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Malicious software is a pernicious global problem. A novel multi-task learning framework is proposed in this paper for malware image classification for accurate and fast malware detection. We generate bitmap (BMP) and (PNG) images from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-12 Ahmed Bensaoud , Jugal Kalita

Malicious software (malware) poses an increasing threat to the security of communication systems as the number of interconnected mobile devices increases exponentially. While some existing malware detection and classification approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Julian Busch , Anton Kocheturov , Volker Tresp , Thomas Seidl

Cyber attacks cause over \$1 trillion loss every year. An important task for cyber security analysts is attack forensics. It entails understanding malware behaviors and attack origins. However, existing automated or manual malware analysis…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Chanwoo Bae , Guanhong Tao , Zhuo Zhang , Xiangyu Zhang

Deep learning solutions for vulnerability detection proposed in academic research are not always accessible to developers, and their applicability in industrial settings is rarely addressed. Transferring such technologies from academia to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Moritz Mock , Thomas Forrer , Barbara Russo

Android malware detectors built with machine learning often suffer from temporal bias: models are trained and evaluated without respecting apps' actual release times, inflating accuracy and weakening real-world robustness. We address this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Annan Fu , Hao Pei , Maryam Tanha

Recently, deep learning techniques have garnered substantial attention for their ability to identify vulnerable code patterns accurately. However, current state-of-the-art deep learning models, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Marwan Omar

Ransomware continues to evolve in complexity, making early and explainable detection a critical requirement for modern cybersecurity systems. This study presents a comparative analysis of three Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Elodie Mutombo Ngoie , Mike Nkongolo Wa Nkongolo , Peace Azugo , Mahmut Tokmak

Malware detection is a growing problem particularly on the Android mobile platform due to its increasing popularity and accessibility to numerous third party app markets. This has also been made worse by the increasingly sophisticated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-28 BooJoong Kang , Suleiman Y. Yerima , Kieran McLaughlin , Sakir Sezer

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices is paralleled by them being on the front-line of malicious attacks. This has led to an explosion in the number of IoT malware, with continued mutations, evolution, and sophistication.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Ahmed Abusnaina , Afsah Anwar , Sultan Alshamrani , Abdulrahman Alabduljabbar , RhongHo Jang , Daehun Nyang , David Mohaisen

Text classification problem is a very broad field of study in the field of natural language processing. In short, the text classification problem is to determine which of the previously determined classes the given text belongs to.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 D. Emre Taşar , Şükrü Ozan , M. Fatih Akca , Oğuzhan Ölmez , Semih Gülüm , Seçilay Kutal , Ceren Belhan

Phishing and related cyber threats are becoming more varied and technologically advanced. Among these, email-based phishing remains the most dominant and persistent threat. These attacks exploit human vulnerabilities to disseminate malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Sajad U P

Machine learning for malware classification shows encouraging results, but real deployments suffer from performance degradation as malware authors adapt their techniques to evade detection. This phenomenon, known as concept drift, occurs as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Federico Barbero , Feargus Pendlebury , Fabio Pierazzi , Lorenzo Cavallaro

While the rapid adaptation of mobile devices changes our daily life more conveniently, the threat derived from malware is also increased. There are lots of research to detect malware to protect mobile devices, but most of them adopt only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Hye Min Kim , Hyun Min Song , Jae Woo Seo , Huy Kang Kim

The Android operating system has become the most popular operating system for smartphones and tablets leading to a rapid rise in malware. Sophisticated Android malware employ detection avoidance techniques in order to hide their malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Mohammed K. Alzaylaee , Suleiman Y. Yerima , Sakir Sezer

Language model pre-training has proven to be useful in learning universal language representations. As a state-of-the-art language model pre-training model, BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) has achieved amazing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Chi Sun , Xipeng Qiu , Yige Xu , Xuanjing Huang

Over the last decade, researchers have extensively explored the vulnerabilities of Android malware detectors to adversarial examples through the development of evasion attacks; however, the practicality of these attacks in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Hamid Bostani , Veelasha Moonsamy

Mobile malware has become one of the most critical security threats in the era of ubiquitous mobile computing. Despite the intensive efforts from security experts to counteract it, recent years have still witnessed a rapid growth of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Jiayi Hua , Kailong Wang , Meizhen Wang , Guangdong Bai , Xiapu Luo , Haoyu Wang

Malware classification in dynamic environments presents a significant challenge due to concept drift, where the statistical properties of malware data evolve over time, complicating detection efforts. To address this issue, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Bishwajit Prasad Gond , Durga Prasad Mohapatra

Malicious software (malware) is a major cyber threat that has to be tackled with Machine Learning (ML) techniques because millions of new malware examples are injected into cyberspace on a daily basis. However, ML is vulnerable to attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Deqiang Li , Qianmu Li , Yanfang Ye , Shouhuai Xu

Modern computational organic chemistry is becoming increasingly data-driven. There remain a large number of important unsolved problems in this area such as product prediction given reactants, drug discovery, and metric-optimized molecule…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-10 Josh Payne , Mario Srouji , Dian Ang Yap , Vineet Kosaraju