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We introduce a system for automatically generating warnings of imminent or current cyber-threats. Our system leverages the communication of malicious actors on the darkweb, as well as activity of cyber security experts on social media…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Anna Sapienza , Alessandro Bessi , Saranya Damodaran , Paulo Shakarian , Kristina Lerman , Emilio Ferrara

Semantic communication systems, which leverage Generative AI (GAI) to transmit semantic meaning rather than raw data, are poised to revolutionize modern communications. However, they are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, a type of poisoning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Ziyang Wei , Yili Jiang , Jiaqi Huang , Fangtian Zhong , Sohan Gyawali

The accelerated development of social media websites has posed intricate security issues in cyberspace, where these sites have increasingly become victims of criminal activities including attempts to intrude into them, abnormal traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Aditi Sanjay Agrawal

In today's digital landscape, where cyber attacks have become the norm, the detection of cyber attacks and threats is critically imperative across diverse domains. Our research presents a new empirical framework for cyber threat modeling,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Urjitkumar Patel , Fang-Chun Yeh , Chinmay Gondhalekar

The purpose of research: Detection of cybersecurity incidents and analysis of decision support and assessment of the effectiveness of measures to counter information security threats based on modern generative models. The methods of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Leonid Legashev , Arthur Zhigalov

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly powerful but remain vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, where malicious inputs cause the model to deviate from its intended instructions. This paper introduces Sentinel, a novel detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Dror Ivry , Oran Nahum

Social media platforms enable instant and ubiquitous connectivity and are essential to social interaction and communication in our technological society. Apart from its advantages, these platforms have given rise to negative behaviors in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Silvia García-Méndez , Francisco De Arriba-Pérez

Compromised accounts on social networks are regular user accounts that have been taken over by an entity with malicious intent. Since the adversary exploits the already established trust of a compromised account, it is crucial to detect…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Dominic Seyler , Lunan Li , ChengXiang Zhai

Cyberbullying has become a pervasive issue based on the rise of cell phones and internet usage affecting individuals worldwide. This paper proposes an open-source intelligence pipeline using data from Twitter to track keywords relevant to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Sylvia Worlali Azumah , Victor Adewopo , Zag ElSayed , Nelly Elsayed , Murat Ozer

The increasing deployment of large language models in security-sensitive domains necessitates rigorous evaluation of their resilience against adversarial prompt-based attacks. While previous benchmarks have focused on security evaluations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Huining Cui , Wei Liu

In this paper, we present an operational system for cyber threat intelligence gathering from various social platforms on the Internet particularly sites on the darknet and deepnet. We focus our attention to collecting information from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Eric Nunes , Ahmad Diab , Andrew Gunn , Ericsson Marin , Vineet Mishra , Vivin Paliath , John Robertson , Jana Shakarian , Amanda Thart , Paulo Shakarian

Telegram is a globally popular instant messaging platform known for its strong emphasis on security, privacy, and unique social networking features. It has recently emerged as the host for various cross-domain analysis and research works,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Susmita Gangopadhyay , Danilo Dessi , Dimitar Dimitrov , Stefan Dietze

Due to the variety of cyber-attacks or threats, the cybersecurity community enhances the traditional security control mechanisms to an advanced level so that automated tools can encounter potential security threats. Very recently, Cyber…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Md Imran Hossen , Ashraful Islam , Farzana Anowar , Eshtiak Ahmed , Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Xiali , Hei

To address the increasing prevalence of (audio-)visual data on social media, and to capture the evolving and dynamic nature of this communication, researchers have begun to explore the potential of unsupervised approaches for analyzing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Elisabeth Steffen

The field of cybersecurity is confronted with two interrelated challenges: a worldwide deficit of qualified practitioners and ongoing human-factor weaknesses that account for the bulk of security incidents. To tackle these issues, we…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Nikolaos D. Tantaroudas , Ilias Karachalios , Andrew J. McCracken

Siren represents a pioneering research effort aimed at fortifying cybersecurity through strategic integration of deception, machine learning, and proactive threat analysis. Drawing inspiration from mythical sirens, this project employs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Samhruth Ananthanarayanan , Girish Kulathumani , Ganesh Narayanan

To be prepared against cyberattacks, most organizations resort to security information and event management systems to monitor their infrastructures. These systems depend on the timeliness and relevance of the latest updates, patches and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Nuno Dionísio , Fernando Alves , Pedro M. Ferreira , Alysson Bessani

With rise in security breaches over the past few years, there has been an increasing need to mine insights from social media platforms to raise alerts of possible attacks in an attempt to defend conflict during competition. We use…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Soumajyoti Sarkar , Mohammad Almukaynizi , Jana Shakarian , Paulo Shakarian

Sybil attacks are becoming increasingly widespread, and pose a significant threat to online social systems; a single adversary can inject multiple colluding identities in the system to compromise security and privacy. Recent works have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Peng Gao , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Sanjeev Kulkarni , Kurt Thomas , Prateek Mittal

Breaking cybersecurity events are shared across a range of websites, including security blogs (FireEye, Kaspersky, etc.), in addition to social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. In this paper, we investigate methods to analyze…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Shi Zong , Alan Ritter , Graham Mueller , Evan Wright