KES-IDT 2026 - Barcelona, Spain
Presentation of the paper Towards Efficient Phishing Email Detection with LLM-Based Models by Claudia-Ioana Coste at the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES-IDT 2026).
News & Events
Presentations, invited talks, conferences, events and other group milestones.
Romania Cyber Skills & Education Dialogue - Bucharest
Darius Vasile Bufnea represented the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the event hosted at the Palace of Parliament.
TSM #165 Launch
CYPHER members participated in the launch of Today Software Magazine #165, to which they contributed the article On Education and Resilience in Cybersecurity.
Cyber Detectives - First Steps Towards a Safer Internet
Cybersecurity-awareness activity for primary-school children at Nicolae Bălcescu High School in Cluj-Napoca.
IEEE TrustCom 2025 - Guiyang, China
Alexandru Kiraly - conference presentation of DoNotSurf - Low-Latency DNS IP Tunneling co-authored with Darius Vasile Bufnea, at IEEE TrustCom 2025 in Guiyang, China.
InnoComp 2025
CYPHER members presented SPECTRO – SPecialised Education programmes in CybersecuriTy and RObotics and CYCERONE, two European co-funded educational projects in the field of cybersecurity, at InnoComp 2025.
AI for Cybersecurity · EIT Digital / Coursera
Completion of the AI for Cybersecurity online course, developed through a sustained CYPHER team effort over more than two years, from June 2023 to September 2025.
EIT Digital Day Romania
Representation of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at EIT Digital Day Romania.
Cybersecurity Panel · Cluj Innovation Days 2024
Darius-Vasile Bufnea - participation in the cybersecurity panel titled Futureproof: Navigating emerging threats and vulnerabilities through innovative technologies organized by Cluj IT Cluster at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca as part of Cluj Innovation Days 2024.
DNSC & Azerbaijani cybersecurity delegation
Institutional meeting and exchange of experience with representatives of the Romanian National Cyber Security Directorate and a cybersecurity delegation from Azerbaijan.
Meeting with the U.S. Ambassador
Institutional discussion regarding Babeș-Bolyai University's cybersecurity initiatives.
IT Days 2022 · Invited talk
Darius Vasile Bufnea delivered a presentation titled Research and Academic Initiatives in Cyber Security at Babeș-Bolyai University, in collaboration with Attila Mester.
Bucharest Cybersecurity Conference 2022
Darius Vasile Bufnea and Alexandru Kiraly participated as invited speakers in the panel on cybersecurity in education and instruction.
Open Course - Internet Security
Open cybersecurity course titled Internet Security delivered by Darius Vasile Bufnea, Adrian-Ioan Sterca and Alexandru Kiraly, combining theoretical and practical activities, participant assessment and certification.