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Malicious software (malware) poses an increasing threat to the security of communication systems as the number of interconnected mobile devices increases exponentially. While some existing malware detection and classification approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Julian Busch , Anton Kocheturov , Volker Tresp , Thomas Seidl

As networks continue to grow in complexity and scale, detecting anomalies has become increasingly challenging, particularly in diverse and geographically dispersed environments. Traditional approaches often struggle with managing the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-11 William Marfo , Enrique A. Rico , Deepak K. Tosh , Shirley V. Moore

Real-time fraud detection is a challenge for most financial and electronic commercial platforms. To identify fraudulent communities, Grab, one of the largest technology companies in Southeast Asia, forms a graph from a set of transactions…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Jiaxin Jiang , Yuan Li , Bingsheng He , Bryan Hooi , Jia Chen , Johan Kok Zhi Kang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown advantages in graph-based analysis tasks. However, most existing methods have the homogeneity assumption and show poor performance on heterophilic graphs, where the linked nodes have dissimilar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Tianhao Peng , Wenjun Wu , Haitao Yuan , Zhifeng Bao , Zhao Pengrui , Xin Yu , Xuetao Lin , Yu Liang , Yanjun Pu

Ransomware is a malicious class of software that utilises encryption to implement an attack on system availability. The target's data remains encrypted and is held captive by the attacker until a ransom demand is met. A common approach used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Simon R Davies , Richard Macfarlane , William J. Buchanan

Despite remarkable success in diverse web-based applications, Graph Neural Networks(GNNs) inherit and further exacerbate historical discrimination and social stereotypes, which critically hinder their deployments in high-stake domains such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Ying Song , Balaji Palanisamy

Ransomware is a kind of malware using cryptographic mechanisms to prevent victims from normal use of their computers. As a result, victims lose the access to their files and desktops unless they pay the ransom to the attackers. By the end…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Tianrou Xia , Yuanyi Sun , Sencun Zhu , Zeeshan Rasheed , Khurram Shafique

Ransomware can produce direct and controllable economic loss, which makes it one of the most prominent threats in cyber security. As per the latest statistics, more than half of malwares reported in Q1 of 2017 are ransomwares and there is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Manaar Alam , Sayan Sinha , Sarani Bhattacharya , Swastika Dutta , Debdeep Mukhopadhyay , Anupam Chattopadhyay

Detecting anomalies for dynamic graphs has drawn increasing attention due to their wide applications in social networks, e-commerce, and cybersecurity. Recent deep learning-based approaches have shown promising results over shallow methods.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Yixin Liu , Shirui Pan , Yu Guang Wang , Fei Xiong , Liang Wang , Qingfeng Chen , Vincent CS Lee

Fraud detection is extremely critical for e-commerce business. It is the intent of the companies to detect and prevent fraud as early as possible. Existing fraud detection methods try to identify unexpected dense subgraphs and treat related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Yuxiang Ren , Hao Zhu , Jiawei Zhang , Peng Dai , Liefeng Bo

Although ransomware has received broad attention in media and research, this evolving threat vector still poses a systematic threat. Related literature has explored their detection using various approaches leveraging Machine and Deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Jan von der Assen , Chao Feng , Alberto Huertas Celdrán , Róbert Oleš , Gérôme Bovet , Burkhard Stiller

Anomaly detection from graph data is an important data mining task in many applications such as social networks, finance, and e-commerce. Existing efforts in graph anomaly detection typically only consider the information in a single scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Yu Zheng , Ming Jin , Yixin Liu , Lianhua Chi , Khoa T. Phan , Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen

Developing efficient time series anomaly detection techniques is important to maintain service quality and provide early alarms. Generative neural network methods are one class of the unsupervised approaches that are achieving increasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Yueyan Gu , Farrokh Jazizadeh

Several distributed frameworks have been developed to scale Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on billion-size graphs. On several benchmarks, we observe that the graph partitions generated by these frameworks have heterogeneous data distributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Dhruv Deshmukh , Gagan Raj Gupta , Manisha Chawla , Vishwesh Jatala , Anirban Haldar

Many multivariate time series anomaly detection frameworks have been proposed and widely applied. However, most of these frameworks do not consider intrinsic relationships between variables in multivariate time series data, thus ignoring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Falih Gozi Febrinanto , Kristen Moore , Chandra Thapa , Mujie Liu , Vidya Saikrishna , Jiangang Ma , Feng Xia

Ransomware poses a serious and fast-acting threat to critical systems, often encrypting files within seconds of execution. Research indicates that ransomware is the most reported cybercrime in terms of financial damage, highlighting the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Busra Caliskan , Ibrahim Gulatas , H. Hakan Kilinc , A. Halim Zaim

Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) are essential tools for detecting network attacks and intrusions. While extensive research has explored the use of supervised Machine Learning for attack detection and characterisation, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Georgios Anyfantis , Pere Barlet-Ros

In real-world scenarios, although data entities may possess inherent relationships, the specific graph illustrating their connections might not be directly accessible. Latent graph inference addresses this issue by enabling Graph Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yuan Lu , Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde , Pietro Liò

In this paper, we focus on fraud detection on a signed graph with only a small set of labeled training data. We propose a novel framework that combines deep neural networks and spectral graph analysis. In particular, we use the node…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Shuhan Yuan , Xintao Wu , Jun Li , Aidong Lu

This paper investigates Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) application for self-supervised network intrusion and anomaly detection. GNNs are a deep learning approach for graph-based data that incorporate graph structures into learning to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Evan Caville , Wai Weng Lo , Siamak Layeghy , Marius Portmann