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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

Malware abuses TLS to encrypt its malicious traffic, preventing examination by content signatures and deep packet inspection. Network detection of malicious TLS flows is an important, but challenging, problem. Prior works have proposed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Gibran Gomez , Platon Kotzias , Matteo Dell'Amico , Leyla Bilge , Juan Caballero

Performing a comprehensive side-channel analysis evaluation of small embedded devices is a process known for its variability and complexity. In real-world experimental setups, the results are largely influenced by a huge amount of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Unai Rioja , Servio Paguada , Lejla Batina , Igor Armendariz

Open-source software (OSS) is a critical component of modern software systems, yet supply chain security remains challenging in practice due to unavailable or obfuscated source code. Consequently, security teams often rely on runtime…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zhuoran Tan , Ke Xiao , Jeremy Singer , Christos Anagnostopoulos

In recent years, malware detection has become an active research topic in the area of Internet of Things (IoT) security. The principle is to exploit knowledge from large quantities of continuously generated malware. Existing algorithms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Marjan Golmaryami , Rahim Taheri , Zahra Pooranian , Mohammad Shojafar , Pei Xiao

Malware is a security threat, and various means are adapted to detect and block them. In this paper, we demonstrate a method where malware can evade malware analysis. The method is based on single-step reverse execution of code using the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Adhokshaj Mishra , Animesh Roy , Manjesh Kumar Hanawal

AI agents increasingly run untrusted code on developer machines: shell commands generated by language models, third-party scripts retrieved at runtime, and tool plugins of unknown provenance. Existing isolation mechanisms impose tradeoffs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Cong Wang , Yusheng Zheng

To reduce Operation and Maintenance (O&M) costs on offshore wind farms, wherein 80% of the O&M cost relates to deploying personnel, the offshore wind sector looks to Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (RAI) for solutions. Barriers to…

Industrial Control Systems are under increased scrutiny. Their security is historically sub-par, and although measures are being taken by the manufacturers to remedy this, the large installed base of legacy systems cannot easily be updated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Pol Van Aubel , Kostas Papagiannopoulos , Łukasz Chmielewski , Christian Doerr

The most common malware detection approaches which are based on signature matching and are not sufficient for metamorphic malware detection, since virus kits and metamorphic engines can produce variants with no resemblance to one another.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Reza Mirzazadeh , Mohammad Hossein Moattar , Majid Vafaei Jahan

The increasing availability of cloud computing and scientific super computers brings great potential for making R accessible through public or shared resources. This allows us to efficiently run code requiring lots of cycles and memory, or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Jeroen Ooms

Cryptography is vital for data security, but cryptographic algorithms can still be vulnerable to side-channel attacks (SCAs), physical assaults exploiting power consumption and EM radiation. SCAs pose a significant threat to cryptographic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Muhammad Rusyaidi Zunaidi , Asanka Sayakkara , Mark Scanlon

WebAssembly is revolutionizing the approach to developing modern applications. Although this technology was born to create portable and performant modules in web browsers, currently, its capabilities are extensively exploited in multiple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Gaetano Perrone , Simon Pietro Romano

In today's interconnected digital landscape, the proliferation of malware poses a significant threat to the security and stability of computer networks and systems worldwide. As the complexity of malicious tactics, techniques, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Dhruv Nandakumar , Devin Quinn , Elijah Soba , Eunyoung Kim , Christopher Redino , Chris Chan , Kevin Choi , Abdul Rahman , Edward Bowen

Pulse-wave Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks generate short, synchronized bursts of traffic that circumvent pattern-based detection and quickly exhaust traditional defense systems. This transient and spatially distributed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Karim Khamaisi , Pascal Kiechl , Katharina Müller , Burkhard Stiller , Bruno Rodrigues

The NPM ecosystem has become a primary target for software supply chain attacks, yet existing detection tools are evaluated in isolation on incompatible datasets, making cross-tool comparison unreliable. We conduct a benchmark-driven…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Wenbo Guo , Zhongwen Chen , Zhengzi Xu , Chengwei Liu , Ming Kang , Shiwen Song , Chengyue Liu , Yijia Xu , Weisong Sun , Yang Liu

Side-channel attacks are an unpredictable risk factor in cryptography. Therefore, continuous observations of physical leakages are essential to minimise vulnerabilities associated with cryptographic functions. Lightweight cryptography is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Nilupulee A. Gunathilake , Ahmed Al-Dubai , William J. Buchanan , Owen Lo

An online template attack (OTA) is a powerful technique previously used to attack elliptic curve scalar multiplication algorithms. This attack has only been analyzed in the realm of power consumption and EM side channels, where the signals…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Alejandro Cabrera Aldaya , Billy Bob Brumley

In the era of microarchitectural side channels, vendors scramble to deploy mitigations for transient execution attacks, but leave traditional side-channel attacks against sensitive software (e.g., crypto programs) to be fixed by developers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Pietro Borrello , Daniele Cono D'Elia , Leonardo Querzoni , Cristiano Giuffrida

Sensor attacks compromise the reliability of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) by altering sensor outputs with the objective of leading the system to unsafe system states. This paper studies a probabilistic intrusion detection framework based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Parastou Fahim , Samuel Oliveira , Rômulo Meira-Góes