Community

• Hack The Box Copenhagen's Meetups Grand Host [meetups]
• DTU Hacker Lab Main Organizer [links]
• Honeynet Member [site]
• GSoC 2022 contributor for the RIoTPot honeypot project, and 2023 mentor

Media Coverage

• Hundreds of thousands of (forgotten) IoT and OT devices are exposed to the internet
  Jun. 2026
• Danish researchers aim to strengthen OT security: Clearsight identifies vulnerable legacy devices before it is too late
  Jun. 2026
• Clearsight: Protecting Denmark’s Digital Infrastructure
  Jan. 2026

Conferences

• V2 Security Copenhagen
  Copenhagen, DK Jun. 2026
  Event organizer (DTU Hacker Lab)
• Defence Tech Symposium
  Copenhagen, DK Feb. 2026
• Black Hat Europe
  London Dec. 2025
  Arsenal presenter (DICE)
• BSides København
  Copenhague, DK Aug. 2025
  Goon
• 9th Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA)
  Copenhagen, DK Jun. 2025
  Poster author
• 10th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P)
  Venice, IT Jun. 2025
  Author (WTMC)
• Cambridge Cybercrime Centre: Seventh Annual Cybercrime Conference
  Cambridge, UK Jun. 2024
• 8th Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA)
  Dresden, DE May 2024
  Author (best-paper award)

Publications

1. 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
   2026
2. DICOMHawk: A Cyber Deception Framework for Medical Imaging Infrastructure
   Karina Elzer, Ricardo Yaben, Alberto Mongardini, and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
   2026
3. 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
   2026
4. Identifying systemic cyber-security weaknesses in Internet-facing OT and consumer IoT networks
   Ricardo Yaben (PhD thesis)
   2026
5. Measuring What Matters: Revisiting Internet Exposure of OT Networks
   Ricardo Yaben, Mathias Anguita, and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
   Computers & Security, 2025 [doi]
6. Rolling the DICE: A Device Identification and Classification Engine to detect vulnerable devices facing the Internet
   Ricardo Yaben, and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
   9th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA), 2025 [doi]
7. Drifting away: a cyber-security study of Internet-exposed OPC UA servers
   Ricardo Yaben, and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
   10th International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity, 2025 [doi]
8. Digital ghost ships: abandoned, neglected, and obsolete IoT & OT devices exposed to the Internet
   Ricardo Yaben, and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
   IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2025 [doi]
9. Towards identifying neglected, obsolete, and abandoned iot and ot devices
   Ricardo Yaben, Niels Lundsgaard, Jacob August, and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
   8th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA), 2024 [doi]
   Best Paper Award (TMA); Best Paper Award IEEE ComSoc Internet Technical Committee (ITC)
10. Cheaper than you thought? A dive into the darkweb market of cyber-crime products
    Dimitrios Georgoulias, Ricardo Yaben, and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
    Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), 2023 [doi]