English
Related papers

Related papers: Automated Ransomware Behavior Analysis: Pattern Ex…

200 papers

Among many prevailing malware, crypto-ransomware poses a significant threat as it financially extorts affected users by creating denial of access via unauthorized encryption of their documents as well as holding their documents hostage and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Nitin Pundir , Mark Tehranipoor , Fahim Rahman

Android malware detection is a critical step towards building a security credible system. Especially, manual search for the potential malicious code has plagued program analysts for a long time. In this paper, we propose Droidetec, a deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Zhuo Ma , Haoran Ge , Zhuzhu Wang , Yang Liu , Ximeng Liu

The increasing sophistication of cyber threats has necessitated the development of advanced detection mechanisms capable of identifying and mitigating ransomware attacks with high precision and efficiency. A novel framework, termed…

Ransomware is a malicious class of software that utilises encryption to implement an attack on system availability. The target's data remains encrypted and is held captive by the attacker until a ransom demand is met. A common approach used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Simon R Davies , Richard Macfarlane , William J. Buchanan

Providing security for information is highly critical in the current era with devices enabled with smart technology, where assuming a day without the internet is highly impossible. Fast internet at a cheaper price, not only made…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Sharmila S P , Aruna Tiwari , Narendra S Chaudhari

Botnets are among the most persistent cyber threats, enabling large-scale attacks such as spam, credential theft, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS). While deep learning approaches have recently been applied to botnet detection, they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Subhash Gurappa , Yashas Hariprasad , Sundararaj Sitharama Iyengar , Naveen Kumar Chaudhary

In the faceless world of the Internet,online fraud is one of the greatest reasons of loss for web merchants.Advanced solutions are needed to protect e businesses from the constant problems of fraud.Many popular fraud detection algorithms…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-06-15 P. Srinivasulu , J. Ranga Rao , I. Ramesh Babu

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are among the most challenging cyberattacks to detect. They are carried out by highly skilled attackers who carefully study their targets and operate in a stealthy, long-term manner. Because APTs exhibit…

Scanning for trojan (backdoor) in deep neural networks is crucial due to their significant real-world applications. There has been an increasing focus on developing effective general trojan scanning methods across various trojan attacks.…

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., carefully-crafted inputs that mislead classification at test time. Recent defenses have been shown to improve adversarial robustness by detecting anomalous deviations from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Francesco Crecchi , Marco Melis , Angelo Sotgiu , Davide Bacciu , Battista Biggio

In this paper we introduce CrowdSource, a statistical natural language processing system designed to make rapid inferences about malware functionality based on printable character strings extracted from malware binaries. CrowdSource…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Joshua Saxe , Rafael Turner , Kristina Blokhin

To assure cyber security of an enterprise, typically SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) system is in place to normalize security event from different preventive technologies and flag alerts. Analysts in the security operation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Wangyan Feng , Shuning Wu , Xiaodan Li , Kevin Kunkle

Federated learning (FL), as a powerful learning paradigm, trains a shared model by aggregating model updates from distributed clients. However, the decoupling of model learning from local data makes FL highly vulnerable to backdoor attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Xiyue Zhang , Xiaoyong Xue , Xiaoning Du , Xiaofei Xie , Yang Liu , Meng Sun

Modern cybersecurity landscapes increasingly demand sophisticated detection frameworks capable of identifying evolving threats with precision and adaptability. The proposed Zero-Space Detection framework introduces a novel approach that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Lafedi Svet , Arthur Brightwell , Augustus Wildflower , Cecily Marshwood

Insider threats usually occur from within the workplace, where the attacker is an entity closely associated with the organization. The sequence of actions the entities take on the resources to which they have access rights allows us to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-23 R G Gayathri , Atul Sajjanhar , Md Palash Uddin , Yong Xiang

Infostealers exfiltrate credentials, session cookies, and sensitive data from infected systems. With over 29 million stealer logs reported in 2024, manual analysis and mitigation at scale are virtually unfeasible/unpractical. While most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Estelle Ruellan , Eric Clay , Nicholas Ascoli

Large-scale {\it in vitro} drug sensitivity screens are an important tool in personalized oncology to predict the effectiveness of potential cancer drugs. The prediction of the sensitivity of cancer cell lines to a panel of drugs is a…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-10 Zhi Zhao , Manuela Zucknick

Nowadays, the Internet of Things (IoT) is widely employed, and its usage is growing exponentially because it facilitates remote monitoring, predictive maintenance, and data-driven decision making, especially in the healthcare and industrial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Silvia Lucia Sanna , Diego Soi , Davide Maiorca , Giorgio Giacinto

Machine learning (ML)-based malware detection systems are becoming increasingly important as malware threats increase and get more sophisticated. PDF files are often used as vectors for phishing attacks because they are widely regarded as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Ran Liu , Charles Nicholas

Ransomware has remained one of the most notorious threats in the cybersecurity field. Moving Target Defense (MTD) has been proposed as a novel paradigm for proactive defense. Although various approaches leverage MTD, few of them rely on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Jan von der Assen , Alberto Huertas Celdrán , Rinor Sefa , Gérôme Bovet , Burkhard Stiller