Operationalizing Cyber Attack Prediction: A Gap-Prioritized Framework with Dataset and Model Selection Guidelines

While AI and machine learning for cyber attack prediction have advanced, a critical gap persists between theoretical research and practical operational deployment. Building on Ankalaki et al. 2025, this paper provides a comprehensive analysis of 150+ benchmark datasets and 200+ studies to identif...

Botnet Detection on CTU-13 Using Lightweight Machine Learning Models

Botnets are among the most persistent cyber threats, enabling large-scale attacks such as spam, credential theft, and distributed denial-of-service DDoS. While deep learning approaches have recently been applied to botnet detection, they are computationally intensive and often lack...

On-Device Interpretable Tsetlin Machine-Based Intrusion Detection for Secure IoMT

The rapid evolution of digital health technologies is redefining healthcare services worldwide. The integration of wireless communication and Internet-enabled medical devices within Internet of Medical Things IoMT networks enables continuous, real-time patient monitoring. However, this increased...

Beyond the Wrapper: Identifying Artifact Reliance in Static Malware Classifiers Using TRUSTEE

Modern cybersecurity relies heavily on static machine-learning-based malware classifiers. However, transformations such as packing and other non-semantic modifications applied to executable files limit their reliability. Malware classifiers often learn these unnecessary artifacts rather than the...

A Systematic Literature Review for Transformer-Based Software Vulnerability Detection

Context: Software vulnerabilities pose significant security threats to software systems, especially as software is increasingly used across many areas of daily life, including health, government, and finance. Recently, transformer-based models have demonstrated promising results in automatic...

A Sociotechnical, Practitioner-Centered Approach to Technology Adoption in Cybersecurity Operations: An LLM Case

Technology for security operations centers SOCs has a storied history of slow adoption due to concerns about trust and reliability. These concerns are amplified with artificial intelligence, particularly large language models LLMs, which exhibit issues such as hallucinations and inconsistent...

Security Awareness in LLM Agents: The NDAI Zone Case

NDAI zones let inventor and investor agents negotiate inside a Trusted Execution Environment TEE where any disclosed information is deleted if no deal is reached. This makes full IP disclosure the rational strategy for the inventor's agent. Leveraging this infrastructure, however, requires agents...

SmartGraphical: A Human-In-The-Loop Framework for Detecting Smart Contract Logical Vulnerabilities Via Pattern-Driven Static Analysis and Visual Abstraction

Smart contracts are fundamental components of blockchain ecosystems; however, their security remains a critical concern due to inherent vulnerabilities. While existing detection methodologies are predominantly syntax-oriented, targeting reentrancy and arithmetic errors, they often overlook logica...

Detecting Cybersecurity Threats by Integrating Explainable AI with SHAP Interpretability and Strategic Data Sampling

The critical need for transparent and trustworthy machine learning in cybersecurity operations drives the development of this integrated Explainable AI XAI framework. Our methodology addresses three fundamental challenges in deploying AI for threat detection: handling massive datasets through...

Discovering Universal Activation Directions for PII Leakage in Language Models

Modern language models exhibit rich internal structure, yet little is known about how privacy-sensitive behaviors, such as personally identifiable information PII leakage, are represented and modulated within their hidden states. We present UniLeak, a mechanistic-interpretability framework that...

Sparse Autoencoders Are Capable LLM Jailbreak Mitigators

Jailbreak attacks remain a persistent threat to large language model safety. We propose Context-Conditioned Delta Steering CC-Delta, an SAE-based defense that identifies jailbreak-relevant sparse features by comparing token-level representations of the same harmful request with and without...

LLM-FS: Zero-Shot Feature Selection for Effective and Interpretable Malware Detection

Feature selection FS remains essential for building accurate and interpretable detection models, particularly in high-dimensional malware datasets. Conventional FS methods such as Extra Trees, Variance Threshold, Tree-based models, Chi-Squared tests, ANOVA, Random Selection, and Sequential...

KRONE: Hierarchical and Modular Log Anomaly Detection

Log anomaly detection is crucial for uncovering system failures and security risks. Although logs originate from nested component executions with clear boundaries, this structure is lost when they are stored as flat sequences. As a result, state-of-the-art methods risk missing true dependencies...

CAFE-GB: Scalable and Stable Feature Selection for Malware Detection Via Chunk-Wise Aggregated Gradient Boosting

High-dimensional malware datasets often exhibit feature redundancy, instability, and scalability limitations, which hinder the effectiveness and interpretability of machine learning-based malware detection systems. Although feature selection is commonly employed to mitigate these issues, many...

Deepfake Geography: Detecting AI-Generated Satellite Images

The rapid advancement of generative models such as StyleGAN2 and Stable Diffusion poses a growing threat to the authenticity of satellite imagery, which is increasingly vital for reliable analysis and decision-making across scientific and security domains. While deepfake detection has been...

Data Poisoning Vulnerabilities across Healthcare AI Architectures: A Security Threat Analysis

Healthcare AI systems face major vulnerabilities to data poisoning that current defenses and regulations cannot adequately address. We analyzed eight attack scenarios in four categories: architectural attacks on convolutional neural networks, large language models, and reinforcement learning...

Android Malware Detection: A Machine Learning Approach

This study examines machine learning techniques like Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines, Logistic Regression, Neural Networks, and ensemble methods to detect Android malware. The study evaluates these models on a dataset of Android applications and analyzes their accuracy, efficiency, and...

Bridging Semantics and Structure for Software Vulnerability Detection Using Hybrid Network Models

Software vulnerabilities remain a persistent risk, yet static and dynamic analyses often overlook structural dependencies that shape insecure behaviors. Viewing programs as heterogeneous graphs, we capture control- and data-flow relations as complex interaction networks. Our hybrid framework...

AutoML in Cybersecurity: An Empirical Study

Automated machine learning AutoML has emerged as a promising paradigm for automating machine learning ML pipeline design, broadening AI adoption. Yet its reliability in complex domains such as cybersecurity remains underexplored. This paper systematically evaluates eight open-source AutoML...

EvoMail: Self-Evolving Cognitive Agents for Adaptive Spam and Phishing Email Defense

Modern email spam and phishing attacks have evolved far beyond keyword blacklists or simple heuristics. Adversaries now craft multi-modal campaigns that combine natural-language text with obfuscated URLs, forged headers, and malicious attachments, adapting their strategies within days to bypass...