Self-Supervised Learning for Android Malware Detection on a Time-Stamped Dataset

Android malware detectors built with machine learning often suffer from temporal bias: models are trained and evaluated without respecting apps' actual release times, inflating accuracy and weakening real-world robustness. We address this by constructing a time-stamped dataset of benign and...

Targeted Adversarial Traffic Generation : Black-Box Approach to Evade Intrusion Detection Systems in IoT Networks

The integration of machine learning ML algorithms into Internet of Things IoT applications has introduced significant advantages alongside vulnerabilities to adversarial attacks, especially within IoT-based intrusion detection systems IDS. While theoretical adversarial attacks have been extensive...

AirCatch: Effectively Tracing Advanced Tag-Based Trackers

Tag-based tracking ecosystems help users locate lost items, but can be leveraged for unwanted tracking and stalking. Existing protocol-driven defenses and prior academic solutions largely assume stable identifiers or predictable beaconing. However, identifier-based defenses fundamentally break do...

Hydra: Robust Hardware-Assisted Malware Detection

Malware detection using Hardware Performance Counters HPCs offers a promising, low-overhead approach for monitoring program behavior. However, a fundamental architectural constraint, that only a limited number of hardware events can be monitored concurrently, creates a significant bottleneck,...

Enhancing Adversarial Robustness of IoT Intrusion Detection Via SHAP-Based Attribution Fingerprinting

The rapid proliferation of Internet of Things IoT devices has transformed numerous industries by enabling seamless connectivity and data-driven automation. However, this expansion has also exposed IoT networks to increasingly sophisticated security threats, including adversarial attacks targeting...

DeepTrust: Multi-Step Classification through Dissimilar Adversarial Representations for Robust Android Malware Detection

Over the last decade, machine learning has been extensively applied to identify malicious Android applications. However, such approaches remain vulnerable against adversarial examples, i.e., examples that are subtly manipulated to fool a machine learning model into making incorrect predictions...

FakeSound2: a Benchmark for Explainable and Generalizable Deepfake Sound Detection

The rapid development of generative audio raises ethical and security concerns stemming from forged data, making deepfake sound detection an important safeguard against the malicious use of such technologies. Although prior studies have explored this task, existing methods largely focus on binary...

VULSOVER: Vulnerability Detection Via LLM-Driven Constraint Solving

Traditional vulnerability detection methods rely heavily on predefined rule matching, which often fails to capture vulnerabilities accurately. With the rise of large language models LLMs, leveraging their ability to understand code semantics has emerged as a promising direction for achieving more...

MirGuard: Towards a Robust Provenance-Based Intrusion Detection System against Graph Manipulation Attacks

Learning-based Provenance-based Intrusion Detection Systems PIDSes have become essential tools for anomaly detection in host systems due to their ability to capture rich contextual and structural information, as well as their potential to detect unknown attacks. However, recent studies have shown...

SHIELD: a Secure and Highly Enhanced Integrated Learning for Robust Deepfake Detection against Adversarial Attacks

Audio plays a crucial role in applications like speaker verification, voice-enabled smart devices, and audio conferencing. However, audio manipulations, such as deepfakes, pose significant risks by enabling the spread of misinformation. Our empirical analysis reveals that existing methods for...

Watermarking Autoregressive Image Generation

Watermarking the outputs of generative models has emerged as a promising approach for tracking their provenance. Despite significant interest in autoregressive image generation models and their potential for misuse, no prior work has attempted to watermark their outputs at the token level. In thi...

TED-LaST: Towards Robust Backdoor Defense against Adaptive Attacks

Deep Neural Networks DNNs are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where attackers implant hidden triggers during training to maliciously control model behavior. Topological Evolution Dynamics TED has recently emerged as a powerful tool for detecting backdoor attacks in DNNs. However, TED can be...

Is Artificial Intelligence Generated Image Detection a Solved Problem?

The rapid advancement of generative models, such as GANs and Diffusion models, has enabled the creation of highly realistic synthetic images, raising serious concerns about misinformation, deepfakes, and copyright infringement. Although numerous Artificial Intelligence Generated Image AIGI...