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Identifying, analyzing, and evaluating cybersecurity risks are essential to assess the vulnerabilities of modern manufacturing infrastructures and to devise effective decision-making strategies to secure critical manufacturing against…

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Multi-source logs provide a comprehensive overview of ongoing system activities, allowing for in-depth analysis to detect potential threats. A practical approach for threat detection involves explicit extraction of entity triples (subject,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zhuoran Tan , Christos Anagnostopoulos , Shameem P. Parambath , Jeremy Singer

Malware analysis techniques are divided into static and dynamic analysis. Both techniques can be bypassed by circumvention techniques such as obfuscation. In a series of works, the authors have promoted the use of symbolic executions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Charles-Henry Bertrand Van Ouytsel , Axel Legay

Although cyberattacks on machine learning (ML) production systems can be harmful, today, security practitioners are ill equipped, lacking methodologies and tactical tools that would allow them to analyze the security risks of their ML-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Ron Bitton , Nadav Maman , Inderjeet Singh , Satoru Momiyama , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

Real-Time systems are essential for promptly responding to external stimuli and completing tasks within predefined time constraints. Ensuring high reliability and robust security in these systems is therefore critical. This requires…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Eliron Rahimi , Kfir Girstein , Roman Malits , Avi Mendelson

The increasingly sophisticated environment in which attackers operate makes software security an even greater challenge in open-source projects, where malicious packages are prevalent. Static analysis tools, such as Malcontent, are highly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Duc-Ly Vu , Thanh-Cong Nguyen , Minh-Khanh Vu , Ngoc-Thanh Nguyen , Kim-Anh Do Thi

The digital transformation of power systems is accelerating the adoption of IEC 61850 standard. However, its communication protocols, including Sampled Values (SV), lack built-in security features such as authentication and encryption,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Nicola Cibin , Bas Mulder , Herman Carstens , Peter Palensky , Alexandru Ştefanov

In order to improve the resilience of computer infrastructure against cyber attacks and finding ways to mitigate their impact we need to understand their structure and dynamics. Here we propose a novel network-based influence spreading…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Vesa Kuikka , Lauri Pykälä , Tuomas Takko , Kimmo Kaski

Software systems have grown as an indispensable commodity used across various industries, and almost all essential services depend on them for effective operation. The software is no longer an independent or stand-alone piece of code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Ritwik Murali , Akash Ravi

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

Attack paths are the potential chain of malicious activities an attacker performs to compromise network assets and acquire privileges through exploiting network vulnerabilities. Attack path analysis helps organizations to identify…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Houssem Jmal , Firas Ben Hmida , Nardine Basta , Muhammad Ikram , Mohamed Ali Kaafar , Andy Walker

Modern software supply chain attacks consist of introducing new, malicious capabilities into trusted third-party software components, in order to propagate to a victim through a package dependency chain. These attacks are especially…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Carmine Cesarano , Martin Monperrus , Roberto Natella

The Software Supply Chain (SSC) has captured considerable attention from attackers seeking to infiltrate systems and undermine organizations. There is evidence indicating that adversaries utilize Social Engineering (SocE) techniques…

With the increasing adoption of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines, securing software supply chains has become a critical challenge for modern DevOps teams. This study addresses these challenges by applying a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sowmiya Dhandapani

Modern information society depends on reliable functionality of information systems infrastructure, while at the same time the number of cyber-attacks has been increasing over the years and damages have been caused. Furthermore, graphs can…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Nikolaos Polatidis , Elias Pimenidis , Michalis Pavlidis , Spyridon Papastergiou , Haralambos Mouratidis

GraphQL's flexibility, while beneficial for efficient data fetching, introduces unique security vulnerabilities that traditional API security mechanisms often fail to address. Malicious GraphQL queries can exploit the language's dynamic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Irash Perera , Hiranya Abeyrathne , Sanjeewa Malalgoda , Arshardh Ifthikar

Software supply chain attacks have revealed blind spots in existing SCA tools, which are often limited to a single ecosystem and assess either software artifacts or community activity in isolation. This fragmentation across tools and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Ziheng Liu , Runzhi He , Minghui Zhou

Trojanized software packages used in software supply chain attacks constitute an emerging threat. Unfortunately, there is still a lack of scalable approaches that allow automated and timely detection of malicious software packages and thus…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Marc Ohm , Lukas Kempf , Felix Boes , Michael Meier

This paper systematizes knowledge about secure software supply chain patterns. It identifies four stages of a software supply chain attack and proposes three security properties crucial for a secured supply chain: transparency, validity,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Chinenye Okafor , Taylor R. Schorlemmer , Santiago Torres-Arias , James C. Davis

CySecTool is a tool that finds a cost-optimal security controls portfolio in a given budget for a probabilistic attack graph. A portfolio is a set of counter-measures, or controls, against vulnerabilities adopted for a computer system,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Przemysław Buczkowski , Pasquale Malacaria , Chris Hankin , Andrew Fielder