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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

Advanced persistent threats (APTs) pose significant challenges for organizations, leading to data breaches, financial losses, and reputational damage. Existing provenance-based approaches for APT detection often struggle with high false…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yonatan Amaru , Prasanna Wudali , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are a main impendence in cyber security of computer networks. In 2015, a successful breach remains undetected 146 days on average, reported by [Fi16].With our work we demonstrate a feasible and fast way to…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Timo Schindler

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) is challenging to detect due to prolonged duration, infrequent occurrence, and adept concealment techniques. Existing approaches primarily concentrate on the observable traits of attack behaviors, neglecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Xiaoxiao Liu , Fan Xu , Nan Wang , Qinxin Zhao , Dalin Zhang , Xibin Zhao , Jiqiang Liu

Anomaly detection is a critical task in cybersecurity, where identifying insider threats, access violations, and coordinated attacks is essential for ensuring system resilience. Graph-based approaches have become increasingly important for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Laura Jiang , Reza Ryan , Qian Li , Nasim Ferdosian

To protect an organizations' endpoints from sophisticated cyberattacks, advanced detection methods are required. In this research, we present GCNetOmaly: a graph convolutional network (GCN)-based variational autoencoder (VAE) anomaly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yizhak Vaisman , Gilad Katz , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

Advanced attack campaigns span across multiple stages and stay stealthy for long time periods. There is a growing trend of attackers using off-the-shelf tools and pre-installed system applications (such as \emph{powershell} and \emph{wmic})…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Aditya Kuppa , Slawomir Grzonkowski , Muhammad Rizwan Asghar , Nhien-An Le-Khac

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

We present ProvG-Searcher, a novel approach for detecting known APT behaviors within system security logs. Our approach leverages provenance graphs, a comprehensive graph representation of event logs, to capture and depict data provenance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Enes Altinisik , Fatih Deniz , Husrev Taha Sencar

Cyber-physical-social systems (CPSSs) have emerged in many applications over recent decades, requiring increased attention to security concerns. The rise of sophisticated threats like Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) makes ensuring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Saba Fathi Rabooki , Bowen Li , Falih Gozi Febrinanto , Ciyuan Peng , Elham Naghizade , Fengling Han , Feng Xia

APT detection is difficult to detect due to the long-term latency, covert and slow multistage attack patterns of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT). To tackle these issues, we propose TBDetector, a transformer-based advanced persistent threat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Nan Wang , Xuezhi Wen , Dalin Zhang , Xibin Zhao , Jiahui Ma , Mengxia Luo , Fan Xu , Sen Nie , Shi Wu , Jiqiang Liu

Cyber Threat hunting is a proactive search for known attack behaviors in the organizational information system. It is an important component to mitigate advanced persistent threats (APTs). However, the attack behaviors recorded in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Renzheng Wei , Lijun Cai , Aimin Yu , Dan Meng

Semi-supervised and unsupervised Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN)-based methods have been gaining popularity in anomaly detection task recently. However, GAN training is somewhat challenging and unstable. Inspired from previous work in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Ha Son Vu , Daisuke Ueta , Kiyoshi Hashimoto , Kazuki Maeno , Sugiri Pranata , Sheng Mei Shen

Illicit financial activities such as money laundering often manifest through recurrent topological patterns in transaction networks. Detecting these patterns automatically remains challenging due to the scarcity of labeled real-world data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Francesco Zola , Lucia Muñoz , Andrea Venturi , Amaia Gil

Graph neural networks have been used for a variety of learning tasks, such as link prediction, node classification, and node clustering. Among them, link prediction is a relatively under-studied graph learning task, with current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Xinxing Wu , Qiang Cheng

This study proposes a risk pricing anomaly detection method for social network user portraits based on graph neural networks (GNNs), aiming to improve the ability to identify abnormal users in social network environments. In view of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yiwei Zhang

Detecting unusual patterns in graph data is a crucial task in data mining. However, existing methods face challenges in consistently achieving satisfactory performance and often lack interpretability, which hinders our understanding of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Yifei Yang , Peng Wang , Xiaofan He , Dongmian Zou

Recently, the introduction of the generative adversarial network (GAN) and its variants has enabled the generation of realistic synthetic samples, which has been used for enlarging training sets. Previous work primarily focused on data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Swee Kiat Lim , Yi Loo , Ngoc-Trung Tran , Ngai-Man Cheung , Gemma Roig , Yuval Elovici

This paper investigates Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) application for self-supervised network intrusion and anomaly detection. GNNs are a deep learning approach for graph-based data that incorporate graph structures into learning to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Evan Caville , Wai Weng Lo , Siamak Layeghy , Marius Portmann

Advanced persistent threats (APT) are stealthy, sophisticated, and unpredictable cyberattacks that can steal intellectual property, damage critical infrastructure, or cause millions of dollars in damage. Detecting APTs by monitoring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Ghita Berrada , Sidahmed Benabderrahmane , James Cheney , William Maxwell , Himan Mookherjee , Alec Theriault , Ryan Wright