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48 results for cyber threat detection

New approach detects and ranks novel and developing cyber threats in Twitter.

problem Detecting and ranking novel and developing cyber threats in Twitter streams.
method Unsupervised machine learning approach focusing on novelty and trendiness.
result Ranking of cyber threat events based on importance score using extracted terms.

TinyML models detect RF and cyber threats in spacecraft with low latency.

problem Detecting cyber-RF threats in autonomous spacecraft with low latency.
method Analysis of classical models (RF, LR, SVM, MLP) for latency-accuracy trade-offs.
result Logistic Regression achieves microsecond-level inference with minimal accuracy loss.

Recent changes to greenhouse gas emission policies are catalyzing the electric vehicle (EV) market making it readily accessible to consumers. While there are challenges that arise with dense deployment of EVs, one of the major future concerns is cyber security threat. In this paper, cyber security threats in the form o…

2018-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Study finds stocks with higher cyber risk scores outperform others, indicating a market-wide cyber risk premium.

problem Identifying and quantifying firms' cyber risks and their impact on stock performance.
method Machine learning algorithm to analyze disclosures and a dedicated cyber corpus.
result High cyber risk stocks significantly outperform others, indicating a market-wide cyber risk premium.

Paper studies autoencoder-based anomaly detectors' robustness to adversarial poisoning attacks.

problem Adversarial poisoning attacks on online-trained autoencoder-based anomaly detectors in ICSs.
method Proposes two algorithms for generating poison samples and evaluates them on synthetic and real-world ICS data.
result Autoencoder detectors are resilient to poisoning in the face of all relevant attacks in the SWaT dataset.

Intrusion detection systems (IDSs) generate valuable knowledge about network security, but an abundance of false alarms and a lack of methods to capture the interdependence among alerts hampers their utility for network defense. Here, we explore a graph-based approach for fusing alerts generated by multiple IDSs (e.g.,…

2018-12-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Study examines cyber losses across sectors, finds high severity and frequency.

problem Understanding the nature of cyber losses and their variability across sectors.
method Analysis of a leading industry dataset of cyber events, focusing on frequency and severity.
result Cyber risks are heavy-tailed, with high probability of extreme losses.

This work develops agents to learn generalizable policies for dynamic network environments.

problem Real-world network topologies change due to attackers, defenders, or system failures, leading to failures in adaptive ACD systems.
method Developing agents to learn generalizable policies across dynamic network environments.
result Agents can learn robust policies for dynamic network topologies and diverse attackers.

Cyber attacks are growing in frequency and severity. Over the past year alone we have witnessed massive data breaches that stole personal information of millions of people and wide-scale ransomware attacks that paralyzed critical infrastructure of several countries. Combating the rising cyber threat calls for a multi-p…

2018-06-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Enhanced network threat detection using KG, LLM, and imbalanced learning.

problem Challenges in network threat detection due to complex attack patterns and limited historical data.
method Integrated framework combining Knowledge Graph, Imbalanced Learning, and Large Language Model.
result Improved threat capture rate by 3%-4% and increased interpretability of risk predictions.

Paper offers guidelines for using ML in cyber security, focusing on botnet detection.

problem Lack of public benchmark datasets for evaluating ML-based cyber security systems.
method Provided concrete guidelines and recommendations for using supervised ML in cyber security, focusing on botnet detection.
result Ensemble models are well-suited to handle class imbalance in botnet detection.

Paper tackles cyber threats to PHM systems using adversarial examples.

problem Vulnerability of IoT sensors and DL algorithms to cyber attacks.
method Adopted adversarial example crafting techniques from computer vision to PHM domain.
result PHM models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, leading to inaccurate remaining useful life estimation.

This paper optimizes cybersecurity resource allocation in networks with heterogeneous attacker and defender valuations.

problem Optimizing cybersecurity resource allocation in networks with heterogeneous attacker and defender valuations.
method Combining strategic behavior of players with contagion dynamics, a method is extended to determine optimal resource allocation based on simple network metrics weighted by risk profiles.
result The asymmetry between attacker and defender valuations drives optimal attack and defense strategies, shaping system resilience.

This paper maps the insurability of AI risks across various insurance products.

problem Emerging AI risks and their implications for insurance coverage.
method Coding 55 AI threat classes against 26 insurance products using public carrier materials and threat catalogs.
result Identification of a four-tier insurability frontier: affirmatively insured, silent-AI exposures, actively excluded, and unstructured perils.

Network detection is an important capability in many areas of applied research in which data can be represented as a graph of entities and relationships. Oftentimes the object of interest is a relatively small subgraph in an enormous, potentially uninteresting background. This aspect characterizes network detection as …

2013-03-22abs ↗pdf ↗

The scale of Internet-connected systems has increased considerably, and these systems are being exposed to cyber attacks more than ever. The complexity and dynamics of cyber attacks require protecting mechanisms to be responsive, adaptive, and scalable. Machine learning, or more specifically deep reinforcement learning…

2019-06-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Adversarial attacks hide cyber-physical attacks in ICS.

problem Hiding cyber-physical attacks in industrial control systems.
method Modeling an attacker compromising sensors, manipulating data, and evaluating attacks on both continuous and mixed data.
result Successfully hides cyber-physical attacks with 2.87 out of 12 sensors compromised on average.

ADSAGE detects anomalies in graph edge sequences for insider threat detection.

problem Detecting insider threats in fine-grained audit logs using graph and text features.
method Anomaly detection at edge level, supporting numeric, categorical, and text attributes.
result ADSAGE detects anomalies in authentications and email communications effectively.

Paper analyzes electricity price and demand TSs using decomposition to detect cyber-attacks.

problem Detecting cyber-attacks in electricity price and demand time series data.
method Performed time series decomposition using additive and multiplicative methods, tested error term for patterns.
result Found a chance of cyber-attacks in the error term of decomposed TSs.

New adversarial training enhances malware detectors against various attacks.

problem Vulnerability of malware detectors to evasion attacks.
method Proposes a mixture of attacks and adversarial training to improve deep neural networks.
result Significantly enhances robustness of deep neural networks against a wide range of attacks.

Paper tackles cybersecurity attack detection with an ensemble approach.

problem Challenges in multi-class classification for cyber security breaches.
method Designing a multi-node multi-class classification ensemble approach.
result Proposed approach outperforms full-data approach in multi-node data-censoring cases.

The paper detects adversarial examples in LECs for regression in CPS using variational autoencoder.

problem Detecting adversarial examples in learning-enabled cyber-physical systems (CPS).
method Inductive conformal prediction using a variational autoencoder regression model.
result The method effectively detects adversarial examples with a short delay in an emergency braking system simulation.

NSIBF detects anomalies in CPS using neural system identification and Bayesian filtering.

problem Detecting anomalies in CPS with complex dynamics and sensor noise.
method Neural System Identification and Bayesian Filtering (NSIBF).
result NSIBF outperforms state-of-the-art methods in anomaly detection for CPS.

A novel unified Bayesian framework for network detection is developed, under which a detection algorithm is derived based on random walks on graphs. The algorithm detects threat networks using partial observations of their activity, and is proved to be optimum in the Neyman-Pearson sense. The algorithm is defined by a …

2013-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Real-time detection of out-of-distribution data in CPS control systems.

problem Detecting out-of-distribution data in CPS control systems for safety.
method Inductive conformal prediction and anomaly detection using variational autoencoders and deep support vector data description.
result Efficient real-time detection with low false alarm rates and comparable execution time.

Paper analyzes electricity price and demand data to detect cyber-attacks using time series methods.

problem Detecting cyber-attacks in electricity price and demand data.
method Time series analysis, including moving average, moving standard deviation, and augmented Dickey-Fuller test.
result Identified anomalies in the data using time-series stationary criteria.

Better methods to detect insider threats need new anticipatory analytics to capture risky behavior prior to losing data. In search of the best overall classifier, this work empirically scores 88 machine learning algorithms in 16 major families. We extract risk features from the large CERT dataset, which blends real net…

2019-01-30abs ↗pdf ↗