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Cybersecurity of industrial control system is a very complex and challenging research topic, due to the integration of these systems in national critical infrastructures. The control systems are now interconnected in industrial networks and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Emil Pricop , Sanda Florentina Mihalache

Cyberattacks pose a serious threat to modern sociotechnical systems, often resulting in severe technical and societal consequences. Attackers commonly target systems and infrastructure through methods such as malware, ransomware, or other…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Mohammad Hammas Saeed , Howie Huang

We evaluate the autonomous cyber-attack capabilities of frontier AI models on two purpose-built cyber ranges-a 32-step corporate network attack and a 7-step industrial control system attack-that require chaining heterogeneous capabilities…

Open Cyber threat intelligence (OpenCTI) information is available in an unstructured format from heterogeneous sources on the Internet. We present CyNER, an open-source python library for cybersecurity named entity recognition (NER). CyNER…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Md Tanvirul Alam , Dipkamal Bhusal , Youngja Park , Nidhi Rastogi

Analysis of an organization's computer network activity is a key component of early detection and mitigation of insider threat, a growing concern for many organizations. Raw system logs are a prototypical example of streaming data that can…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Aaron Tuor , Samuel Kaplan , Brian Hutchinson , Nicole Nichols , Sean Robinson

Active cyber defenses based on temporal platform diversity have been proposed as way to make systems more resistant to attacks. These defenses change the properties of the platforms in order to make attacks more complicated. Unfortunately,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-02-03 Kevin M. Carter , Hamed Okhravi , James Riordan

The extraction of cyber threat intelligence (CTI) from open sources is a rapidly expanding defensive strategy that enhances the resilience of both Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) environments against large-scale…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Prasasthy Balasubramanian , Sadaf Nazari , Danial Khosh Kholgh , Alireza Mahmoodi , Justin Seby , Panos Kostakos

Background: Cyber offences, such as hacking, malware creation and distribution, and online fraud, present a substantial threat to organizations attempting to safeguard their data and information. By understanding the evolving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Claudia Peersman , Emma Williams , Matthew Edwards , Awais Rashid

The latency reduction between the discovery of vulnerabilities, the build-up and dissemination of cyber-attacks has put significant pressure on cybersecurity professionals. For that, security researchers have increasingly resorted to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Sébastien Gillard , Dimitri Percia David , Alain Mermoud , Thomas Maillart

Identifying a temporal pattern of events is a fundamental task of on-line (real-time) verification. We present efficient schemes for on-line monitoring of events for identifying desired/undesired patterns of events. The schemes use…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Shlomi Dolev , Jonathan Goldfeld , Rami Puzis

With the rapid development of technology and the acceleration of digitalisation, the frequency and complexity of cyber security threats are increasing. Traditional cybersecurity approaches, often based on static rules and predefined…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Shuang Tian , Tao Zhang , Jiqiang Liu , Jiacheng Wang , Xuangou Wu , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Ruichen Zhang , Weiting Zhang , Zhenhui Yuan , Shiwen Mao , Dong In Kim

The problem of frequent pattern mining from non-temporal databases is studied extensively by various researchers working in areas of data mining, temporal databases and information retrieval. However, Conventional frequent pattern…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Vangipuram Radhakrishna , P. V. Kumar , V. Janaki

The prospect of artificial intelligence (AI) competing in the adversarial landscape of cyber security has long been considered one of the most impactful, challenging, and potentially dangerous applications of AI. Here, we demonstrate a new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Michael Kouremetis , Marissa Dotter , Alex Byrne , Dan Martin , Ethan Michalak , Gianpaolo Russo , Michael Threet , Guido Zarrella

Modern infrastructures rely on software systems that remain vulnerable to cyberattacks. These attacks frequently exploit vulnerabilities documented in repositories such as MITRE's Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE). However, Cyber…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Refat Othman

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

Adversarial attacking aims to fool deep neural networks with adversarial examples. In the field of natural language processing, various textual adversarial attack models have been proposed, varying in the accessibility to the victim model.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Yuan Zang , Bairu Hou , Fanchao Qi , Zhiyuan Liu , Xiaojun Meng , Maosong Sun

Cybercrimes such as online scams and fraud have become prevalent. Cybercriminals often abuse various global or regional events as themes of their fraudulent activities to breach user trust and attain a higher attack success rate. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Maraz Mia , Mir Mehedi A. Pritom , Tariqul Islam , Shouhuai Xu

Time Series Classification (TSC) is highly vulnerable to backdoor attacks, posing significant security threats. Existing methods primarily focus on data poisoning during the training phase, designing sophisticated triggers to improve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Chang Dong , Zechao Sun , Guangdong Bai , Shuying Piao , Weitong Chen , Wei Emma Zhang

Traditional reactive approach of blacklisting botnets fails to adapt to the rapidly evolving landscape of cyberattacks. An automated and proactive approach to detect and block botnet hosts will immensely benefit the industry. Behavioral…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Farhan Sadique , Shamik Sengupta

Static malware analysis is well-suited to endpoint anti-virus systems as it can be conducted quickly by examining the features of an executable piece of code and matching it to previously observed malicious code. However, static code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Matilda Rhode , Pete Burnap , Kevin Jones