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Security research has concentrated on converting operating system audit logs into suitable graphs, such as provenance graphs, for analysis. However, provenance graphs can grow very large requiring significant computational resources beyond…

While most organizations continue to invest in traditional network defences, a formidable security challenge has been brewing within their own boundaries. Malicious insiders with privileged access in the guise of a trusted source have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Anagi Gamachchi , Serdar Boztas

Modern enterprise networks increasingly rely on Active Directory (AD) for identity and access management. However, this centralization exposes a single point of failure, allowing adversaries to compromise high-value assets. Existing AD…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Diksha Goel , Hussain Ahmad , Kristen Moore , Mingyu Guo

Adversarial attacks pose a substantial threat to computer vision system security, but the social media industry constantly faces another form of "adversarial attack" in which the hackers attempt to upload inappropriate images and fool the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Xiangyu Qu , Stanley H. Chan

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

In an era marked by unprecedented digital complexity, the cybersecurity landscape is evolving at a breakneck pace, challenging traditional defense paradigms. Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) reveal inherent vulnerabilities in conventional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Krti Tallam

Recent advances in AI-powered image editing tools have significantly lowered the barrier to image modification, raising pressing security concerns those related to spreading misinformation and disinformation on social platforms. Image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Keyang Zhang , Chenqi Kong , Shiqi Wang , Anderson Rocha , Haoliang Li

Data provenance is a valuable tool for detecting and preventing cyber attack, providing insight into the nature of suspicious events. For example, an administrator can use provenance to identify the perpetrator of a data leak, track an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Adam Bates , Kevin Butler , Alin Dobra , Brad Reaves , Patrick Cable , Thomas Moyer , Nabil Schear

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

Deep neural networks are found to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. The prompt-based defense has been increasingly studied due to its high efficiency. However, existing prompt-based defenses mainly exploited mixed prompt patterns,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yibo Xu , Dawei Zhou , Decheng Liu , Nannan Wang

Attack graphs are a tool for analyzing security vulnerabilities that capture different and prospective attacks on a system. As a threat modeling tool, it shows possible paths that an attacker can exploit to achieve a particular goal.…

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are well-known to be vulnerable to Adversarial Examples (AEs). A large amount of efforts have been spent to launch and heat the arms race between the attackers and defenders. Recently, advanced gradient-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Han Qiu , Yi Zeng , Qinkai Zheng , Tianwei Zhang , Meikang Qiu , Gerard Memmi

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been increasingly deployed in various applications that involve learning on non-Euclidean data. However, recent studies show that GNNs are vulnerable to graph adversarial attacks. Although there are several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Chenhui Deng , Xiuyu Li , Zhuo Feng , Zhiru Zhang

Adversarial attacks and defenses in machine learning and deep neural network have been gaining significant attention due to the rapidly growing applications of deep learning in the Internet and relevant scenarios. This survey provides a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Yulong Wang , Tong Sun , Shenghong Li , Xin Yuan , Wei Ni , Ekram Hossain , H. Vincent Poor

Modern machine learning increasingly requires training on a large collection of data from multiple sources, not all of which can be trusted. A particularly concerning scenario is when a small fraction of poisoned data changes the behavior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Jonathan Hayase , Weihao Kong , Raghav Somani , Sewoong Oh

Graph neural network (GNN), as a powerful representation learning model on graph data, attracts much attention across various disciplines. However, recent studies show that GNN is vulnerable to adversarial attacks. How to make GNN more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Shen Wang , Zhengzhang Chen , Jingchao Ni , Xiao Yu , Zhichun Li , Haifeng Chen , Philip S. Yu

Adversarial training (AT) has been demonstrated as one of the most promising defense methods against various adversarial attacks. To our knowledge, existing AT-based methods usually train with the locally most adversarial perturbed points…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Chuanbiao Song , Yanbo Fan , Yichen Yang , Baoyuan Wu , Yiming Li , Zhifeng Li , Kun He

Extensive evidence has demonstrated that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, which motivates the development of backdoor attacks detection. Most detection methods are designed to verify whether a model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Yuhang Wang , Huafeng Shi , Rui Min , Ruijia Wu , Siyuan Liang , Yichao Wu , Ding Liang , Aishan Liu

Graph Attention Networks(GATs) are useful deep learning models to deal with the graph data. However, recent works show that the classical GAT is vulnerable to adversarial attacks. It degrades dramatically with slight perturbations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Xianchen Zhou , Yaoyun Zeng , Hongxia Wang

Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks (HGNNs) are increasingly recognized for their performance in areas like the web and e-commerce, where resilience against adversarial attacks is crucial. However, existing adversarial attack methods, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 He Zhao , Zhiwei Zeng , Yongwei Wang , Deheng Ye , Chunyan Miao