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Intent obfuscation is a common tactic in adversarial situations, enabling the attacker to both manipulate the target system and avoid culpability. Surprisingly, it has rarely been implemented in adversarial attacks on machine learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Zhaobin Li , Patrick Shafto

With the increasingly rapid development of new malicious computer software by bad faith actors, both commercial and research-oriented antivirus detectors have come to make greater use of machine learning tactics to identify such malware as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Hamish Spencer , Wei Wang , Ruoxi Sun , Minhui Xue

Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs) and satellite systems have become an important component of modern data communication systems in recent years. Despite their importance, the security of these systems is often limited, leaving them vulnerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Marin Donchev , Dylan Smyth

Malware is a significant threat to the security of computer systems and networks which requires sophisticated techniques to analyze the behavior and functionality for detection. Traditional signature-based malware detection methods have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Shaswata Mitra , Stephen A. Torri , Sudip Mittal

In this paper, we describe how the electronic rolling shutter in CMOS image sensors can be exploited using a bright, modulated light source (e.g., an inexpensive, off-the-shelf laser), to inject fine-grained image disruptions. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Sebastian Köhler , Giulio Lovisotto , Simon Birnbach , Richard Baker , Ivan Martinovic

To avoid detection, adversaries often use command-line obfuscation. There are numerous techniques of the command-line obfuscation, all designed to alter the command-line syntax without affecting its original functionality. This variability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Vojtech Outrata , Michael Adam Polak , Martin Kopp

Network telescopes or "Darknets" provide a unique window into Internet-wide malicious activities associated with malware propagation, denial of service attacks, scanning performed for network reconnaissance, and others. Analyses of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Michalis Kallitsis , Vasant Honavar , Rupesh Prajapati , Dinghao Wu , John Yen

Malware constitutes a major global risk affecting millions of users each year. Standard algorithms in detection systems perform insufficiently when dealing with malware passed through obfuscation tools. We illustrate this studying in detail…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Alberto Redondo , David Rios Insua

Many security techniques working at the physical layer need a correct channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter, especially when devices are equipped with multiple antennas. Therefore such techniques are vulnerable to pilot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Stefano Tomasin , Ingmar Land , Frédéric Gabry

We consider the problem of securely and robustly embedding covert messages into an image-based diffusion model's output. The sender and receiver want to exchange the maximum amount of information possible per diffusion sampled image while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Luke A. Bauer , Wenxuan Bao , Vincent Bindschaedler

We propose the construction of a prototype scanner designed to capture multispectral images of documents. A standard sheet-feed scanner is modified by disconnecting its internal light source and connecting an external multispectral light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Zohaib Khan , Faisal Shafait , Ajmal Mian

Traffic visibility remains a key component for management and security operations. Observing unsolicited and erroneous traffic, such as unanswered traffic or errors, is fundamental to detect misconfiguration, temporary failures or attacks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Zhihao Wang , Alessandro Cornacchia , Andrea Bianco , Idilio Drago , Paolo Giaccone , Dingde Jiang , Marco Mellia

Modern vehicles rely on scores of electronic control units (ECUs) broadcasting messages over a few controller area networks (CANs). Bereft of security features, in-vehicle CANs are exposed to cyber manipulation and multiple researches have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Zachariah Tyree , Robert A. Bridges , Frank L. Combs , Michael R. Moore

Air-gapped systems are isolated from the Internet due to the sensitive information they handle. This paper presents COVID-bit, a new COVert channel attack that leaks sensitive information over the air from highly isolated systems. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Mordechai Guri

Modern corporations physically separate their sensitive computational infrastructure from public or other accessible networks in order to prevent cyber-attacks. However, attackers still manage to infect these networks, either by means of an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Yisroel Mirsky , Mordechai Guri , Yuval Elovici

Unintended electromagnetic emissions, called EM emanations, can be exploited to recover sensitive information, posing security risks. Metal shielding, used by defense organizations to prevent data leakage, is costly and impractical for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Md Faizul Bari , Meghna Roy Chowdhury , Shreyas Sen

Machine learning has been widely applied in wireless communications. However, the security aspects of machine learning in wireless applications have not been well understood yet. We consider the case that a cognitive transmitter senses the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Yi Shi , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Jason H. Li

Malware open-set recognition (MOSR) aims at jointly classifying malware samples from known families and detect the ones from novel unknown families, respectively. Existing works mostly rely on a well-trained classifier considering the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Jingcai Guo , Yuanyuan Xu , Wenchao Xu , Yufeng Zhan , Yuxia Sun , Song Guo

Toward robust malware detection, we explore the attack surface of existing malware detection systems. We conduct root-cause analyses of the practical binary-level black-box adversarial malware examples. Additionally, we uncover the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Ahmed Abusnaina , Yizhen Wang , Sunpreet Arora , Ke Wang , Mihai Christodorescu , David Mohaisen

No significant research has been conducted so far on Intrusion detection due to data availability since, network traffic within companies is private information and no available logs can be found on the Internet for independent research.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Theodosis Mourouzis , Andreas Avgousti