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The scarcity of data and the high complexity of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) attacks have created challenges in comprehending their behavior and hindered the exploration of effective detection techniques. To create an effective APT…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Almuthanna Alageel , Sergio Maffeis , Imperial College London

Provenance-based Intrusion Detection Systems (PIDSes) have been widely used to detect Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). Although many studies achieve high performance in the evaluations of their original papers, their performance in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yue Xiao , Ling Jiang , Sen Nie , Ding Li , Shi Wu , Ke Xu , Qi Li

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are stealthy cyberattacks that often evade detection in system-level audit logs. Provenance graphs model these logs as connected entities and events, revealing relationships that are missed by linear log…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ahmed Aly , Essam Mansour , Amr Youssef

An advanced persistent threat (APT) refers to a covert, long-term cyberattack, typically conducted by state-sponsored actors, targeting critical sectors and often remaining undetected for long periods. In response, collective intelligence…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Shakhzod Yuldoshkhujaev , Mijin Jeon , Doowon Kim , Nick Nikiforakis , Hyungjoon Koo

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are stealthy attacks that threaten the security and privacy of sensitive information. Interactions of APTs with victim system introduce information flows that are recorded in the system logs. Dynamic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Dinuka Sahabandu , Shana Moothedath , Joey Allen , Linda Bushnell , Wenke Lee , Radha Poovendran

Advanced Persistent Threats or APTs are big challenges to the security of government organizations or industry systems. These threats may result in stealth attacks, but if the attack is confronted before the attacker end goal has been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Rudra Prasad Baksi , Shambhu J. Upadhyaya

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks are highly sophisticated and employ a multitude of advanced methods and techniques to target organizations and steal sensitive and confidential information. APT attacks consist of multiple stages and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Huynh Thai Thi , Ngo Duc Hoang Son , Phan The Duy , Nghi Hoang Khoa , Khoa Ngo-Khanh , Van-Hau Pham

Identification of anomalous events within system logs constitutes a pivotal element within the frame- work of cybersecurity defense strategies. However, this process faces numerous challenges, including the management of substantial data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zeng Zhang , Wenjie Yin , Xiaoqi Li

Hacking and false data injection from adversaries can threaten power grids' everyday operations and cause significant economic loss. Anomaly detection in power grids aims to detect and discriminate anomalies caused by cyber attacks against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Xijuan Sun , Di Wu , Arnaud Zinflou , Benoit Boulet

With the growing digitalization all over the globe, the relevance of network security becomes increasingly important. Machine learning-based intrusion detection constitutes a promising approach for improving security, but it bears several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Aleksei Liuliakov , Alexander Schulz , Luca Hermes , Barbara Hammer

Time series subsequence anomaly detection is an important task in a large variety of real-world applications ranging from health monitoring to AIOps, and is challenging due to the following reasons: 1) how to effectively learn complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Weiqi Chen , Zhiqiang Zhou , Qingsong Wen , Liang Sun

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly integrated into LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging)-based perception systems for autonomous vehicles (AVs), requiring robust performance under adversarial conditions. We aim to address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Minkyoung Cho , Yulong Cao , Zixiang Zhou , Z. Morley Mao

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a transformative paradigm that integrates smart sensors, advanced analytics, and robust connectivity within industrial processes, enabling real-time data-driven decision-making and enhancing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Erfan Ghiasvand , Suprio Ray , Shahrear Iqbal , Sajjad Dadkhah , Ali A. Ghorbani

Detecting anomalies for dynamic graphs has drawn increasing attention due to their wide applications in social networks, e-commerce, and cybersecurity. Recent deep learning-based approaches have shown promising results over shallow methods.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Yixin Liu , Shirui Pan , Yu Guang Wang , Fei Xiong , Liang Wang , Qingfeng Chen , Vincent CS Lee

Anomaly detection in multivariate time series is an important problem across various fields such as healthcare, financial services, manufacturing or physics detector monitoring. Accurately identifying when unexpected errors or faults occur…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Laura Boggia , Rafael Teixeira de Lima , Bogdan Malaescu

Due to its crucial role in identity and access management in modern enterprise networks, Active Directory (AD) is a top target of Advanced Persistence Threat (APT) actors. Conventional intrusion detection systems (IDS) excel at identifying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Qi Liu , Kaibin Bao , Wajih Ul Hassan , Veit Hagenmeyer

Road network graphs provide critical information for autonomous-vehicle applications, such as drivable areas that can be used for motion planning algorithms. To find road network graphs, manually annotation is usually inefficient and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Zhenhua Xu , Yuxuan Liu , Lu Gan , Yuxiang Sun , Xinyu Wu , Ming Liu , Lujia Wang

Zero Day Threats (ZDT) are novel methods used by malicious actors to attack and exploit information technology (IT) networks or infrastructure. In the past few years, the number of these threats has been increasing at an alarming rate and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Christopher Redino , Dhruv Nandakumar , Robert Schiller , Kevin Choi , Abdul Rahman , Edward Bowen , Matthew Weeks , Aaron Shaha , Joe Nehila

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are sophisticated multi-step attacks, planned and executed by skilled adversaries targeting modern government and enterprise networks. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) and User and Entity Behavior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Hazem M. Soliman , Geoff Salmon , Dušan Sovilj , Mohan Rao

While anomaly detection in time series has been an active area of research for several years, most recent approaches employ an inadequate evaluation criterion leading to an inflated F1 score. We show that a rudimentary Random Guess method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Keval Doshi , Shatha Abudalou , Yasin Yilmaz