Privacy-Aware Berrut Approximated Coded Computing Applied to General Distributed Learning

Coded computing is one of the techniques that can be used for privacy protection in Federated Learning. However, most of the constructions used for coded computing work only under the assumption that the computations involved are exact, generally restricted to special classes of functions, and...

Intrusion Detection System Using Deep Learning for Network Security

As the number of cyberattacks and their particualr nature escalate, the need for effective intrusion detection systems IDS has become indispensable for ensuring the security of contemporary networks. Adaptive and more sophisticated threats are often beyond the reach of traditional approaches to...

Learning from the Good Ones: Risk Profiling-Based Defenses against Evasion Attacks on DNNs

Safety-critical applications such as healthcare and autonomous vehicles use deep neural networks DNN to make predictions and infer decisions. DNNs are susceptible to evasion attacks, where an adversary crafts a malicious data instance to trick the DNN into making wrong decisions at inference time...

A Numerical Gradient Inversion Attack in Variational Quantum Neural-Networks

The loss landscape of Variational Quantum Neural Networks VQNNs is characterized by local minima that grow exponentially with increasing qubits. Because of this, it is more challenging to recover information from model gradients during training compared to classical Neural Networks NNs. In this...

Input-Specific and Universal Adversarial Attack Generation for Spiking Neural Networks in the Spiking Domain

As Spiking Neural Networks SNNs gain traction across various applications, understanding their security vulnerabilities becomes increasingly important. In this work, we focus on the adversarial attacks, which is perhaps the most concerning threat. An adversarial attack aims at finding a subtle...

Mitigating Backdoor Triggered and Targeted Data Poisoning Attacks in Voice Authentication Systems

Voice authentication systems remain susceptible to two major threats: backdoor triggered attacks and targeted data poisoning attacks. This dual vulnerability is critical because conventional solutions typically address each threat type separately, leaving systems exposed to adversaries who can...

Unified Steganography Via Implicit Neural Representation

Digital steganography is the practice of concealing for encrypted data transmission. Typically, steganography methods embed secret data into cover data to create stega data that incorporates hidden secret data. However, steganography techniques often require designing specific frameworks for each...

Watermark Overwriting Attack on StegaStamp Algorithm

This paper presents an attack method on the StegaStamp watermarking algorithm that completely removes watermarks from an image with minimal quality loss, developed as part of the NeurIPS "Erasing the invisible" competition...

Cert-SSB: toward Certified Sample-Specific Backdoor Defense

Deep neural networks DNNs are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where an attacker manipulates a small portion of the training data to implant hidden backdoors into the model. The compromised model behaves normally on clean samples but misclassifies backdoored samples into the attacker-specified...

Graph Privacy: a Heterogeneous Federated GNN for Trans-Border Financial Data Circulation

The sharing of external data has become a strong demand of financial institutions, but the privacy issue has led to the difficulty of interconnecting different platforms and the low degree of data openness. To effectively solve the privacy problem of financial data in trans-border flow and sharin...

CachePrune: Neural-Based Attribution Defense against Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks

Large Language Models LLMs are identified as being susceptible to indirect prompt injection attack, where the model undesirably deviates from user-provided instructions by executing tasks injected in the prompt context. This vulnerability stems from LLMs' inability to distinguish between data and...

Quantifying the Noise of Structural Perturbations on Graph Adversarial Attacks

Graph neural networks have been widely utilized to solve graph-related tasks because of their strong learning power in utilizing the local information of neighbors. However, recent studies on graph adversarial attacks have proven that current graph neural networks are not robust against malicious...

Network Attack Traffic Detection with Hybrid Quantum-Enhanced Convolution Neural Network

The emerging paradigm of Quantum Machine Learning QML combines features of quantum computing and machine learning ML. QML enables the generation and recognition of statistical data patterns that classical computers and classical ML methods struggle to effectively execute. QML utilizes quantum...

Dual Explanations Via Subgraph Matching for Malware Detection

Interpretable malware detection is crucial for understanding harmful behaviors and building trust in automated security systems. Traditional explainable methods for Graph Neural Networks GNNs often highlight important regions within a graph but fail to associate them with known benign or maliciou...

Optimized Approaches to Malware Detection: a Study of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques

Digital systems find it challenging to keep up with cybersecurity threats. The daily emergence of more than 560,000 new malware strains poses significant hazards to the digital ecosystem. The traditional malware detection methods fail to operate properly and yield high false positive rates with l...

BIT-PYTORCH-2025-32434 PyTorch: `torch.load` with `weights_only=True` leads to remote code execution

PyTorch is a Python package that provides tensor computation with strong GPU acceleration and deep neural networks built on a tape-based autograd system. In version 2.5.1 and prior, a Remote Command Execution RCE vulnerability exists in PyTorch when loading a model using torch.load with...

Blockchain Meets Adaptive Honeypots: a Trust-Aware Approach to Next-Gen IoT Security

Edge computing-based Next-Generation Wireless Networks NGWN-IoT offer enhanced bandwidth capacity for large-scale service provisioning but remain vulnerable to evolving cyber threats. Existing intrusion detection and prevention methods provide limited security as adversaries continually adapt the...

On the Consistency of GNN Explanations for Malware Detection

Control Flow Graphs CFGs are critical for analyzing program execution and characterizing malware behavior. With the growing adoption of Graph Neural Networks GNNs, CFG-based representations have proven highly effective for malware detection. This study proposes a novel framework that dynamically...

Scalable APT Malware Classification Via Parallel Feature Extraction and GPU-Accelerated Learning

This paper presents an underlying framework for both automating and accelerating malware classification, more specifically, mapping malicious executables to known Advanced Persistent Threat APT groups. The main feature of this analysis is the assembly-level instructions present in executables whi...

IoT-AMLHP: Aligned Multimodal Learning of Header-Payload Representations for Resource-Efficient Malicious IoT Traffic Classification

Traffic classification is crucial for securing Internet of Things IoT networks. Deep learning-based methods can autonomously extract latent patterns from massive network traffic, demonstrating significant potential for IoT traffic classification tasks. However, the limited computational and spati...