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Malware detection have used machine learning to detect malware in programs. These applications take in raw or processed binary data to neural network models to classify as benign or malicious files. Even though this approach has proven…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Xiruo Wang , Risto Miikkulainen

Economic incentives encourage malware authors to constantly develop new, increasingly complex malware to steal sensitive data or blackmail individuals and companies into paying large ransoms. In 2017, the worldwide economic impact of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Michal Piskozub , Fabio De Gaspari , Frederick Barr-Smith , Luigi V. Mancini , Ivan Martinovic

Nowadays, deep learning can be employed to a wide ranges of fields including medicine, engineering, etc. In deep learning, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is extensively used in the pattern and sequence recognition, video analysis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Rezoana Bente Arif , Md. Abu Bakr Siddique , Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman Khan , Mahjabin Rahman Oishe

The growing complexity of machinery and the increasing demand for operational efficiency and safety have driven the development of advanced fault diagnosis techniques. Among these, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have emerged as a…

Robust network security systems are essential to prevent and mitigate the harming effects of the ever-growing occurrence of network attacks. In recent years, machine learning-based systems have gain popularity for network security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Gonzalo Marín , Pedro Casas , Germán Capdehourat

Malaria is a deadly disease which claims the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every year. Computational methods have been proven to be useful in the medical industry by providing effective means of classification of diagnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Rishabh Malhotra , Dhron Joshi , Ku Young Shin

Malware attacks have become significantly more frequent and sophisticated in recent years. Therefore, malware detection and classification are critical components of information security. Due to the large amount of malware samples…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Olha Jurečková , Martin Jureček , Mark Stamp

Classical machine learning (CML) has been extensively studied for malware classification. With the emergence of quantum computing, quantum machine learning (QML) presents a paradigm-shifting opportunity to improve malware detection, though…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Jesus Lopez , Saeefa Rubaiyet Nowmi , Viviana Cadena , Mohammad Saidur Rahman

Current malware detection and classification approaches generally rely on time consuming and knowledge intensive processes to extract patterns (signatures) and behaviors from malware, which are then used for identification. Moreover, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Quan Le , Oisín Boydell , Brian Mac Namee , Mark Scanlon

With the growing pace of using Deep Learning (DL) to solve various problems, securing these models against adversaries has become one of the main concerns of researchers. Recent studies have shown that DL-based malware detectors are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Omid Kargarnovin , Amir Mahdi Sadeghzadeh , Rasool Jalili

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

Signature and anomaly based techniques are the quintessential approaches to malware detection. However, these techniques have become increasingly ineffective as malware has become more sophisticated and complex. Researchers have therefore…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Dennis Dang , Fabio Di Troia , Mark Stamp

It is needed to ensure the integrity of systems that process sensitive information and control many aspects of everyday life. We examine the use of machine learning algorithms to detect malware using the system calls generated by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Michael R. Smith , Joe B. Ingram , Christopher C. Lamb , Timothy J. Draelos , Justin E. Doak , James B. Aimone , Conrad D. James

Anti-malware engines are the first line of defense against malicious software. While widely used, feature engineering-based anti-malware engines are vulnerable to unseen (zero-day) attacks. Recently, deep learning-based static anti-malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Mohammadreza Ebrahimi , Ning Zhang , James Hu , Muhammad Taqi Raza , Hsinchun Chen

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

In this work, we investigate the value of employing deep learning for the task of wireless signal modulation recognition. Recently in [1], a framework has been introduced by generating a dataset using GNU radio that mimics the imperfections…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Xiaoyu Liu , Diyu Yang , Aly El Gamal

Motivated by the transformative impact of deep neural networks (DNNs) in various domains, researchers and anti-virus vendors have proposed DNNs for malware detection from raw bytes that do not require manual feature engineering. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Keane Lucas , Mahmood Sharif , Lujo Bauer , Michael K. Reiter , Saurabh Shintre

Security researchers grapple with the surge of malicious files, necessitating swift identification and classification of malware strains for effective protection. Visual classifiers and in particular Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Matteo Brosolo , Vinod Puthuvath , Mauro Conti

In this paper, we present a novel method of differentiating known from previously unseen malware families. We utilize transfer learning by learning compact file representations that are used for a new classification task between previously…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Ilay Cordonsky , Ishai Rosenberg , Guillaume Sicard , Eli David

Android, being the most widespread mobile operating systems is increasingly becoming a target for malware. Malicious apps designed to turn mobile devices into bots that may form part of a larger botnet have become quite common, thus posing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Suleiman Y. Yerima , Mohammed K. Alzaylaee