In the Internet age, malware (such as viruses, trojans, ransomware, and bots) has posed
serious and evolving security threats to Internet users. To protect legitimate users from these …

Cyber attacks are currently blooming, as the attackers reap significant profits from them and
face a limited risk when compared to committing the “classical” crimes. One of the major …

Abstract Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with Bilinear Pooling, initially in their full
form and later using compact representations, have yielded impressive performance gains …

Ransomware is an epidemic that adversely affects the lives of both individuals and large
companies, where criminals demand payments to release infected digital assets. In the …

Anti-virus vendors are confronted with a multitude of potentially malicious samples today.
Receiving thousands of new samples every day is not uncommon. The signatures that …

The execution of malware in an instrumented sandbox is a widespread approach for the
analysis of malicious code, largely because it sidesteps the difficulties involved in the static …

Underground forums, where participants exchange information on abusive tactics and
engage in the sale of illegal goods and services, are a form of online social network (OSN) …

JavaScript malware-based attacks account for a large fraction of successful mass-scale
exploitation happening today. Attackers like JavaScript-based attacks because they can be …

Spam-based advertising is a business. While it has engendered both widespread antipathy
and a multi-billion dollar anti-spam industry, it continues to exist because it fuels a profitable …

The underground economy has attracted a lot of attention recently as a key component of
cybercrime. In particular the IRC markets for stolen identities, phishing kits, botnets, and …