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This paper is concerned with the synthesis of strategies in network systems with active cyber deception. Active deception in a network employs decoy systems and other defenses to conduct defensive planning against the intrusion of malicious…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Jie Fu , Abhishek N. Kulkarni , Huan Luo , Nandi O. Leslie , Charles A. Kamhoua

The safety-critical scenarios of artificial intelligence (AI), such as autonomous driving, Internet of Things, smart healthcare, etc., have raised critical requirements of trustworthy AI to guarantee the privacy and security with reliable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zhanpeng Yang , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Zixin Wang , Kai Yang

Front-running attacks have been a major concern on the blockchain. Attackers launch front-running attacks by inserting additional transactions before upcoming victim transactions to manipulate victim transaction executions and make profits.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Wuqi Zhang , Lili Wei , Shing-Chi Cheung , Yepang Liu , Shuqing Li , Lu Liu , Michael R. Lyu

In the growing field of blockchain technology, smart contracts exist as transformative digital agreements that execute transactions autonomously in decentralised networks. However, these contracts face challenges in the form of security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Christopher De Baets , Basem Suleiman , Armin Chitizadeh , Imran Razzak

Decentralized applications (DApps) face significant security risks due to vulnerabilities in smart contracts, with traditional detection methods struggling to address emerging and machine-unauditable flaws. This paper proposes a novel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jiuyang Bu , Wenkai Li , Zongwei Li , Zeng Zhang , Xiaoqi Li

Since its major release in 2006, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) has become the industry standard for interfacing a computer's hardware and operating system, replacing BIOS. UEFI has higher privileged security access to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Md Shafiuzzaman , Achintya Desai , Laboni Sarker , Tevfik Bultan

Blockchain technology has experienced rapid growth and has been widely adopted across various sectors, including healthcare, finance, and energy. However, blockchain platforms remain vulnerable to a broad range of cyberattacks, particularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Do Hai Son , Le Vu Hieu , Tran Viet Khoa , Yibeltal F. Alem , Hoang Trong Minh , Tran Thi Thuy Quynh , Nguyen Viet Ha , Nguyen Linh Trung

In this paper, we investigate two methods that allow us to automatically create profitable DeFi trades, one well-suited to arbitrage and the other applicable to more complicated settings. We first adopt the Bellman-Ford-Moore algorithm with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Liyi Zhou , Kaihua Qin , Antoine Cully , Benjamin Livshits , Arthur Gervais

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offers a streamlined cloud computing paradigm, but existing centralized systems suffer from vendor lock-in and single points of failure. We propose DeFaaS, a decentralized FaaS system leveraging blockchain…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Rabimba Karanjai , Lei Xu , Lin Chen , Nour Diallo , Weidong Shi

With the rapid development of blockchain technology, transaction logs play a central role in various applications, including decentralized exchanges, wallets, cross-chain bridges, and other third-party services. However, these logs,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yixuan Liu , Yuxin Dong , Ye Liu , Xiapu Luo , Yi Li

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols now intermediate over USD 100 billion in value, including regulated stablecoins and tokenized assets deployed as collateral, yet no widely adopted framework operationalizes risk assessment at the rigor…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Eva Oberholzer , Valeriy Zamaraiev

Fault attacks are active, physical attacks that an adversary can leverage to alter the control-flow of embedded devices to gain access to sensitive information or bypass protection mechanisms. Due to the severity of these attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Pascal Nasahl , Miguel Osorio , Pirmin Vogel , Michael Schaffner , Timothy Trippel , Dominic Rizzo , Stefan Mangard

We introduce the Clockwork Finance Framework (CFF), a general purpose, formal verification framework for mechanized reasoning about the economic security properties of composed decentralized-finance (DeFi) smart contracts. CFF features…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Kushal Babel , Philip Daian , Mahimna Kelkar , Ari Juels

Over the past two decades, two different types of static analyses have emerged as dominant paradigms both in academia and industry: value-flow analysis (e.g., data-flow analysis or points-to analysis) and symbolic analysis (e.g., symbolic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Panagiotis Diamantakis , Thanassis Avgerinos , Yannis Smaragdakis

Blockchains are maintained by a network of participants that run algorithms designed to maintain collectively a distributed machine tolerant to Byzantine attacks. From the point of view of users, blockchains provide the illusion of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Martán Ceresa , César Sánchez

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) services are moving traditional financial operations to the Internet of Value (IOV) by exploiting smart contracts, distributed ledgers, and clever heterogeneous transactions among different protocols. The…

General Economics · Economics 2023-07-18 Teng Andrea Xu , Jiahua Xu

Systemic risk refers to the overall vulnerability arising from the high degree of interconnectedness and interdependence within the financial system. In the rapidly developing decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, numerous studies have…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2026-01-14 Shiyu Zhang , Zining Wang , Jin Zheng , John Cartlidge

Millions of smart contracts have been deployed onto the Ethereum platform, posing potential attack subjects. Therefore, analyzing contract binaries is vital since their sources are unavailable, involving identification comprising function…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Jiahao He , Shuangyin Li , Xinming Wang , Shing-Chi Cheung , Gansen Zhao , Jinji Yang

The rise of digital currency and the public ledger Block Chain has led to the development of a new type of electronic contract known as "smart contracts." For these contracts to be considered valid, they must adhere to traditional contract…

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a new paradigm in the creation, distribution, and utilization of financial services via the integration of blockchain technology. Our research conducts a comprehensive introduction and meticulous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Erya Jiang , Bo Qin , Qin Wang , Zhipeng Wang , Qianhong Wu , Jian Weng , Xinyu Li , Chenyang Wang , Yuhang Ding , Yanran Zhang