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Attack graphs (AGs) are graphical tools to analyze the security of computer networks. By connecting the exploitation of individual vulnerabilities, AGs expose possible multi-step attacks against target networks, allowing system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ming Li , John Hale

Cyber threat hunting is a proactive search process for hidden threats in the organization's information system. It is a crucial component of active defense against advanced persistent threats (APTs). However, most of the current threat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Jiawei Li , Ru Zhang , Jianyi Liu , Gongshen Liu

Protecting the security of the train control system is a critical issue to ensure the safe and reliable operation of high-speed trains. Scientific modeling and analysis for the security risk is a promising way to guarantee system security.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Zikai Zhang

Stealing attacks pose a persistent threat to the intellectual property of deployed machine-learning systems. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) intensifies this risk by extending the attack surface beyond model weights to knowledge base…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Mengyu Yao , Ziqi Zhang , Ning Luo , Shaofei Li , Yifeng Cai , Xiangqun Chen , Yao Guo , Ding Li

As cyber threats grow increasingly sophisticated, reinforcement learning (RL) is emerging as a promising technique to create intelligent and adaptive cyber defense systems. However, most existing autonomous defensive agents have overlooked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Ilya Orson Sandoval , Isaac Symes Thompson , Vasilios Mavroudis , Chris Hicks

In this work we propose a graph-based model that, utilizing relations between groups of System-calls, distinguishes malicious from benign software samples and classifies the detected malicious samples to one of a set of known malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Anna Mpanti , Stavros D. Nikolopoulos , Iosif Polenakis

We present an approach and system for real-time reconstruction of attack scenarios on an enterprise host. To meet the scalability and real-time needs of the problem, we develop a platform-neutral, main-memory based, dependency graph…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Md Nahid Hossain , Sadegh M Milajerdi , Junao Wang , Birhanu Eshete , Rigel Gjomemo , R Sekar , Scott Stoller , VN Venkatakrishnan

We present ProvG-Searcher, a novel approach for detecting known APT behaviors within system security logs. Our approach leverages provenance graphs, a comprehensive graph representation of event logs, to capture and depict data provenance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Enes Altinisik , Fatih Deniz , Husrev Taha Sencar

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are prolonged, stealthy intrusions by skilled adversaries that compromise high-value systems to steal data or disrupt operations. Reconstructing complete attack chains from massive, heterogeneous logs is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Rujie Dai , Peizhuo Lv , Yujiang Gui , Qiujian Lv , Yuanyuan Qiao , Yan Wang , Degang Sun , Weiqing Huang , Yingjiu Li , XiaoFeng Wang

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

Cancer treatments require personalized approaches based on a patient's clinical condition, medical history, and evidence-based guidelines. The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) provides frequently updated, complex guidelines…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Abdul M. Mohammed , Iqtidar Mansoor , Sarah Blythe , Dennis Trujillo

Airports from the top 20 in terms of annual passengers are highly dynamic environments with thousands of flights daily, and they aim to increase the degree of automation. To contribute to this, we implemented a Conversational AI system that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yuyang Li , Philip J. M. Kerbusch , Raimon H. R. Pruim , Tobias Käfer

Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) enables organizations to anticipate, detect, and mitigate evolving cyber threats. Its effectiveness depends on high-quality datasets, which support model development, training, evaluation, and benchmarking.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Dincy R. Arikkat , Sneha B. T. , Serena Nicolazzo , Antonino Nocera , Vinod P. , Rafidha Rehiman K. A. , Karthika R

We introduce HackerSignal, a benchmark for temporal out-of-distribution cyber threat intelligence (CTI) and cross-source CVE linkage. HackerSignal aggregates 7.45 million exact-deduplicated documents from 64 public forum/source identifiers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Benjamin M. Ampel , Sagar Samtani

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are a main impendence in cyber security of computer networks. In 2015, a successful breach remains undetected 146 days on average, reported by [Fi16].With our work we demonstrate a feasible and fast way to…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Timo Schindler

We present a sound and complete algorithm for recovering causal graphs from observed, non-interventional data, in the possible presence of latent confounders and selection bias. We rely on the causal Markov and faithfulness assumptions and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Raanan Y. Rohekar , Yaniv Gurwicz , Shami Nisimov , Gal Novik

GraphRAG-Causal introduces an innovative framework that combines graph-based retrieval with large language models to enhance causal reasoning in news analysis. Traditional NLP approaches often struggle with identifying complex, implicit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Abdul Haque , Umm e Hani , Ahmad Din , Muhammad Babar , Ali Abbas , Insaf Ullah

As the complexity of modern systems increases, so does the importance of assessing their security posture through effective vulnerability management and threat modeling techniques. One powerful tool in the arsenal of cybersecurity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Renascence Tarafder Prapty , Ashish Kundu , Arun Iyengar

Previous works on the CERT insider threat detection case have neglected graph and text features despite their relevance to describe user behavior. Additionally, existing systems heavily rely on feature engineering and audit data aggregation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Mathieu Garchery , Michael Granitzer

Despite the high volume of open-source Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), our understanding of long-term threat actor-victim dynamics remains fragmented due to inconsistent reporting standards and the lack of structured datasets containing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Manuel Suarez-Roman , Francesco Marchiori , Mauro Conti , Juan Tapiador