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Characterizing attacker behavior with respect to Cyber-Physical Systems is important to assuring the security posture and resilience of these systems. Classical cyber vulnerability assessment approaches rely on the knowledge and experience…

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Log-based cyber threat hunting has emerged as an important solution to counter sophisticated attacks. However, existing approaches require non-trivial efforts of manual query construction and have overlooked the rich external threat…

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This is Btech thesis report on detection and purification of adverserially attacked images. A deep learning model is trained on certain training examples for various tasks such as classification, regression etc. By training, weights are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Dvij Kalaria

Computer security has been a concern for decades and artificial intelligence techniques have been applied to the area for nearly as long. Most of the techniques are being applied to the detection of attacks to running systems, but recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Steve Kommrusch

Effective incident response (IR) is critical for mitigating cyber threats, yet security teams are overwhelmed by alert fatigue, high false-positive rates, and the vast volume of unstructured Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) documents. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Amine Tellache , Abdelaziz Amara Korba , Amdjed Mokhtari , Horea Moldovan , Yacine Ghamri-Doudane

When a network is attacked, cyber defenders need to precisely identify which systems (i.e., computers or devices) were compromised and what damage may have been inflicted. This process is sometimes referred to as cyber triage and is an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Eric Ficke , Raymond M. Bateman , Shouhuai Xu

A cyber-attack is a malicious attempt by experienced hackers to breach the target information system. Usually, the cyber-attacks are characterized as hybrid TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) and long-term adversarial behaviors,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Mingqi Lv , Chengyu Dong , Tieming Chen , Tiantian Zhu , Qijie Song , Yuan Fan

Several recent works have argued that Large Language Models (LLMs) can be used to tame the data deluge in the cybersecurity field, by improving the automation of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) tasks. This work presents an evaluation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Emanuele Mezzi , Fabio Massacci , Katja Tuma

Detecting cyber-anomalies and attacks are becoming a rising concern these days in the domain of cybersecurity. The knowledge of artificial intelligence, particularly, the machine learning techniques can be used to tackle these issues.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Iqbal H. Sarker

Web security demands rapid response capabilities to evolving cyber threats. Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises automation, but the need for trustworthy security responses is of the utmost importance. This work investigates the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Chiara Bonfanti , Davide Colaiacomo , Luca Cagliero , Cataldo Basile

Insiders usually cause significant losses to organizations and are hard to detect. Currently, various approaches have been proposed to achieve insider threat detection based on analyzing the audit data that record information of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Shuhan Yuan , Panpan Zheng , Xintao Wu , Qinghua Li

Cybersecurity training should be adaptable to evolving the cyber threat landscape, cost effective and integrated well with other enterprise management components. Unfortunately, very few cybersecurity training platforms can satisfy such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Tam n. Nguyen , Lydia Sbityakov , Samantha Scoggins

Today, human security analysts collapse under the sheer volume of alerts they have to triage during investigations. The inability to cope with this load, coupled with a high false positive rate of alerts, creates alert fatigue. This results…

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Cyber cognitive attacks leverage disruptive innovations (DIs) to exploit psychological biases and manipulate decision-making processes. Emerging technologies, such as AI-driven disinformation and synthetic media, have accelerated the scale…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Bonnie Rushing , Mac-Rufus Umeokolo , Shouhuai Xu

With the continuous improvement of attack methods, there are more and more distributed, complex, targeted attacks in which the attackers use combined attack methods to achieve the purpose. Advanced cyber attacks include multiple stages to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xiaoyu Wang , Xiaorui Gong , Lei Yu , Jian Liu

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

Process Mining is a famous technique which is frequently applied to Software Development Processes, while being neglected in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) recommendation applications. Organizations usually train employees to interact…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Julian Theis , Houshang Darabi

In the last decade, a new class of cyber-threats has emerged. This new cybersecurity adversary is known with the name of "Advanced Persistent Threat" (APT) and is referred to different organizations that in the last years have been "in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Giuseppe Laurenza , Riccardo Lazzeretti , Luca Mazzotti

Cyberattacks use adversarial techniques to bypass system defenses, persist, and eventually breach systems. The MITRE ATT\&CK framework catalogs a set of adversarial techniques and maps between adversaries and their used techniques and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Md Rayhanur Rahman , Laurie Williams

Advanced AI systems offer substantial benefits but also introduce risks. In 2025, AI-enabled cyber offense has emerged as a concrete example. This technical report applies a quantitative risk modeling methodology (described in full in a…