Evading behavioral classifiers: a comprehensive analysis on evading ransomware detection techniques

F De Gaspari, D Hitaj, G Pagnotta, L De Carli… - Neural Computing and …, 2022 - Springer
Recent progress in machine learning has led to promising results in behavioral malware
detection. Behavioral modeling identifies malicious processes via features derived by their …

Differential area analysis for ransomware attack detection within mixed file datasets

SR Davies, R Macfarlane, WJ Buchanan - Computers & Security, 2021 - Elsevier
The threat from ransomware continues to grow both in the number of affected victims as well
as the cost incurred by the people and organisations impacted in a successful attack. In the …

Adversarial Challenges in Network Intrusion Detection Systems: Research Insights and Future Prospects

S Ennaji, F De Gaspari, D Hitaj, A Kbidi… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Machine learning has brought significant advances in cybersecurity, particularly in the
development of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). These improvements are mainly …

NapierOne: A modern mixed file data set alternative to Govdocs1

SR Davies, R Macfarlane, WJ Buchanan - Forensic Science International …, 2022 - Elsevier
It was found when reviewing the ransomware detection research literature that almost no
proposal provided enough detail on how the test data set was created, or sufficient …

Malphase: Fine-grained malware detection using network flow data

M Piskozub, F De Gaspari, F Barr-Smith… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Economic incentives encourage malware authors to constantly develop new, increasingly
complex malware to steal sensitive data or blackmail individuals and companies into paying …

Travelling the hypervisor and ssd: A tag-based approach against crypto ransomware with fine-grained data recovery

B Ma, Y Yang, J Li, F Zhang, W Shen, Y Zhou… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Ransomware has evolved from an economic nuisance to a national security threat
nowadays, which poses a significant risk to users. To address this problem, we propose …

Reliable detection of compressed and encrypted data

F De Gaspari, D Hitaj, G Pagnotta, L De Carli… - Neural Computing and …, 2022 - Springer
Several cybersecurity domains, such as ransomware detection, forensics and data analysis,
require methods to reliably identify encrypted data fragments. Typically, current approaches …

Passflow: guessing passwords with generative flows

G Pagnotta, D Hitaj, F De Gaspari… - 2022 52nd Annual …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in generative machine learning models rekindled research interest in the
area of password guessing. Data-driven password guessing approaches based on GANs …

Review of current ransomware detection techniques

SR Davies, R Macfarlane… - Proc. of the 7 th …, 2022 - napier-repository.worktribe.com
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Napier Research Repository Home Research Outputs People Faculties, Schools & Groups …

Tattooed: A robust deep neural network watermarking scheme based on spread-spectrum channel coding

G Pagnotta, D Hitaj, B Hitaj, F Perez-Cruz… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The proliferation of deep learning applications in several areas has led to the rapid adoption
of such solutions from an ever-growing number of institutions and companies. These entities' …