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Since the term "Cyber threat hunting" was introduced in 2016, there have been a rising trend of proactive defensive measure to create more cyber security. This research will look into peer reviewed literature on the subject of cyber threat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Zichen Wang

Cybersecurity attacks are a major and increasing burden to economic and social systems globally. Here we analyze the principles of security in different domains and demonstrate an architectural flaw in current cybersecurity. Cybersecurity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-03-13 Blake C. Stacey , Yaneer Bar-Yam

Recent advances in anti-malware technologies have steered the security industry away from maintaining vast signature databases and into newer defence technologies such as behaviour blocking, application whitelisting and others. Most would…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-11-11 D. Iliopoulos , C. Adami , P. Szor

The history of humanhood has included competitive activities of many different forms. Sports have offered many benefits beyond that of entertainment. At the time of this article, there exists not a competitive ecosystem for cyber security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Jovonni L. Pharr

In this work, we study literature in Explainable AI and Safe AI to understand poisoning of neural models of code. In order to do so, we first establish a novel taxonomy for Trojan AI for code, and present a new aspect-based classification…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Aftab Hussain , Md Rafiqul Islam Rabin , Toufique Ahmed , Navid Ayoobi , Bowen Xu , Prem Devanbu , Mohammad Amin Alipour

Convolutional neural networks have been used to achieve a string of successes during recent years, but their lack of interpretability remains a serious issue. Adversarial examples are designed to deliberately fool neural networks into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Jan Philip Göpfert , André Artelt , Heiko Wersing , Barbara Hammer

The sophistication and complexity of cyber attacks and the variety of targeted platforms have been growing in recent years. Various adversaries are abusing an increasing range of platforms, e.g., enterprise platforms, mobile phones, PCs,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Edan Habler , Ron Bitton , Asaf Shabtai

Cyberattacks on both databases and critical infrastructure have threatened public and private sectors. Ubiquitous tracking and wearable computing have infringed upon privacy. Advocates and engineers have recently proposed using defensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Jeffrey Pawlick , Edward Colbert , Quanyan Zhu

This paper presents a general overview on evolution of concealment methods in computer viruses and defensive techniques employed by anti-virus products. In order to stay far from the anti-virus scanners, computer viruses gradually improve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-04-07 Babak Bashari Rad , Maslin Masrom , Suhaimi Ibrahim

Trojan (backdoor) attack is a form of adversarial attack on deep neural networks where the attacker provides victims with a model trained/retrained on malicious data. The backdoor can be activated when a normal input is stamped with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Siyuan Cheng , Yingqi Liu , Shiqing Ma , Xiangyu Zhang

Cognitive warfare has emerged as a central feature of modern conflict, yet it remains inconsistently defined and difficult to evaluate. Existing approaches often treat cognitive operations as a subset of information operations, limiting the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Bonnie Rushing , William Hersch , Shouhuai Xu

Cyber resilience is a complementary concept to cybersecurity, focusing on the preparation, response, and recovery from cyber threats that are challenging to prevent. Organizations increasingly face such threats in an evolving cyber threat…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-08 Quanyan Zhu

The use of artificial immune systems in intrusion detection is an appealing concept for two reasons. Firstly, the human immune system provides the human body with a high level of protection from invading pathogens, in a robust,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Jungwon Kim , Peter J. Bentley , Uwe Aickelin , Julie Greensmith , Gianni Tedesco , Jamie Twycross

Motivated by an intention to remedy current complications with Dutch terminology concerning informatics, the term informaticology is positioned to denote an academic counterpart of informatics where informatics is conceived of as a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-10-25 Jan A. Bergstra

Trojan attacks are sophisticated training-time attacks on neural networks that embed backdoor triggers which force the network to produce a specific output on any input which includes the trigger. With the increasing relevance of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xihe Gu , Greg Fields , Yaman Jandali , Tara Javidi , Farinaz Koushanfar

COVID-19 (Coronavirus) hit the global society and economy with a big surprise. In particular, work-from-home has become a new norm for employees. Despite the fact that COVID-19 can equally attack innocent people and cybercriminals, it is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Mir Mehedi Ahsan Pritom , Kristin M. Schweitzer , Raymond M. Bateman , Min Xu , Shouhuai Xu

Social engineering cyberattacks are a major threat because they often prelude sophisticated and devastating cyberattacks. Social engineering cyberattacks are a kind of psychological attack that exploits weaknesses in human cognitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Rosana Montanez Rodriguez , Edward Golob , Shouhuai Xu

Agentic AI is shifting the cybersecurity landscape as attackers and defenders leverage AI agents to augment humans and automate common tasks. In this article, we examine the implications for cyber warfare and global politics as Agentic AI…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Sean Oesch , Jack Hutchins , Phillipe Austria , Amul Chaulagain

When machine learning systems fail because of adversarial manipulation, how should society expect the law to respond? Through scenarios grounded in adversarial ML literature, we explore how some aspects of computer crime, copyright, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Ram Shankar Siva Kumar , David R. O'Brien , Kendra Albert , Salome Vilojen

Offensive Robot Cybersecurity introduces a groundbreaking approach by advocating for offensive security methods empowered by means of automation. It emphasizes the necessity of understanding attackers' tactics and identifying…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Víctor Mayoral-Vilches