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Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) have grown increasingly complex and concealed, posing formidable challenges to existing Intrusion Detection Systems in identifying and mitigating these attacks. Recent studies have incorporated graph…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Wenhan Jiang , Tingting Chai , Hongri Liu , Kai Wang , Hongke Zhang

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions embrace the method of attack provenance graph to discover unknown threats through system event correlation. However, this method still faces some unsolved problems in the fields of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Peilun Wu , Nan Sun , Nour Moustafa , Youyang Qu , Ming Ding

Identifying the root cause and impact of a system intrusion remains a foundational challenge in computer security. Digital provenance provides a detailed history of the flow of information within a computing system, connecting suspicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Thomas Pasquier , Xueyuan Han , Thomas Moyer , Adam Bates , Olivier Hermant , David Eyers , Jean Bacon , Margo Seltzer

The need for countering Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks has led to the solutions that ubiquitously monitor system activities in each enterprise host, and perform timely abnormal system behavior detection over the stream of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Peng Gao , Xusheng Xiao , Ding Li , Kangkook Jee , Haifeng Chen , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , Prateek Mittal

Recently, advanced cyber attacks, which consist of a sequence of steps that involve many vulnerabilities and hosts, compromise the security of many well-protected businesses. This has led to the solutions that ubiquitously monitor system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Peng Gao , Xusheng Xiao , Ding Li , Zhichun Li , Kangkook Jee , Zhenyu Wu , Chung Hwan Kim , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , Prateek Mittal

Provenance graph analysis plays a vital role in intrusion detection, particularly against Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), by exposing complex attack patterns. While recent systems combine graph neural networks (GNNs) with natural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yi Huang , Shaofei Li , Yao Guo , Xiangqun Chen , Ding Li , Wajih Ul Hassan

Work on knowledge graphs and graph-based data management often focus either on declarative graph query languages or on frameworks for graph analytics, where there has been little work in trying to combine both approaches. However, many…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Aidan Hogan , Juan Reutter , Adrian Soto

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) pose critical challenges to modern cybersecurity due to their multi-stage and stealthy nature. While provenance-based detection approaches show promise in capturing causal attack semantics, current threat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Wenhao Yan , Ning An , Linxu Li , Bingsheng Bi , Bo Jiang , Zhigang Lu , Baoxu Liu , Junrong Liu , Cong Dong

GraphQL is an open-source data query and manipulation language for web applications, offering a flexible alternative to RESTful APIs. However, its dynamic execution model and lack of built-in security mechanisms expose it to vulnerabilities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Omar Tsai , Jianing Li , Tsz Tung Cheung , Lejing Huang , Hao Zhu , Jianrui Xiao , Iman Sharafaldin , Mohammad A. Tayebi

GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime to execute queries. Using GraphQL queries, clients define precisely what data they wish to retrieve or mutate on a server, leading to fewer round trips and reduced response sizes. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Erik Wittern , Alan Cha , James C. Davis , Guillaume Baudart , Louis Mandel

Advance Persistent Threats (APTs), adopted by most delicate attackers, are becoming increasing common and pose great threat to various enterprises and institutions. Data provenance analysis on provenance graphs has emerged as a common…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Zian Jia , Yun Xiong , Yuhong Nan , Yao Zhang , Jinjing Zhao , Mi Wen

Modern enterprise networks comprise diverse and heterogeneous systems that support a wide range of services, making it challenging for administrators to track and analyze sophisticated attacks such as advanced persistent threats (APTs),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Seunghyeon Lee , Hyunmin Seo , Hwanjo Heo , Anduo Wang , Seungwon Shin , Jinwoo Kim

Graph neural networks (GNNs) provide important prospective insights in applications such as social behavior analysis and financial risk analysis based on their powerful learning capabilities on graph data. Nevertheless, GNNs' predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Yuecen Wei , Xingcheng Fu , Lingyun Liu , Qingyun Sun , Hao Peng , Chunming Hu

Advanced persistent threats (APTs) are stealthy and multi-stage, making single-point defenses (e.g., malware- or traffic-based detectors) ill-suited to capture long-range and cross-entity attack semantics. Provenance-graph analysis has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Mingqi Lv , Shanshan Zhang , Haiwen Liu , Tieming Chen , Tiantian Zhu

In cybersecurity, security analysts constantly face the challenge of mitigating newly discovered vulnerabilities in real-time, with over 300,000 vulnerabilities identified since 1999. The sheer volume of known vulnerabilities complicates…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Reza Fayyazi , Stella Hoyos Trueba , Michael Zuzak , Shanchieh Jay Yang

Recent advances in AI-powered image editing tools have significantly lowered the barrier to image modification, raising pressing security concerns those related to spreading misinformation and disinformation on social platforms. Image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Keyang Zhang , Chenqi Kong , Shiqi Wang , Anderson Rocha , Haoliang Li

Data provenance is a valuable tool for detecting and preventing cyber attack, providing insight into the nature of suspicious events. For example, an administrator can use provenance to identify the perpetrator of a data leak, track an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Adam Bates , Kevin Butler , Alin Dobra , Brad Reaves , Patrick Cable , Thomas Moyer , Nabil Schear

We introduce PROVSEEK, an LLM-powered agentic framework for automated provenance-driven forensic analysis and threat intelligence extraction. PROVSEEK employs specialized toolchains to dynamically retrieve relevant context by generating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Kunal Mukherjee , Murat Kantarcioglu

Query-based black-box attacks have emerged as a significant threat to machine learning systems, where adversaries can manipulate the input queries to generate adversarial examples that can cause misclassification of the model. To counter…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Shaofei Li , Ziqi Zhang , Haomin Jia , Ding Li , Yao Guo , Xiangqun Chen

Cyber supply chain, encompassing digital asserts, software, hardware, has become an essential component of modern Information and Communications Technology (ICT) provisioning. However, the growing inter-dependencies have introduced numerous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Zhuoran Tan , Christos Anagnostopoulos , Jeremy Singer