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Modern malware families often rely on domain-generation algorithms (DGAs) to determine rendezvous points to their command-and-control server. Traditional defence strategies (such as blacklisting domains or IP addresses) are inadequate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Pierre Lison , Vasileios Mavroeidis

Domain Generalization (DG) is a fundamental challenge for machine learning models, which aims to improve model generalization on various domains. Previous methods focus on generating domain invariant features from various source domains.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Daoan Zhang , Mingkai Chen , Chenming Li , Lingyun Huang , Jianguo Zhang

This work analyzes the use of large language models (LLMs) for detecting domain generation algorithms (DGAs). We perform a detailed evaluation of two important techniques: In-Context Learning (ICL) and Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), showing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Reynier Leyva La O , Carlos A. Catania , Tatiana Parlanti

Domain generation algorithms (DGAs) prevent the connection between a botnet and its master from being blocked by generating a large number of domain names. Promising single-data-source approaches have been proposed for separating benign…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Arthur Drichel , Benedikt Holmes , Justus von Brandt , Ulrike Meyer

There is a continuous increase in the sophistication that modern malware exercise in order to bypass the deployed security mechanisms. A typical approach to evade the identification and potential takedown of a botnet command and control…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Constantinos Patsakis , Fran Casino , Vasilios Katos

As state-of-the-art language models continue to improve, the need for robust detection of machine-generated text becomes increasingly critical. However, current state-of-the-art machine text detectors struggle to adapt to new unseen domains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Arihant Tripathi , Liam Dugan , Charis Gao , Maggie Huan , Emma Jin , Peter Zhang , David Zhang , Julia Zhao , Chris Callison-Burch

New malware emerges at a rapid pace and often incorporates Domain Generation Algorithms (DGAs) to avoid blocking the malware's connection to the command and control (C2) server. Current state-of-the-art classifiers are able to separate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Arthur Drichel , Justus von Brandt , Ulrike Meyer

The Domain Name System (DNS) protocol plays a major role in today's Internet as it translates between website names and corresponding IP addresses. However, due to the lack of processes for data integrity and origin authentication, the DNS…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Abdallah Moubayed , MohammadNoor Injadat , Abdallah Shami

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) provides flexible and programmable network management; however, its centralized control architecture remains highly vulnerable to Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, particularly Carpet-Bombing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Mohammed N. Swileh , Shengli Zhang , Kai Lei

Botnet detectors based on machine learning are potential targets for adversarial evasion attacks. Several research works employ adversarial training with samples generated from generative adversarial nets (GANs) to make the botnet detectors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Rizwan Hamid Randhawa , Nauman Aslam , Mohammad Alauthman , Muhammad Khalid , Husnain Rafiq

One of the most common causes of lack of continuity of online systems stems from a widely popular Cyber Attack known as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), in which a network of infected devices (botnet) gets exploited to flood the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Giorgio Piras , Maura Pintor , Luca Demetrio , Battista Biggio

For deep learning applications, the massive data development (e.g., collecting, labeling), which is an essential process in building practical applications, still incurs seriously high costs. In this work, we propose an effective data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-30 Shin'ya Yamaguchi , Sekitoshi Kanai , Takeharu Eda

Mobile devices are frequent targets of eCrime threat actors through SMS spearphishing (smishing) links that leverage Domain Generation Algorithms (DGA) to rotate hostile infrastructure. Despite this, DGA research and evaluation largely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Adam Dorian Wong , John D. Hastings

Face recognition systems have raised concerns due to their vulnerability to different presentation attacks, and system security has become an increasingly critical concern. Although many face anti-spoofing (FAS) methods perform well in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Zhe Kong , Wentian Zhang , Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Yuexiang Li , Xiaoying Tang , Wenhan Luo

Machine learning models typically suffer from the domain shift problem when trained on a source dataset and evaluated on a target dataset of different distribution. To overcome this problem, domain generalisation (DG) methods aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Kaiyang Zhou , Yongxin Yang , Timothy Hospedales , Tao Xiang

Word embeddings are traditionally trained on a large corpus in an unsupervised setting, with no specific design for incorporating domain knowledge. This can lead to unsatisfactory performances when training data originate from heterogeneous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Guoyin Wang , Yan Song , Yue Zhang , Dong Yu

Botnets are now a major source for many network attacks, such as DDoS attacks and spam. However, most traditional detection methods heavily rely on heuristically designed multi-stage detection criteria. In this paper, we consider the neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Jiawei Zhou , Zhiying Xu , Alexander M. Rush , Minlan Yu

Domain Generalization (DG) research has gained considerable traction as of late, since the ability to generalize to unseen data distributions is a requirement that eludes even state-of-the-art training algorithms. In this paper we observe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Aristotelis Ballas , Christos Diou

With the rise of IoT-based botnet attacks, researchers have explored various learning models for detection, including traditional machine learning, deep learning, and hybrid approaches. A key advancement involves deploying attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Hassan Wasswa , Hussein Abbass , Timothy Lynar

Domain adaptive detection aims to improve the generalization of detectors on target domain. To reduce discrepancy in feature distributions between two domains, recent approaches achieve domain adaption through feature alignment in different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Libo Zhang , Wenzhang Zhou , Heng Fan , Tiejian Luo , Haibin Ling