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With over 50 billion downloads and more than 1.3 million apps in the Google official market, Android has continued to gain popularity amongst smartphone users worldwide. At the same time there has been a rise in malware targeting the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Suleiman Y. Yerima , Sakir Sezer , Igor Muttik

The anonymous nature of darknets is commonly exploited for illegal activities. Previous research has employed machine learning and deep learning techniques to automate the detection of darknet traffic in an attempt to block these criminal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Nhien Rust-Nguyen , Mark Stamp

This research recasts ransomware detection using performance monitoring and statistical machine learning. The work builds a test environment with 41 input variables to label and compares three computing states: idle, encryption and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-28 David Noever , Samantha Miller Noever

Machine Learning (ML)-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs) have proven to become a reliable intelligence tool to protect networks against cyberattacks. Network data features has a great impact on the performances of ML-based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Mohanad Sarhan , Siamak Layeghy , Nour Moustafa , Marius Portmann

Supervised detection of network attacks has always been a critical part of network intrusion detection systems (NIDS). Nowadays, in a pivotal time for artificial intelligence (AI), with even more sophisticated attacks that utilize advanced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Iakovos-Christos Zarkadis , Christos Douligeris

As the current detection solutions of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) need additional infrastructures to handle high aggregate data rates, they are not suitable for sensor networks or the Internet of Things. Besides, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Emre Horsanali , Yagmur Yigit , Gokhan Secinti , Aytac Karameseoglu , Berk Canberk

Software-defined network (SDN) is a new approach that allows network control to become directly programmable, and the underlying infrastructure can be abstracted from applications and network services. Control plane). When it comes to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Muhammad Zawad Mahmud , Shahran Rahman Alve , Samiha Islam , Mohammad Monirujjaman Khan

Malware detection in IoT environments necessitates robust methodologies. This study introduces a CNN-LSTM hybrid model for IoT malware identification and evaluates its performance against established methods. Leveraging K-fold…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Ali Mehrban , Pegah Ahadian

Advancements in computer networks and communication technologies like software defined networks (SDN), Internet of things (IoT), microservices architecture, cloud computing and network function virtualization (NFV) have opened new fronts…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Anjum Nazir , Rizwan Ahmed Khan

Modern threat landscapes continue to evolve with increasing sophistication, challenging traditional detection methodologies and necessitating innovative solutions capable of addressing complex adversarial tactics. A novel framework was…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Levi Gareth , Maximilian Fairbrother , Peregrine Blackwood , Lucasta Underhill , Benedict Ruthermore

In the realm of cybersecurity, intrusion detection systems (IDS) detect and prevent attacks based on collected computer and network data. In recent research, IDS models have been constructed using machine learning (ML) and deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Adam M. Lehavi , Seongtae Kim

The use of supervised Machine Learning (ML) to enhance Intrusion Detection Systems has been the subject of significant research. Supervised ML is based upon learning by example, demanding significant volumes of representative instances for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Hanan Hindy , Christos Tachtatzis , Robert Atkinson , David Brosset , Miroslav Bures , Ivan Andonovic , Craig Michie , Xavier Bellekens

The rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has increased the scale and diversity of cyberattacks, exposing limitations in traditional intrusion detection systems. Classical machine learning (ML) models such as Random Forest and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Piyumi Bhagya Sudasinghe , Kushan Sudheera Kalupahana Liyanage , Harsha S. Gardiyawasam Pussewalage

Monitoring network traffic to maintain the quality of service (QoS) and to detect network intrusions in a timely and efficient manner is essential. As network traffic is sequential, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) such as long short-term…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Muhammad Wasim Nawaz , Rashid Munawar , Ahsan Mehmood , Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman , Qammer H. Abbasi

The Internet of Things (IoT) is expanding at an accelerated pace, making it critical to have secure networks to mitigate a variety of cyber threats. This study addresses the limitation of multi-class attack detection of IoT devices and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Shahran Rahman Alve , Muhammad Zawad Mahmud , Samiha Islam , Md. Asaduzzaman Chowdhury , Jahirul Islam

This work presents Reliable-NIDS (R-NIDS), a novel methodology for Machine Learning (ML) based Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs) that allows ML models to work on integrated datasets, empowering the learning process with diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Roberto Magán-Carrión , Daniel Urda , Ignacio Díaz-Cano , Bernabé Dorronsoro

Websites, as essential digital assets, are highly vulnerable to cyberattacks because of their high traffic volume and the significant impact of breaches. This study aims to enhance the identification of web traffic attacks by leveraging…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Daniel Urda , Branly Martínez , Nuño Basurto , Meelis Kull , Ángel Arroyo , Álvaro Herrero

Due to the rapid growth in the number of Internet of Things (IoT) networks, the cyber risk has increased exponentially, and therefore, we have to develop effective IDS that can work well with highly imbalanced datasets. A high rate of…

In recent years, the rise of cyber threats has emphasized the need for robust malware detection systems, especially on mobile devices. Malware, which targets vulnerabilities in devices and user data, represents a substantial security risk.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-08 J. V. S. Souza , C. B. Vieira , G. D. C. Cavalcanti , R. M. O. Cruz

The use of Machine Learning (ML) techniques in Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) has taken a prominent role in the network security management field, due to the substantial number of sophisticated attacks that often pass undetected through…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Mario Di Mauro , Giovanni Galatro , Antonio Liotta