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APT detection is difficult to detect due to the long-term latency, covert and slow multistage attack patterns of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT). To tackle these issues, we propose TBDetector, a transformer-based advanced persistent threat…

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As Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) grow increasingly sophisticated, the demand for effective detection methods has intensified. This study addresses the challenge of identifying APT campaign attacks through system event logs. A cascading…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yi-Ting Huang , Ying-Ren Guo , Guo-Wei Wong , Meng Chang Chen

The need for autonomous and adaptive defense mechanisms has become paramount in the rapidly evolving landscape of cyber threats. Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning (MADRL) presents a promising approach to enhancing the efficacy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Mingjun Wang , Remington Dechene

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) represent sophisticated cyberattacks characterized by their ability to remain undetected within the victim system for extended periods, aiming to exfiltrate sensitive data or disrupt operations. Existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Wei Qiao , Yebo Feng , Teng Li , Zhuo Ma , Yulong Shen , JianFeng Ma , Yang Liu

Modern surveillance systems increasingly rely on multi-wavelength sensors and deep neural networks to recognize faces in infrared images captured at night. However, most facial recognition models are trained on visible light datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Mingshu Cai , Osamu Yoshie , Yuya Ieiri

Text-to-Image (T2I) Diffusion Models have achieved remarkable performance in generating high quality images. However, enabling precise control of continuous attributes, especially multiple attributes simultaneously, in a new domain (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Wonwoong Cho , Yan-Ying Chen , Matthew Klenk , David I. Inouye , Yanxia Zhang

Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) has emerged as a vital complementary approach that operates in the early phases of the cyber threat lifecycle. CTI involves collecting, processing, and analyzing threat data to provide a more accurate and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Samaneh Shafee , Alysson Bessani , Pedro M. Ferreira

Multi-modal image fusion synthesizes information from multiple sources into a single image, facilitating downstream tasks such as semantic segmentation. Current approaches primarily focus on acquiring informative fusion images at the visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Haowen Bai , Zixiang Zhao , Jiangshe Zhang , Baisong Jiang , Lilun Deng , Yukun Cui , Shuang Xu , Chunxia Zhang

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes deeply embedded in critical services and everyday products, it is increasingly exposed to security threats which traditional cyber defenses were not designed to handle. In this paper, we investigate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Natalia Krawczyk , Mateusz Szczepkowski , Adrian Brodzik , Krzysztof Bocianiak

High-level natural language knowledge in CTI reports, such as the ATT&CK framework, is beneficial to counter APT attacks. However, how to automatically apply the high-level knowledge in CTI reports in realistic attack detection systems,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yuhan Meng , Shaofei Li , Jiaping Gui , Peng Jiang , Ding Li

Adversarial attacks expose a fundamental vulnerability in modern deep vision models by exploiting their dependence on dense, pixel-level representations that are highly sensitive to imperceptible perturbations. Traditional defense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Jingjie He , Weijie Liang , Zihan Shan , Matthew Caesar

One of the most common and important destructive attacks on the victim system is Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)-attack. The APT attacker can achieve his hostile goals by obtaining information and gaining financial benefits regarding the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Javad Hassannataj Joloudari , Mojtaba Haderbadi , Amir Mashmool , Mohammad GhasemiGol , Shahab S. , Amir Mosavi

Most previous studies on multi-agent reinforcement learning focus on deriving decentralized and cooperative policies to maximize a common reward and rarely consider the transferability of trained policies to new tasks. This prevents such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Heechang Ryu , Hayong Shin , Jinkyoo Park

Efficient defense against dynamically evolving advanced persistent threats (APT) requires the structured threat intelligence feeds, such as techniques used. However, existing threat-intelligence extraction techniques predominantly focuses…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ming Xu , Hongtai Wang , Jiahao Liu , Xinfeng Li , Zhengmin Yu , Weili Han , Hoon Wei Lim , Jin Song Dong , Jiaheng Zhang

The AI trustworthiness crisis threatens to derail the artificial intelligence revolution, with regulatory barriers, security vulnerabilities, and accountability gaps preventing deployment in critical domains. Current AI systems operate on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Vineeth Sai Narajala , Manish Bhatt , Idan Habler , Ronald F. Del Rosario , Ads Dawson

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) infiltrate cyber systems and compromise specifically targeted data and/or resources through a sequence of stealthy attacks consisting of multiple stages. Dynamic information flow tracking has been proposed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Shana Moothedath , Dinuka Sahabandu , Joey Allen , Andrew Clark , Linda Bushnell , Wenke Lee , Radha Poovendran

Effective Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) relies upon accurately structured and semantically enriched information extracted from cybersecurity system logs. However, current methodologies often struggle to identify and interpret malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Luca Cotti , Anisa Rula , Devis Bianchini , Federico Cerutti

In this paper, we propose Two-Stream AMTnet, which leverages recent advances in video-based action representation[1] and incremental action tube generation[2]. Majority of the present action detectors follow a frame-based representation, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Suman Saha , Gurkirt Singh , Fabio Cuzzolin

Feature attribution is a fundamental task in both machine learning and data analysis, which involves determining the contribution of individual features or variables to a model's output. This process helps identify the most important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Jinfeng Zhong , Elsa Negre

Recent advances in AI are transforming AI's ubiquitous presence in our world from that of standalone AI-applications into deeply integrated AI-agents. These changes have been driven by agents' increasing capability to autonomously make…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Jose Sanchez Vicarte , Marcin Spoczynski , Mostafa Elsaid