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State of the art deep learning techniques are known to be vulnerable to evasion attacks where an adversarial sample is generated from a malign sample and misclassified as benign. Detection of encrypted malware command and control traffic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Carlos Novo , Ricardo Morla

One of the pivotal security threats for the embedded computing systems is malicious software a.k.a malware. With efficiency and efficacy, Machine Learning (ML) has been widely adopted for malware detection in recent times. Despite being…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Sreenitha Kasarapu , Sanket Shukla , Rakibul Hassan , Avesta Sasan , Houman Homayoun , Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao

Malware classification is a contemporary and ongoing challenge in cyber-security: modern obfuscation techniques are able to evade traditional static analysis, while dynamic analysis is too resource intensive to be deployed at a large scale.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Jack Wilkie , Hanan Hindy , Ivan Andonovic , Christos Tachtatzis , Robert Atkinson

We develop two iterative algorithms for solving the low rank phase retrieval (LRPR) problem. LRPR refers to recovering a low-rank matrix $\X$ from magnitude-only (phaseless) measurements of random linear projections of its columns. Both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Namrata Vaswani , Seyedehsara Nayer , Yonina C. Eldar

Anomaly Detection is a crucial step for critical applications such in the industrial, medical or cybersecurity domains. These sectors share the same requirement of handling differently the different types of classification errors. Indeed,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Arnaud Bougaham , Benoît Frénay

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

Privacy-preserving neural network training in vertically partitioned scenarios is vital for secure collaborative modeling across institutions. This paper presents \textbf{EVA-S2PMLP}, an Efficient, Verifiable, and Accurate Secure Two-Party…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Shizhao Peng , Shoumo Li , Tianle Tao

The proliferation of edge devices has created an urgent need for security solutions capable of detecting malware in real time while operating under strict computational and memory constraints. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Christian Rondanini , Barbara Carminati , Elena Ferrari , Niccolò Lardo , Ashish Kundu

Based on API call sequences, semantic-aware and machine learning (ML) based malware classifiers can be built for malware detection or classification. Previous works concentrate on crafting and extracting various features from malware…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Xin Wang , Siu Ming Yiu

While attackers often distribute malware to victims via open-source, community-driven package repositories, these repositories do not currently run automated malware detection systems. In this work, we explore the security goals of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Duc-Ly Vu , Zachary Newman , John Speed Meyers

Signature-based malware detectors have proven to be insufficient as even a small change in malignant executable code can bypass these signature-based detectors. Many machine learning-based models have been proposed to efficiently detect a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Yash Jakhotiya , Heramb Patil , Jugal Rawlani , Sunil B. Mane

In this paper, we consider malware classification using deep learning techniques and image-based features. We employ a wide variety of deep learning techniques, including multilayer perceptrons (MLP), convolutional neural networks (CNN),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Pratikkumar Prajapati , Mark Stamp

Deep learning technology has made great achievements in the field of image. In order to defend against malware attacks, researchers have proposed many Windows malware detection models based on deep learning. However, deep learning models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Kun Li , Fan Zhang , Wei Guo

With increasingly sophisticated cyber-adversaries able to access a wider repertoire of mechanisms to implant malware such as ransomware, CPU/GPU keyloggers, and stealthy kernel rootkits, there is an urgent need for techniques to detect and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Farshad Khorrami , Ramesh Karri , Prashanth Krishnamurthy

Malware poses a significant security risk to individuals, organizations, and critical infrastructure by compromising systems and data. Leveraging memory dumps that offer snapshots of computer memory can aid the analysis and detection of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Salim Sazzed , Sharif Ullah

Malware development and detection have undergone significant changes in recent years as modern concepts, such as machine learning, have been used for both adversarial attacks and defense. Despite intensive research on Windows Portable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Lukáš Hrdonka , Martin Jureček

For well over a quarter century, detection systems have been driven by models learned from input features collected from real or simulated environments. An artifact (e.g., network event, potential malware sample, suspicious email) is deemed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Z. Berkay Celik , Patrick McDaniel , Rauf Izmailov , Nicolas Papernot , Ryan Sheatsley , Raquel Alvarez , Ananthram Swami

Android malware is a spreading disease in the virtual world. Anti-virus and detection systems continuously undergo patches and updates to defend against these threats. Most of the latest approaches in malware detection use Machine Learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Harel Berger , Amit Dvir , Chen Hajaj , Rony Ronen

In the era of the internet and smart devices, the detection of malware has become crucial for system security. Malware authors increasingly employ obfuscation techniques to evade advanced security solutions, making it challenging to detect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-04 S M Rakib Hasan , Aakar Dhakal

Android malware has become an increasingly critical threat to organizations, society and individuals, posing significant risks to privacy, data security and infrastructure. As malware continues to evolve in terms of complexity and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Ashish Anand , Bhupendra Singh , Sunil Khemka , Bireswar Banerjee , Vishi Singh Bhatia , Piyush Ranjan