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Integrating native AI support into the network architecture is an essential objective of 6G. Federated Learning (FL) emerges as a potential paradigm, facilitating decentralized AI model training across a diverse range of devices under the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Wenxuan Ye , Chendi Qian , Xueli An , Xueqiang Yan , Georg Carle

The detection of advanced persistent threats (APTs) remains a crucial challenge due to their stealthy, multistage nature and the limited availability of realistic, labeled datasets for systematic evaluation. Synthetic dataset generation has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Saleem Ishaq Tijjani , Bogdan Ghita , Nathan Clarke , Matthew Craven

The current amount of IoT devices and their limitations has come to serve as a motivation for malicious entities to take advantage of such devices and use them for their own gain. To protect against cyberattacks in IoT devices, Machine…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Vitalina Holubenko , Paulo Silva , Carlos Bento

Threat hunting is a proactive methodology for exploring, detecting and mitigating cyberattacks within complex environments. As opposed to conventional detection systems, threat hunting strategies assume adversaries have infiltrated the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Ángel Casanova Bienzobas , Alfonso Sánchez-Macián

Federated learning (FL) has become an emerging machine learning technique lately due to its efficacy in safeguarding the client's confidential information. Nevertheless, despite the inherent and additional privacy-preserving mechanisms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Md Tamjid Hossain , Shafkat Islam , Shahriar Badsha , Haoting Shen

In the evolving landscape of Federated Learning (FL), the challenge of ensuring data integrity against poisoning attacks is paramount, particularly for applications demanding stringent privacy preservation. Traditional anomaly detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Zahir Alsulaimawi

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) pose a severe challenge to cyber defense due to their stealthy behavior and the extreme class imbalance inherent in detection datasets. To address these issues, we propose a novel active learning-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Sidahmed Benabderrahmane , Talal Rahwan

Federated Learning (FL) has recently become an effective approach for cyberattack detection systems, especially in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. By distributing the learning process across IoT gateways, FL can improve learning…

Federated learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving model training by keeping data decentralized. However, it remains vulnerable to label-flipping attacks, where malicious clients manipulate labels to poison the global model. Despite their…

The main premise of federated learning (FL) is that machine learning model updates are computed locally to preserve user data privacy. This approach avoids by design user data to ever leave the perimeter of their device. Once the updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Simon Queyrut , Valerio Schiavoni , Pascal Felber

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are a main impendence in cyber security of computer networks. In 2015, a successful breach remains undetected 146 days on average, reported by [Fi16].With our work we demonstrate a feasible and fast way to…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Timo Schindler

Recently, self-supervised learning (SSL) was shown to be vulnerable to patch-based data poisoning backdoor attacks. It was shown that an adversary can poison a small part of the unlabeled data so that when a victim trains an SSL model on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Ajinkya Tejankar , Maziar Sanjabi , Qifan Wang , Sinong Wang , Hamed Firooz , Hamed Pirsiavash , Liang Tan

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm where enormous scattered clients (e.g. mobile devices or IoT devices) collaboratively train a model under the orchestration of a central server (e.g. service provider),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Yongkang Wang , Dihua Zhai , Yufeng Zhan , Yuanqing Xia

Software-defined network (SDN) is a new approach that allows network control to become directly programmable, and the underlying infrastructure can be abstracted from applications and network services. Control plane). When it comes to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Muhammad Zawad Mahmud , Shahran Rahman Alve , Samiha Islam , Mohammad Monirujjaman Khan

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

Federated learning (FL) enables the training of models among distributed clients without compromising the privacy of training datasets, while the invisibility of clients datasets and the training process poses a variety of security threats.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Subhash Sagar , Chang-Sun Li , Seng W. Loke , Jinho Choi

In emerging networked systems, mobile edge devices such as ground vehicles and unmanned aerial system (UAS) swarms collectively aggregate vast amounts of data to make machine learning decisions such as threat detection in remote, dynamic,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Utku Demir , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Sastry Kompella , Mengran Xue

An attack on deep learning systems where intelligent machines collaborate to solve problems could cause a node in the network to make a mistake on a critical judgment. At the same time, the security and privacy concerns of AI have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Yuwei Sun , Ng Chong , Hideya Ochiai

In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid deep learning architecture that synergistically combines Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), and multi-head attention mechanisms to significantly enhance cybersecurity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Jayant Biradar , Smit Shah , Tanmay Naik

The privacy-preserving federated learning schemes based on the setting of two honest-but-curious and non-colluding servers offer promising solutions in terms of security and efficiency. However, our investigation reveals that these schemes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Jiahui Wu , Fucai Luo , Tiecheng Sun , Haiyan Wang , Weizhe Zhang