDTU
Securing the Internet of Things: Data Analysis, Vulnerability Discovery, and Clustering of IoT and OT data