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Android malware detection is a critical step towards building a security credible system. Especially, manual search for the potential malicious code has plagued program analysts for a long time. In this paper, we propose Droidetec, a deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Zhuo Ma , Haoran Ge , Zhuzhu Wang , Yang Liu , Ximeng Liu

With the rapid technological advancement, security has become a major issue due to the increase in malware activity that poses a serious threat to the security and safety of both computer systems and stakeholders. To maintain stakeholders,…

Existing black-box jailbreak attacks achieve certain success on non-reasoning models but degrade significantly on recent SOTA reasoning models. To improve attack ability, inspired by adversarial aggregation strategies, we integrate multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Chiyu Zhang , Lu Zhou , Xiaogang Xu , Jiafei Wu , Liming Fang , Zhe Liu

In e-commerce, online retailers are usually suffering from professional malicious users (PMUs), who utilize negative reviews and low ratings to their consumed products on purpose to threaten the retailers for illegal profits. Specifically,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Yuanbo Xu , Yongjian Yang , En Wang , Fuzhen Zhuang , Hui Xiong

The growing use of FPGAs in reconfigurable systems introducessecurity risks through malicious bitstreams that could cause denial-of-service (DoS), data leakage, or covert attacks. We investigated chip-level hardware malicious payload in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Rye Stahle-Smith , Rasha Karakchi

Malicious URL, a.k.a. malicious website, is a common and serious threat to cybersecurity. Malicious URLs host unsolicited content (spam, phishing, drive-by exploits, etc.) and lure unsuspecting users to become victims of scams (monetary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Doyen Sahoo , Chenghao Liu , Steven C. H. Hoi

Neural networks are often trained on proprietary datasets, making them attractive attack targets. We present a novel dataset extraction method leveraging an innovative training time backdoor attack, allowing a malicious federated learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Eden Luzon , Guy Amit , Roy Weiss , Torsten Kraub , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Yisroel Mirsky

With malware detection techniques increasingly adopting machine learning approaches, the creation of precise training sets becomes more and more important. Large data sets of realistic web traffic, correctly classified as benign or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Johann Vierthaler , Roman Kruszelnicki , Julian Schütte

Digital repositories, either digital preservation systems or archival systems, periodically check the integrity of stored objects to assure users of their correctness. To do so, prior solutions calculate integrity metadata and require the…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-09-26 Nikos Chondros , Mema Roussopoulos

Open-Source Projects and Libraries are being used in software development while also bearing multiple security vulnerabilities. This use of third party ecosystem creates a new kind of attack surface for a product in development. An…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Lorenzo Neil , Sudip Mittal , Anupam Joshi

Malicious advertisement URLs pose a security risk since they are the source of cyber-attacks, and the need to address this issue is growing in both industry and academia. Generally, the attacker delivers an attack vector to the user by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Ehsan Nowroozi , Abhishek , Mohammadreza Mohammadi , Mauro Conti

Crossp-roject defect prediction (CPDP), where data from different software projects are used to predict defects, has been proposed as a way to provide data for software projects that lack historical data. Evaluations of CPDP models using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Kwabena Ebo Bennin , Amjed Tahir , Stephen G. MacDonell , Jürgen Börstler

Detecting semantic backdoors in classification models--where some classes can be activated by certain natural, but out-of-distribution inputs--is an important problem that has received relatively little attention. Semantic backdoors are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Arpad Berta , Gabor Danner , Istvan Hegedus , Mark Jelasity

Malware detection is a popular application of Machine Learning for Information Security (ML-Sec), in which an ML classifier is trained to predict whether a given file is malware or benignware. Parameters of this classifier are typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Ethan M. Rudd , Felipe N. Ducau , Cody Wild , Konstantin Berlin , Richard Harang

Protocol detection is the process of determining the application layer protocol in the context of network security monitoring, which requires a timely and precise decision to enable protocol-specific deep packet inspection. This task has…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Jan Grashöfer , Christian Titze , Hannes Hartenstein

Purpose: Malicious web domain identification is of significant importance to the security protection of Internet users. With online credibility and performance data, this paper aims to investigate the use of machine learning tech-niques for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Zhongyi Hu , Raymond Chiong , Ilung Pranata , Yukun Bao , Yuqing Lin

Criminals use malware to disrupt cyber-systems. The number of these malware-vulnerable systems is increasing quickly as common systems, such as vehicles, routers, and lightbulbs, become increasingly interconnected cyber-systems. To address…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Viktor Zenkov , Jason Laska

In the era of the internet and smart devices, the detection of malware has become crucial for system security. Malware authors increasingly employ obfuscation techniques to evade advanced security solutions, making it challenging to detect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-04 S M Rakib Hasan , Aakar Dhakal

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a core Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses. It is a distributed database and protocol with many known weaknesses that subject to countless attacks including spoofing attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Alshaima Almarzooqi , Jawahir Mahmoud , Bayena Alzaabi , Arsiema Ghebremichael , Monther Aldwairi

The pervasiveness of the Android operating system, with the availability of applications almost for everything, is readily accessible in the official Google play store or a dozen alternative third-party markets. Additionally, the vital role…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Abdelmonim Naway , Yuancheng LI