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Embedded into information systems, artificial intelligence (AI) faces security threats that exploit AI-specific vulnerabilities. This paper provides an accessible overview of adversarial attacks unique to predictive and generative AI…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Naoto Kiribuchi , Kengo Zenitani , Takayuki Semitsu

Accurately classifying malware in an environment allows the creation of better response and remediation strategies by cyber analysts. However, classifying malware in a live environment is a difficult task due to the large number of system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Phillip Brown , Austin Brown , Maanak Gupta , Mahmoud Abdelsalam

Malware detection has become a major concern due to the increasing number and complexity of malware. Traditional detection methods based on signatures and heuristics are used for malware detection, but unfortunately, they suffer from poor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Tristan Bilot , Nour El Madhoun , Khaldoun Al Agha , Anis Zouaoui

With the increasing extent of malware attacks in the present day along with the difficulty in detecting modern malware, it is necessary to evaluate the effectiveness and performance of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for malware classification.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Akhil M R , Adithya Krishna V Sharma , Harivardhan Swamy , Pavan A , Ashray Shetty , Anirudh B Sathyanarayana

Machine learning-based cybersecurity systems are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks, while Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) act as both powerful attack enablers and promising defenses. This survey systematically reviews…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Tharcisse Ndayipfukamiye , Jianguo Ding , Doreen Sebastian Sarwatt , Adamu Gaston Philipo , Huansheng Ning

Adversarial attack is a technique for deceiving Machine Learning (ML) models, which provides a way to evaluate the adversarial robustness. In practice, attack algorithms are artificially selected and tuned by human experts to break a ML…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Xiaofeng Mao , Yuefeng Chen , Shuhui Wang , Hang Su , Yuan He , Hui Xue

Recent researches have shown that machine learning based malware detection algorithms are very vulnerable under the attacks of adversarial examples. These works mainly focused on the detection algorithms which use features with fixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Weiwei Hu , Ying Tan

Since their proposal in the 2014 paper by Ian Goodfellow, there has been an explosion of research into the area of Generative Adversarial Networks. While they have been utilised in many fields, the realm of malware research is a problem…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Aeryn Dunmore , Julian Jang-Jaccard , Fariza Sabrina , Jin Kwak

According to a recent EUROPOL report, cybercrime is still recurrent in Europe, and different activities and countermeasures must be taken to limit, prevent, detect, analyze, and fight it. Cybercrime must be prevented with specific measures,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Silvia Lucia Sanna , Leonardo Regano , Davide Maiorca , Giorgio Giacinto

An important problem of cyber-security is malware analysis. Besides good precision and recognition rate, a malware detection scheme needs to be able to generalize well for novel malware families (a.k.a zero-day attacks). It is important…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Mahmood Yousefi-Azar , Len Hamey , Vijay Varadharajan , Shiping Chen

While machine learning is vulnerable to adversarial examples, it still lacks systematic procedures and tools for evaluating its security in different application contexts. In this article, we discuss how to develop automated and scalable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Luca Demetrio , Battista Biggio , Fabio Roli

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have become increasingly vital in the development of novel defense and intelligence capabilities across all domains of warfare. An adversarial AI (A2I) and adversarial ML (AML) attack…

Adoption of AI by criminal entities across traditional and emerging financial crime paradigms has been a disturbing recent trend. Particularly concerning is the proliferation of generative AI, which has empowered criminal activities ranging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Eren Kurshan , Dhagash Mehta , Bayan Bruss , Tucker Balch

In recent years machine learning algorithms, and more specifically deep learning algorithms, have been widely used in many fields, including cyber security. However, machine learning systems are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, and this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Ihai Rosenberg , Asaf Shabtai , Yuval Elovici , Lior Rokach

Recently, cyber-attacks have been extensively seen due to the everlasting increase of malware in the cyber world. These attacks cause irreversible damage not only to end-users but also to corporate computer systems. Ransomware attacks such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Ferhat Ozgur Catak , Javed Ahmed , Kevser Sahinbas , Zahid Hussain Khand

Machine learning (ML) has been developed to detect malware in recent years. Most researchers focused their efforts on improving the detection performance but ignored the robustness of the ML models. In addition, many machine learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Nam Hoang Thanh , Trung Pham Duy , Lam Bui Thu

In a context of malicious software detection, machine learning (ML) is widely used to generalize to new malware. However, it has been demonstrated that ML models can be fooled or may have generalization problems on malware that has never…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Grégoire Barrué , Tony Quertier

Malwares are big threat to digital world and evolving with high complexity. It can penetrate networks, steal confidential information from computers, bring down servers and can cripple infrastructures etc. To combat the threat/attacks from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Ashu Sharma , S. K. Sahay

Software systems are increasingly relying on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) components. The emerging popularity of AI techniques in various application domains attracts malicious actors and adversaries. Therefore,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Mohamad Fazelnia , Igor Khokhlov , Mehdi Mirakhorli

Machine Learning and data mining techniques (i.e. supervised and unsupervised techniques) are used across domains to detect user safety violations. Examples include classifiers used to detect whether an email is spam or a web-page is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Akshar Prabhu Desai , Tejasvi Ravi , Mohammad Luqman , Mohit Sharma , Nithya Kota , Pranjul Yadav