Improving IoT Intrusion Detection through SMOTE-Based Oversampling and Extended Multi-Model Evaluation on Side-Channel Power Data

The detection of intrusions in IoT-based networks poses challenges that cannot be overcome using traditional machine learning methods. Perhaps the biggest of them is related to the presence of a class imbalance in the side-channel dataset, where the number of samples in the normal class compared ...

Hybrid ResNet-1D-BiGRU with Multi-Head Attention for Cyberattack Detection in Industrial IoT Environments

This study introduces a hybrid deep learning model for intrusion detection in Industrial IoT IIoT systems, combining ResNet-1D, BiGRU, and Multi-Head Attention MHA for effective spatial-temporal feature extraction and attention-based feature weighting. To address class imbalance, SMOTE was applie...

kog-bonds-poc

KOG Bonds POC Agent Complete proof-of-concept demonstrating e...

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...

SMOTE-DP: Improving Privacy-Utility Tradeoff with Synthetic Data

Privacy-preserving data publication, including synthetic data sharing, often experiences trade-offs between privacy and utility. Synthetic data is generally more effective than data anonymization in balancing this trade-off, however, not without its own challenges. Synthetic data produced by...

Watering Hole Attack on Kurdish Sites Distributing Malicious APKs and Spyware

As many as 25 websites linked to the Kurdish minority have been compromised as part of a watering hole attack designed to harvest sensitive information for over a year and a half. French cybersecurity firm Sekoia, which disclosed details of the campaign dubbed SilentSelfie, described the intrusio...

Security Analysis of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Election Protocol

Interesting analysis: This paper discusses the protocol used for electing the Doge of Venice between 1268 and the end of the Republic in 1797. We will show that it has some useful properties that in addition to being interesting in themselves, also suggest that its fundamental design principle is...

Host(s) + majority can steal assets of minority+other hosts without any option for minority(+otherhosts) to ragequit.

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The ragequit functionality is put in place to protect the rights of the minority, who are not in support of a proposal, and allow them to withdraw their share of assets and exit the party. In some cases, minority will not have the opportunity to ragequit...

The fork mechanism of Nouns DAO may be completely ineffective or abused, because there is no reasonable limit to the maximum or minimum value of the fork threshold.

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Nouns Fork is a Last-Resort Minority Protection Mechanism, created to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. As described in this article: . In the initial case, if a quorum of 20% of tokens signals to exit, the fork will succeed, but sin...

BouldSpy Android Spyware: Iranian Government's Alleged Tool for Spying on Minority Groups

A new Android surveillanceware possibly used by the Iranian government has been used to spy on over 300 individuals belonging to minority groups. The malware, dubbed BouldSpy, has been attributed with moderate confidence to the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran FARAJA...

BouldSpy Android Spyware: Iranian Government's Alleged Tool for Spying on Minority Groups

A new Android surveillanceware possibly used by the Iranian government has been used to spy on over 300 individuals belonging to minority groups. The malware, dubbed BouldSpy , has been attributed with moderate confidence to the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran FARAJA...

Experts Uncover Two Long-Running Android Spyware Campaigns Targeting Uyghurs

Two long-running surveillance campaigns have been found targeting the Uyghur community in China and elsewhere with Android spyware tools designed to harvest sensitive information and track their whereabouts. This encompasses a previously undocumented malware strain called BadBazaar and updated...

Race condition produces DDOS on governance : 20% minority can block the other 80% from passing a proposal.

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact An account controlling enough voting percentage to endorse a proposal can block an unwanted proposal from being activated. This can be done by frontrunning or by paying more for gas. There can only be one concurrent activated proposal so there is a race...

Migration total supply reduction can be used to remove minority shareholders

Lines of code Vulnerability details As new total supply can be arbitrary, setting it significantly lower than current say to 100 when it was 1e9 before can be used to remove current minority shareholders, whose shares will end up being zero on a precision loss due to low new total supply value...

Facebook Bans Pakistani and Syrian Hacker Groups for Abusing its Platform

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, announced Tuesday that it took action against four separate malicious cyber groups from Pakistan and Syria who were found targeting people in Afghanistan, as well as journalists, humanitarian organizations, and anti-regime military forces in the West...

Hackers Using Fake Foundations to Target Uyghur Minority in China

The Uyghur community located in China and Pakistan has been the subject of an ongoing espionage campaign aiming to trick the targets into downloading a Windows backdoor to amass sensitive information from their systems. "Considerable effort was put into disguising the payloads, whether by creatin...

Android 'ActionSpy' Malware Targets Turkic Minority Group

Researchers have discovered a new Android spyware, dubbed ActionSpy, targeting victims across Tibet, Turkey and Taiwan. The spyware is distributed either via watering-hole websites or fake websites. Researchers believe ActionSpy is being used in ongoing campaigns to target Uyghur victims. The...

China's Border Guards Secretly Installing Spyware App on Tourists' Phones

Chinese authorities are secretly installing surveillance apps on smartphones of foreigners at border crossings in the Xinjiang region who are entering from neighboring Kyrgyzstan, an international investigation revealed. Xinjiang XUAR is an autonomous territory and home to many Muslim ethnic...

Amazon Comes Under Fire for Facial Recognition Platform

Facial-recognition technology has long been touted as a useful tool for law enforcement, but the ability of systems like Amazon’s Rekognition platform to identify large numbers of people at once in a single video or still frame has raised the hackles of privacy advocates. The American Civil...

Android malware HenBox hits Xiaomi devices & minority group in China

By Waqas The IT security researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Android malware HenBox hits Xiaomi devices & minority group in China...