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Over 70% of security vulnerabilities in critical software systems today result from memory safety violations. To address this challenge, fuzzing and static analysis are widely used automated methods to discover such vulnerabilities. Fuzzing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Keno Hassler , Philipp Görz , Stephan Lipp

Network and system security are incredibly critical issues now. Due to the rapid proliferation of malware, traditional analysis methods struggle with enormous samples. In this paper, we propose four easy-to-extract and small-scale features,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Zhenshuo Chen , Eoin Brophy , Tomas Ward

The paper describes how to detect malicious executable files based on static analysis of their binary content. The stages of pre-processing and cleaning data extracted from different areas of executable files are analyzed. Methods of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Nikolay Prudkovskiy

The EOSIO blockchain, one of the representative Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS) blockchain platforms, has grown rapidly recently. Meanwhile, a number of vulnerabilities and high-profile attacks against top EOSIO DApps and their smart…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Ningyu He , Ruiyi Zhang , Lei Wu , Haoyu Wang , Xiapu Luo , Yao Guo , Ting Yu , Xuxian Jiang

Hardware (HW) security issues have been emerging at an alarming rate in recent years. Transient execution attacks, in particular, pose a genuine threat to the security of modern computing systems. Despite recent advances, understanding the…

We present a deep learning based approach to containerized application runtime stability analysis, and an intelligent publishing algorithm that can dynamically adjust the depth of process-level forensics published to a backend incident…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Prakhar Sharma , Phillip Porras , Steven Cheung , James Carpenter , Vinod Yegneswaran

The current cybersecurity landscape is increasingly complex, with traditional Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools struggling to capture complex and emerging vulnerabilities due to their reliance on rule-based matching.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Mete Keltek , Rong Hu , Mohammadreza Fani Sani , Ziyue Li

Poorly designed smart contracts are particularly vulnerable, as they may allow attackers to exploit weaknesses and steal the virtual currency they manage. In this study, we train a model using unsupervised learning to identify…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hong-Sheng Huang , Jen-Yi Ho , Hao-Wen Chen , Hung-Min Sun

In modern automotive development, security testing is critical for safeguarding systems against increasingly advanced threats. Attack trees are widely used to systematically represent potential attack vectors, but generating comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Tanmay Khule , Stefan Marksteiner , Jose Alguindigue , Hannes Fuchs , Sebastian Fischmeister , Apurva Narayan

In modern software development, vulnerability detection is crucial due to the inevitability of bugs and vulnerabilities in complex software systems. Effective detection and elimination of these vulnerabilities during the testing phase are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Christopher Scherb , Luc Bryan Heitz , Hermann Grieder

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) is a popular quality assurance technique in software engineering. However, integrating SAST tools into industry-level product development and security assessment poses various technical and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Anh Nguyen-Duc , Manh Viet Do , Quan Luong Hong , Kiem Nguyen Khac

As production code evolves, the test suite must co-evolve to remain effective. Existing benchmarks for test evolution operate at method-level granularity with pre-paired inputs, bypassing the task of locating affected tests from the full…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ye Shang , Quanjun Zhang , Haichuan Hu , Chunrong Fang , Liang Xiao , Zhenyu Chen

Emulating firmware for microcontrollers is challenging due to the tight coupling between the hardware and firmware. This has greatly impeded the application of dynamic analysis tools to firmware analysis. The state-of-the-art work…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Wei Zhou , Le Guan , Peng Liu , Yuqing Zhang

The explosive growth of mini-game platforms has led to widespread code plagiarism, where malicious users access popular games' source code and republish them with modifications. While existing static analysis tools can detect simple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zhihao Li , Chaozheng Wang , Zongjie Li , Xinyong Peng , Qun Xia , Haochuan Lu , Ting Xiong , Shuzheng Gao , Cuiyun Gao , Shuai Wang , Yuetang Deng , Huafeng Ma

Thousands of vulnerabilities are reported on a monthly basis to security repositories, such as the National Vulnerability Database. Among these vulnerabilities, software misconfiguration is one of the top 10 security risks for web…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Carlos Diego Nascimento Damasceno , Daniel Strüber

Code obfuscation is a major tool for protecting software intellectual property from attacks such as reverse engineering or code tampering. Yet, recently proposed (automated) attacks based on Dynamic Symbolic Execution (DSE) shows very…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Mathilde Ollivier , Sébastien Bardin , Richard Bonichon , Jean-Yves Marion

Implementations of network protocols are often prone to vulnerabilities caused by developers' mistakes when accessing memory regions and dealing with arithmetic operations. Finding practical approaches for checking the security of network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Kaled Alshmrany , Lucas Cordeiro

The rapid evolution of modern malware presents significant challenges to the development of effective defense mechanisms. Traditional cyber deception techniques often rely on static or manually configured parameters, limiting their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Shihab Ahmed , A B M Mohaimenur Rahman , Md Morshed Alam , Md Sajidul Islam Sajid

Web services are becoming business-critical components, often deployed with critical software bugs that can be maliciously explored. Web vulnerability scanners allow the detection of security vulnerabilities in web services by stressing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Osejobe Ehichoya , Chinwuba Christian Nnaemeka

We present STADEE, a \textbf{STA}tistics-based \textbf{DEE}p detection method to identify machine-generated text, addressing the limitations of current methods that rely heavily on fine-tuning pre-trained language models (PLMs). STADEE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Zheng Chen , Huming Liu