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The rapid evolution of malware attacks calls for the development of innovative detection methods, especially in resource-constrained edge computing. Traditional detection techniques struggle to keep up with modern malware's sophistication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Christian Rondanini , Barbara Carminati , Elena Ferrari , Antonio Gaudiano , Ashish Kundu

We address the problem of adversarial examples in machine learning where an adversary tries to misguide a classifier by making functionality-preserving modifications to original samples. We assume a black-box scenario where the adversary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Behzad Asadi , Vijay Varadharajan

In response to the rapidly evolving nature of adversarial attacks against visual classifiers, numerous defenses have been proposed to generalize against as many known attacks as possible. However, designing a defense method that generalizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Qian Wang , Hefei Ling , Yingwei Li , Qihao Liu , Ruoxi Jia , Ning Yu

Adversarial attacks pose a critical security threat to real-world AI systems by injecting human-imperceptible perturbations into benign samples to induce misclassification in deep learning models. While existing detection methods, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yinghe Zhang , Chi Liu , Shuai Zhou , Sheng Shen , Peng Gui

In today's interconnected digital landscape, the proliferation of malware poses a significant threat to the security and stability of computer networks and systems worldwide. As the complexity of malicious tactics, techniques, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Dhruv Nandakumar , Devin Quinn , Elijah Soba , Eunyoung Kim , Christopher Redino , Chris Chan , Kevin Choi , Abdul Rahman , Edward Bowen

Extensive research has demonstrated that deep neural networks (DNNs) are prone to adversarial attacks. Although various defense mechanisms have been proposed for image classification networks, fewer approaches exist for video-based models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Nupur Thakur , Baoxin Li

Previous studies demonstrate DNNs' vulnerability to adversarial examples and adversarial training can establish a defense to adversarial examples. In addition, recent studies show that deep neural networks also exhibit vulnerability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Zhiyuan Zhang , Ruixuan Luo , Xuancheng Ren , Qi Su , Liangyou Li , Xu Sun

In this work, we consider model robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks from a global manifold perspective. Leveraging both the local and global latent information, we propose a novel adversarial training method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Zhuang Qian , Shufei Zhang , Kaizhu Huang , Qiufeng Wang , Rui Zhang , Xinping Yi

Machine-learning techniques are widely used in security-related applications, like spam and malware detection. However, in such settings, they have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, including the deliberate manipulation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Ambra Demontis , Paolo Russu , Battista Biggio , Giorgio Fumera , Fabio Roli

In recent years, neural networks have become the default choice for image classification and many other learning tasks, even though they are vulnerable to so-called adversarial attacks. To increase their robustness against these attacks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Hasan Ferit Eniser , Maria Christakis , Valentin Wüstholz

The new wave of adversarial attacks that utilize gradient-related vulnerabilities in neural network-based classifiers makes Network Intrusion Detection Systems more open to such threats. Although state-of-the-art adversarial training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hira Nasir , Eiman Javed , Balawal Shabir , Zunera Jalil , Ahmad Mohsin

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

Machine learning methods can detect Android malware with very high accuracy. However, these classifiers have an Achilles heel, concept drift: they rapidly become out of date and ineffective, due to the evolution of malware apps and benign…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Yizheng Chen , Zhoujie Ding , David Wagner

Machine learning malware detectors are vulnerable to adversarial EXEmples, i.e., carefully-crafted Windows programs tailored to evade detection. Unlike other adversarial problems, attacks in this context must be functionality-preserving, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Marco Rando , Luca Demetrio , Lorenzo Rosasco , Fabio Roli

We investigate a Deep Learning based system for malware detection. In the investigation, we experiment with different combination of Deep Learning architectures including Auto-Encoders, and Deep Neural Networks with varying layers over…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Mohit Sewak , Sanjay K. Sahay , Hemant Rathore

Recently, multi-agent collaborative (MAC) perception has been proposed and outperformed the traditional single-agent perception in many applications, such as autonomous driving. However, MAC perception is more vulnerable to adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yangheng Zhao , Zhen Xiang , Sheng Yin , Xianghe Pang , Siheng Chen , Yanfeng Wang

Malware detection is a popular application of Machine Learning for Information Security (ML-Sec), in which an ML classifier is trained to predict whether a given file is malware or benignware. Parameters of this classifier are typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Ethan M. Rudd , Felipe N. Ducau , Cody Wild , Konstantin Berlin , Richard Harang

Deep neural networks, like many other machine learning models, have recently been shown to lack robustness against adversarially crafted inputs. These inputs are derived from regular inputs by minor yet carefully selected perturbations that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Kathrin Grosse , Nicolas Papernot , Praveen Manoharan , Michael Backes , Patrick McDaniel

Android malware is a persistent threat to billions of users around the world. As a countermeasure, Android malware detection systems are occasionally implemented. However, these systems are often vulnerable to \emph{evasion attacks}, in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Harel Berger , Chen Hajaj , Amit Dvir

With the growing popularity of artificial intelligence and machine learning, a wide spectrum of attacks against deep learning models have been proposed in the literature. Both the evasion attacks and the poisoning attacks attempt to utilize…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Zeyan Liu , Fengjun Li , Jingqiang Lin , Zhu Li , Bo Luo