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Nowadays, web applications have become most prevalent in the industry, and the critical data of most organizations stored using web apps. Hence, web applications a much bigger target for diverse cyber-attacks, which varies from database…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Rajat Gupta , Madhu Viswanatham V. , Manikandan K

Current tools and systems of detecting vulnerabilities simply alert the administrator of attempted attacks against his network or system. However, generally, the huge number of alerts to analyze and the amount time required to update…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Abdeljalil Agnaou , Anas Abou El Kalam , Abdellah Ait Ouahman , Mina De Montfort

Honeypots are a well-known and widely used technology in the cybersecurity community, where it is assumed that placing honeypots in different geographical locations provides better visibility and increases effectiveness. However, how…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Veronica Valeros , Maria Rigaki , Sebastian Garcia

Electronic bait (honeypots) are network resources whose value consists of being attacked and compromised. These are often computers which do not have a task in the network, but are otherwise indestinguishable from regular computers. Such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Maximillian Dornseif , Felix C. Gaertner , Thorsten Holz

Deep neural networks (DNN) are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Numerous efforts either try to patch weaknesses in trained models, or try to make it difficult or costly to compute adversarial examples that exploit them. In our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Shawn Shan , Emily Wenger , Bolun Wang , Bo Li , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

Much of contemporary systems biology owes its success to the abstraction of a network, the idea that diverse kinds of molecular, cellular, and organismal species and interactions can be modeled as relational nodes and edges in a graph of…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-26 Joseph L. Natale , David Hofmann , Damian G. Hernández , Ilya Nemenman

The growing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices makes it imperative to be aware of the real-world threats they face in terms of cybersecurity. While honeypots have been historically used as decoy devices to help…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Armin Ziaie Tabari , Xinming Ou , Anoop Singhal

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) constitute the backbone of contemporary industrial operations, ranging from modest heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems to expansive national power grids. Given their pivotal role in critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Luís Sousa , José Cecílio , Pedro Ferreira , Alan Oliveira

Reverse engineering is a complex process essential to software-security tasks such as vulnerability discovery and malware analysis. Significant research and engineering effort has gone into developing tools to support reverse engineers.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Daniel Votipka , Seth M. Rabin , Kristopher Micinski , Jeffrey S. Foster , Michelle L. Mazurek

Reconnaissance activities precedent other attack steps in the cyber kill chain. Zero-day attacks exploit unknown vulnerabilities and give attackers the upper hand against conventional defenses. Honeypots have been used to deceive attackers…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Md Abu Sayed , Ahmed H. Anwar , Christopher Kiekintveld , Branislav Bosansky , Charles Kamhoua

Industrial Operational Technology (OT) systems are increasingly targeted by cyber-attacks due to their integration with Information Technology (IT) systems in the Industry 4.0 era. Besides intrusion detection systems, honeypots can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Olaf Sassnick , Georg Schäfer , Thomas Rosenstatter , Stefan Huber

Model extraction attacks are one type of inference-time attacks that approximate the functionality and performance of a black-box victim model by launching a certain number of queries to the model and then leveraging the model's predictions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yixu Wang , Tianle Gu , Yan Teng , Yingchun Wang , Xingjun Ma

Attacks powered by Large Language Model (LLM) agents represent a growing threat to modern cybersecurity. To address this concern, we present LLM Honeypot, a system designed to monitor autonomous AI hacking agents. By augmenting a standard…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Reworr , Dmitrii Volkov

Data protection is the process of securing sensitive information from being corrupted, compromised, or lost. A hyperconnected network, on the other hand, is a computer networking trend in which communication occurs over a network. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Jannatul Ferdous , Rafiqul Islam , Maumita Bhattacharya , Md Zahidul Islam

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are extensively used in critical infrastructures ensuring efficient, reliable, and continuous operations. However, their increasing connectivity and addition of advanced features make them vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Christoforos Vasilatos , Dunia J. Mahboobeh , Hithem Lamri , Manaar Alam , Michail Maniatakos

New types of malware are emerging at concerning rates. However, analyzing malware via reverse engineering is still a time-consuming and mostly manual task. For this reason, it is necessary to develop techniques that automate parts of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-10 August See , Maximilian Gehring , Max Mühlhäuser , Mathias Fischer , Shankar Karuppayah

We present here a reverse engineering tool that can be used for information retrieval and anti-malware techniques. Our main contribution is the design and implementation of an instrumentation framework aimed at providing insight on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Paul Irofti

Honeypots are decoy systems mimicking real system components designed to defend against cyber attacks. Recently, LLMs increasingly serve as simulation backbones for honeypots. They enable defenders to construct high-interaction honeypots…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Mark Vero , Fabian Kaczmarczyck , Ivan Petrov , Ilia Shumailov , Jamie Hayes , Niels Heinen , Tianqi Fan , Luca Invernizzi , Martin Vechev

This paper investigates the feasibility and effectiveness of employing Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for the generation of decoy configurations in the field of cyber defense. The utilization of honeypots has been extensively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Ryan Gabrys , Daniel Silva , Mark Bilinski

Cyber Security is a critical topic for organizations with IT/OT networks as they are always susceptible to attack, whether insider or outsider. Since the cyber landscape is an ever-evolving scenario, one must keep upgrading its security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Upendra Bartwal , Subhasis Mukhopadhyay , Rohit Negi , Sandeep Shukla