Our work

The content and projects of our group.

Outreach

Written for people who do not do this for a living.

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Una lista dei desideri per la sicurezza online

A letter to Santa on getting through the holidays without falling for spam, suspicious calls and social engineering. (Article in Italian.)

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Epidemia di attacchi ransomware: come si muovono Italia ed Europa

Hospitals, schools and local councils held hostage: what the European rules require, and why people remain the weakest link. (Article in Italian.)

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Dati sanitari nel mirino: quando gli hacker entrano in corsia

Why cybercriminals want medical data, and how to protect it. (Article in Italian.)

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Research papers

Papers with at least two of us among the authors, most recent first.

2026

Bridging Digitalization Gaps: OCR and NER for Crime Report Automation in the Italian Criminal Justice System

S. Y. Cerini, N. Deidda, Sara Lilli, Maria Vittoria Zucca, G. Fumera, G. Giacinto, P. Prinetto

International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), 541-558

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2026

Integrating Human-in-the-Loop AI Systems in the Italian Judicial System

S. Y. Cerini, N. Deidda, Sara Lilli, Maria Vittoria Zucca, G. Fumera, G. Giacinto, P. Prinetto et al.

ITASEC & SERICS 2026, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 4198

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2026

Graph-based modelling of the Italian criminal code as a knowledge base for AI-assisted inference

S. Y. Cerini, N. Deidda, Y. Huang, Sara Lilli, L. Lobascio, L. Russo, Maria Vittoria Zucca et al.

ITASEC & SERICS 2026, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 4198

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2026

Automatic Association of Cloud Security Controls and Quantifiable Metrics for Certification

John Bianchi, S. Dong, Luca Petrillo, M. Petrocchi

IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), Workshops

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2026

Automated Compliance Mapping in Cloud Security with Domain-Adapted Sentence Transformers

John Bianchi, Luca Petrillo, F. Martinelli, M. Petrocchi

preprint arXiv:2607.06364

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2025

Scam Cities: Criminal Hubs in Transnational Cybercrime Networks

Sara Lilli, Maria Vittoria Zucca

Journal of Criminal Investigation and Criminology, 76 (4), 332-345

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2025

A story of and for children: the lifecycle loop of child rights-based AI

Sara Tibidò, N. Spatari, Sara Lilli, Maria Vittoria Zucca

Opinio Juris in Comparatione, 2

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2025

Cyberbullismo tra i banchi: analisi di esperienze e risposte educative nelle istituzioni scolastiche pisane

Maria Vittoria Zucca, Sara Lilli

Disagio, devianza e criminalità, 1 (1), 13-32

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2025

Leveraging Pre-trained LLMs for GDPR Compliance in Online Privacy Policies

Giovanni Ciaramella, Luca Petrillo, M. Varilek, F. Mercaldo, G. Comandé, F. Martinelli

ITASEC & SERICS 2025, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3962

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2024

Weaponizing Disinformation Against Critical Infrastructures

Lorenzo Alvisi, John Bianchi, Sara Tibidò, Maria Vittoria Zucca

ESORICS 2024 International Workshops, LNCS 15264, 374-389

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