The widespread adoption of cloud-based and public legitimate services (CPLS) has
inadvertently opened up new avenues for cyber attackers to establish covert and resilient …

Twitter is one of the most popular micro-blogging social media platforms that has millions of
users. Due to its popularity, Twitter has been targeted by different attacks such as spreading …

The detection and anti-detection of social botnets constitute an arms race that enables social
botnets to evolve quickly. Existing host-side detection approaches cannot easily detect every …

The cognitive systems along with the machine learning techniques have provided significant
improvements for many applications. However, recent adversarial attacks, such as data …

The K shortest path (KSP) algorithm, which finds the top K shortest simple paths from a
source to a target vertex, has a wide range of real-world applications, eg, routing …

The proliferation of cloud and public legitimate services (CLS) on a global scale has resulted
in increasingly sophisticated malware attacks that abuse these services as command-and …

Cybercriminals increasingly abuse cloud and legitimate services (CLS) as covert command
and control (C&C) infrastructure to orchestrate malicious operations and evade detection …

The implementations of network protocols are often “bloated” due to various users' needs
and complex environment for deployment. The continual expansion of program features …

Modern application workloads are mostly deployed on cloud computing platforms. Illicit
communication across user domains is prohibited by Operating System (OS) or Virtual …

Social botnets have several inherent advantages that enable them to evade common botnet
detection approaches. When a social bot is in a malware-analysis environment, it may not …