Salam Al-E’mari1, Yousef Sanjalawe2,*, Budoor Allehyani3, Ghader Kurdi4, Sharif Makhadmeh2, Ameera Jaradat5, Duaa Hijazi6
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.85, No.2, pp. 3289-3320, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.067950
- 23 September 2025
Abstract Electric Vehicle Charging Systems (EVCS) are increasingly vulnerable to cybersecurity threats as they integrate deeply into smart grids and Internet of Things (IoT) environments, raising significant security challenges. Most existing research primarily emphasizes network-level anomaly detection, leaving critical vulnerabilities at the host level underexplored. This study introduces a novel forensic analysis framework leveraging host-level data, including system logs, kernel events, and Hardware Performance Counters (HPC), to detect and analyze sophisticated cyberattacks such as cryptojacking, Denial-of-Service (DoS), and reconnaissance activities targeting EVCS. Using comprehensive forensic analysis and machine learning models, the proposed framework significantly outperforms existing More >