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The increasing sophistication of cyber threats has necessitated the development of advanced detection mechanisms capable of identifying malicious activities with high precision and efficiency. A novel approach, termed Autonomous Feature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Barnaby Quince , Levi Gareth , Sophie Larkspur , Thaddeus Wobblethorn , Thomas Quibble

Ransomware defense solutions that can quickly detect and classify different ransomware classes to formulate rapid response plans have been in high demand in recent years. Though the applicability of adopting deep learning techniques to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Jinting Zhu , Julian Jang-Jaccard , Amardeep Singh , Ian Welch , Harith AI-Sahaf , Seyit Camtepe

Since modern anti-virus software mainly depends on a signature-based static analysis, they are not suitable for coping with the rapid increase in malware variants. Moreover, even worse, many vulnerabilities of operating systems enable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Manabu Hirano , Ryotaro Kobayashi

This paper introduces a decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning framework enabling structurally heterogeneous teams of agents to jointly discover and acquire randomly located targets in environments characterized by partial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Gabriele Calzolari , Vidya Sumathy , Christoforos Kanellakis , George Nikolakopoulos

Ransomware is a type of malware which encrypts user data and extorts payments in return for the decryption keys. This cyberthreat is one of the most serious challenges facing organizations today and has already caused immense financial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Aldin Vehabovic , Hadi Zanddizari , Nasir Ghani , G. Javidi , S. Uluagac , M. Rahouti , E. Bou-Harb , M. Safaei Pour

With the wide application of multimodal foundation models in intelligent agent systems, scenarios such as mobile device control, intelligent assistant interaction, and multimodal task execution are gradually relying on such large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Siyuan Liang , Tianmeng Fang , Zhe Liu , Aishan Liu , Yan Xiao , Jinyuan He , Ee-Chien Chang , Xiaochun Cao

Recent statistics show that in 2015 more than 140 millions new malware samples have been found. Among these, a large portion is due to ransomware, the class of malware whose specific goal is to render the victim's system unusable, in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Daniele Sgandurra , Luis Muñoz-González , Rabih Mohsen , Emil C. Lupu

Cybercrime is one of the major digital threats of this century. In particular, ransomware attacks have significantly increased, resulting in global damage costs of tens of billion dollars. In this paper, we train and test different Machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Benjamin Marais , Tony Quertier , Stéphane Morucci

Ransomware constitutes a significant threat to the Android operating system. It can either lock or encrypt the target devices, and victims are forced to pay ransoms to restore their data. Hence, the prompt detection of such attacks has a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Michele Scalas , Davide Maiorca , Francesco Mercaldo , Corrado Aaron Visaggio , Fabio Martinelli , Giorgio Giacinto

While large language model-based agents demonstrate great potential in collaborative tasks, their interactivity also introduces security vulnerabilities. In this paper, we propose and model group collusive attacks, a highly destructive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yiling Tao , Xinran Zheng , Shuo Yang , Meiling Tao , Xingjun Wang

The widespread adoption of open-source software (OSS) necessitates the mitigation of vulnerability risks. Most vulnerability detection (VD) methods are limited by inadequate contextual understanding, restrictive single-round interactions,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Youpeng Li , Kartik Joshi , Xinda Wang , Eric Wong

As language models (LMs) are used to build autonomous agents in real environments, ensuring their adversarial robustness becomes a critical challenge. Unlike chatbots, agents are compound systems with multiple components taking actions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Chen Henry Wu , Rishi Shah , Jing Yu Koh , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Daniel Fried , Aditi Raghunathan

We introduce a multicrossmodal LLM-agent framework motivated by the growing volume and diversity of materials-science data ranging from high-resolution microscopy and dynamic simulation videos to tabular experiment logs and sprawling…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-22 Adib Bazgir , Rama chandra Praneeth Madugula , Yuwen Zhang

The rapid evolution of encryption-based threats has rendered conventional detection mechanisms increasingly ineffective against sophisticated attack strategies. Monitoring entropy variations across hierarchical system levels offers an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Hayden Srynn , Gilbert Pomeroy , Florence Lytton , Godfrey Ashcombe , Valentine Harcourt , Duncan Pettigrew

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly grounded in sensor data to perceive and reason about human physiology and the physical world. However, accurately interpreting heterogeneous multimodal sensor data remains a fundamental…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Hyungjun Yoon , Mohammad Malekzadeh , Sung-Ju Lee , Fahim Kawsar , Lorena Qendro

Modern cybersecurity landscapes increasingly demand sophisticated detection frameworks capable of identifying evolving threats with precision and adaptability. The proposed Zero-Space Detection framework introduces a novel approach that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Lafedi Svet , Arthur Brightwell , Augustus Wildflower , Cecily Marshwood

In the insurance industry detecting fraudulent claims is a critical task with a significant financial impact. A common strategy to identify fraudulent claims is looking for inconsistencies in the supporting evidence. However, this is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Azin Asgarian , Rohit Saha , Daniel Jakubovitz , Julia Peyre

Protecting state-of-the-art AI-based cybersecurity defense systems from cyber attacks is crucial. Attackers create adversarial examples by adding small changes (i.e., perturbations) to the attack features to evade or fool the deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Manabu Hirano , Ryotaro Kobayashi

Multiagent reinforcement learning, as a prominent intelligent paradigm, enables collaborative decision-making within complex systems. However, existing approaches often rely on explicit action exchange between agents to evaluate action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Zhenglong Luo , Zhiyong Chen , Aoxiang Liu

Organisations are starting to adopt LLM-based AI agents, with their deployments naturally evolving from single agents towards interconnected, multi-agent networks. Yet a collection of safe agents does not guarantee a safe collection of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Alistair Reid , Simon O'Callaghan , Liam Carroll , Tiberio Caetano