Most corporate workplace environments enforce policies and technical controls that limit the storage of sensitive data on client endpoints. Consequently, ransomware operators have evolved variants that expand their attack surface from local systems to network drives and shared storage resources.
arXiv:2607. 04292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ransomware has evolved into a complex, adaptive, and fast-moving adversary category in which static signatures and monolithic classifiers fail to generalise under concept drift, evasion, and behavioural polymorphism.
By Henry Kabuye, Biju Issac, Jeyamohan Neera
arXiv:2606. 30572v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Malware classification remains a challenging problem due to its inherent heterogeneity, the presence of packed binaries, and the diverse distribution of malware families.
By Jithin S., Roshin Sleeba C., Anvin Mariya P. B., Asmitha K. A., Vinod P., Serena Nicolazzo, Antonino Nocera
arXiv:2608. 02671v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Malware detection using Hardware Performance Counters (HPC) has emerged as a promising solution to improve the security of computing systems as a complement to antivirus software.
By Alireza Abolhasani Zeraatkar, Parnian Shabani Kamran, Inderpreet Kaur, Nagabindu Ramu, Tyler Sheaves, Hussain Al-Asaad
arXiv:2507. 18313v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Malware evolves rapidly, forcing machine learning-based detectors to be continuously updated.
By Daniele Ghiani, Daniele Angioni, Giorgio Piras, Angelo Sotgiu, Luca Minnei, Srishti Gupta, Maura Pintor, Fabio Roli, Battista Biggio
arXiv:2606. 19023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing reliance on pre-trained Machine Learning (ML) models has introduced new attack surfaces.
By Gabriele Digregorio, Marco Di Gennaro, Francesco Pastore, Stefano Zanero, Stefano Longari, Michele Carminati
The growing reliance on pre-trained Machine Learning (ML) models has introduced new attack surfaces. Recent vulnerabilities demonstrate that malicious behavior can be embedded within model artifacts, often bypassing existing defenses.
arXiv:2509. 16749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs are increasingly pervasive in the security environment, with limited measures of their effectiveness, which limits trust and usefulness to security practitioners.
By Anna Bertiger, Bobby Filar, Aryan Luthra, Stefano Meschiari, Aiden Mitchell, Sam Scholten, Vivek Sharath
arXiv:2608. 08100v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enables large language models to classify network flows and generate human-readable incident reports by retrieving semantically similar historical traffic from a vector knowledge base.
By Kaysarul Anas Apurba, Md. Hasibul Hasan, Mahedee Zaman Moon, Sk. Md. Mizanur Rahman, Atsuo Inomata
arXiv:2606. 28917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a protocol that allows users to query and modify Active Directory (AD) data.
By Shaefer Drew, Edward Raff, Michael Brautbar, Yaron Zinar, Benjamin Malmberg, Dor Agron, Sagi Sheinfeld, Avraham Kama, Asaf Romano
arXiv:2607. 06963v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI (GenAI) systems, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA, Copilot, Stable Diffusion by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Stability AI, respectively, are revolutionizing cybersecurity, enabling both automated defense and sophisticated attacks.
By Kiarash Ahi, Saeed Valizadeh
arXiv:2607. 24177v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Due to the lack of systematic evaluations, we are not yet able to determine which AI-based Windows malware detector to deploy in production, since existing evaluations (i) differ in terms of data used for both training and testing; (ii) do not consider temporal analysis to showcase whether models withstand the passage of time; (iii) avoid security evaluations with adversarial attacks that could highlight their brittleness against content-injection attacks; and (iv) neglect the computational requirements for deployment, risking slow inference on endpoints.
By Andrea Ponte, Daniel Gibert, Matous Kozak, Dmitrijs Trizna, Maura Pintor, Battista Biggio, Fabio Roli, Luca Demetrio