Towards accurate run-time hardware-assisted stealthy malware detection: a lightweight, yet effective time series CNN-based approach

H Sayadi, Y Gao, H Mohammadi Makrani, J Lin… - Cryptography, 2021 - mdpi.com
According to recent security analysis reports, malicious software (aka malware) is rising at
an alarming rate in numbers, complexity, and harmful purposes to compromise the security …

A recent assessment for the ransomware attacks against the internet of medical things (iomt): A review

T Nusairat, MM Saudi, AB Ahmad - 2023 IEEE 13th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The magnitude, complexity, and diversity of cyber threats against the Internet of Medical
Things have increased over the past several years, making it challenging to implement …

Vehicle security: A survey of security issues and vulnerabilities, malware attacks and defenses

AA Elkhail, RUD Refat, R Habre, A Hafeez… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent years have led the path to the evolution of automotive technology and with these
new developments, modern vehicles are getting increasingly astute and offering growing …

Deep neural network and transfer learning for accurate hardware-based zero-day malware detection

Z He, A Rezaei, H Homayoun, H Sayadi - Proceedings of the Great …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
In recent years, security researchers have shifted their attentions to the underlying
processors' architecture and proposed Hardware-Based Malware Detection (HMD) …

When machine learning meets hardware cybersecurity: Delving into accurate zero-day malware detection

Z He, T Miari, HM Makrani, M Aliasgari… - … on Quality Electronic …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cybersecurity for the past decades has been in the front line of global attention as a critical
threat to the information technology infrastructures. According to recent security reports …

A survey on hardware-based malware detection approaches

CP Chenet, A Savino, S Di Carlo - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper delves into the dynamic landscape of computer security, where malware poses a
paramount threat. Our focus is a riveting exploration of the recent and promising hardware …

Adaptive-hmd: Accurate and cost-efficient machine learning-driven malware detection using microarchitectural events

Y Gao, HM Makrani, M Aliasgari… - 2021 IEEE 27th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To address the high complexity and computational overheads of conventional software-
based detection techniques, Hardware Malware Detection (HMD) has shown promising …

Cloak & co-locate: Adversarial railroading of resource sharing-based attacks on the cloud

HM Makrani, H Sayadi, N Nazari… - … on Secure and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The heterogeneity of resources and the diversity of applications on the cloud motivated the
need for resource provisioning systems (RPSs) to meet the users' performance requirements …

Breakthrough to adaptive and cost-aware hardware-assisted zero-day malware detection: A reinforcement learning-based approach

Z He, HM Makrani, S Rafatirad… - 2022 IEEE 40th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we have identified and addressed pressing challenges associated with online
and cost-effective malware detection based on Hardware Performance Counters (HPCs) …

Cyber-immunity at the core: Securing biomedical devices through hardware-level machine learning defense

H Sayadi, Z He, CW Fernandes… - 2023 IEEE Biomedical …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Healthcare cybersecurity is crucial for protecting hospitals' networks and computing systems
from malicious cyber-attacks. With the increasing motivation and capability of cyber …