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The construction of attack technique knowledge graphs aims to transform various types of attack knowledge into structured representations for more effective attack procedure modeling. Existing methods typically rely on textual data, such as…

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Large language model based multi-agent systems (MAS) have unlocked significant advancements in tackling complex problems, but their increasing capability introduces a structural fragility that makes them difficult to debug. A key obstacle…

The complexity of modern computing environments and the growing sophistication of cyber threats necessitate a more robust, adaptive, and automated approach to security enforcement. In this paper, we present a framework leveraging large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Pablo Fernández Saura , K. R. Jayaram , Vatche Isahagian , Jorge Bernal Bernabé , Antonio Skarmeta

Efficient defense against dynamically evolving advanced persistent threats (APT) requires the structured threat intelligence feeds, such as techniques used. However, existing threat-intelligence extraction techniques predominantly focuses…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ming Xu , Hongtai Wang , Jiahao Liu , Xinfeng Li , Zhengmin Yu , Weili Han , Hoon Wei Lim , Jin Song Dong , Jiaheng Zhang

As Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI become increasingly widespread, concerns about content safety have grown in parallel. Currently, there is a clear lack of high-quality, human-annotated datasets that address the full…

In order to assist security analysts in obtaining information pertaining to their network, such as novel vulnerabilities, exploits, or patches, information retrieval methods tailored to the security domain are needed. As labeled text data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Corinne L. Jones , Robert A. Bridges , Kelly Huffer , John Goodall

Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is information describing threat vectors, vulnerabilities, and attacks and is often used as training data for AI-based cyber defense systems such as Cybersecurity Knowledge Graphs (CKG). There is a strong…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Casey Hanks , Michael Maiden , Priyanka Ranade , Tim Finin , Anupam Joshi

Extracting structured knowledge from unstructured data still faces practical limitations: entity and event extraction pipelines remain brittle, knowledge graph construction requires costly ontology engineering, and cross-domain…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Wenxiao Zhang , Yu Liu , Qiang sun , Yihao Ding , Sirui Li , Yanbing Liu , Jin B. Hong , Wei Liu

The increasing cyber threats to critical infrastructure highlight the importance of private companies and government agencies in detecting and sharing information about threat activities. Although the need for improved threat information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Adam Hahn , Rubin Krief , Daniel Rebori-Carretero , Rami Puzis , Aviad Elyashar , Nik Urlaub

In this paper, we propose a novel method for joint entity and relation extraction from unstructured text by framing it as a conditional sequence generation problem. In contrast to conventional generative information extraction models that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Urchade Zaratiana , Nadi Tomeh , Pierre Holat , Thierry Charnois

In modern automotive development, security testing is critical for safeguarding systems against increasingly advanced threats. Attack trees are widely used to systematically represent potential attack vectors, but generating comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Tanmay Khule , Stefan Marksteiner , Jose Alguindigue , Hannes Fuchs , Sebastian Fischmeister , Apurva Narayan

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a dominant paradigm for eliciting long-horizon reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs). However, scaling Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) via RL remains challenging due to interaction collapse: a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xuqin Zhang , Quan He , Zhenrui Zheng , Zongzhang Zhang , Xu He , Dong Li

A plethora of approaches have been proposed for joint entity-relation (ER) extraction. Most of these methods largely depend on a large amount of manually annotated training data. However, manual data annotation is time consuming, labor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Trung Hoang Le , Huiping Cao , Tran Cao Son

The objectives of cyberattacks are becoming sophisticated, and attackers are concealing their identity by masquerading as other attackers. Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is gaining attention as a way to collect meaningful knowledge to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Daegeon Kim , Huy Kang Kim

Entity Recognition (ER) within a text is a fundamental exercise in Natural Language Processing, enabling further depending tasks such as Knowledge Extraction, Text Summarisation, or Keyphrase Extraction. An entity consists of single words…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Andreas Waldis , Luca Mazzola

Fraudulent activities are rapidly evolving, employing increasingly diverse and sophisticated methods that pose serious threats to individuals, organizations, and society. This paper proposes the FIST Framework (Fraud Incident Structured…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yu-Chen Dai , Lu-An Chen , Sy-Jye Her , Yu-Xian Jiang

Open-source cyber threat intelligence (OSCTI) has become essential for keeping up with the rapidly changing threat landscape. However, current OSCTI gathering and management solutions mainly focus on structured Indicators of Compromise…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Peng Gao , Xiaoyuan Liu , Edward Choi , Sibo Ma , Xinyu Yang , Dawn Song

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria are essential for evaluating corporate sustainability and ethical performance. However, professional ESG analysis is hindered by data fragmentation across unstructured sources, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yilei Zhao , Wentao Zhang , Lei Xiao , Yandan Zheng , Mengpu Liu , Wei Yang Bryan Lim

Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) analysts must answer complex questions over large collections of narrative security reports. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems help language models access external knowledge, but traditional vector…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Dzenan Hamzic , Florian Skopik , Max Landauer , Markus Wurzenberger , Andreas Rauber

Scientific information extraction (SciIE) is critical for converting unstructured knowledge from scholarly articles into structured data (entities and relations). Several datasets have been proposed for training and validating SciIE models.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Qi Zhang , Zhijia Chen , Huitong Pan , Cornelia Caragea , Longin Jan Latecki , Eduard Dragut