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Due to the variety of cyber-attacks or threats, the cybersecurity community enhances the traditional security control mechanisms to an advanced level so that automated tools can encounter potential security threats. Very recently, Cyber…

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Threat intelligence on malware attacks and campaigns is increasingly being shared with other security experts for a cost or for free. Other security analysts use this intelligence to inform them of indicators of compromise, attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Nidhi Rastogi , Sharmishtha Dutta , Mohammed J. Zaki , Alex Gittens , Charu Aggarwal

Cyber threat hunting is the practice of proactively searching for latent threats in a network. Engaging in threat hunting can be difficult due to the volume of network traffic, variety of adversary techniques, and constantly evolving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Matthew J. Turner , Mike Carenzo , Jackie Lasky , James Morris-King , James Ross

Efficient defense against dynamically evolving advanced persistent threats (APT) requires the structured threat intelligence feeds, such as techniques used. However, existing threat-intelligence extraction techniques predominantly focuses…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ming Xu , Hongtai Wang , Jiahao Liu , Xinfeng Li , Zhengmin Yu , Weili Han , Hoon Wei Lim , Jin Song Dong , Jiaheng Zhang

The extraction of cyber threat intelligence (CTI) from open sources is a rapidly expanding defensive strategy that enhances the resilience of both Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) environments against large-scale…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Prasasthy Balasubramanian , Sadaf Nazari , Danial Khosh Kholgh , Alireza Mahmoodi , Justin Seby , Panos Kostakos

Publicly available information contains valuable information for Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI). This can be used to prevent attacks that have already taken place on other systems. Ideally, only the initial attack succeeds and all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Philipp Kuehn , Mike Schmidt , Markus Bayer , Christian Reuter

Context: Cybersecurity vendors often publish cyber threat intelligence (CTI) reports, referring to the written artifacts on technical and forensic analysis of the techniques used by the malware in APT attacks. Objective: The goal of this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Md Rayhanur Rahman , Setu Kumar Basak , Rezvan Mahdavi Hezaveh , Laurie Williams

Computer users are generally faced with difficulties in making correct security decisions. While an increasingly fewer number of people are trying or willing to take formal security training, online sources including news, security blogs,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Tingmin Wu , Wanlun Ma , Sheng Wen , Xin Xia , Cecile Paris , Surya Nepal , Yang Xiang

Effective Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) relies upon accurately structured and semantically enriched information extracted from cybersecurity system logs. However, current methodologies often struggle to identify and interpret malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Luca Cotti , Anisa Rula , Devis Bianchini , Federico Cerutti

With the advance of language models, privacy protection is receiving more attention. Training data extraction is therefore of great importance, as it can serve as a potential tool to assess privacy leakage. However, due to the difficulty of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Weichen Yu , Tianyu Pang , Qian Liu , Chao Du , Bingyi Kang , Yan Huang , Min Lin , Shuicheng Yan

Model extraction attacks pose significant security threats to deployed language models, potentially compromising intellectual property and user privacy. This survey provides a comprehensive taxonomy of LLM-specific extraction attacks and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Kaixiang Zhao , Lincan Li , Kaize Ding , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Yue Zhao , Yushun Dong

Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) has emerged as a vital complementary approach that operates in the early phases of the cyber threat lifecycle. CTI involves collecting, processing, and analyzing threat data to provide a more accurate and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Samaneh Shafee , Alysson Bessani , Pedro M. Ferreira

To address the increasing complexity and frequency of cybersecurity incidents emphasized by the recent cybersecurity threat reports with over 10 billion instances, cyber threat intelligence (CTI) plays a critical role in the modern…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Hangyuan Ji , Jian Yang , Linzheng Chai , Chaoren Wei , Liqun Yang , Yunlong Duan , Yunli Wang , Tianzhen Sun , Hongcheng Guo , Tongliang Li , Changyu Ren , Zhoujun Li

With the development of Internet technology, the phenomenon of information overload is becoming more and more obvious. It takes a lot of time for users to obtain the information they need. However, keyphrases that summarize document…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Chengzhi Zhang , Lei Zhao , Mengyuan Zhao , Yingyi Zhang

The landscape of adversarial attacks against text classifiers continues to grow, with new attacks developed every year and many of them available in standard toolkits, such as TextAttack and OpenAttack. In response, there is a growing body…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Zhouhang Xie , Jonathan Brophy , Adam Noack , Wencong You , Kalyani Asthana , Carter Perkins , Sabrina Reis , Sameer Singh , Daniel Lowd

Organizations are increasingly targeted by Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), which involve complex, multi-stage tactics and diverse techniques. Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) sources, such as incident reports and security blogs, provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Sofia Della Penna , Roberto Natella , Vittorio Orbinato , Lorenzo Parracino , Luciano Pianese

The scarcity of data and the high complexity of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) attacks have created challenges in comprehending their behavior and hindered the exploration of effective detection techniques. To create an effective APT…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Almuthanna Alageel , Sergio Maffeis , Imperial College London

Provenance analysis based on system audit data has emerged as a fundamental approach for investigating Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks. Due to the high concealment and long-term persistence of APT attacks, they are only represented…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Qi Sheng

In order to assist security analysts in obtaining information pertaining to their network, such as novel vulnerabilities, exploits, or patches, information retrieval methods tailored to the security domain are needed. As labeled text data…

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Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attribution is a critical challenge in cybersecurity and implies the process of accurately identifying the perpetrators behind sophisticated cyber attacks. It can significantly enhance defense mechanisms and…

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