Improving the Identification of Real-World Malware's DNS Covert Channels Using Locality Sensitive Hashing

Nowadays, malware increasingly uses DNS-based covert channels in order to evade detection and maintain stealthy communication with its command-and-control servers. While prior work has focused on detecting such activity, identifying specific malware families and their behaviors from captured...

Toward Malicious Clients Detection in Federated Learning

Federated learning FL enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a global machine learning model without sharing their raw data. However, the decentralized nature of FL introduces vulnerabilities, particularly to poisoning attacks, where malicious clients manipulate their local models to...