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Android malware have been growing at an exponential pace and becomes a serious threat to mobile users. It appears that most of the anti-malware still relies on the signature-based detection system which is generally slow and often not able…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Hemant Rathore , Sanjay K. Sahay , Palash Chaturvedi , Mohit Sewak

With the rapidly spreading usage of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, a network intrusion detection system (NIDS) plays an important role in detecting and protecting various types of attacks in the IoT network. To evaluate the robustness of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Jesse Atuhurra , Takanori Hara , Yuanyu Zhang , Masahiro Sasabe , Shoji Kasahara

National security is threatened by malware, which remains one of the most dangerous and costly cyber threats. As of last year, researchers reported 1.3 billion known malware specimens, motivating the use of data-driven machine learning (ML)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Maksim E. Eren , Ryan Barron , Manish Bhattarai , Selma Wanna , Nicholas Solovyev , Kim Rasmussen , Boian S. Alexandrov , Charles Nicholas

With over 50 billion downloads and more than 1.3 million apps in the Google official market, Android has continued to gain popularity amongst smartphone users worldwide. At the same time there has been a rise in malware targeting the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Suleiman Y. Yerima , Sakir Sezer , Igor Muttik

Copious mobile operating systems exist in the market, but Android remains the user's choice. Meanwhile, its growing popularity has also attracted malware developers. Researchers have proposed various static solutions for Android malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yash Sharma , Anshul Arora

Label manipulation attacks are a subclass of data poisoning attacks in adversarial machine learning used against different applications, such as malware detection. These types of attacks represent a serious threat to detection systems in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Rahim Taheri , Reza Javidan , Mohammad Shojafar , Zahra Pooranian , Ali Miri , Mauro Conti

Due to its open-source nature, the Android operating system has consistently been a primary target for attackers. Learning-based methods have made significant progress in the field of Android malware detection. However, traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Xingyuan Wei , Zijun Cheng , Ning Li , Qiujian Lv , Ziyang Yu , Degang Sun

In the past decade, the cyber-crime related to mobile devices has increased. Mobile devices, especially the ones running on Android operating system are particularly interesting to malware creators, as the users often keep the biggest…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Nikola Milosevic , Junfan Huang

Android is currently the most extensively used smartphone platform in the world. Due to its popularity and open source nature, Android malware has been rapidly growing in recent years, and bringing great risks to users' privacy. The malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Wenhao fan , Liang Zhao , Jiayang Wang , Ye Chen , Fan Wu , Yuan'an Liu

Android malware is one of the most dangerous threats on the internet, and it's been on the rise for several years. Despite significant efforts in detecting and classifying android malware from innocuous android applications, there is still…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Ahmed Hashem El Fiky , Ayman El Shenawy , Mohamed Ashraf Madkour

Cyber security has grown up to be a hot issue in recent years. How to identify potential malware becomes a challenging task. To tackle this challenge, we adopt deep learning approaches and perform flow detection on real data. However, real…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Yun-Chun Chen , Yu-Jhe Li , Aragorn Tseng , Tsungnan Lin

Cybersecurity is a major concern due to the increasing reliance on technology and interconnected systems. Malware detectors help mitigate cyber-attacks by comparing malware signatures. Machine learning can improve these detectors by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Jayasudha M , Ayesha Shaik , Gaurav Pendharkar , Soham Kumar , Muhesh Kumar B , Sudharshanan Balaji

The tremendous growth in smart devices has uplifted several security threats. One of the most prominent threats is malicious software also known as malware. Malware has the capability of corrupting a device and collapsing an entire network.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Muhammad Ahmed , Anam Qureshi , Jawwad Ahmed Shamsi , Murk Marvi

Recently researchers have proposed using deep learning-based systems for malware detection. Unfortunately, all deep learning classification systems are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Previous work has studied adversarial attacks against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Jack W. Stokes , De Wang , Mady Marinescu , Marc Marino , Brian Bussone

Vulnerability detection is crucial to protect software security. Nowadays, deep learning (DL) is the most promising technique to automate this detection task, leveraging its superior ability to extract patterns and representations within…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yuejun Guo , Qiang Hu , Qiang Tang , Yves Le Traon

As technology advances, Android malware continues to pose significant threats to devices and sensitive data. The open-source nature of the Android OS and the availability of its SDK contribute to this rapid growth. Traditional malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Saleh J. Makkawy , Michael J. De Lucia , Kenneth E. Barner

We report the findings of a reimplementation of 18 foundational studies in feature-based machine learning for Android malware detection, published during the period 2013-2023. These studies are reevaluated on a level playing field using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Ali Muzaffar , Hani Ragab Hassen , Hind Zantout , Michael A Lones

With the development in the field of smartphones and ever growing base of Internet, various softwares are left prone to many malicious activities like pharming, phishing, ransomware, spam, spoofing, spyware, eavesdropping, etc. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Soumya Sourav , Devashish Khulbe , Naman Kapoor

Malware classification in dynamic environments presents a significant challenge due to concept drift, where the statistical properties of malware data evolve over time, complicating detection efforts. To address this issue, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Bishwajit Prasad Gond , Durga Prasad Mohapatra

A growing number of threats to Android phones creates challenges for malware detection. Manually labeling the samples into benign or different malicious families requires tremendous human efforts, while it is comparably easy and cheap to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Li Chen , Mingwei Zhang , Chih-Yuan Yang , Ravi Sahita