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Malware detection is an important topic of current cybersecurity, and Machine Learning appears to be one of the main considered solutions even if certain problems to generalize to new malware remain. In the aim of exploring the potential of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Tony Quertier , Grégoire Barrué

The proliferation of malware, particularly through the use of packing, presents a significant challenge to static analysis and signature-based malware detection techniques. The application of packing to the original executable code renders…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Daniel Gibert , Nikolaos Totosis , Constantinos Patsakis , Giulio Zizzo , Quan Le

This work introduces a novel method for enhancing confidence in anomaly detection in Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) through the use of a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) architecture. By developing a confidence metric derived from latent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Ioannis Pitsiorlas , George Arvanitakis , Marios Kountouris

The variety of services and functionality offered by various cloud service providers (CSP) have exploded lately. Utilizing such services has created numerous opportunities for enterprises infrastructure to become cloud-based and, in turn,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Jeffrey C Kimmell , Mahmoud Abdelsalam , Maanak Gupta

The convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture is increasingly being applied to new domains, such as malware detection, where it is able to learn malicious behavior from raw bytes extracted from executables. These architectures reach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Octavian Suciu , Scott E. Coull , Jeffrey Johns

As advances in signature recognition have reached a new plateau of performance at around 2% error rate, it is interesting to investigate alternative approaches. The approach detailed in this paper looks at using Variational Auto-Encoders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Antoine Viscardi , Casey Juanxi Li , Thomas Hollis

In recent years, Machine Learning algorithms, in particular supervised learning techniques, have been shown to be very effective in solving regression problems. We compare the performance of a newly proposed regression algorithm against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Sabina Gooljar , Kris Manohar , Patrick Hosein

Combating malware is very important for software/systems security, but to prevent the software/systems from the advanced malware, viz. metamorphic malware is a challenging task, as it changes the structure/code after each infection.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Ashu Sharma , Sanjay K. Sahay

Malware has become a formidable threat as it has been growing exponentially in number and sophistication, thus, it is imperative to have a solution that is easy to implement, reliable, and effective. While recent research has introduced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Jahez Abraham Johny , Vinod P. , Asmitha K. A. , G. Radhamani , Rafidha Rehiman K. A. , Mauro Conti

Malware detection is a popular application of Machine Learning for Information Security (ML-Sec), in which an ML classifier is trained to predict whether a given file is malware or benignware. Parameters of this classifier are typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Ethan M. Rudd , Felipe N. Ducau , Cody Wild , Konstantin Berlin , Richard Harang

Machine learning (ML) classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial examples. An adversarial example is an input sample which is slightly modified to induce misclassification in an ML classifier. In this work, we investigate white-box and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Yonghong Huang , Utkarsh Verma , Celeste Fralick , Gabriel Infante-Lopez , Brajesh Kumarz , Carl Woodward

Machine learning algorithms, however effective, are known to be vulnerable in adversarial scenarios where a malicious user may inject manipulated instances. In this work we focus on evasion attacks, where a model is trained in a safe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Stefano Calzavara , Claudio Lucchese , Federico Marcuzzi , Salvatore Orlando

Zero-day attack detection plays a critical role in mitigating risks, protecting assets, and staying ahead in the evolving threat landscape. This study explores the application of stacked autoencoder (SAE), a type of artificial neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Mahmut Tokmak , Mike Nkongolo

This paper proposes a joint training method to learn both the variational auto-encoder (VAE) and the latent energy-based model (EBM). The joint training of VAE and latent EBM are based on an objective function that consists of three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Tian Han , Erik Nijkamp , Linqi Zhou , Bo Pang , Song-Chun Zhu , Ying Nian Wu

Learning-enabled components (LECs) are widely used in cyber-physical systems (CPS) since they can handle the uncertainty and variability of the environment and increase the level of autonomy. However, it has been shown that LECs such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Feiyang Cai , Jiani Li , Xenofon Koutsoukos

A survey of machine learning techniques trained to detect ransomware is presented. This work builds upon the efforts of Taylor et al. in using sensor-based methods that utilize data collected from built-in instruments like CPU power and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Erik Larsen , David Noever , Korey MacVittie

This paper describes a practical approach of using supervised machine learning (ML) models to assist safety investigators to classify aviation occurrences into either incident or serious incident categories. Our implementation currently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Bryan Y. Siow

Malware classification is a difficult problem, to which machine learning methods have been applied for decades. Yet progress has often been slow, in part due to a number of unique difficulties with the task that occur through all stages of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Edward Raff , Charles Nicholas

This study explores the usefulness of machine learning classifiers for modeling freight mode choice. We investigate eight commonly used machine learning classifiers, namely Naive Bayes, Support Vector Machine, Artificial Neural Network,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Majbah Uddin , Sabreena Anowar , Naveen Eluru

In addition to signature-based and heuristics-based detection techniques, machine learning (ML) is widely used to generalize to new, never-before-seen malicious software (malware). However, it has been demonstrated that ML models can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Tony Quertier , Benjamin Marais , Stéphane Morucci , Bertrand Fournel