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The security game is a basic model for resource allocation in adversarial environments. Here there are two players, a defender and an attacker. The defender wants to allocate her limited resources to defend critical targets and the attacker…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Haifeng Xu

Adversarial Patrolling games form a subclass of Security games where a Defender moves between locations, guarding vulnerable targets. The main algorithmic problem is constructing a strategy for the Defender that minimizes the worst damage…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Vojtěch Kůr , Vít Musil , Vojtěch Řehák

Evidence on the effectiveness of Man-At-The-End (MATE) software protections, such as code obfuscation, has mainly come from limited empirical research. Recently, however, an automatable method was proposed to obtain statistical models of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Alessandro Sanna , Waldo Verstraete , Leonardo Regano , Davide Maiorca , Bjorn De Sutter

In Stackelberg security games when information about the attacker's payoffs is uncertain, algorithms have been proposed to learn the optimal defender commitment by interacting with the attacker and observing their best responses. In this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Jiarui Gan , Qingyu Guo , Long Tran-Thanh , Bo An , Michael Wooldridge

In adversarial patrolling games, a mobile Defender strives to discover intrusions at vulnerable targets initiated by an Attacker. The Attacker's utility is traditionally defined as the probability of completing an attack, possibly weighted…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-02-03 David Klaška , Antonín Kučera , Vít Musil , Vojtěch Řehák

The new generation of cyber threats leverages advanced AI-aided methods, which make them capable to launch multi-stage, dynamic, and effective attacks. Current cyber-defense systems encounter various challenges to defend against such new…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Hooman Alavizadeh , Julian Jang-Jaccard , Tansu Alpcan , Seyit A. Camtepe

Modern commercial antivirus systems increasingly rely on machine learning to keep up with the rampant inflation of new malware. However, it is well-known that machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs). Previous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Wei Song , Xuezixiang Li , Sadia Afroz , Deepali Garg , Dmitry Kuznetsov , Heng Yin

Effective game-theoretic modeling of defender-attacker behavior is becoming increasingly important. In many domains, the defender functions not only as a player but also the designer of the game's payoff structure. We study Stackelberg…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Zheyuan Ryan Shi , Ziye Tang , Long Tran-Thanh , Rohit Singh , Fei Fang

With the developing of the attack and defense technology, the cyber environment has been more and more sophisticated. We failed to give an accurate evaluation of network security situation, as we lack a more accurate quantitative evaluation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Su Yang , Yuqing Zhang , Chensi Wu

Advanced persistent threats (APT) combine a variety of different attack forms ranging from social engineering to technical exploits. The diversity and usual stealthiness of APT turns them into a central problem of contemporary practical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Stefan Rass , Sandra König , Stefan Schauer

This work initiates an analysis of several cryptographic protocols from a rational point of view using a game-theoretical approach, which allows us to represent not only the protocols but also possible misbehaviours of parties. Concretely,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-17 P. Caballero-Gil , C. Hernández-Goya , C. Bruno-Castañeda

In this letter, we investigate the anti-jamming defense problem in multi-user scenarios, where the coordination among users is taken into consideration. The Markov game framework is employed to model and analyze the anti-jamming defense…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Fuqiang Yao , Luliang Jia

In today's world, we are performing our maximum work through the Internet, i.e., online payment, data transfer, etc., per day. More than thousands of users are connecting. So, it's essential to provide security to the user. It is necessary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-01 Amjani Gupta , Karan Singh

Network systems often contain vulnerabilities that remain unfixed in a network for various reasons, such as the lack of a patch or knowledge to fix them. With the presence of such residual vulnerabilities, the network administrator should…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Narges Khakpour , David Parker

The use of operating system API calls is a promising task in the detection of PE-type malware in the Windows operating system. This task is officially defined as running malware in an isolated sandbox environment, recording the API calls…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Ferhat Ozgur Catak , Ahmet Faruk Yazı

Identifying the actual adversarial threat against a system vulnerability has been a long-standing challenge for cybersecurity research. To determine an optimal strategy for the defender, game-theoretic based decision models have been widely…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Siddhant Bhambri , Purv Chauhan , Frederico Araujo , Adam Doupé , Subbarao Kambhampati

Many defensive measures in cyber security are still dominated by heuristics, catalogs of standard procedures, and best practices. Considering the case of data backup strategies, we aim towards mathematically modeling the underlying threat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Pascal Debus , Nicolas Müller , Konstantin Böttinger

Currently the Dempster-Shafer based algorithm and Uniform Random Probability based algorithm are the preferred method of resolving security games, in which defenders are able to identify attackers and only strategy remained ambiguous.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Hossein Khani , Mohsen Afsharchi

Active cyber defense is one important defensive method for combating cyber attacks. Unlike traditional defensive methods such as firewall-based filtering and anti-malware tools, active cyber defense is based on spreading "white" or "benign"…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Wenlian Lu , Shouhuai Xu , Xinlei Yi

Machine learning (ML) classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial examples. An adversarial example is an input sample which is slightly modified to induce misclassification in an ML classifier. In this work, we investigate white-box and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Yonghong Huang , Utkarsh Verma , Celeste Fralick , Gabriel Infante-Lopez , Brajesh Kumarz , Carl Woodward