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A multitude of toxic online behaviors, ranging from network attacks to anonymous traffic and spam, have severely disrupted the smooth operation of networks. Due to the inherent sender-receiver nature of network behaviors, graph-based…

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Anomaly detection is a crucial task in complex distributed systems. A thorough understanding of the requirements and challenges of anomaly detection is pivotal to the security of such systems, especially for real-world deployment. While…

Provenance-based intrusion detection is an increasingly popular application of graphical machine learning in cybersecurity, where system activities are modeled as provenance graphs to capture causality and correlations among potentially…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Lingzhi Wang , Vinod Yegneswaran , Xinyi Shi , Ziyu Li , Ashish Gehani , Yan Chen

Anomaly detection aims to distinguish abnormal instances that deviate significantly from the majority of benign ones. As instances that appear in the real world are naturally connected and can be represented with graphs, graph neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Sheng Tian , Jihai Dong , Jintang Li , Wenlong Zhao , Xiaolong Xu , Baokun wang , Bowen Song , Changhua Meng , Tianyi Zhang , Liang Chen

Detecting anomalies in discrete event logs is critical for ensuring system reliability, security, and efficiency. Traditional window-based methods for log anomaly detection often suffer from context bias and fuzzy localization, which hinder…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jiaxing Qi , Chang Zeng , Zhongzhi Luan , Shaohan Huang , Shu Yang , Yao Lu , Hailong Yang , Depei Qian

Graph-level anomaly detection aims to identify anomalous graphs or subgraphs within graph datasets, playing a vital role in various fields such as fraud detection, review classification, and biochemistry. While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Liting Li , Yumeng Wang , Yueheng Sun

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) aims to identify nodes that deviate from the majority within a graph, playing a crucial role in applications such as social networks and e-commerce. Despite the current advancements in deep learning-based GAD,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yunfeng Zhao , Yixin Liu , Shiyuan Li , Qingfeng Chen , Yu Zheng , Shirui Pan

Often logs hosted in large data centers represent network traffic data over a long period of time. For instance, such network traffic data logged via a TCP dump packet sniffer (as considered in the 1998 DARPA intrusion attack) included…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Prateek Chanda , Malay Bhattacharya

This work considers the problem of heterogeneous graph-level anomaly detection. Heterogeneous graphs are commonly used to represent behaviours between different types of entities in complex industrial systems for capturing as much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jiaxi Li , Guansong Pang , Ling Chen , Mohammad-Reza Namazi-Rad

Advanced attack campaigns span across multiple stages and stay stealthy for long time periods. There is a growing trend of attackers using off-the-shelf tools and pre-installed system applications (such as \emph{powershell} and \emph{wmic})…

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Anomaly event detection is crucial for critical infrastructure security(transportation system, social-ecological sector, insurance service, government sector etc.) due to its ability to reveal and address the potential cyber-threats in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Yipeng Ji , Jingyi Wang , Shaoning Li , Yangyang Li , Shenwen Lin , Xiong Li

Anomaly detection in dynamic graphs is a critical task with broad real-world applications, including social networks, e-commerce, and cybersecurity. Most existing methods assume that normal patterns remain stable over time; however, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xiaoyang Xu , Xiaofeng Lin , Koh Takeuchi , Kyohei Atarashi , Hisashi Kashima

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) has achieved success and has been widely applied in various domains, such as fraud detection, cybersecurity, finance security, and biochemistry. However, existing graph anomaly detection algorithms focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Xing Ai , Jialong Zhou , Yulin Zhu , Gaolei Li , Tomasz P. Michalak , Xiapu Luo , Kai Zhou

In the era of rapid Internet development, log data has become indispensable for recording the operations of computer devices and software. These data provide valuable insights into system behavior and necessitate thorough analysis. Recent…

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In order to detect unknown intrusions and runtime errors of computer programs, the cyber-security community has developed various detection techniques. Anomaly detection is an approach that is designed to profile the normal runtime behavior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Byunggu Yu , Junwhan Kim

Recent research in both academia and industry has validated the effectiveness of provenance graph-based detection for advanced cyber attack detection and investigation. However, analyzing large-scale provenance graphs often results in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Zhenyuan Li , Yangyang Wei , Xiangmin Shen , Lingzhi Wang , Yan Chen , Haitao Xu , Shouling Ji , Fan Zhang , Liang Hou , Wenmao Liu , Xuhong Zhang , Jianwei Ying

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) have grown increasingly complex and concealed, posing formidable challenges to existing Intrusion Detection Systems in identifying and mitigating these attacks. Recent studies have incorporated graph…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Wenhan Jiang , Tingting Chai , Hongri Liu , Kai Wang , Hongke Zhang

Anomaly detection is the task of identifying abnormal behavior of a system. Anomaly detection in computational workflows is of special interest because of its wide implications in various domains such as cybersecurity, finance, and social…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Hongwei Jin , Krishnan Raghavan , George Papadimitriou , Cong Wang , Anirban Mandal , Ewa Deelman , Prasanna Balaprakash

Advanced persistent threats (APTs) are sophisticated cyber attacks that can remain undetected for extended periods, making their mitigation particularly challenging. Given their persistence, significant effort is required to detect them and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Parth Atulbhai Gandhi , Prasanna N. Wudali , Yonatan Amaru , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

Graph anomaly detection plays a crucial role in identifying exceptional instances in graph data that deviate significantly from the majority. It has gained substantial attention in various domains of information security, including network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Fan Xu , Nan Wang , Xuezhi Wen , Meiqi Gao , Chaoqun Guo , Xibin Zhao