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SynthCTI: LLM-Driven Synthetic CTI Generation to Enhance MITRE Technique Mapping

Cyber Threat Intelligence CTI mining involves extracting structured insights from unstructured threat data, enabling organizations to understand and respond to evolving adversarial behavior. A key task in CTI mining is mapping threat descriptions to MITRE ATT&CK techniques. However, this process...

Accelerating Automatic Program Repair with Dual Retrieval-Augmented Fine-Tuning and Patch Generation on Large Language Models

Automated Program Repair APR is essential for ensuring software reliability and quality while enhancing efficiency and reducing developers' workload. Although rule-based and learning-based APR methods have demonstrated their effectiveness, their performance was constrained by the defect type of...

RAG Safety: Exploring Knowledge Poisoning Attacks to Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Retrieval-Augmented Generation RAG enhances large language models LLMs by retrieving external data to mitigate hallucinations and outdated knowledge issues. Benefiting from the strong ability in facilitating diverse data sources and supporting faithful reasoning, knowledge graphs KGs have been...

FedP3E: Privacy-Preserving Prototype Exchange for Non-IID IoT Malware Detection in Cross-Silo Federated Learning

As IoT ecosystems continue to expand across critical sectors, they have become prominent targets for increasingly sophisticated and large-scale malware attacks. The evolving threat landscape, combined with the sensitive nature of IoT-generated data, demands detection frameworks that are both...

Taming Data Challenges in ML-Based Security Tasks: Lessons from Integrating Generative AI

Machine learning-based supervised classifiers are widely used for security tasks, and their improvement has been largely focused on algorithmic advancements. We argue that data challenges that negatively impact the performance of these classifiers have received limited attention. We address the...

LoRAShield: Data-Free Editing Alignment for Secure Personalized LoRA Sharing

The proliferation of Low-Rank Adaptation LoRA models has democratized personalized text-to-image generation, enabling users to share lightweight models e.g., personal portraits on platforms like Civitai and Liblib. However, this "share-and-play" ecosystem introduces critical risks: benign LoRAs c...

Attack Smarter: Attention-Driven Fine-Grained Webpage Fingerprinting Attacks

Website Fingerprinting WF attacks aim to infer which websites a user is visiting by analyzing traffic patterns, thereby compromising user anonymity. Although this technique has been demonstrated to be effective in controlled experimental environments, it remains largely limited to small-scale...

HARPT: a Corpus for Analyzing Consumers' Trust and Privacy Concerns in Mobile Health Apps

We present HARPT, a large-scale annotated corpus of mobile health app store reviews aimed at advancing research in user privacy and trust. The dataset comprises over 480,000 user reviews labeled into seven categories that capture critical aspects of trust in applications, trust in providers and...

Dynamic Temporal Positional Encodings for Early Intrusion Detection in IoT

The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things IoT has introduced significant security challenges, necessitating efficient and adaptive Intrusion Detection Systems IDS. Traditional IDS models often overlook the temporal characteristics of network traffic, limiting their effectiveness in early thre...

Don't Throw the Baby out with the Bathwater: How and Why Deep Learning for ARC

The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus ARC-AGI presents a formidable challenge for AI systems. Despite the typically low performance on ARC, the deep learning paradigm remains the most effective known strategy for generating skillful state-of-the-art neural networks NN across varied modalities and...

EditLord: Learning Code Transformation Rules for Code Editing

Code editing is a foundational task in software development, where its effectiveness depends on whether it introduces desired code property changes without changing the original code's intended functionality. Existing approaches often formulate code editing as an implicit end-to-end task, omittin...

Securing Traffic Sign Recognition Systems in Autonomous Vehicles

Deep Neural Networks DNNs are widely used for traffic sign recognition because they can automatically extract high-level features from images. These DNNs are trained on large-scale datasets obtained from unknown sources. Therefore, it is important to ensure that the models remain secure and are n...

PROVSYN: Synthesizing Provenance Graphs for Data Augmentation in Intrusion Detection Systems

Provenance graph analysis plays a vital role in intrusion detection, particularly against Advanced Persistent Threats APTs, by exposing complex attack patterns. While recent systems combine graph neural networks GNNs with natural language processing NLP to capture structural and semantic features...

MISLEADER: Defending against Model Extraction with Ensembles of Distilled Models

Model extraction attacks aim to replicate the functionality of a black-box model through query access, threatening the intellectual property IP of machine-learning-as-a-service MLaaS providers. Defending against such attacks is challenging, as it must balance efficiency, robustness, and utility...

GSDFuse: Capturing Cognitive Inconsistencies from Multi-Dimensional Weak Signals in Social Media Steganalysis

The ubiquity of social media platforms facilitates malicious linguistic steganography, posing significant security risks. Steganalysis is profoundly hindered by the challenge of identifying subtle cognitive inconsistencies arising from textual fragmentation and complex dialogue structures, and th...

Is Artificial Intelligence Generated Image Detection a Solved Problem?

The rapid advancement of generative models, such as GANs and Diffusion models, has enabled the creation of highly realistic synthetic images, raising serious concerns about misinformation, deepfakes, and copyright infringement. Although numerous Artificial Intelligence Generated Image AIGI...

Facial Recognition Leveraging Generative Adversarial Networks

Face recognition performance based on deep learning heavily relies on large-scale training data, which is often difficult to acquire in practical applications. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a GAN-based data augmentation method with three key contributions: 1 a residual-embedded...

DP-TRAE: a Dual-Phase Merging Transferable Reversible Adversarial Example for Image Privacy Protection

In the field of digital security, Reversible Adversarial Examples RAE combine adversarial attacks with reversible data hiding techniques to effectively protect sensitive data and prevent unauthorized analysis by malicious Deep Neural Networks DNNs. However, existing RAE techniques primarily focus...

A Contrastive Federated Semi-Supervised Learning Intrusion Detection Framework for Internet of Robotic Things

In intelligent industry, autonomous driving and other environments, the Internet of Things IoT highly integrated with robotic to form the Internet of Robotic Things IoRT. However, network intrusion to IoRT can lead to data leakage, service interruption in IoRT and even physical damage by...