Research & Projects

A. Kiraly, C. I. Coste, D. Șotropa, D. Bufnea, Towards Efficient Phishing Email Detection with LLM-Based Models, 18^th International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES-IDT 2026), 2026.

D. Bufnea, V. Petrașcu, A. Kiraly, Despre educație și reziliență în domeniul securității cibernetice, Today Software Magazine, nr. 165, 2026.

C. I. Coste, T. Kaisser, Malicious Web Links Detection with Large Language Models, Web Information Systems and Technologies - WEBIST 2024 Revised Selected Papers, LNBIP 583, Springer, 2026, pp. 138-158.

A. Kiraly, D. Bufnea, DoNotSurf - Low-Latency DNS IP Tunneling, IEEE TrustCom 2025, pp. 1887-1894.

C. I. Coste, Using Ensemble Models for Malicious Web Links Detection, Proceedings of the 16^th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), Vol. 3, 2024, pp. 657-664.

T. Kaisser, C. I. Coste, Using Chat GPT for Malicious Web Links Detection, Proceedings of the 20^th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), Vol. 1, 2024, pp. 425-432.

C. I. Coste, Malicious Web Links Detection Based on Image Processing and Deep Learning Models, 2024 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT), 2024, pp. 445-449.

C. I. Coste, Malicious Web Links Detection - A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms, Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Informatica, 2023.

C. I. Coste, A.-M. Andreica, C. Chira, Malicious Web Links Detection Using Ensemble Models, Proceedings of the 15^th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), 2023.

C. I. Coste, D. Bufnea, Advances in Clickbait and Fake News Detection Using New Language-independent Strategies, Journal of Communications Software and Systems, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2021, pp. 270-280.

C. I. Coste, D. Bufnea, V. Niculescu, A New Language Independent Strategy for Clickbait Detection, Proceedings of the 28^th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM), pp. 1-6, 2020.

D. Bufnea, D. Șotropa, A Community Driven Approach for Click Bait Reporting, Proceedings of the 26^th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM), pp. 1-6, 2018.

D. Bufnea, D. Șotropa, Measuring and Visualizing the Scrappiness Level of a Website, 19^th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing - SYNASC 2017, pp. 304-311.