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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples obtained by adding small perturbations to original examples. The added perturbations in existing attacks are mainly determined by the gradient of the loss function with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Chen Wan , Fangjun Huang

Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is vulnerable to malware due to its exposure to external adversaries, making it a lucrative attack vector for malicious actors. A datacenter infected with malware can cause data loss and/or major…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Andrew McDole , Mahmoud Abdelsalam , Maanak Gupta , Sudip Mittal

Online Social Networks (OSNs) have blossomed into prevailing transmission channels for images in the modern era. Adversarial examples (AEs) deliberately designed to mislead deep neural networks (DNNs) are found to be fragile against the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Jun Liu , Jiantao Zhou , Haiwei Wu , Weiwei Sun , Jinyu Tian

Recent studies have revealed that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where attackers embed hidden backdoors in the DNN model by poisoning a few training samples. The attacked model behaves normally on benign…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Kunzhe Huang , Yiming Li , Baoyuan Wu , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have found extensive applications in safety-critical artificial intelligence systems, such as autonomous driving and facial recognition systems. However, recent research has revealed their susceptibility to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Lingxin Jin , Xianyu Wen , Wei Jiang , Jinyu Zhan

We develop and study new adversarial perturbations that enable an attacker to gain control over decisions in generic Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems including deep learning neural networks. In contrast to adversarial data modification,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Ivan Y. Tyukin , Desmond J. Higham , Alexander Bastounis , Eliyas Woldegeorgis , Alexander N. Gorban

Botnet is most widespread and occurs commonly in today's cyber attacks, resulting in serious threats to our network assets and organization's properties. Botnets are collections of compromised computers (Bots) which are remotely controlled…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-04-09 Hossein Rouhani Zeidanloo , Azizah Bt Abdul Manaf

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are becoming commonplace in critical applications, making their susceptibility to backdoor (trojan) attacks a significant problem. In this paper, we introduce a novel backdoor attack detection pipeline, detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Akash Vartak , Khondoker Murad Hossain , Tim Oates

Adversarial attacks on a convolutional neural network (CNN) -- injecting human-imperceptible perturbations into an input image -- could fool a high-performance CNN into making incorrect predictions. The success of adversarial attacks raises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Yiran Li , Junpeng Wang , Takanori Fujiwara , Kwan-Liu Ma

Attackers are now using sophisticated techniques, like polymorphism, to change the attack pattern for each new attack. Thus, the detection of novel attacks has become the biggest challenge for cyber experts and researchers. Recently,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Sanjay Chakraborty , Saroj Kumar Pandey , Saikat Maity , Lopamudra Dey

Nowadays, Online Social Networks are popular websites on the internet, which millions of users register on and share their own personal information with others. Privacy threats and disclosing personal information are the most important…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-03-11 Morteza Yousefi Kharaji , Fatemeh Salehi Rizi

AI systems are rapidly advancing in capability, and frontier model developers broadly acknowledge the need for safeguards against serious misuse. However, this paper demonstrates that fine-tuning, whether via open weights or closed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Brendan Murphy , Dillon Bowen , Shahrad Mohammadzadeh , Tom Tseng , Julius Broomfield , Adam Gleave , Kellin Pelrine

We propose a Universal Defence against backdoor attacks based on Clustering and Centroids Analysis (CCA-UD). The goal of the defence is to reveal whether a Deep Neural Network model is subject to a backdoor attack by inspecting the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Wei Guo , Benedetta Tondi , Mauro Barni

Web parameter injection attacks are common and powerful. In this kind of attacks, malicious attackers can employ HTTP requests to implement attacks against servers by injecting some malicious codes into the parameters of the HTTP requests.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Wei Rong , Bowen Zhang , Xixiang Lv

Microsoft's PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting language that is installed by default on Windows machines. While PowerShell can be configured by administrators for restricting access and reducing vulnerabilities, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Danny Hendler , Shay Kels , Amir Rubin

Deep learning algorithms have been known to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations in various tasks such as image classification. This problem was addressed by employing several defense methods for detection and rejection of particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Zhun Sun , Mete Ozay , Takayuki Okatani

Recently, adversarial attacks can be applied to the physical world, causing practical issues to various Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) powered applications. Most existing physical adversarial attack defense works only focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Zirui Xu , Fuxun Yu , Xiang Chen

This paper considers the problem of helping humans exercise scalable oversight over deep neural networks (DNNs). Adversarial examples can be useful by helping to reveal weaknesses in DNNs, but they can be difficult to interpret or draw…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Stephen Casper , Kaivalya Hariharan , Dylan Hadfield-Menell

Covert networks are social networks that often consist of harmful users. Social Network Analysis (SNA) has played an important role in reducing criminal activities (e.g., counter terrorism) via detecting the influential users in such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Palash Dey , Sourav Medya

Deep Neural Networks are well known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks and backdoor attacks, where minor modifications on the input are able to mislead the models to give wrong results. Although defenses against adversarial attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Kaidi Jin , Tianwei Zhang , Chao Shen , Yufei Chen , Ming Fan , Chenhao Lin , Ting Liu