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The continuous increase in malware samples, both in sophistication and number, presents many challenges for organizations and analysts, who must cope with thousands of new heterogeneous samples daily. This requires robust methods to quickly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Theodoros Apostolopoulos , Vasilios Koutsokostas , Nikolaos Totosis , Constantinos Patsakis , Georgios Smaragdakis

Android malware detection has been extensively studied using both traditional machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) approaches. While many state-of-the-art detection models, particularly those based on DL, claim superior performance,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Guojun Liu , Doina Caragea , Xinming Ou , Sankardas Roy

Machine learning (ML)-based malware detection systems often fail to account for the dynamic nature of real-world training and test data distributions. In practice, these distributions evolve due to frequent changes in the Android ecosystem,…

It is well known that antivirus engines are vulnerable to evasion techniques (e.g., obfuscation) that transform malware into its variants. However, it cannot be necessarily attributed to the effectiveness of these evasions, and the limits…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Guozhu Meng , Zhixiu Guo , Xiaodong Zhang , Haoyu Wang , Kai Chen , Yang Liu

The continued evolution and diversity of malware constitutes a major threat in modern systems. It is well proven that security defenses currently available are ineffective to mitigate the skills and imagination of cyber-criminals…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Irina Baptista , Stavros Shiaeles , Nicholas Kolokotronis

The growing use of FPGAs in reconfigurable systems introducessecurity risks through malicious bitstreams that could cause denial-of-service (DoS), data leakage, or covert attacks. We investigated chip-level hardware malicious payload in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Rye Stahle-Smith , Rasha Karakchi

A serious threat today is malicious executables. It is designed to damage computer system and some of them spread over network without the knowledge of the owner using the system. Two approaches have been derived for it i.e. Signature Based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Usukhbayar Baldangombo , Nyamjav Jambaljav , Shi-Jinn Horng

There is an increasing trend to mine vulnerabilities from software repositories and use machine learning techniques to automatically detect software vulnerabilities. A fundamental but unresolved research question is: how do different…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Esma Mouine , Yan Liu , Lu Xiao , Rick Kazman , Xiao Wang

A precise vulnerability discovery model (VDM) will provide a useful insight to assess software security, and could be a good prediction instrument for both software vendors and users to understand security trends and plan ahead patching…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Viet Hung Nguyen , Fabio Massacci

The rise in frequency and complexity of malware attacks are viewed as a major threat to modern digital infrastructure, which means that traditional signature-based detection methods are becoming less effective. As cyber threats continue to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Rakesh Keshava , Sathish Kuppan Pandurangan , M. Sakthivanitha , Sankaranainar Parmsivan , Goutham Sunkara , R. Maruthi

As machine-learning (ML) based systems for malware detection become more prevalent, it becomes necessary to quantify the benefits compared to the more traditional anti-virus (AV) systems widely used today. It is not practical to build an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-14 William Fleshman , Edward Raff , Richard Zak , Mark McLean , Charles Nicholas

Package confusion attacks such as typosquatting threaten software supply chains. Attackers make packages with names that syntactically or semantically resemble legitimate ones, tricking engineers into installing malware. While prior work…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Wenxin Jiang , Berk Çakar , Mikola Lysenko , James C. Davis

Program analysis tools often produce large volumes of candidate vulnerability reports that require costly manual review, creating a practical challenge: how can security analysts prioritize the reports most likely to be true…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Ronghao Ni , Aidan Z. H. Yang , Min-Chien Hsu , Nuno Sabino , Limin Jia , Ruben Martins , Darion Cassel , Kevin Cheang

Recently, with the booming development of software industry, more and more malware variants are designed to perform malicious behaviors. The evolution of malware makes it difficult to detect using traditional signature-based methods.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Renjie Lu

IT systems are facing an increasing number of security threats, including advanced persistent attacks and future quantum-computing vulnerabilities. The move towards crypto-agility and post-quantum cryptography (PQC) requires a reliable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Eduard Hirsch , Kristina Raab , Tobias J. Bauer , Daniel Loebenberger

While graph-based Android malware classifiers achieve over 94% accuracy on standard benchmarks, they exhibit a significant generalization gap under distribution shift, suffering up to 45% performance degradation when encountering unseen…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ngoc N. Tran , Anwar Said , Waseem Abbas , Tyler Derr , Xenofon D. Koutsoukos

Malware poses a significant security risk to individuals, organizations, and critical infrastructure by compromising systems and data. Leveraging memory dumps that offer snapshots of computer memory can aid the analysis and detection of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Salim Sazzed , Sharif Ullah

In this paper, we propose a framework for early-stage malware detection and mitigation by leveraging natural language processing (NLP) techniques and machine learning algorithms. Our primary contribution is presenting an approach for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Zahra Jamadi , Amir G. Aghdam

Android malware is a persistent threat to billions of users around the world. As a countermeasure, Android malware detection systems are occasionally implemented. However, these systems are often vulnerable to \emph{evasion attacks}, in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Harel Berger , Chen Hajaj , Amit Dvir

The proliferation of malware, particularly through the use of packing, presents a significant challenge to static analysis and signature-based malware detection techniques. The application of packing to the original executable code renders…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Daniel Gibert , Nikolaos Totosis , Constantinos Patsakis , Giulio Zizzo , Quan Le