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Recently researchers have proposed using deep learning-based systems for malware detection. Unfortunately, all deep learning classification systems are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Previous work has studied adversarial attacks against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Jack W. Stokes , De Wang , Mady Marinescu , Marc Marino , Brian Bussone

Malware authors often employ code obfuscations to make their malware harder to detect. Existing tools for generating obfuscated code often require access to the original source code (e.g., C++ or Java), and adding new obfuscations is a…

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Ransomware uses encryption methods to make data inaccessible to legitimate users. To date a wide range of ransomware families have been developed and deployed, causing immense damage to governments, corporations, and private users. As these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Aldin Vehabovic , Nasir Ghani , Elias Bou-Harb , Jorge Crichigno , Aysegul Yayimli

Face Recognition (FR) systems have been shown to be vulnerable to morphing attacks. We examine exactly how challenging morphs can become. By showing a worst-case construction in the embedding space of an FR system and using a mapping from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Una M. Kelly , Raymond Veldhuis , Luuk Spreeuwers

The vulnerability of Face Recognition System (FRS) to various kind of attacks (both direct and in-direct attacks) and face morphing attacks has received a great interest from the biometric community. The goal of a morphing attack is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Sushma Venkatesh , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Kiran Raja , Christoph Busch

Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing are changing the way people interacts with digital images and video. Widespread mobile apps like FACEAPP make use of the most advanced Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Luca Guarnera , Oliver Giudice , Sebastiano Battiato

Malware, or software designed with harmful intent, is an ever-evolving threat that can have drastic effects on both individuals and institutions. Neural network malware classification systems are key tools for combating these threats but…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Preston K. Robinette , Diego Manzanas Lopez , Serena Serbinowska , Kevin Leach , Taylor T. Johnson

The widespread usage of Microsoft Windows has unfortunately led to a surge in malware, posing a serious threat to the security and privacy of millions of users. In response, the research community has mobilized, with numerous efforts…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Fangtian Zhong , Qin Hu , Yili Jiang , Jiaqi Huang , Xiuzhen Cheng

Recent research has demonstrated the vulnerability of fingerprint recognition systems to dictionary attacks based on MasterPrints. MasterPrints are real or synthetic fingerprints that can fortuitously match with a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Philip Bontrager , Aditi Roy , Julian Togelius , Nasir Memon , Arun Ross

Editing on digital images is ubiquitous. Identification of deliberately modified facial images is a new challenge for face identification system. In this paper, we address the problem of identification of a face or person from heavily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-06-27 H. R. Chennamma , Lalitha Rangarajan , Veerabhadrappa

Recent studies have revealed the vulnerability of face recognition models against physical adversarial patches, which raises security concerns about the deployed face recognition systems. However, it is still challenging to ensure the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Xiao Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Tianyu Pang , Zihao Xiao , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Malware detection is increasingly challenged by evolving techniques like obfuscation and polymorphism, limiting the effectiveness of traditional methods. Meanwhile, the widespread adoption of software containers has introduced new security…

Encryption-based cyber threats continue to evolve, employing increasingly sophisticated techniques to bypass traditional detection mechanisms. Many existing classification strategies depend on static rule sets, signature-based matching, or…

Image classification currently faces significant security challenges due to adversarial attacks, which consist of intentional alterations designed to deceive classification models based on artificial intelligence. This article explores an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Sergio Nesmachnow , Jamal Toutouh

Many tasks in computer vision can be cast as a "label changing" problem, where the goal is to make a semantic change to the appearance of an image or some subject in an image in order to alter the class membership. Although successful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Jacob R. Gardner , Paul Upchurch , Matt J. Kusner , Yixuan Li , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Kavita Bala , John E. Hopcroft

Ransomware has been an ongoing issue since the early 1990s. In recent times ransomware has spread from traditional computational resources to cyber-physical systems and industrial controls. We devised a series of experiments in which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Anthony Melaragno , William Casey

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which dramatically alter model output using small input changes. We propose Neural Fingerprinting, a simple, yet effective method to detect adversarial examples by verifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Sumanth Dathathri , Stephan Zheng , Tianwei Yin , Richard M. Murray , Yisong Yue

The convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture is increasingly being applied to new domains, such as malware detection, where it is able to learn malicious behavior from raw bytes extracted from executables. These architectures reach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Octavian Suciu , Scott E. Coull , Jeffrey Johns

Deep learning-based adversarial malware detectors have yielded promising results in detecting never-before-seen malware executables without relying on expensive dynamic behavior analysis and sandbox. Despite their abilities, these detectors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-28 James Lee Hu , Mohammadreza Ebrahimi , Weifeng Li , Xin Li , Hsinchun Chen

Recent escalation in the field of computer vision underpins a huddle of algorithms with the magnificent potential to unravel the information contained within images. These computer vision algorithms are being practised in medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Arshi Parvaiz , Muhammad Anwaar Khalid , Rukhsana Zafar , Huma Ameer , Muhammad Ali , Muhammad Moazam Fraz