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In the past decade, the information security and threat landscape has grown significantly making it difficult for a single defender to defend against all attacks at the same time. This called for introduc- ing information sharing, a…

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Machine learning (ML) underpins foundation models in finance, healthcare, and critical infrastructure, making them targets for data poisoning, model extraction, prompt injection, automated jailbreaking, and preference-guided black-box…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Armstrong Foundjem , Lionel Nganyewou Tidjon , Leuson Da Silva , Foutse Khomh

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) bring significant challenges to cybersecurity due to their sophisticated and stealthy nature. Traditional cybersecurity measures fail to defend against APTs. Cognitive vulnerabilities can significantly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Shuo Huang , Fred Jones , Nikolos Gurney , David Pynadath , Kunal Srivastava , Stoney Trent , Peggy Wu , Quanyan Zhu

As collaborative learning allows joint training of a model using multiple sources of data, the security problem has been a central concern. Malicious users can upload poisoned data to prevent the model's convergence or inject hidden…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Ximing Qiao , Yuhua Bai , Siping Hu , Ang Li , Yiran Chen , Hai Li

Despite the remarkable performance and generalization levels of deep learning models in a wide range of artificial intelligence tasks, it has been demonstrated that these models can be easily fooled by the addition of imperceptible yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Jon Vadillo , Roberto Santana , Jose A. Lozano

The complexity of modern computing environments and the growing sophistication of cyber threats necessitate a more robust, adaptive, and automated approach to security enforcement. In this paper, we present a framework leveraging large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Pablo Fernández Saura , K. R. Jayaram , Vatche Isahagian , Jorge Bernal Bernabé , Antonio Skarmeta

Evolving security vulnerabilities and shifting operational conditions require frequent updates to network security policies. These updates include adjustments to incident response procedures and modifications to access controls, among…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Kim Hammar , Yuchao Li , Tansu Alpcan , Emil C. Lupu , Dimitri Bertsekas

Innovative solutions to cyber security issues are shaped by the ever-changing landscape of cyber threats. Automating the mitigation of these threats can be achieved through a new methodology that addresses the domain of mitigation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Fizza Khurshid , Umara Noor , Zahid Rashid

Evolving attacker capabilities demand realistic and continuously updated cyberattack emulation for threat-informed defense and security benchmarking. Towards automated attack emulation, this paper defines modular attack actions and a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Lingzhi Wang , Zhenyuan Li , Yi Jiang , Zhengkai Wang , Xiangmin Shen , Wei Ruan , Yan Chen

Mitigating Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks is vital for online service security and availability. While machine learning (ML) models are used for DoS attack detection, new strategies are needed to enhance their performance. We suggest an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Evans Owusu , Mohamed Rahouti , D. Frank Hsu , Kaiqi Xiong , Yufeng Xin

Adversarial attack is a technique for deceiving Machine Learning (ML) models, which provides a way to evaluate the adversarial robustness. In practice, attack algorithms are artificially selected and tuned by human experts to break a ML…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Xiaofeng Mao , Yuefeng Chen , Shuhui Wang , Hang Su , Yuan He , Hui Xue

In this paper we propose a multi-armed bandit inspired, pool based active learning algorithm for the problem of binary classification. By carefully constructing an analogy between active learning and multi-armed bandits, we utilize ideas…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Ravi Ganti , Alexander G. Gray

In the face of an increasingly broad cyberattack surface, cyberattack-resilient load forecasting for electric utilities is both more necessary and more challenging than ever. In this paper, we propose an adversarial machine learning (AML)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-09 Zefan Tang , Jieying Jiao , Peng Zhang , Meng Yue , Chen Chen , Jun Yan

Recommendation to groups of users is a challenging subfield of recommendation systems. Its key concept is how and where to make the aggregation of each set of user information into an individual entity, such as a ranked recommendation list,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Jorge Dueñas-Lerín , Raúl Lara-Cabrera , Fernando Ortega , Jesús Bobadilla

Attributing APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) malware to their respective groups is crucial for threat intelligence and cybersecurity. However, APT adversaries often conceal their identities, rendering attribution inherently adversarial.…

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Crowdsourcing is the outsourcing of tasks to a crowd of contributors on a dedicated platform. The crowd on these platforms is very diversified and includes various profiles of contributors which generates data of uneven quality. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Constance Thierry , Arnaud Martin , Jean-Christophe Dubois , Yolande Le Gall

Cyber attacks are rapidly increasing with the advancement of technology and there is no protection for our information. To prevent future cyberattacks it is critical to promptly recognize cyberattacks and establish strong defense mechanisms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Sawera Shahid , Umara Noor , Zahid Rashid

AI-enabled Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) systems increasingly employ autonomous agents for cyber defense, yet their resilience to adaptive adversaries is underexplored. We introduce an autonomous red teaming…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ayan Javeed Shaikh , Nathaniel D. Bastian , Ankit Shah

Attributing a cyber-operation through the use of multiple pieces of technical evidence (i.e., malware reverse-engineering and source tracking) and conventional intelligence sources (i.e., human or signals intelligence) is a difficult…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Paulo Shakarian , Gerardo I. Simari , Geoffrey Moores , Simon Parsons , Marcelo A. Falappa

The transition to smart grids has increased the vulnerability of electrical power systems to advanced cyber threats. To safeguard these systems, comprehensive security measures-including preventive, detective, and reactive strategies-are…

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