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Backdoor attacks pose significant challenges to the security of machine learning models, particularly for overparameterized models like deep neural networks. In this paper, we propose ProP (Propagation Perturbation), a novel and scalable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Tao Ren , Qiongxiu Li

Cyber deception allows compensating the late response of defenders countermeasures to the ever evolving tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of attackers. This proactive defense strategy employs decoys resembling legitimate system…

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This study introduces an innovative approach to automating Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) processes in industrial environments by leveraging Microsoft's AI-powered security technologies. Historically, CTI has heavily relied on manual…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Shrit Shah , Fatemeh Khoda Parast

Dynamic analysis methods effectively identify shelled, wrapped, or obfuscated malware, thereby preventing them from invading computers. As a significant representation of dynamic malware behavior, the API (Application Programming Interface)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Pei Yan , Shunquan Tan , Miaohui Wang , Jiwu Huang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) remain largely opaque at inference time, limiting our ability to detect and diagnose malicious input manipulations such as adversarial examples. Existing detection methods predominantly rely on layer-local…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Firas Ben Hmida , Philemon Hailemariam , Kashif Ali Khan , Birhanu Eshete

The need for countering Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks has led to the solutions that ubiquitously monitor system activities in each host, and perform timely attack investigation over the monitoring data for analyzing attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Peng Gao , Xusheng Xiao , Zhichun Li , Kangkook Jee , Fengyuan Xu , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , Prateek Mittal

Successful defense against dynamically evolving cyber threats requires advanced and sophisticated techniques. This research presents a novel approach to enhance real-time cybersecurity threat detection and response by integrating large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Shuva Paul , Farhad Alemi , Richard Macwan

Large-scale, standardized datasets for Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) research are scarce, and inconsistent actor aliases and redundant samples hinder reproducibility. This paper presents APT-ClaritySet and its construction pipeline that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Zhenhao Yin , Hanbing Yan , Huishu Lu , Jing Xiong , Xiangyu Li , Rui Mei , Tianning Zang

Sixth Generation (6G) wireless networks, which are expected to be deployed in the 2030s, have already created great excitement in academia and the private sector with their extremely high communication speed and low latency rates. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Muhammed Golec , Yaser Khamayseh , Suhib Bani Melhem , Abdulmalik Alwarafy

Prompt quality plays a critical role in the performance of the Segment Anything Model (SAM), yet existing approaches often rely on heuristic or manually crafted prompts, limiting scalability and generalization. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Xueyu Liu , Xiaoyi Zhang , Guangze Shi , Meilin Liu , Yexin Lai , Yongfei Wu , Mingqiang Wei

In response to the escalating cyber threats, the efficiency of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) data collection has become paramount in ensuring robust cybersecurity. However, existing works encounter significant challenges in preprocessing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jamal H. Al-Yasiri , Mohamad Fadli Bin Zolkipli , Nik Fatinah N Mohd Farid , Mohammed Alsamman , Zainab Ali Mohammed

Early detection of network intrusions and cyber threats is one of the main pillars of cybersecurity. One of the most effective approaches for this purpose is to analyze network traffic with the help of artificial intelligence algorithms,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Giacomo Zonneveld , Lorenzo Principi , Marco Baldi

Large pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, demonstrate impressive generalization but remain highly vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs). Previous work has explored robust text prompts through adversarial training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Xiaojun Jia , Sensen Gao , Simeng Qin , Ke Ma , Xinfeng Li , Yihao Huang , Wei Dong , Yang Liu , Xiaochun Cao

Rowhammer is a critical vulnerability in dynamic random access memory (DRAM) that continues to pose a significant threat to various systems. However, we find that conventional load-based attacks are becoming highly ineffective on the most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Weijie Chen , Shan Tang , Yulin Tang , Xiapu Luo , Yinqian Zhang , Weizhong Qiang

Due to its powerful capability of representation learning and high-efficiency computation, deep hashing has made significant progress in large-scale image retrieval. However, deep hashing networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Xunguang Wang , Zheng Zhang , Baoyuan Wu , Fumin Shen , Guangming Lu

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attackers apply multiple sophisticated methods to continuously and stealthily steal information from the targeted cloud storage systems and can even induce the storage system to apply a specific defense…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Minghui Min , Liang Xiao , Caixia Xie , Mohammad Hajimirsadeghi , Narayan B. Mandayam

One of the most pressing threats to computing systems is software vulnerabilities, which can compromise both hardware and software components. Existing methods for vulnerability detection remain suboptimal. Traditional techniques are both…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Jin Wang , Zishan Huang , Hengli Liu , Nianyi Yang , Yinhao Xiao

The development of the DRL model for malware attribution involved extensive research, iterative coding, and numerous adjustments based on the insights gathered from predecessor models and contemporary research papers. This preparatory work…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Animesh Singh Basnet , Mohamed Chahine Ghanem , Dipo Dunsin , Wiktor Sowinski-Mydlarz

The cyberthreat landscape is continuously evolving. Hence, continuous monitoring and sharing of threat intelligence have become a priority for organizations. Threat reports, published by cybersecurity vendors, contain detailed descriptions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Md Rayhanur Rahman , Laurie Williams

As Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) complexity increases, provenance data is increasingly used for detection. Anomaly-based systems are gaining attention due to their attack-knowledge-agnostic nature and ability to counter zero-day…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jie Ying , Mengce Zheng , Jungan Chen , Ruoxi Chen , Zhongjie Zhua , Tiantian Zhu