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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

Advanced persistent threats (APT) are stealthy cyber-attacks that are aimed at stealing valuable information from target organizations and tend to extend in time. Blocking all APTs is impossible, security experts caution, hence the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Sidahmed Benabderrahmane , Ghita Berrada , James Cheney , Petko Valtchev

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) is challenging to detect due to prolonged duration, infrequent occurrence, and adept concealment techniques. Existing approaches primarily concentrate on the observable traits of attack behaviors, neglecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Xiaoxiao Liu , Fan Xu , Nan Wang , Qinxin Zhao , Dalin Zhang , Xibin Zhao , Jiqiang Liu

The scarcity of data and the high complexity of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) attacks have created challenges in comprehending their behavior and hindered the exploration of effective detection techniques. To create an effective APT…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Almuthanna Alageel , Sergio Maffeis , Imperial College London

The convergence of information and operational technology networks has created previously unforeseen security issues. To address these issues, both researchers and practitioners have integrated threat intelligence methods into the security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Jacob Williams , Matthew Edwards , Joseph Gardiner

One of the major goals of incident response is to help an organization or a system owner to quickly identify and halt the attacks to minimize the damages (and financial loss) to the system being attacked. Typical incident responses rely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Anthony Cheuk Tung Lai , Siu Ming Yiu , Ping Fan Ke , Alan Ho

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 presents an intelligent and adaptive agent that employs deception to recognize a cyber adversary's intent. Unlike previous approaches to cyber deception, which mainly focus on delaying or confusing the attackers, we focus on…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Aditya Shinde , Prashant Doshi , Omid Setayeshfar

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attack usually refers to the form of long-term, covert and sustained attack on specific targets, with an adversary using advanced attack techniques to destroy the key facilities of an organization. APT…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Tiantian Zhu , Jinkai Yu , Tieming Chen , Jiayu Wang , Jie Ying , Ye Tian , Mingqi Lv , Yan Chen , Yuan Fan , Ting Wang

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) represent a significant challenge in cybersecurity due to their prolonged, multi-stage nature and the sophistication of their operators. Traditional detection systems typically focus on identifying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Alessandro Gaudenzi , Lorenzo Nodari , Lance Kaplan , Alessandra Russo , Murat Sensoy , Federico Cerutti

Deceiving an attacker in the network security domain is a well established approach, mainly achieved through deployment of honeypots consisting of open network ports with the sole purpose of raising an alert on a connection. With attackers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Daniel Reti , David Klaaßen , Simon Duque Anton , Hans Dieter Schotten

Honey Encryption is an approach to encrypt the messages using low min-entropy keys, such as weak passwords, OTPs, PINs, credit card numbers. The ciphertext is produces, when decrypted with any number of incorrect keys, produces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Kunjal Panchal

Security has become ubiquitous in every domain today as newly emerging malware pose an ever-increasing perilous threat to systems. Consequently, honeypots are fast emerging as an indispensible forensic tool for the analysis of malicious…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-12-14 Shishir Kumar , Durgesh Pant

Introduced by Juels and Rivest in 2013, Honeywords, which are decoy passwords stored alongside a real password, appear to be a proactive method to help detect password credentials misuse. However, despite over a decade of research, this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Sudiksha Das , Ashish Kundu

Honeywords are fictitious passwords inserted into databases in order to identify password breaches. The major difficulty is how to produce honeywords that are difficult to distinguish from real passwords. Although the generation of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Fangyi Yu , Miguel Vargas Martin

Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) is a distributed, decentralized network of wireless portable nodes connecting directly without any fixed communication base station or centralized administration. Nodes in MANET move continuously in random…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Mohamad T Sultan , Hesham El Sayed , Manzoor Ahmed Khan

Honeywords are decoy passwords that can be added to a credential database; if a login attempt uses a honeyword, this indicates that the site's credential database has been leaked. In this paper we explore the basic requirements for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Zonghao Huang , Lujo Bauer , Michael K. Reiter

In the last decade, a new class of cyber-threats has emerged. This new cybersecurity adversary is known with the name of "Advanced Persistent Threat" (APT) and is referred to different organizations that in the last years have been "in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Giuseppe Laurenza , Riccardo Lazzeretti , Luca Mazzotti

Fingerprint recognition systems are widely deployed in various real-life applications as they have achieved high accuracy. The widely used applications include border control, automated teller machine (ATM), and attendance monitoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Jag Mohan Singh , Ahmed Madhun , Guoqiang Li , Raghavendra Ramachandra

Privacy is of the utmost concern when it comes to releasing data to third parties. Data owners rely on anonymization approaches to safeguard the released datasets against re-identification attacks. However, even with strict anonymization in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Spiros Antonatos , Stefano Braghin , Naoise Holohan , Pol MacAonghusa