arXiv Machine Learning By Manuel R\"oder, Bibin Babu, Frank-Michael Schleif

Federated Attack Campaign Detection via Contrastive Encoding of Threat Indicators in Gradient Updates

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The paper introduces FedIoC, a federated learning framework that embeds structured threat indicators into gradient updates using a supervised contrastive loss. By aligning gradients from clients that share indicators for the same attack campaign, the server can cluster updates via cosine similarity to recover global campaign patterns without transmitting sensitive indicators. Experiments on two public threat‑detection benchmarks show that the server successfully identifies cross‑organizational campaign cohorts from fragmented local data.

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