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There has been a surge of interest in using machine learning (ML) to automatically detect malware through their dynamic behaviors. These approaches have achieved significant improvement in detection rates and lower false positive rates at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Li Chen , Chih-Yuan Yang , Anindya Paul , Ravi Sahita

Machine learning (ML) has been widely used to analyze API call sequences in malware analysis, which typically requires the expertise of domain specialists to extract relevant features from raw data. The extracted features play a critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Tianheng Qu , Hongsong Zhu , Limin Sun , Haining Wang , Haiqiang Fei , Zheng He , Zhi Li

The growing cybersecurity threats make it essential to use high-quality data to train Machine Learning (ML) models for network traffic analysis, without noisy or missing data. By selecting the most relevant features for cyber-attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-09 João Vitorino , Miguel Silva , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

Cybercrime is one of the major digital threats of this century. In particular, ransomware attacks have significantly increased, resulting in global damage costs of tens of billion dollars. In this paper, we train and test different Machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Benjamin Marais , Tony Quertier , Stéphane Morucci

Pattern recognition and machine learning techniques have been increasingly adopted in adversarial settings such as spam, intrusion and malware detection, although their security against well-crafted attacks that aim to evade detection by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Fei Zhang , Patrick P. K. Chan , Battista Biggio , Daniel S. Yeung , Fabio Roli

Computing is still under a significant threat from ransomware, which necessitates prompt action to prevent it. Ransomware attacks can have a negative impact on how smart grids, particularly digital substations. In addition to examining a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Hong-Nhung Nguyen , Ha-Thanh Nguyen , Damien Lescos

Ransomware is a significant global threat, with easy deployment due to the prevalent ransomware-as-a-service model. Machine learning algorithms incorporating the use of opcode characteristics and Support Vector Machine have been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-30 James Baldwin , Ali Dehghantanha

Ransomware continues to evolve as one of the most disruptive cyber threats, with recent variants increasingly leveraging automated and AI-assisted techniques to evade traditional signature-based defenses. Early detection of such attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Prabhudarshi Nayak , Gogulakrishnan Thiyagarajan , Debashree Priyadarshini , Vinay Bist , Rohan Swain

Cybersecurity faces challenges in identifying and mitigating ransomware, which is important for protecting critical infrastructures. The absence of datasets for distinguishing normal versus abnormal network behaviour hinders the development…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Peace Azugo , Hein Venter , Mike Wa Nkongolo

Since modern anti-virus software mainly depends on a signature-based static analysis, they are not suitable for coping with the rapid increase in malware variants. Moreover, even worse, many vulnerabilities of operating systems enable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Manabu Hirano , Ryotaro Kobayashi

The use of multi-threading and file prioritization methods has accelerated the speed at which ransomware encrypts files. To minimize file loss during the ransomware attack, detecting file modifications at the earliest execution stage is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Mohan Anand Putrevu , Hrushikesh Chunduri , Venkata Sai Charan Putrevu , Sandeep K Shukla

Ransomware poses a serious and fast-acting threat to critical systems, often encrypting files within seconds of execution. Research indicates that ransomware is the most reported cybercrime in terms of financial damage, highlighting the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Busra Caliskan , Ibrahim Gulatas , H. Hakan Kilinc , A. Halim Zaim

Ransomware has become a critical threat to cybersecurity due to its rapid evolution, the necessity for early detection, and growing diversity, posing significant challenges to traditional detection methods. While AI-based approaches had…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zhixin Pan , Ziyu Shu , Amberbir Alemayoh

Ransomware attacks have caused billions of dollars in damages in recent years, and are expected to cause billions more in the future. Consequently, significant effort has been devoted to ransomware detection and mitigation. Behavioral-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Dorjan Hitaj , Giulio Pagnotta , Fabio De Gaspari , Lorenzo De Carli , Luigi V. Mancini

A survey of machine learning techniques trained to detect ransomware is presented. This work builds upon the efforts of Taylor et al. in using sensor-based methods that utilize data collected from built-in instruments like CPU power and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Erik Larsen , David Noever , Korey MacVittie

Emergence of crypto-ransomware has significantly changed the cyber threat landscape. A crypto ransomware removes data custodian access by encrypting valuable data on victims' computers and requests a ransom payment to reinstantiate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Sajad Homayoun , Ali Dehghantanha , Marzieh Ahmadzadeh , Sattar Hashemi , Raouf Khayami

The increasing sophistication of encryption-based ransomware has demanded innovative approaches to detection and mitigation, prompting the development of a hierarchical framework grounded in probabilistic cryptographic analysis. By focusing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Kevin Pekepok , Persephone Kirkwood , Esme Christopolous , Florence Braithwaite , Oliver Nightingale

The damage caused by crypto-ransomware, due to encryption, is difficult to revert and cause data losses. In this paper, a machine learning (ML) classifier was built to early detect ransomware (called crypto-ransomware) that uses…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Chih-Yuan Yang , Ravi Sahita

In this paper, we present a general scheme for building reproducible and extensible datasets for website phishing detection. The aim is to (1) enable comparison of systems using different features, (2) overtake the short-lived nature of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Abdelhakim Hannousse , Salima Yahiouche

Research shows that over the last decade, malware has been growing exponentially, causing substantial financial losses to various organizations. Different anti-malware companies have been proposing solutions to defend attacks from these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Hemant Rathore , Swati Agarwal , Sanjay K. Sahay , Mohit Sewak