English
Related papers

Related papers: GenDetect: Generalizing Reactive Detection for Res…

200 papers

Recently, reconstruction-based anomaly detection was proposed as an effective technique to detect attacks in dynamic industrial control networks. Unlike classical network anomaly detectors that observe the network traffic,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Alessandro Erba , Riccardo Taormina , Stefano Galelli , Marcello Pogliani , Michele Carminati , Stefano Zanero , Nils Ole Tippenhauer

Cross-chain technology enables seamless asset transfer and message-passing within decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystems, facilitating multi-chain coexistence in the current blockchain environment. However, this development also raises…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Dan Lin , Ziye Zheng , Jiajing Wu , Jingjing Yang , Kaixin Lin , Huan Xiao , Bowen Song , Zibin Zheng

Decentralized finance (DeFi) is revolutionizing the traditional centralized finance paradigm with its attractive features such as high availability, transparency, and tamper-proofing. However, attacks targeting DeFi services have severely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Yepeng Ding , Arthur Gervais , Roger Wattenhofer , Hiroyuki Sato

Decentralized finance (DeFi) in Ethereum is a financial ecosystem built on the blockchain that has locked over 200 billion USD until April 2022. All transaction information is transparent and open when transacting through the DeFi protocol,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Wenkai Li , Jiuyang Bu , Xiaoqi Li , Xianyi Chen

We explore the adoption of graph representation learning (GRL) algorithms to investigate similarities across services offered by Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocols. Following existing literature, we use Ethereum transaction data to…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-04-25 Junliang Luo , Stefan Kitzler , Pietro Saggese

This article aims to study intrusion attacks and then develop a novel cyberattack detection framework to detect cyberattacks at the network layer (e.g., Brute Password and Flooding of Transactions) of blockchain networks. Specifically, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Tran Viet Khoa , Do Hai Son , Dinh Thai Hoang , Nguyen Linh Trung , Tran Thi Thuy Quynh , Diep N. Nguyen , Nguyen Viet Ha , Eryk Dutkiewicz

In recent years, smart contracts have suffered major exploits, costing millions of dollars. Unlike traditional programs, smart contracts are deployed on a blockchain. As such, they cannot be modified once deployed. Though various tools have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Christof Ferreira Torres , Mathis Baden , Robert Norvill , Beltran Borja Fiz Pontiveros , Hugo Jonker , Sjouke Mauw

Recently, phishing scams have posed a significant threat to blockchains. Phishing detectors direct their efforts in hunting phishing addresses. Most of the detectors extract target addresses' transaction behavior features by random walking…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Jinyin Chen , Haiyang Xiong , Dunjie Zhang , Zhenguang Liu , Jiajing Wu

The inherent determinism of blockchain technology poses a significant challenge to generating secure random numbers within smart contracts, leading to exploitable vulnerabilities, particularly in decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystems and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Hadis Rezaei , Ahmed Afif Monrat , Karl Andersson , Francesco Flammini

Adversarial smart contracts, mostly on EVM-compatible chains like Ethereum and BSC, are deployed as EVM bytecode to exploit vulnerable smart contracts for financial gain. Detecting such malicious contracts at the time of deployment is an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Yating Liu , Xing Su , Hao Wu , Sijin Li , Yuxi Cheng , Fengyuan Xu , Sheng Zhong

The anonymity of blockchain has accelerated the growth of illegal activities and criminal behaviors on cryptocurrency platforms. Although decentralization is one of the typical characteristics of blockchain, we urgently call for effective…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Jie Shen , Jiajun Zhou , Yunyi Xie , Shanqing Yu , Qi Xuan

Much of the recent excitement around decentralized finance (DeFi) comes from hopes that DeFi can be a secure, private, less centralized alternative to traditional finance systems. However, people moving to DeFi sites in hopes of improving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Philipp Winter , Anna Harbluk Lorimer , Peter Snyder , Benjamin Livshits

Cross-chain bridges are essential decentralized applications (DApps) to facilitate interoperability between different blockchain networks. Unlike regular DApps, the functionality of cross-chain bridges relies on the collaboration of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jiajing Wu , Kaixin Lin , Dan Lin , Bozhao Zhang , Zhiying Wu , Jianzhong Su

Many classical blockchains are known to have an embarrassingly low transaction throughput, down to Bitcoin's notorious seven transactions per second limit.Various proposals and implementations for increasing throughput emerged in the first…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Lioba Heimbach , Quentin Kniep , Yann Vonlanthen , Roger Wattenhofer

Blockchain technology has the characteristics of decentralization, traceability and tamper-proof, which creates a reliable decentralized trust mechanism, further accelerating the development of blockchain finance. However, the anonymization…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Jiajun Zhou , Chenkai Hu , Jianlei Chi , Jiajing Wu , Meng Shen , Qi Xuan

Credit exposure in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is often implicit and token-mediated, creating a dense web of inter-protocol dependencies. Thus, a shock to one token may result in significant and uncontrolled contagion effects. As the DeFi…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Aijie Shu , Wenbin Wu , Gbenga Ibikunle , Fengxiang He

With the increase of the adoption of blockchain technology in providing decentralized solutions to various problems, smart contracts have become more popular to the point that billions of US Dollars are currently exchanged every day through…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Feng Mi , Chen Zhao , Zhuoyi Wang , Sadaf MD Halim , Xiaodi Li , Zhouxiang Wu , Latifur Khan , Bhavani Thuraisingham

The scaled Web 3.0 digital economy, represented by decentralized finance (DeFi), has sparked increasing interest in the past few years, which usually relies on blockchain for token transfer and diverse transaction logic. However, illegal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Shuyi Miao , Wangjie Qiu , Hongwei Zheng , Qinnan Zhang , Xiaofan Tu , Xunan Liu , Yang Liu , Jin Dong , Zhiming Zheng

Recent years have witnessed a rise in the frequency and intensity of cyberattacks targeted at critical infrastructure systems. This study designs a versatile, data-driven cyberattack detection platform for infrastructure systems…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Sarin E. Chandy , Amin Rasekh , Zachary A. Barker , M. Ehsan Shafiee

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) offers a whole new investment experience and has quickly emerged as an enticing alternative to Centralized Finance (CeFi). Rapidly growing market size and active users, however, have also made DeFi a lucrative…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Mingyi Liu , Jun Ho Huh , HyungSeok Han , Jaehyuk Lee , Jihae Ahn , Frank Li , Hyoungshick Kim , Taesoo Kim