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Enterprises are constantly under attack from sophisticated adversaries. These adversaries use a variety of techniques to first gain access to the enterprise, then spread laterally inside its networks, establish persistence, and finally…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Sumanth Rao

Backdoor attacks pose a serious threat to deep reinforcement learning (DRL). Current defenses typically rely on reward anomalies to reverse-engineer triggers and model finetuning to remove backdoors. However, complex trigger patterns…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yinbo Yu , Xueyu Yin , Jiadai Wang , Chunwei Tian , Sai Xu , Qi Zhu , Daoqiang Zhang

The incremental diffusion of machine learning algorithms in supporting cybersecurity is creating novel defensive opportunities but also new types of risks. Multiple researches have shown that machine learning methods are vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Giovanni Apruzzese , Mauro Andreolini , Luca Ferretti , Mirco Marchetti , Michele Colajanni

Attacks exploiting the innate and the acquired vulnerabilities of human users have posed severe threats to cybersecurity. This work proposes ADVERT, a human-technical solution that generates adaptive visual aids in real-time to prevent…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Linan Huang , Shumeng Jia , Emily Balcetis , Quanyan Zhu

In security-sensitive applications, the success of machine learning depends on a thorough vetting of their resistance to adversarial data. In one pertinent, well-motivated attack scenario, an adversary may attempt to evade a deployed system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Battista Biggio , Igino Corona , Davide Maiorca , Blaine Nelson , Nedim Srndic , Pavel Laskov , Giorgio Giacinto , Fabio Roli

Web-based behavior-manipulation attacks (BMAs) - such as scareware, fake software downloads, tech support scams, etc. - are a class of social engineering (SE) attacks that exploit human decision-making vulnerabilities. These attacks remain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Spencer King , Irfan Ozen , Karthika Subramani , Saranyan Senthivel , Phani Vadrevu , Roberto Perdisci

Modern web applications are dominated by HTTP/HTTPS messages that consist of one or more headers, where most of the exploits and payloads can be injected by attackers. According to the OWASP, the 80 percent of the web attacks are done…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Tikam Alma , Manik Lal Das

This research introduces a robust detection system against malicious network traffic, leveraging hierarchical structures and self-attention mechanisms. The proposed system includes a Packet Segmenter that divides a given raw network packet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Anass Grini , Btissam El Khamlichi , Abdellatif El Afia , Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni

The exploitation of smart contract vulnerabilities in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has resulted in financial losses exceeding 3 billion US dollars. Existing defense mechanisms primarily focus on detecting and reacting to adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shoupeng Ren , Lipeng He , Tianyu Tu , Di Wu , Jian Liu , Kui Ren , Chun Chen

Webshells remain a primary foothold for attackers to compromise servers, particularly within PHP ecosystems. However, existing detection mechanisms often struggle to keep pace with rapid variant evolution and sophisticated obfuscation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yizhong Ding

Accurately estimating workload runtime is a longstanding goal in computer systems, and plays a key role in efficient resource provisioning, latency minimization, and various other system management tasks. Runtime prediction is particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Tianshu Huang , Arjun Ramesh , Emily Ruppel , Nuno Pereira , Anthony Rowe , Carlee Joe-Wong

This study examines how Artificial Intelligence can aid in identifying and mitigating cyber threats in the U.S. across four key areas: intrusion detection, malware classification, phishing detection, and insider threat analysis. Each of…

Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is one of the security measures being used as an additional defence mechanism to prevent the security breaches on web. It has been well known methodology for detecting network-based attacks but still…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Nancy Agarwal , Syed Zeeshan Hussain

Cybersecurity attacks are growing both in frequency and sophistication over the years. This increasing sophistication and complexity call for more advancement and continuous innovation in defensive strategies. Traditional methods of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Antoine Delplace , Sheryl Hermoso , Kristofer Anandita

The increasing complexity of cyber threats in distributed environments demands advanced frameworks for real-time detection and response across multimodal data streams. This paper introduces AgenticCyber, a generative AI powered multi-agent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shovan Roy

Phishing detectors built on engineered website features attain near-perfect accuracy under i.i.d.\ evaluation, yet deployment security depends on robustness to post-deployment feature manipulation. We study this gap through a cost-aware…

In the face of large-scale automated social engineering attacks to large online services, fast detection and remediation of compromised accounts are crucial to limit the spread of new attacks and to mitigate the overall damage to users,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Hassan Halawa , Matei Ripeanu , Konstantin Beznosov , Baris Coskun , Meizhu Liu

Web traffic is a valuable data source, typically used in the marketing space to track brand awareness and advertising effectiveness. However, web traffic is also a rich source of information for cybersecurity monitoring efforts. To better…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Han Qin , Kit Riehle , Haozhen Zhao

The rapid evolution of embodied agents has accelerated the deployment of household robots in real-world environments. However, unlike structured industrial settings, household spaces introduce unpredictable safety risks, where system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jiayue Pu , Zhongxiang Sun , Zilu Zhang , Xiao Zhang , Jun Xu

The modern web stack, which is dominated by browser-based applications and API-first backends, now operates under an adversarial equilibrium where automated, AI-assisted attacks evolve continuously. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and edge…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mehrab Hosain , Sabbir Alom Shuvo , Matthew Ogbe , Md Shah Jalal Mazumder , Yead Rahman , Md Azizul Hakim , Anukul Pandey