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Backdoor attacks are among the most effective, practical, and stealthy attacks in deep learning. In this paper, we consider a practical scenario where a developer obtains a deep model from a third party and uses it as part of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Dorde Popovic , Amin Sadeghi , Ting Yu , Sanjay Chawla , Issa Khalil

Cyber deception assists in increasing the attacker's budget in reconnaissance or any early phases of threat intrusions. In the past, numerous methods of cyber deception have been adopted, such as IP address randomization, the creation of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Abhijeet Sahu , Shuva Paul , Richard Macwan

A major challenge in cyber-threat analysis is combining information from different sources to find the person or the group responsible for the cyber-attack. It is one of the most important technical and policy challenges in cyber-security.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Eric Nunes , Paulo Shakarian , Gerardo I. Simari , Andrew Ruef

Adversarial reconnaissance is a crucial step in sophisticated cyber-attacks as it enables threat actors to find the weakest points of otherwise well-defended systems. To thwart reconnaissance, defenders can employ cyber deception…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Shanto Roy , Nazia Sharmin , Mohammad Sujan Miah , Jaime C Acosta , Christopher Kiekintveld , Aron Laszka

Deceptive patterns are design practices embedded in digital platforms to manipulate users, representing a widespread and long-standing issue in the web and mobile software development industry. Legislative actions highlight the urgency of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Zewei Shi , Ruoxi Sun , Jieshan Chen , Jiamou Sun , Minhui Xue

Deception is a fundamental issue across a diverse array of settings, from cybersecurity, where decoys (e.g., honeypots) are an important tool, to politics that can feature politically motivated "leaks" and fake news about candidates.Typical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Andrew Estornell , Sanmay Das , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

System operators responsible for protecting software applications remain hesitant to implement cyber deception technology, including methods that place traps to catch attackers, despite its proven benefits. Overcoming their concerns removes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Mario Kahlhofer , Matteo Golinelli , Stefan Rass

A honeypot, which is a kind of deception strategy, has been widely used for at least 20 years to mitigate cyber threats. Decision-makers have believed that honeypot strategies are intuitive and effective, since honeypots have successfully…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Suhyeon Lee , Kwangsoo Cho , Seungjoo Kim

In complex processes, various events can happen in different sequences. The prediction of the next event given an a-priori process state is of importance in such processes. Recent methods have proposed deep learning techniques such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Julian Theis , Houshang Darabi

The rapid evolution of cyber threats necessitates innovative solutions for detecting and analyzing malicious activity. Honeypots, which are decoy systems designed to lure and interact with attackers, have emerged as a critical component in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Hakan T. Otal , M. Abdullah Canbaz

Deception detection has attracted increasing attention due to its importance in real-world scenarios. Its main goal is to detect deceptive behaviors from multimodal clues such as gestures, facial expressions, prosody, etc. However, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Kang Chen , Zheng Lian , Haiyang Sun , Rui Liu , Jiangyan Yi , Bin Liu , Jianhua Tao

Today's high-stakes adversarial interactions feature attackers who constantly breach the ever-improving security measures. Deception mitigates the defender's loss by misleading the attacker to make suboptimal decisions. In order to formally…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Zheyuan Ryan Shi , Ariel D. Procaccia , Kevin S. Chan , Sridhar Venkatesan , Noam Ben-Asher , Nandi O. Leslie , Charles Kamhoua , Fei Fang

Cybersecurity threats continue to increase, with a growing number of previously unknown attacks each year targeting both large corporations and smaller entities. This scenario demands the implementation of advanced security measures, not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Javier Jiménez-Román , Florina Almenares-Mendoza , Alfonso Sánchez-Macián

Deception plays a critical role in the financial industry, online markets, national defense, and countless other areas. Understanding and harnessing deception - especially in cyberspace - is both crucial and difficult. Recent work in this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Jeffrey Pawlick , Quanyan Zhu

Cyber-deception is an increasingly important defensive strategy, shaping adversarial decision making through controlled misinformation, uncertainty, and misdirection. Although game-theoretic, Bayesian, Markov decision process, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-04 B. R. Turner , O. Guidetti , N. M. Karie , R. Ryan , Y. Yan

Deceptive elements, including honeypots and decoys, were incorporated into the Microsoft CyberBattleSim experimentation and research platform. The defensive capabilities of the deceptive elements were tested using reinforcement learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Erich Walter , Kimberly Ferguson-Walter , Ahmad Ridley

Deception plays critical roles in economics and technology, especially in emerging interactions in cyberspace. Holistic models of deception are needed in order to analyze interactions and to design mechanisms that improve them. Game theory…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Jeffrey Pawlick , Edward Colbert , Quanyan Zhu

As Large Language Models (LLMs) transition into autonomous agentic roles, the risk of deception-defined behaviorally as the systematic provision of false information to satisfy external incentives-poses a significant challenge to AI safety.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Arash Marioriyad , Ali Nouri , Mohammad Hossein Rohban , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Cyber deception is an emerging proactive defense strategy to counter increasingly sophisticated attacks such as Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) by misleading and distracting attackers from critical assets. However, since deception…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Ya-Ting Yang , Quanyan Zhu

Complex Event Processing (CEP) is a set of methods that allow efficient knowledge extraction from massive data streams using complex and highly descriptive patterns. Numerous applications, such as online finance, healthcare monitoring and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Guy Shapira , Assaf Schuster