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Behavioral malware detectors promise to expose previously unknown malware and are an important security primitive. However, even the best behavioral detectors suffer from high false positives and negatives. In this paper, we address the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Mkhail Kazdagli , Constantine Caramanis , Sanjay Shakkottai , Mohit Tiwari

Existing deepfake detectors face several challenges in achieving robustness and generalization. One of the primary reasons is their limited ability to extract relevant information from forgery videos, especially in the presence of various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Zhiyuan Yan , Peng Sun , Yubo Lang , Shuo Du , Shanzhuo Zhang , Wei Wang , Lei Liu

The widespread use of clickbait headlines, crafted to mislead and maximize engagement, poses a significant challenge to online credibility. These headlines employ sensationalism, misleading claims, and vague language, underscoring the need…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Chhavi Dhiman , Naman Chawla , Riya Dhami , Gaurav Kumar , Ganesh Naik

Hateful videos present serious risks to online safety and real-world well-being, necessitating effective detection methods. Although multimodal classification approaches integrating information from several modalities outperform unimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Jiangbei Yue , Shuonan Yang , Tailin Chen , Jianbo Jiao , Zeyu Fu

Malicious URL, a.k.a. malicious website, is a common and serious threat to cybersecurity. Malicious URLs host unsolicited content (spam, phishing, drive-by exploits, etc.) and lure unsuspecting users to become victims of scams (monetary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Doyen Sahoo , Chenghao Liu , Steven C. H. Hoi

Cyber attacks deceive machines into believing something that does not exist in the first place. However, there are some to which even humans fall prey. One such famous attack that attackers have used over the years to exploit the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Akshat Gupta , Laxman Singh Tomar , Ridhima Garg

Vulnerability detection is a critical problem in software security and attracts growing attention both from academia and industry. Traditionally, software security is safeguarded by designated rule-based detectors that heavily rely on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Tiehua Zhang , Rui Xu , Jianping Zhang , Yuze Liu , Xin Chen , Jun Yin , Xi Zheng

The advancement of graph-based malware analysis is critically limited by the absence of large-scale datasets that capture the inherent hierarchical structure of software. Existing methods often oversimplify programs into single level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Han Chen , Hanchen Wang , Hongmei Chen , Ying Zhang , Lu Qin , Wenjie Zhang

Malicious websites and phishing URLs pose an ever-increasing cybersecurity risk, with phishing attacks growing by 40% in a single year. Traditional detection approaches rely on machine learning classifiers or rule-based scanners operating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Avihay Cohen

Anomaly detection is a critical task in cybersecurity, where identifying insider threats, access violations, and coordinated attacks is essential for ensuring system resilience. Graph-based approaches have become increasingly important for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Laura Jiang , Reza Ryan , Qian Li , Nasim Ferdosian

Community detection is crucial in data mining. Traditional methods primarily focus on graph structure, often neglecting the significance of attribute features. In contrast, deep learning-based approaches incorporate attribute features and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hong Wang , Yinglong Zhang , Zhangqi Zhao , Zhicong Cai , Xuewen Xia , Xing Xu

Learning-based Provenance-based Intrusion Detection Systems (PIDSes) have become essential tools for anomaly detection in host systems due to their ability to capture rich contextual and structural information, as well as their potential to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Anyuan Sang , Lu Zhou , Li Yang , Junbo Jia , Huipeng Yang , Pengbin Feng , Jianfeng Ma

In view of the problems that existing salient object detection (SOD) methods are prone to losing details, blurring edges, and insufficient fusion of single-modal information in complex scenes, this paper proposes a dynamic uncertainty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yuqi Xiong , Wuzhen Shi , Yang Wen , Ruhan Liu

The increasing prevalence of malicious Portable Document Format (PDF) files necessitates robust and comprehensive feature extraction techniques for effective detection and analysis. This work presents a unified framework that integrates…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Sharmila S P

Phishing websites distribute unsolicited content and are frequently used to commit email and internet fraud; detecting them before any user information is submitted is critical. Several efforts have been made to detect these phishing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Chidimma Opara , Yingke Chen , Bo. wei

Hateful memes have become a significant concern on the Internet, necessitating robust automated detection systems. While Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have shown promise in hateful meme detection, they face notable challenges like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jingbiao Mei , Jinghong Chen , Guangyu Yang , Weizhe Lin , Bill Byrne

Phishing remains the most pervasive threat to the Web, enabling large-scale credential theft and financial fraud through deceptive webpages. While recent reference-based and generative-AI-driven phishing detectors achieve strong accuracy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Tailai Song , Pedro Casas , Michela Meo

With malware detection techniques increasingly adopting machine learning approaches, the creation of precise training sets becomes more and more important. Large data sets of realistic web traffic, correctly classified as benign or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Johann Vierthaler , Roman Kruszelnicki , Julian Schütte

Fraud detection remains a challenging task due to the complex and deceptive nature of fraudulent activities. Current approaches primarily concentrate on learning only one perspective of the graph: either the topological structure of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Haolin Li , Shuyang Jiang , Lifeng Zhang , Siyuan Du , Guangnan Ye , Hongfeng Chai

Graph anomaly detection aims to identify unusual patterns in graph-based data, with wide applications in fields such as web security and financial fraud detection. Existing methods typically rely on contrastive learning, assuming that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Di Jin , Jingyi Cao , Xiaobao Wang , Bingdao Feng , Dongxiao He , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang