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The volume of malware and the number of attacks in IoT devices are rising everyday, which encourages security professionals to continually enhance their malware analysis tools. Researchers in the field of cyber security have extensively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Meysam Ghahramani , Rahim Taheri , Mohammad Shojafar , Reza Javidan , Shaohua Wan

In recent years, there has been a significant surge in malware attacks, necessitating more advanced preventive measures and remedial strategies. While several successful AI-based malware classification approaches exist categorized into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Quincy Card , Daniel Simpson , Kshitiz Aryal , Maanak Gupta , Sheikh Rabiul Islam

Millions of new pieces of malicious software (i.e., malware) are introduced each year. This poses significant challenges for antivirus vendors, who use machine learning to detect and analyze malware, and must keep up with changes in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Mohammad Saidur Rahman , Scott Coull , Qi Yu , Matthew Wright

Malicious software (malware) classification offers a unique challenge for continual learning (CL) regimes due to the volume of new samples received on a daily basis and the evolution of malware to exploit new vulnerabilities. On a typical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Mohammad Saidur Rahman , Scott E. Coull , Matthew Wright

The purpose behind this article is to describe the features of Ftklipse, an extendable platform for computer forensics. This document designed to provide a detailed specification for the developers of Ftklipse. Ftklipse is a thick-client…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-07-27 Marc-André Laverdière , Serguei A. Mokhov , Suhasini Tsapa , Djamel Benredjem

Autonomous web agents such as \textbf{OpenClaw} are rapidly moving into high-impact real-world workflows, but their security robustness under live network threats remains insufficiently evaluated. Existing benchmarks mainly focus on static…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Haochen Zhao , Shaoyang Cui

Malware is a piece of software that was written with the intent of doing harm to data, devices, or people. Since a number of new malware variants can be generated by reusing codes, malware attacks can be easily launched and thus become…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Fangtian Zhong , Zekai Chen , Minghui Xu , Guoming Zhang , Dongxiao Yu , Xiuzhen Cheng

The npm registry is one of the pillars of the JavaScript and TypeScript ecosystems, hosting over 1.7 million packages ranging from simple utility libraries to complex frameworks and entire applications. Due to the overwhelming popularity of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Adriana Sejfia , Max Schäfer

Recently researchers have proposed using deep learning-based systems for malware detection. Unfortunately, all deep learning classification systems are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Previous work has studied adversarial attacks against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Jack W. Stokes , De Wang , Mady Marinescu , Marc Marino , Brian Bussone

This paper presents a multidisciplinary approach to analyzing data from Telegram for early warning information regarding cyber threats. With the proliferation of hacktivist groups utilizing Telegram to disseminate information regarding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Velizar Varbanov , Kalin Kopanov , Tatiana Atanasova

The task of developing a machine learning (ML) model for a particular problem is inherently open-ended, and there is an unbounded set of possible solutions. Steps of the ML development pipeline, such as feature engineering, loss function…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Peter Washington , Aayush Nandkeolyar , Sam Yang

As currently classical malware detection methods based on signatures fail to detect new malware, they are not always efficient with new obfuscation techniques. Besides, new malware is easily created and old malware can be recoded to produce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Andree Linke , Nhien-An Le-Khac

Malware analysis involves analyzing suspicious software to detect malicious payloads. Static malware analysis, which does not require software execution, relies increasingly on machine learning techniques to achieve scalability. Although…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Pierre-Francois Gimenez , Sarath Sivaprasad , Mario Fritz

To counter man-at-the-end attacks such as reverse engineering and tampering, software is often protected with techniques that require support modules to be linked into the application. It is well-known, however, that attackers can exploit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Jens Van den Broeck , Bart Coppens , Bjorn De Sutter

Malware proliferation is increasing at a tremendous rate, with hundreds of thousands of new samples identified daily. Manual investigation of such a vast amount of malware is an unrealistic, time-consuming, and overwhelming task. To cope…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 ElMouatez Billah Karbab , Mourad Debbabi

This paper summarizes the research conducted for a malware detection project using the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity's MalMemAnalysis-2022 dataset. The purpose of the project was to explore the effectiveness and efficiency of machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sarah Nassar

Ransomware, a class of self-propagating malware that uses encryption to hold the victims' data ransom, has emerged in recent years as one of the most dangerous cyber threats, with widespread damage; e.g., zero-day ransomware WannaCry has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Qian Chen , Robert A. Bridges

As malware continues to become more complex and harder to detect, Malware Analysis needs to continue to evolve to stay one step ahead. One promising key area approach focuses on using system calls and API Calls, the core communication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Bishwajit Prasad Gond , Durga Prasad Mohapatra

Machine learning has been successfully applied in developing malware detection systems, with a primary focus on accuracy, and increasing attention to reducing computational overhead and improving model interpretability. However, an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Oladipo A. Madamidola , Felix Ngobigha , Adnane Ez-zizi

Malware is a major threat to computer systems and imposes many challenges to cyber security. Targeted threats, such as ransomware, cause millions of dollars in losses every year. The constant increase of malware infections has been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Fabrício Ceschin , Marcus Botacin , Heitor Murilo Gomes , Felipe Pinagé , Luiz S. Oliveira , André Grégio