arXiv:2607. 26634v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Organizational digitalization expands cybersecurity risks, making cybersecurity an increasingly important research area in Information Systems (IS).
By Yinan Gao, Jiarong Xu, Xiaohang Zhao, Xiao Fang
arXiv:2606. 07792v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: MOLOT (Malicious Operational Logic Observation Transformer) is a static malicious-code detection system designed for SAST setup where package metadata, maintainer history, and dynamic execution traces may be unavailable or unreliable.
By Daniil Lopatkin, Maksim Mitrofanov, Stanislav Rakovsky, Aleksandr Khalikov
arXiv:2509. 14335v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automated malware classifiers achieve strong detection performance, but auditing requires more than flagging a sample: analysts must explain malicious behaviors and justify them with code evidence.
By Xinran Zheng, Xingzhi Qian, Yiling He, Shuo Yang, Lorenzo Cavallaro
arXiv:2604. 04977v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Software supply chain security compromises often stem from cascaded interactions of vulnerabilities, for example, between multiple vulnerable components.
By Laura Baird, Armin Moin
arXiv:2607. 19674v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Graph Neural Networks (FedGNNs) are highly vulnerable to backdoor poisoning, yet existing defenses typically rely on rule-based approaches that lack semantic understanding, making them vulnerable to stealthy triggers and harmful to benign structures.
By Chenyu Zhou, Yabin Peng, Wei Huang, Kunlin Li, Shuaishuai Zhang, Xinyuan Miao
The paper introduces a new benchmark for assessing out-of-distribution robustness in graph-based Android malware classifiers, highlighting that current models drop up to 45% accuracy on unseen malware variants. It presents two scenarios—MalNet-Tiny-Common for covariate shift and MalNet-Tiny-Distinct for domain shift—and identifies a limitation in existing benchmarks that rely solely on structure-only function call graphs. To address this, the authors propose a semantic enrichment framework that augments graph topology with function-level attributes and LLM-based code embeddings, demonstrating that this data-centric approach improves robustness under distribution shift and complements model-based methods.
By Ngoc N. Tran, Anwar Said, Waseem Abbas, Tyler Derr, Xenofon D. Koutsoukos
TH-GNN is a heterogeneous temporal graph neural network designed to detect shilling attacks generated by large language model (LLM) agents. It combines a two‑layer Heterogeneous Graph Transformer with per‑type and per‑relation attention, learnable sinusoidal temporal encodings, cross‑modal attention that fuses user embeddings with frozen RoBERTa representations of reviews and item descriptions, and a GRU that models log inter‑arrival times. Across five attack families and four benchmark datasets, TH‑GNN achieves a grand‑mean F1 score of 0.870, surpassing the best text‑only baseline on Agent4SR attacks by 10.9 percentage points and 11.5 percentage points at the lowest injection rate.
By Shivam Swarup, Divya Prakash Shrivastava, Rakesh Thakur
arXiv:2608. 15893v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rise of social media bots poses a persistent threat, enabling misinformation, opinion manipulation, and the erosion of trust in online platforms.
By Nof Orenstein, Yoni Birman
arXiv:2608. 02084v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Binary function embedding models are trained to encode the semantics of binary code in such a way that they can be generalized to a variety of reverse engineering tasks, such as binary code search, vulnerability detection, or malware classification.
By Samuel Valenzuela, Johannes Kinder
The paper introduces STAG, a stealthy trojan attack framework targeting Graph Foundation Models (GFMs) that operate on text‑attributed graphs (TAGs). STAG jointly generates graph triggers and soft‑prompt text cues so that both modalities converge to a malicious target class while keeping the trigger subgraph structurally similar to the original and the trigger text readable. Experiments on several TAG datasets and GFMs confirm that STAG achieves high attack success rates while remaining difficult to detect.
By Minhua Lin, Zhicheng Gao, Yilong Wang, Hanqing Lu, Xiang Zhang, Suhang Wang
HYDRA is a proactive Android malware drift adaptation framework that learns drift‑invariant representations from hierarchically structured data. It combines fine‑grained Control Flow Graphs and coarse‑grained Function Call Graphs to model applications, then applies a cross‑domain contrastive learning objective to align historical and new data distributions. Experiments on large‑scale, time‑ordered malware datasets show HYDRA achieves lower false negative and false positive rates than state‑of‑the‑art baselines while needing up to 87.5% fewer labeled samples.
By Han Chen, Hanchen Wang, Hongmei Chen, Lu Qin, Wenjie Zhang, Ying Zhang
arXiv:2512. 10485v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vulnerability detection methods based on deep learning (DL) have shown strong performance on benchmark datasets, yet their real-world effectiveness remains underexplored.
By Chaomeng Lu, Bert Lagaisse