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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

Malware detection in IoT environments necessitates robust methodologies. This study introduces a CNN-LSTM hybrid model for IoT malware identification and evaluates its performance against established methods. Leveraging K-fold…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Ali Mehrban , Pegah Ahadian

This work explores the use of machine learning techniques on an Internet-of-Things firmware dataset to detect malicious attempts to infect edge devices or subsequently corrupt an entire network. Firmware updates are uncommon in IoT devices;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Erik Larsen , Korey MacVittie , John Lilly

The rapid increase in the use of IoT devices brings many benefits to the digital society, ranging from improved efficiency to higher productivity. However, the limited resources and the open nature of these devices make them vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Joseph Rose , Matthew Swann , Gueltoum Bendiab , Stavros Shiaeles , Nicholas Kolokotronis

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

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of billions of interconnected, primarily low-end embedded devices. Despite large-scale deployment, studies have highlighted critical security concerns in IoT networks, many of which stem from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Varun Kohli , Bhavya Kohli , Muhammad Naveed Aman , Biplab Sikdar

Sophisticated malware families exploit the openness of the Android platform to infiltrate IoT networks, enabling large-scale disruption, data exfiltration, and denial-of-service attacks. This systematic literature review (SLR) examines…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shama Maganur , Yili Jiang , Jiaqi Huang , Fangtian Zhong

As the Internet of Things (IoT) has become truly ubiquitous, so has the surrounding threat landscape. However, while the security of classical computing systems has significantly matured in the last decades, IoT cybersecurity is still…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Monika Freunek , Alexandra Rombos

Modern malware evolves various detection avoidance techniques to bypass the state-of-the-art detection methods. An emerging trend to deal with this issue is the combination of image transformation and machine learning techniques to classify…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Duc-Ly Vu , Trong-Kha Nguyen , Tam V. Nguyen , Tu N. Nguyen , Fabio Massacci , Phu H. Phung

This paper intends to detect IoT malicious attacks through deep learning models and demonstrates a comprehensive evaluation of the deep learning and graph-based models regarding malicious network traffic detection. The models particularly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Nikesh Prajapati , Bimal Karki , Saroj Gopali , Akbar Siami Namin

The increased reliance on the Internet and the corresponding surge in connectivity demand has led to a significant growth in Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. The continued deployment of IoT devices has in turn led to an increase in network…

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

This work investigates the possibilities enabled by federated learning concerning IoT malware detection and studies security issues inherent to this new learning paradigm. In this context, a framework that uses federated learning to detect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Valerian Rey , Pedro Miguel Sánchez Sánchez , Alberto Huertas Celdrán , Gérôme Bovet , Martin Jaggi

The Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized connectivity by linking billions of devices worldwide. However, this rapid expansion has also introduced severe security vulnerabilities, making IoT devices attractive targets for malware such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Sahar Zargarzadeh , Mohammad Islam

Internet of Things (IoT) based applications face an increasing number of potential security risks, which need to be systematically assessed and addressed. Expert-based manual assessment of IoT security is a predominant approach, which is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Xuanyu Duan , Mengmeng Ge , Triet H. M. Le , Faheem Ullah , Shang Gao , Xuequan Lu , M. Ali Babar

Malware affecting Internet of Things (IoT) devices is rapidly growing due to the relevance of this paradigm in real-world scenarios. Specialized literature has also detected a trend towards multi-purpose malware able to execute different…

The adoption of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) as a complementary technology to Operational Technology (OT) has enabled a new level of standardised data access and process visibility. This convergence of Information Technology…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Martin Dobler , Michael Hellwig , Nuno Lopes , Ken Oakley , Mike Winterburn

Internet of Things (IoT) is being considered as the growth engine for industrial revolution 4.0. The combination of IoT, cloud computing and healthcare can contribute in ensuring well-being of people. One important challenge of IoT network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Prajoy Podder , M. Rubaiyat Hossain Mondal , Subrato Bharati , Pinto Kumar Paul

The growing popularity of Internet-of-Things (IoT) has created the need for network-based traffic anomaly detection systems that could identify misbehaving devices. In this work, we propose a lightweight technique, IoT-guard, for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Ibbad Hafeez , Aaron Yi Ding , Markku Antikainen , Sasu Tarkoma

Modern scientific advancements often contribute to the introduction and refinement of never-before-seen technologies. This can be quite the task for humans to maintain and monitor and as a result, our society has become reliant on machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Sam Strecker , Rushit Dave , Nyle Siddiqui , Naeem Seliya

The increasing use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has led to a rise in security related concerns regarding IoT Networks. The surveillance cameras in IoT networks are vulnerable to security threats such as brute force and zero-day…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Umair Amjid , M. Umar Khan , S. A. Manan Kirmani