The increasingly complex and interconnected train control information network is vulnerable to a variety of malicious traffic attacks,and the existing malicious traffic detection methods mainly rely on machine learnin...The increasingly complex and interconnected train control information network is vulnerable to a variety of malicious traffic attacks,and the existing malicious traffic detection methods mainly rely on machine learning,such as poor robustness,weak generalization,and a lack of ability to learn common features.Therefore,this paper proposes a malicious traffic identification method based on stacked sparse denoising autoencoders combined with a regularized extreme learning machine through particle swarm optimization.Firstly,the simulation environment of the Chinese train control system-3,was constructed for data acquisition.Then Pearson coefficient and other methods are used for pre-processing,then a stacked sparse denoising autoencoder is used to achieve nonlinear dimensionality reduction of features,and finally regularization extreme learning machine optimized by particle swarm optimization is used to achieve classification.Experimental data show that the proposed method has good training performance,with an average accuracy of 97.57%and a false negative rate of 2.43%,which is better than other alternative methods.In addition,ablation experiments were performed to evaluate the contribution of each component,and the results showed that the combination of methods was superior to individual methods.To further evaluate the generalization ability of the model in different scenarios,publicly available data sets of industrial control system networks were used.The results show that the model has robust detection capability in various types of network attacks.展开更多
Malicious traffic detection over the internet is one of the challenging areas for researchers to protect network infrastructures from any malicious activity.Several shortcomings of a network system can be leveraged by...Malicious traffic detection over the internet is one of the challenging areas for researchers to protect network infrastructures from any malicious activity.Several shortcomings of a network system can be leveraged by an attacker to get unauthorized access through malicious traffic.Safeguard from such attacks requires an efficient automatic system that can detect malicious traffic timely and avoid system damage.Currently,many automated systems can detect malicious activity,however,the efficacy and accuracy need further improvement to detect malicious traffic from multi-domain systems.The present study focuses on the detection of malicious traffic with high accuracy using machine learning techniques.The proposed approach used two datasets UNSW-NB15 and IoTID20 which contain the data for IoT-based traffic and local network traffic,respectively.Both datasets were combined to increase the capability of the proposed approach in detecting malicious traffic from local and IoT networks,with high accuracy.Horizontally merging both datasets requires an equal number of features which was achieved by reducing feature count to 30 for each dataset by leveraging principal component analysis(PCA).The proposed model incorporates stacked ensemble model extra boosting forest(EBF)which is a combination of tree-based models such as extra tree classifier,gradient boosting classifier,and random forest using a stacked ensemble approach.Empirical results show that EBF performed significantly better and achieved the highest accuracy score of 0.985 and 0.984 on the multi-domain dataset for two and four classes,respectively.展开更多
Large-scale neural networks-based federated learning(FL)has gained public recognition for its effective capabilities in distributed training.Nonetheless,the open system architecture inherent to federated learning syst...Large-scale neural networks-based federated learning(FL)has gained public recognition for its effective capabilities in distributed training.Nonetheless,the open system architecture inherent to federated learning systems raises concerns regarding their vulnerability to potential attacks.Poisoning attacks turn into a major menace to federated learning on account of their concealed property and potent destructive force.By altering the local model during routine machine learning training,attackers can easily contaminate the global model.Traditional detection and aggregation solutions mitigate certain threats,but they are still insufficient to completely eliminate the influence generated by attackers.Therefore,federated unlearning that can remove unreliable models while maintaining the accuracy of the global model has become a solution.Unfortunately some existing federated unlearning approaches are rather difficult to be applied in large neural network models because of their high computational expenses.Hence,we propose SlideFU,an efficient anti-poisoning attack federated unlearning framework.The primary concept of SlideFU is to employ sliding window to construct the training process,where all operations are confined within the window.We design a malicious detection scheme based on principal component analysis(PCA),which calculates the trust factors between compressed models in a low-cost way to eliminate unreliable models.After confirming that the global model is under attack,the system activates the federated unlearning process,calibrates the gradients based on the updated direction of the calibration gradients.Experiments on two public datasets demonstrate that our scheme can recover a robust model with extremely high efficiency.展开更多
传统的静态检测恶意JavaScript代码方法十分依赖于已有的恶意代码特征,无法有效提取混淆恶意代码特征,导致检测混淆恶意JavaScript代码的精确率低。针对该问题提出基于双向长短期记忆网络(Bidirectional Long Short-term Memory, Bi-LS...传统的静态检测恶意JavaScript代码方法十分依赖于已有的恶意代码特征,无法有效提取混淆恶意代码特征,导致检测混淆恶意JavaScript代码的精确率低。针对该问题提出基于双向长短期记忆网络(Bidirectional Long Short-term Memory, Bi-LSTM)的恶意代码检测模型。通过抽象语法树将JavaScript代码转化为句法单元序列,通过Doc2Vec算法将句法单元序列用分布式向量表示,将句向量矩阵送入Bi-LSTM模型进行检测。实验结果表明,该方法对于混淆恶意JavaScript代码具有良好的检测效果且检测效率高,准确率为97.03%,召回率为97.10%。展开更多
IoT(Internet of Things)devices are being used more and more in a variety of businesses and for a variety of tasks,such as environmental data collection in both civilian and military situations.They are a desirable att...IoT(Internet of Things)devices are being used more and more in a variety of businesses and for a variety of tasks,such as environmental data collection in both civilian and military situations.They are a desirable attack target for malware intended to infect specific IoT devices due to their growing use in a variety of applications and their increasing computational and processing power.In this study,we investigate the possibility of detecting IoT malware using recurrent neural networks(RNNs).RNNis used in the proposed method to investigate the execution operation codes of ARM-based Internet of Things apps(OpCodes).To train our algorithms,we employ a dataset of IoT applications that includes 281 malicious and 270 benign pieces of software.The trained model is then put to the test using 100 brand-new IoT malware samples across three separate LSTM settings.Model exposure was not previously conducted on these samples.Detecting newly crafted malware samples with 2-layer neurons had the highest accuracy(98.18%)in the 10-fold cross validation experiment.A comparison of the LSTMtechnique to other machine learning classifiers shows that it yields the best results.展开更多
With the continuous expansion of digital infrastructures,malicious behaviors in host systems have become increasingly sophisticated,often spanning multiple processes and employing obfuscation techniques to evade detec...With the continuous expansion of digital infrastructures,malicious behaviors in host systems have become increasingly sophisticated,often spanning multiple processes and employing obfuscation techniques to evade detection.Audit logs,such as Sysmon,offer valuable insights;however,existing approaches typically flatten event sequences or rely on generic graph models,thereby discarding the natural parent-child process hierarchy that is critical for analyzing multiprocess attacks.This paper proposes a structure-aware threat detection framework that transforms audit logs into a unified two-dimensional(2D)spatio-temporal representation,where process hierarchy is modeled as the spatial axis and event chronology as the temporal axis.In addition,entropy-based features are incorporated to robustly capture obfuscated and non-linguistic strings,overcoming the limitations of semantic embeddings.The model’s performance was evaluated on publicly available datasets,achieving competitive results with an accuracy exceeding 95%and an F1-score of at least 0.94.The proposed approach provides a promising and reproducible solution for detecting attacks with unknown indicators of compromise(IoCs)by analyzing the relationships and behaviors of processes recorded in large-scale audit logs.展开更多
文摘The increasingly complex and interconnected train control information network is vulnerable to a variety of malicious traffic attacks,and the existing malicious traffic detection methods mainly rely on machine learning,such as poor robustness,weak generalization,and a lack of ability to learn common features.Therefore,this paper proposes a malicious traffic identification method based on stacked sparse denoising autoencoders combined with a regularized extreme learning machine through particle swarm optimization.Firstly,the simulation environment of the Chinese train control system-3,was constructed for data acquisition.Then Pearson coefficient and other methods are used for pre-processing,then a stacked sparse denoising autoencoder is used to achieve nonlinear dimensionality reduction of features,and finally regularization extreme learning machine optimized by particle swarm optimization is used to achieve classification.Experimental data show that the proposed method has good training performance,with an average accuracy of 97.57%and a false negative rate of 2.43%,which is better than other alternative methods.In addition,ablation experiments were performed to evaluate the contribution of each component,and the results showed that the combination of methods was superior to individual methods.To further evaluate the generalization ability of the model in different scenarios,publicly available data sets of industrial control system networks were used.The results show that the model has robust detection capability in various types of network attacks.
文摘Malicious traffic detection over the internet is one of the challenging areas for researchers to protect network infrastructures from any malicious activity.Several shortcomings of a network system can be leveraged by an attacker to get unauthorized access through malicious traffic.Safeguard from such attacks requires an efficient automatic system that can detect malicious traffic timely and avoid system damage.Currently,many automated systems can detect malicious activity,however,the efficacy and accuracy need further improvement to detect malicious traffic from multi-domain systems.The present study focuses on the detection of malicious traffic with high accuracy using machine learning techniques.The proposed approach used two datasets UNSW-NB15 and IoTID20 which contain the data for IoT-based traffic and local network traffic,respectively.Both datasets were combined to increase the capability of the proposed approach in detecting malicious traffic from local and IoT networks,with high accuracy.Horizontally merging both datasets requires an equal number of features which was achieved by reducing feature count to 30 for each dataset by leveraging principal component analysis(PCA).The proposed model incorporates stacked ensemble model extra boosting forest(EBF)which is a combination of tree-based models such as extra tree classifier,gradient boosting classifier,and random forest using a stacked ensemble approach.Empirical results show that EBF performed significantly better and achieved the highest accuracy score of 0.985 and 0.984 on the multi-domain dataset for two and four classes,respectively.
基金supported in part by the National Social Science Foundation of China under Grant 20BTQ058in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province under Grant 2023JJ50033.
文摘Large-scale neural networks-based federated learning(FL)has gained public recognition for its effective capabilities in distributed training.Nonetheless,the open system architecture inherent to federated learning systems raises concerns regarding their vulnerability to potential attacks.Poisoning attacks turn into a major menace to federated learning on account of their concealed property and potent destructive force.By altering the local model during routine machine learning training,attackers can easily contaminate the global model.Traditional detection and aggregation solutions mitigate certain threats,but they are still insufficient to completely eliminate the influence generated by attackers.Therefore,federated unlearning that can remove unreliable models while maintaining the accuracy of the global model has become a solution.Unfortunately some existing federated unlearning approaches are rather difficult to be applied in large neural network models because of their high computational expenses.Hence,we propose SlideFU,an efficient anti-poisoning attack federated unlearning framework.The primary concept of SlideFU is to employ sliding window to construct the training process,where all operations are confined within the window.We design a malicious detection scheme based on principal component analysis(PCA),which calculates the trust factors between compressed models in a low-cost way to eliminate unreliable models.After confirming that the global model is under attack,the system activates the federated unlearning process,calibrates the gradients based on the updated direction of the calibration gradients.Experiments on two public datasets demonstrate that our scheme can recover a robust model with extremely high efficiency.
文摘传统的静态检测恶意JavaScript代码方法十分依赖于已有的恶意代码特征,无法有效提取混淆恶意代码特征,导致检测混淆恶意JavaScript代码的精确率低。针对该问题提出基于双向长短期记忆网络(Bidirectional Long Short-term Memory, Bi-LSTM)的恶意代码检测模型。通过抽象语法树将JavaScript代码转化为句法单元序列,通过Doc2Vec算法将句法单元序列用分布式向量表示,将句向量矩阵送入Bi-LSTM模型进行检测。实验结果表明,该方法对于混淆恶意JavaScript代码具有良好的检测效果且检测效率高,准确率为97.03%,召回率为97.10%。
文摘IoT(Internet of Things)devices are being used more and more in a variety of businesses and for a variety of tasks,such as environmental data collection in both civilian and military situations.They are a desirable attack target for malware intended to infect specific IoT devices due to their growing use in a variety of applications and their increasing computational and processing power.In this study,we investigate the possibility of detecting IoT malware using recurrent neural networks(RNNs).RNNis used in the proposed method to investigate the execution operation codes of ARM-based Internet of Things apps(OpCodes).To train our algorithms,we employ a dataset of IoT applications that includes 281 malicious and 270 benign pieces of software.The trained model is then put to the test using 100 brand-new IoT malware samples across three separate LSTM settings.Model exposure was not previously conducted on these samples.Detecting newly crafted malware samples with 2-layer neurons had the highest accuracy(98.18%)in the 10-fold cross validation experiment.A comparison of the LSTMtechnique to other machine learning classifiers shows that it yields the best results.
基金supported by the Nuclear Safety Research Program through Korea Foundation of Nuclear Safety(KoFONS)using the financial resource granted by the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission(NSSC)of the Republic of Korea(Grant number:2106061,50%)supported by the Institute of Information&Communications Technology Planning&Evaluation(IITP)grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT)(RS-2025-25394739,Development of Security Enhancement Technology for Industrial Control Systems Based on S/HBOM Supply Chain Protection,50%).
文摘With the continuous expansion of digital infrastructures,malicious behaviors in host systems have become increasingly sophisticated,often spanning multiple processes and employing obfuscation techniques to evade detection.Audit logs,such as Sysmon,offer valuable insights;however,existing approaches typically flatten event sequences or rely on generic graph models,thereby discarding the natural parent-child process hierarchy that is critical for analyzing multiprocess attacks.This paper proposes a structure-aware threat detection framework that transforms audit logs into a unified two-dimensional(2D)spatio-temporal representation,where process hierarchy is modeled as the spatial axis and event chronology as the temporal axis.In addition,entropy-based features are incorporated to robustly capture obfuscated and non-linguistic strings,overcoming the limitations of semantic embeddings.The model’s performance was evaluated on publicly available datasets,achieving competitive results with an accuracy exceeding 95%and an F1-score of at least 0.94.The proposed approach provides a promising and reproducible solution for detecting attacks with unknown indicators of compromise(IoCs)by analyzing the relationships and behaviors of processes recorded in large-scale audit logs.
