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Adversarial examples threaten the integrity of machine learning systems with alarming success rates even under constrained black-box conditions. Stateful defenses have emerged as an effective countermeasure, detecting potential attacks by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Ashish Hooda , Neal Mangaokar , Ryan Feng , Kassem Fawaz , Somesh Jha , Atul Prakash

The existence of adversarial attacks (or adversarial examples) brings huge concern about the machine learning (ML) model's safety issues. For many safety-critical ML tasks, such as financial forecasting, fraudulent detection, and anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Han Xu , Menghai Pan , Zhimeng Jiang , Huiyuan Chen , Xiaoting Li , Mahashweta Das , Hao Yang

Digital systems find it challenging to keep up with cybersecurity threats. The daily emergence of more than 560,000 new malware strains poses significant hazards to the digital ecosystem. The traditional malware detection methods fail to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Abrar Fahim , Shamik Dey , Md. Nurul Absur , Md Kamrul Siam , Md. Tahmidul Huque , Jafreen Jafor Godhuli

The current state-of-the-art Android malware detection systems are based on machine learning and deep learning models. Despite having superior performance, these models are susceptible to adversarial attacks. Therefore in this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Hemant Rathore , Sanjay K. Sahay , Piyush Nikam , Mohit Sewak

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

Recent work has proposed stateful defense models (SDMs) as a compelling strategy to defend against a black-box attacker who only has query access to the model, as is common for online machine learning platforms. Such stateful defenses aim…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Ryan Feng , Ashish Hooda , Neal Mangaokar , Kassem Fawaz , Somesh Jha , Atul Prakash

Signature-based malware detectors have proven to be insufficient as even a small change in malignant executable code can bypass these signature-based detectors. Many machine learning-based models have been proposed to efficiently detect a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Yash Jakhotiya , Heramb Patil , Jugal Rawlani , Sunil B. Mane

This paper introduces MetaDefense, a novel framework for defending against finetuning-based jailbreak attacks in large language models (LLMs). We observe that existing defense mechanisms fail to generalize to harmful queries disguised by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Weisen Jiang , Sinno Jialin Pan

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices is paralleled by them being on the front-line of malicious attacks. This has led to an explosion in the number of IoT malware, with continued mutations, evolution, and sophistication.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Ahmed Abusnaina , Afsah Anwar , Sultan Alshamrani , Abdulrahman Alabduljabbar , RhongHo Jang , Daehun Nyang , David Mohaisen

Many state-of-the-art ML models have outperformed humans in various tasks such as image classification. With such outstanding performance, ML models are widely used today. However, the existence of adversarial attacks and data poisoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jing Lin , Long Dang , Mohamed Rahouti , Kaiqi Xiong

Machine Learning is becoming a pivotal aspect of many systems today, offering newfound performance on classification and prediction tasks, but this rapid integration also comes with new unforeseen vulnerabilities. To harden these systems…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Ahmed Abdou , Ryan Sheatsley , Yohan Beugin , Tyler Shipp , Patrick McDaniel

Adversarial attack breaks the boundaries of traditional security defense. For adversarial attack and the characteristics of cloud services, we propose Security Development Lifecycle for Machine Learning applications, e.g., SDL for ML. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Dou Goodman , Hao Xin

The vulnerability of machine learning models in adversarial scenarios has garnered significant interest in the academic community over the past decade, resulting in a myriad of attacks and defenses. However, while the community appears to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Kevin Eykholt , Farhan Ahmed , Pratik Vaishnavi , Amir Rahmati

ML-based malware detection on dynamic analysis reports is vulnerable to both evasion and spurious correlations. In this work, we investigate a specific ML architecture employed in the pipeline of a widely-known commercial antivirus company,…

Malware is one of the most common and severe cyber-attack today. Malware infects millions of devices and can perform several malicious activities including mining sensitive data, encrypting data, crippling system performance, and many more.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Pascal Maniriho , Abdun Naser Mahmood , Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury

Machine learning (ML) models have significantly grown in complexity and utility, driving advances across multiple domains. However, substantial computational resources and specialized expertise have historically restricted their wide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Kaixiang Zhao , Lincan Li , Kaize Ding , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Yue Zhao , Yushun Dong

Effective detection of energy theft can prevent revenue losses of utility companies and is also important for smart grid security. In recent years, enabled by the massive fine-grained smart meter data, deep learning (DL) approaches are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jiangnan Li , Yingyuan Yang , Jinyuan Stella Sun

Energy theft causes large economic losses to utility companies around the world. In recent years, energy theft detection approaches based on machine learning (ML) techniques, especially neural networks, become popular in the research…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Jiangnan Li , Yingyuan Yang , Jinyuan Stella Sun

Although safely enhanced Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in tackling various complex tasks in a zero-shot manner, they remain susceptible to jailbreak attacks, particularly the unknown jailbreak attack. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Fan Liu , Zhao Xu , Hao Liu

Data poisoning attacks are a potential threat to machine learning (ML) models, aiming to manipulate training datasets to disrupt their performance. Existing defenses are mostly designed to mitigate specific poisoning attacks or are aligned…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Anum Paracha , Junaid Arshad , Mohamed Ben Farah , Khalid Ismail