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Deep learning methods for graphs achieve remarkable performance across a variety of domains. However, recent findings indicate that small, unnoticeable perturbations of graph structure can catastrophically reduce performance of even the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Xiang Zhang , Marinka Zitnik

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) obtain tremendous success in modeling relational data. Still, they are prone to adversarial attacks, which are massive threats to applying GNNs to risk-sensitive domains. Existing defensive methods neither…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Beini Xie , Heng Chang , Ziwei Zhang , Xin Wang , Daixin Wang , Zhiqiang Zhang , Rex Ying , Wenwu Zhu

Provenance-based threat hunting identifies Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) on endpoints by correlating attack patterns described in Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) with provenance graphs derived from system audit logs. A fundamental…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Xuebo Qiu , Mingqi Lv , Yimei Zhang , Tieming Chen , Tiantian Zhu , Qijie Song , Shouling Ji

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved tremendous success in the task of graph classification and its diverse downstream real-world applications. Despite the huge success in learning graph representations, current GNN models have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Xin Wang , Heng Chang , Beini Xie , Tian Bian , Shiji Zhou , Daixin Wang , Zhiqiang Zhang , Wenwu Zhu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are recognized as potent tools for processing real-world data organized in graph structures. Especially inductive GNNs, which allow for the processing of graph-structured data without relying on predefined graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Marcin Podhajski , Jan Dubiński , Franziska Boenisch , Adam Dziedzic , Agnieszka Pregowska , Tomasz P. Michalak

With the advancement of IoT technology, many electronic devices are interconnected through networks, communicating with each other and performing specific roles. However, as numerous devices join networks, the threat of cyberattacks also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Sangbeom Park , Jaesung Lee , Jeong Do Yoo , Min Geun Song , Hyosun Lee , Jaewoong Choi , Chaeyeon Sagong , Huy Kang Kim

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a class of deep learning models capable of processing graph-structured data, and they have demonstrated significant performance in a variety of real-world applications. Recent studies have found that GNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Jiazhu Dai , Haoyu Sun

Deep learning on graph structures has shown exciting results in various applications. However, few attentions have been paid to the robustness of such models, in contrast to numerous research work for image or text adversarial attack and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Hanjun Dai , Hui Li , Tian Tian , Xin Huang , Lin Wang , Jun Zhu , Le Song

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are difficult to detect due to their "low-and-slow" attack patterns and frequent use of zero-day exploits. We present UNICORN, an anomaly-based APT detector that effectively leverages data provenance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Xueyuan Han , Thomas Pasquier , Adam Bates , James Mickens , Margo Seltzer

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gained significant attention owing to their ability to handle graph-structured data and the improvement in practical applications. However, many of these models prioritize high utility performance, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Yi Zhang , Yuying Zhao , Zhaoqing Li , Xueqi Cheng , Yu Wang , Olivera Kotevska , Philip S. Yu , Tyler Derr

We present ProvG-Searcher, a novel approach for detecting known APT behaviors within system security logs. Our approach leverages provenance graphs, a comprehensive graph representation of event logs, to capture and depict data provenance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Enes Altinisik , Fatih Deniz , Husrev Taha Sencar

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) represent sophisticated cyberattacks characterized by their ability to remain undetected within the victim system for extended periods, aiming to exfiltrate sensitive data or disrupt operations. Existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Wei Qiao , Yebo Feng , Teng Li , Zhuo Ma , Yulong Shen , JianFeng Ma , Yang Liu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) which apply the deep neural networks to graph data have achieved significant performance for the task of semi-supervised node classification. However, only few work has addressed the adversarial robustness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Kaidi Xu , Hongge Chen , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Tsui-Wei Weng , Mingyi Hong , Xue Lin

Graph is an important data representation ubiquitously existing in the real world. However, analyzing the graph data is computationally difficult due to its non-Euclidean nature. Graph embedding is a powerful tool to solve the graph…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Zhikun Zhang , Min Chen , Michael Backes , Yun Shen , Yang Zhang

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are known to be vulnerable to adversarial samples, the detection of which is crucial for the wide application of these DNN models. Recently, a number of deep testing methods in software engineering were proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Zuohui Chen , Renxuan Wang , Jingyang Xiang , Yue Yu , Xin Xia , Shouling Ji , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

Graph-based Neural Networks (GNNs) are recent models created for learning representations of nodes (and graphs), which have achieved promising results when detecting patterns that occur in large-scale data relating different entities. Among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Ronald D. R. Pereira , Fabrício Murai

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many graph-based tasks such as node classification and graph classification. However, many recent works have demonstrated that an attacker can mislead GNN models by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Binghui Wang , Youqi Li , Pan Zhou

Host-based threats such as Program Attack, Malware Implantation, and Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), are commonly adopted by modern attackers. Recent studies propose leveraging the rich contextual information in data provenance to detect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Su Wang , Zhiliang Wang , Tao Zhou , Xia Yin , Dongqi Han , Han Zhang , Hongbin Sun , Xingang Shi , Jiahai Yang

Graphs are commonly used to model complex networks prevalent in modern social media and literacy applications. Our research investigates the vulnerability of these graphs through the application of feature based adversarial attacks,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Ying Xu , Michael Lanier , Anindya Sarkar , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik