English
Related papers

Related papers: Hypervisor-based Double Extortion Ransomware Detec…

200 papers

Currently, different forms of ransomware are increasingly threatening Internet users. Modern ransomware encrypts important user data and it is only possible to recover it once a ransom has been paid. In this paper we show how…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Krzysztof Cabaj , Wojciech Mazurczyk

Ransomware attacks have increased significantly in recent years, causing great destruction and damage to critical systems and business operations. Attackers are unfailingly finding innovative ways to bypass detection mechanisms,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Avinash Singh , Richard Adeyemi Ikuesan , Hein Venter

The Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems have been continuously leveraging the evolution of network architecture, communication protocols, next-generation communication techniques (5G, 6G, Wi-Fi 6), and the internet of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-16 Manoj Basnet , Subash Poudyal , Mohd. Hasan Ali , Dipankar Dasgupta

Many cyberattacks start with disseminating phishing URLs. When clicking these phishing URLs, the victim's private information is leaked to the attacker. There have been proposed several machine learning methods to detect phishing URLs.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Taeri Kim , Noseong Park , Jiwon Hong , Sang-Wook Kim

Although ransomware has received broad attention in media and research, this evolving threat vector still poses a systematic threat. Related literature has explored their detection using various approaches leveraging Machine and Deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Jan von der Assen , Chao Feng , Alberto Huertas Celdrán , Róbert Oleš , Gérôme Bovet , Burkhard Stiller

Entropy-based detection methodologies have gained significant attention due to their ability to analyze structural irregularities within executable files, particularly in the identification of malicious software employing advanced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Peter Idliman , Wilfred Balfour , Benedict Featheringham , Hugo Chesterfield

Recently more and more attention has been paid to the intrusion detection systems (IDS) which don't rely on signature based detection approach. Such solutions try to increase their defense level by using heuristics detection methods like…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-06-11 Piotr Bania

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks remain a serious threat to online infrastructure, often bypassing detection by altering traffic in subtle ways. We present a method using hive-plot sequences of network data and a 3D…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Landon Bragg , Nathan Dorsey , Josh Prior , John Ajit , Ben Kim , Nate Willis , Pablo Rivas

Ransomware attacks have caused billions of dollars in damages in recent years, and are expected to cause billions more in the future. Consequently, significant effort has been devoted to ransomware detection and mitigation. Behavioral-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Dorjan Hitaj , Giulio Pagnotta , Fabio De Gaspari , Lorenzo De Carli , Luigi V. Mancini

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are notoriously vulnerable to adversarial input designs with limited noise budgets. While numerous successful attacks with subtle modifications to original input have been proposed, defense techniques against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Furkan Mumcu , Yasin Yilmaz

Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) are essential for protecting computer networks from malicious activities, including Denial of Service (DoS), Probing, User-to-Root (U2R), and Remote-to-Local (R2L) attacks. Without effective NIDS,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Ayush Kumar Sharma , Sourav Patel , Supriya Bharat Wakchaure , Abirami S

File encrypting ransomware increasingly employs intermittent encryption techniques, encrypting only parts of files to evade classical detection methods. These strategies, exemplified by ransomware families like BlackCat, complicate file…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Ynes Ineza , Gerald Jackson , Prince Niyonkuru , Jaden Kevil , Abdul Serwadda

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks pose a significant threat to the stability and reliability of online systems. Effective and early detection of such attacks is pivotal for safeguarding the integrity of networks. In this work, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Ali Alfatemi , Mohamed Rahouti , Ruhul Amin , Sarah ALJamal , Kaiqi Xiong , Yufeng Xin

Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack is one of the most common network attacks. DDoS attacks are becoming more and more diverse, which makes it difficult for some DDoS attack detection methods based on single network flow…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Li Yijie , Zhai Shang , Chen Mingrui

This article attempts to discover the surreptitious features of ransomware and to address it in information systems security research. It intends to elicit attention with regard to ransomware, a newly emerged cyber threat using such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Akashdeep Bhardwaj , G. V. B. Subrahmanyam , Vinay Avasthi , Hanumat Sastry

The rise of ransomware attacks has necessitated the development of effective strategies for identifying and mitigating these threats. This research investigates the utilization of a feature selection algorithm for distinguishing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Mike Nkongolo

Growing number of network devices and services have led to increasing demand for protective measures as hackers launch attacks to paralyze or steal information from victim systems. Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is one of the essential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Hyeokmin Gwon , Chungjun Lee , Rakun Keum , Heeyoul Choi

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is one of the most prevalent attacks that an organizational network infrastructure comes across nowadays. We propose a deep learning based multi-vector DDoS detection system in a software-defined network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Quamar Niyaz , Weiqing Sun , Ahmad Y Javaid

The increasing complexity of cryptographic extortion techniques has necessitated the development of adaptive detection frameworks capable of identifying adversarial encryption behaviors without reliance on predefined signatures.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Vasili Iskorohodov , Maximilian Ravensdale , Matthias von Holstein , Hugo Petrovic , Adrian Yardley

Ransomware is a significant global threat, with easy deployment due to the prevalent ransomware-as-a-service model. Machine learning algorithms incorporating the use of opcode characteristics and Support Vector Machine have been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-30 James Baldwin , Ali Dehghantanha