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Person re-identification (re-id) models are vital in security surveillance systems, requiring transferable adversarial attacks to explore the vulnerabilities of them. Recently, vision-language models (VLM) based attacks have shown superior…

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In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the rapid identification and mitigation of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) is crucial. Security practitioners rely on detailed threat reports to understand the tactics, techniques, and…

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Attack graphs provide a representation of possible actions that adversaries can perpetrate to attack a system. They are used by cybersecurity experts to make decisions, e.g., to decide remediation and recovery plans. Different approaches…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Kéren Saint-Hilaire , Frédéric Cuppens , Nora Cuppens , Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro

Modern cyber attackers use advanced zero-day exploits, highly targeted spear phishing, and other social engineering techniques to gain access and also use evasion techniques to maintain a prolonged presence within the victim network while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Bibek Bhattarai , H. Howie Huang

Graph Attention Networks (GATs) have emerged as powerful models for learning expressive representations from such data by adaptively weighting neighboring nodes through attention mechanisms. However, most existing approaches primarily rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Farshad Noravesh , Reza Haffari , Layki Soon , Arghya Pal

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) infiltrate cyber systems and compromise specifically targeted data and/or resources through a sequence of stealthy attacks consisting of multiple stages. Dynamic information flow tracking has been proposed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Shana Moothedath , Dinuka Sahabandu , Joey Allen , Andrew Clark , Linda Bushnell , Wenke Lee , Radha Poovendran

Graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (Graph RAG) is increasingly deployed to support LLM applications by augmenting user queries with structured knowledge retrieved from a knowledge graph. While Graph RAG improves relational…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Minkyoo Song , Jaehan Kim , Myungchul Kang , Hanna Kim , Seungwon Shin , Sooel Son

Industrial multi-label document understanding pipelines score candidate labels and threshold or rank them to form a label set per document. This early selection step directly affects the accuracy of downstream information extraction from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Lasal Jayawardena , Nirmalie Wiratunga , Ikechukwu Nkisi-Orji , Darren Nicol

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become a widely adopted interface for LLM agents to invoke external tools, yet learned monitoring of MCP tool-call traffic remains underexplored. In this article, the proposed detector is presented as an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Sultan Zavrak

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a widely used tool to extract text from scanned documents. Today, the state-of-the-art is achieved by exploiting deep neural networks. However, the cost of this performance is paid at the price of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Mauro Conti , Nicola Farronato , Stefanos Koffas , Luca Pajola , Stjepan Picek

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used as the engine for various graph-related tasks, with their effectiveness in analyzing graph-structured data. However, training robust GNNs often demands abundant labeled data, which is a critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Siyue Xie , Da Sun Handason Tam , Wing Cheong Lau

Anomaly detection (such as telecom fraud detection and medical image detection) has attracted the increasing attention of people. The complex interaction between multiple entities widely exists in the network, which can reflect specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Xu Yuan , Na Zhou , Shuo Yu , Huafei Huang , Zhikui Chen , Feng Xia

A cyber-attack is a malicious attempt by experienced hackers to breach the target information system. Usually, the cyber-attacks are characterized as hybrid TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) and long-term adversarial behaviors,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Mingqi Lv , Chengyu Dong , Tieming Chen , Tiantian Zhu , Qijie Song , Yuan Fan

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) represent a sophisticated and persistent cy-bersecurity challenge, characterized by stealthy, multi-phase, and targeted attacks aimed at compromising information systems over an extended period.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Bassam Noori Shaker , Bahaa Al-Musawi , Mohammed Falih Hassan

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are stealthy attacks that threaten the security and privacy of sensitive information. Interactions of APTs with victim system introduce information flows that are recorded in the system logs. Dynamic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Dinuka Sahabandu , Shana Moothedath , Joey Allen , Linda Bushnell , Wenke Lee , Radha Poovendran

Ensuring the safety of large language models (LLMs) is paramount, yet identifying potential vulnerabilities is challenging. While manual red teaming is effective, it is time-consuming, costly and lacks scalability. Automated red teaming…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Bojian Jiang , Yi Jing , Tianhao Shen , Tong Wu , Qing Yang , Deyi Xiong

As Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) complexity increases, provenance data is increasingly used for detection. Anomaly-based systems are gaining attention due to their attack-knowledge-agnostic nature and ability to counter zero-day…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jie Ying , Mengce Zheng , Jungan Chen , Ruoxi Chen , Zhongjie Zhua , Tiantian Zhu

Advanced Persistent Threats or APTs are big challenges to the security of government organizations or industry systems. These threats may result in stealth attacks, but if the attack is confronted before the attacker end goal has been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Rudra Prasad Baksi , Shambhu J. Upadhyaya

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances LLMs by grounding generation in query-relevant external evidence. Beyond unstructured text corpora, Graph RAG integrates knowledge graphs into the retrieval pipeline, enabling LLMs to access…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jinze Gu , Qinghua Mao , Xi Lin , Jun Wu

Host-based threats such as Program Attack, Malware Implantation, and Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), are commonly adopted by modern attackers. Recent studies propose leveraging the rich contextual information in data provenance to detect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Su Wang , Zhiliang Wang , Tao Zhou , Xia Yin , Dongqi Han , Han Zhang , Hongbin Sun , Xingang Shi , Jiahai Yang