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As the number and complexity of malware attacks continue to increase, there is an urgent need for effective malware detection systems. While deep learning models are effective at detecting malware, they are vulnerable to adversarial…

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Network robustness plays a crucial role in our understanding of complex interconnected systems such as transportation, communication, and computer networks. While significant research has been conducted in the area of network robustness, no…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Scott Freitas , Diyi Yang , Srijan Kumar , Hanghang Tong , Duen Horng Chau

Using runtime execution artifacts to identify malware and its associated family is an established technique in the security domain. Many papers in the literature rely on explicit features derived from network, file system, or registry…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Aziz Mohaisen , Omar Alrawi , Jeman Park , Joongheon Kim , DaeHun Nyang , Manar Mohaisen

Ability to effectively investigate indicators of compromise and associated network resources involved in cyber attacks is paramount not only to identify affected network resources but also to detect related malicious resources. Today, most…

Recent work has shown that deep-learning algorithms for malware detection are also susceptible to adversarial examples, i.e., carefully-crafted perturbations to input malware that enable misleading classification. Although this has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Luca Demetrio , Battista Biggio , Giovanni Lagorio , Fabio Roli , Alessandro Armando

Many commercial and open-source models claim to detect machine-generated text with extremely high accuracy (99% or more). However, very few of these detectors are evaluated on shared benchmark datasets and even when they are, the datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Liam Dugan , Alyssa Hwang , Filip Trhlik , Josh Magnus Ludan , Andrew Zhu , Hainiu Xu , Daphne Ippolito , Chris Callison-Burch

This paper presents an experimental design and data analytics approach aimed at power-based malware detection on general-purpose computers. Leveraging the fact that malware executions must consume power, we explore the postulate that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Robert Bridges , Jarilyn Hernandez Jimenez , Jeffrey Nichols , Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova , Stacy Prowell

In this research paper, our intent is to outline different types of malware, their means of operation, and how they are detected in order to protect yourself against such attacks. Varied permission, and limited technical resources mean that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Sebastian Grochola , Andrew Milliner

Managing the threat posed by malware requires accurate detection and classification techniques. Traditional detection strategies, such as signature scanning, rely on manual analysis of malware to extract relevant features, which is labor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Vrinda Malhotra , Katerina Potika , Mark Stamp

The increasing automation of traffic management systems has made them prime targets for cyberattacks, disrupting urban mobility and public safety. Traditional network-layer defenses are often inaccessible to transportation agencies,…

The incremental diffusion of machine learning algorithms in supporting cybersecurity is creating novel defensive opportunities but also new types of risks. Multiple researches have shown that machine learning methods are vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Giovanni Apruzzese , Mauro Andreolini , Luca Ferretti , Mirco Marchetti , Michele Colajanni

To cope with the increasing variability and sophistication of modern attacks, machine learning has been widely adopted as a statistically-sound tool for malware detection. However, its security against well-crafted attacks has not only been…

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Mobile malware has continued to grow at an alarming rate despite on-going efforts towards mitigating the problem. This has been particularly noticeable on Android due to its being an open platform that has subsequently overtaken other…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Suleiman Y. Yerima , Sakir Sezer , Igor Muttik

Deep learning is increasingly used as a building block of security systems. Unfortunately, neural networks are hard to interpret and typically opaque to the practitioner. The machine learning community has started to address this problem by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Alexander Warnecke , Daniel Arp , Christian Wressnegger , Konrad Rieck

As network traffic monitoring software for cybersecurity, malware detection, and other critical tasks becomes increasingly automated, the rate of alerts and supporting data gathered, as well as the complexity of the underlying model,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Kartik Talamadupula , Octavian Udrea , Anton Riabov , Anand Ranganathan

AI technology has made remarkable achievements in computational pathology (CPath), especially with the help of deep neural networks. However, the network performance is highly related to architecture design, which commonly requires human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Sheyang Tang , Mahdi S. Hosseini , Lina Chen , Sonal Varma , Corwyn Rowsell , Savvas Damaskinos , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Zhou Wang

In the last decades, researchers, practitioners and companies struggled in devising mechanisms to detect malicious activities originating security threats. Amongst the many solutions, network intrusion detection emerged as one of the most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Tommaso Zoppi , Andrea Ceccarelli

With the recent advancements in machine learning (ML), numerous ML-based approaches have been extensively applied in software analytics tasks to streamline software development and maintenance processes. Nevertheless, studies indicate that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 MD Abdul Awal , Mrigank Rochan , Chanchal K. Roy

With the rapid growth of malware attacks, more antivirus developers consider deploying machine learning technologies into their productions. Researchers and developers published various machine learning-based detectors with high precision…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Matthew Crawford , Wei Wang , Ruoxi Sun , Minhui Xue

Adversaries continuously evolve their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to achieve their objectives while evading detection, requiring defenders to continually update their understanding of adversary behavior. Prior research has…

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