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Financial fraud detection is critical for maintaining the integrity of financial systems, particularly in decentralised environments such as cryptocurrency networks. Although Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are widely used for financial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Omkar Kulkarni , Rohitash Chandra

Graph-based fraud detection (GFD) can be regarded as a challenging semi-supervised node binary classification task. In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have been widely applied to GFD, characterizing the anomalous possibility of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Fan Xu , Nan Wang , Hao Wu , Xuezhi Wen , Xibin Zhao , Hai Wan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely applied to fraud detection problems in recent years, revealing the suspiciousness of nodes by aggregating their neighborhood information via different relations. However, few prior works have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Yingtong Dou , Zhiwei Liu , Li Sun , Yutong Deng , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu

With the escalating prevalence of malicious activities exploiting vulnerabilities in blockchain systems, there is an urgent requirement for robust attack detection mechanisms. To address this challenge, this paper presents a novel…

Malware detection in modern computing environments demands models that are not only accurate but also interpretable and robust to evasive techniques. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown promise in this domain by modeling rich structural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hossein Shokouhinejad , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Griffin Higgins , Ali A Ghorbani

Ethereum faces growing fraud threats. Current fraud detection methods, whether employing graph neural networks or sequence models, fail to consider the semantic information and similarity patterns within transactions. Moreover, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Jianguo Sun , Yifan Jia , Yanbin Wang , Yiwei Liu , Zhang Sheng , Ye Tian

Combating money laundering has become increasingly complex with the rise of cybercrime and digitalization of financial transactions. Graph-based machine learning techniques have emerged as promising tools for Anti-Money Laundering (AML)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Fabrianne Effendi , Anupam Chattopadhyay

Corporate fraud detection aims to automatically recognize companies that conduct wrongful activities such as fraudulent financial statements or illegal insider trading. Previous learning-based methods fail to effectively integrate rich…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Shiqi Wang , Zhibo Zhang , Libing Fang , Cam-Tu Nguyen , Wenzhong Li

With the rapid development of mobile networks, the people's social contacts have been considerably facilitated. However, the rise of mobile social network fraud upon those networks, has caused a great deal of distress, in case of depleting…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Xinxin Hu , Haotian Chen , Hongchang Chen , Shuxin Liu , Xing Li , Shibo Zhang , Yahui Wang , Xiangyang Xue

Current anti-money laundering (AML) systems, predominantly rule-based, exhibit notable shortcomings in efficiently and precisely detecting instances of money laundering. As a result, there has been a recent surge toward exploring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Fredrik Johannessen , Martin Jullum

Due to the decentralized and public nature of the Blockchain ecosystem, the malicious activities on the Ethereum platform impose immeasurable losses for the users. Existing phishing scam detection methods mostly rely only on the analysis of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Jinhuan Wang , Pengtao Chen , Xinyao Xu , Jiajing Wu , Meng Shen , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

Collaborative fraud, where multiple fraudulent accounts coordinate to exploit online payment systems, poses significant challenges due to the formation of complex network structures. Traditional detection methods that rely solely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Chi Liu

The rise of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, which enable transactions with a degree of pseudonymity, has led to a surge in various illicit activities, including ransomware payments and transactions on darknet markets. These illegal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Poupak Azad , Baris Coskunuzer , Murat Kantarcioglu , Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora

Fraud detection aims to discover fraudsters deceiving other users by, for example, leaving fake reviews or making abnormal transactions. Graph-based fraud detection methods consider this task as a classification problem with two classes:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Heehyeon Kim , Jinhyeok Choi , Joyce Jiyoung Whang

Ethereum has become one of the primary global platforms for cryptocurrency, playing an important role in promoting the diversification of the financial ecosystem. However, the relative lag in regulation has led to a proliferation of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Jiajun Zhou , Xuanze Chen , Shengbo Gong , Chenkai Hu , Chengxiang Jin , Shanqing Yu , Qi Xuan

This paper presents a Temporal Graph Neural Network (TGNN) framework for detection and localization of false data injection and ramp attacks on the system state in smart grids. Capturing the topological information of the system through the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Seyed Hamed Haghshenas , Md Abul Hasnat , Mia Naeini

Rapid and massive adoption of mobile/ online payment services has brought new challenges to the service providers as well as regulators in safeguarding the proper uses such services/ systems. In this paper, we leverage recent advances in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Da Sun Handason Tam , Wing Cheong Lau , Bin Hu , Qiu Fang Ying , Dah Ming Chiu , Hong Liu

Bitcoin transaction networks are large scale socio- technical systems in which activities are represented through multi-hop interaction patterns. Graph Neural Networks(GNNs) have become a widely adopted tool for analyzing such systems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Ankit Ghimire , Saydul Akbar Murad , Nick Rahimi

With the rapid growth of interconnected devices, accurately detecting malicious activities in network traffic has become increasingly challenging. Most existing deep learning-based intrusion detection systems treat network flows as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Devashish Chaudhary , Sutharshan Rajasegarar , Shiva Raj Pokhrel

Blockchain is a decentralized, distributed ledger technology that ensures transparency, security, and immutability through cryptographic techniques. However, advancements in quantum computing threaten the security of classical cryptographic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Nicholas J. C. Papadopoulos