Topical Shifts in the Dark Web: A Longitudinal Analysis of Content from the Cybercrime Ecosystem

The dark web hosts a dynamic ecosystem of cybercrime forums and marketplaces that adapt to law enforcement pressure, technological change, and economic incentives. Prior research has extracted cyber threat intelligence from these platforms using static snapshots, with limited attention to how...

AlertBERT: A Noise-Robust Alert Grouping Framework for Simultaneous Cyber Attacks

Automated detection of cyber attacks is a critical capability to counteract the growing volume and sophistication of cyber attacks. However, the high numbers of security alerts issued by intrusion detection systems lead to alert fatigue among analysts working in security operations centres SOC,...

Clustering Malware at Scale: A First Full-Benchmark Study

Recent years have shown that malware attacks still happen with high frequency. Malware experts seek to categorize and classify incoming samples to confirm their trustworthiness or prove their maliciousness. One of the ways in which groups of malware samples can be identified is through malware...

GPS Spoofing Attack Detection in Autonomous Vehicles Using Adaptive DBSCAN

As autonomous vehicles become an essential component of modern transportation, they are increasingly vulnerable to threats such as GPS spoofing attacks. This study presents an adaptive detection approach utilizing a dynamically tuned Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise...