Researchers Trick Perplexity's Comet AI Browser Into Phishing Scam in Under Four Minutes

Agentic web browsers that leverage artificial intelligence AI capabilities to autonomously execute actions across multiple websites on behalf of a user could be trained and tricked into falling prey to phishing and scam traps. The attack, at its core, takes advantage of AI browsers' tendency to...

Comparative Evaluation of VAE, GAN, and SMOTE for Tor Detection in Encrypted Network Traffic

Encrypted network traffic poses significant challenges for intrusion detection due to the lack of payload visibility, limited labeled datasets, and high class imbalance between benign and malicious activities. Traditional data augmentation methods struggle to preserve the complex temporal and...

SD-CGAN: Conditional Sinkhorn Divergence GAN for DDoS Anomaly Detection in IoT Networks

The increasing complexity of IoT edge networks presents significant challenges for anomaly detection, particularly in identifying sophisticated Denial-of-Service DoS attacks and zero-day exploits under highly dynamic and imbalanced traffic conditions. This paper proposes SD-CGAN, a Conditional...

Adversarial-Resilient RF Fingerprinting: A CNN-GAN Framework for Rogue Transmitter Detection

Radio Frequency Fingerprinting RFF has evolved as an effective solution for authenticating devices by leveraging the unique imperfections in hardware components involved in the signal generation process. In this work, we propose a Convolutional Neural Network CNN based framework for detecting rog...

CAVGAN: Unifying Jailbreak and Defense of LLMs Via Generative Adversarial Attacks on Their Internal Representations

Security alignment enables the Large Language Model LLM to gain the protection against malicious queries, but various jailbreak attack methods reveal the vulnerability of this security mechanism. Previous studies have isolated LLM jailbreak attacks and defenses. We analyze the security protection...

SuperPure: Efficient Purification of Localized and Distributed Adversarial Patches Via Super-Resolution GAN Models

As vision-based machine learning models are increasingly integrated into autonomous and cyber-physical systems, concerns about physical adversarial patch attacks are growing. While state-of-the-art defenses can achieve certified robustness with minimal impact on utility against highly-concentrate...

CSAGC-IDS: a Dual-Module Deep Learning Network Intrusion Detection Model for Complex and Imbalanced Data

As computer networks proliferate, the gravity of network intrusions has escalated, emphasizing the criticality of network intrusion detection systems for safeguarding security. While deep learning models have exhibited promising results in intrusion detection, they face challenges in managing...

Performance of Machine Learning Classifiers for Anomaly Detection in Cyber Security Applications

This work empirically evaluates machine learning models on two imbalanced public datasets KDDCUP99 and Credit Card Fraud 2013. The method includes data preparation, model training, and evaluation, using an 80/20 train/test split. Models tested include eXtreme Gradient Boosting XGB, Multi Layer...

GIFDL: Generated Image Fluctuation Distortion Learning for Enhancing Steganographic Security

Minimum distortion steganography is currently the mainstream method for modification-based steganography. A key issue in this method is how to define steganographic distortion. With the rapid development of deep learning technology, the definition of distortion has evolved from manual design to...