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Botnets are now a major source for many network attacks, such as DDoS attacks and spam. However, most traditional detection methods heavily rely on heuristically designed multi-stage detection criteria. In this paper, we consider the neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Jiawei Zhou , Zhiying Xu , Alexander M. Rush , Minlan Yu

Intrusion detection systems (IDS) are essential for protecting computer systems and networks against a wide range of cyber threats that continue to evolve over time. IDS are commonly categorized into two main types, each with its own…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Messaouda Boutassetta , Amina Makhlouf , Newfel Messaoudi , Abdelmadjid Benmachiche , Ines Boutabia

The growing complexity of modern Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and the frequent communication between their components make them vulnerable to malicious attacks. As a result, secure state estimation is a critical requirement for the control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Xusheng Luo , Miroslav Pajic , Michael M. Zavlanos

Risk assessment plays a crucial role in ensuring the security and resilience of modern computer systems. Existing methods for conducting risk assessments often suffer from tedious and time-consuming processes, making it challenging to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Simon Unger , Ektor Arzoglou , Markus Heinrich , Dirk Scheuermann , Stefan Katzenbeisser

Accurate indoor localization is crucial for enabling spatial context in smart environments and navigation systems. Wi-Fi Received Signal Strength (RSS) fingerprinting is a widely used indoor localization approach due to its compatibility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Danish Gufran , Sudeep Pasricha

Spatial-temporal data, fundamental to many intelligent applications, reveals dependencies indicating causal links between present measurements at specific locations and historical data at the same or other locations. Within this context,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Wenying Duan , Shujun Guo , Wei huang , Hong Rao , Xiaoxi He

5G and Beyond Networks become increasingly complex and heterogeneous, with diversified and high requirements from a wide variety of emerging applications. The complexity and diversity of Telecom networks place an increasing strain on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 R. Bourgerie , T. Zanouda

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used in many real applications, and recent studies have revealed their vulnerabilities against topology attacks. To address this issue, existing efforts have mainly been dedicated to improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Senrong Xu , Yuan Yao , Liangyue Li , Wei Yang , Feng Xu , Hanghang Tong

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) pose a major cybersecurity challenge due to their stealth and ability to mimic normal system behavior, making detection particularly difficult in highly imbalanced datasets. Traditional anomaly detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Sidahmed Benabderrahmane , Petko Valtchev , James Cheney , Talal Rahwan

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have attracted increasing attention due to their superior performance in deep learning on graph-structured data. GNNs have succeeded across various domains such as social networks, chemistry, and electronic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Lilas Alrahis , Satwik Patnaik , Muhammad Shafique , Ozgur Sinanoglu

The escalating complexity of network threats and the inherent class imbalance in traffic data present formidable challenges for modern Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel in modeling topological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Tianxiang Xu , Zhichao Wen , Xinyu Zhao , Qi Hu , Yan Li , Chang Liu

Active re-identification attacks pose a serious threat to privacy-preserving social graph publication. Active attackers create fake accounts to build structural patterns in social graphs which can be used to re-identify legitimate users on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Xihui Chen , Ema Këpuska , Sjouke Mauw , Yunior Ramírez-Cruz

In the Internet of Things (IoT) devices are exposed to various kinds of attacks when connected to the Internet. An attack detection mechanism that understands the limitations of these severely resource-constrained devices is necessary. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Nidhi Rastogi , James Hendler

Smart grid's objective is to enable electricity and information to flow two-way while providing effective, robust, computerized, and decentralized energy delivery. This necessitates the use of state estimation-based techniques and real-time…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Mostafa Mohammadpourfard , Istemihan Genc , Subhash Lakshminarayana , Charalambos Konstantinou

The (logically) centralised architecture of the software-defined networks makes them an easy target for packet injection attacks. In these attacks, the attacker injects malicious packets into the SDN network to affect the services and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Anh Tuan Phu , Bo Li , Faheem Ullah , Tanvir Ul Huque , Ranesh Naha , Ali Babar , Hung Nguyen

Graph-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems (GNIDS) have gained significant momentum in detecting sophisticated cyber-attacks, such as Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), within and across organizational boundaries. Though achieving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jiacen Xu , Chenang Li , Yu Zheng , Zhou Li

Detection of malicious behavior in a large network is a challenging problem for machine learning in computer security, since it requires a model with high expressive power and scalable inference. Existing solutions struggle to achieve this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Simon Mandlik , Tomas Pevny , Vaclav Smidl , Lukas Bajer

Attack graphs are a powerful tool for security risk assessment by analysing network vulnerabilities and the paths attackers can use to compromise network resources. The uncertainty about the attacker's behaviour makes Bayesian networks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Luis Muñoz-González , Daniele Sgandurra , Martín Barrère , Emil Lupu

This work presents a threat modelling approach to represent changes to the attack paths through an Internet of Things (IoT) environment when the environment changes dynamically, i.e., when new devices are added or removed from the system or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Marwa Salayma

Cybersecurity of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) is drawing significant concerns as data communication increasingly leverages wireless networks. A lot of data-driven methods were developed for detecting cyberattacks, but few are focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Dan Li , Paritosh Ramanan , Nagi Gebraeel , Kamran Paynabar