Ransomware reloaded: Re-examining its trend, research and mitigation in the era of data exfiltration

T McIntosh, T Susnjak, T Liu, D Xu, P Watters… - ACM Computing …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Ransomware has grown to be a dominant cybersecurity threat, by exfiltrating, encrypting or
destroying valuable user data, and causing numerous disruptions to victims. The severity of …

A comprehensive review on detection of cyber-attacks: Data sets, methods, challenges, and future research directions

H Ahmetoglu, R Das - Internet of Things, 2022 - Elsevier
Rapid developments in network technologies and the amount and scope of data transferred
on networks are increasing day by day. Depending on this situation, the density and …

A multi-objective evolutionary algorithm with interval based initialization and self-adaptive crossover operator for large-scale feature selection in classification

Y Xue, X Cai, F Neri - Applied Soft Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
Feature selection (FS) is an important data pre-processing technique in classification. In
most cases, FS can improve classification accuracy and reduce feature dimension, so it can …

Securing the Industrial Internet of Things against ransomware attacks: A comprehensive analysis of the emerging threat landscape and detection mechanisms

M Al-Hawawreh, M Alazab, MA Ferrag… - Journal of Network and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the complexity and diversity of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems, which
include heterogeneous devices, legacy and new connectivity protocols and systems, and …

[HTML][HTML] API-MalDetect: Automated malware detection framework for windows based on API calls and deep learning techniques

P Maniriho, AN Mahmood, MJM Chowdhury - Journal of Network and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents API-MalDetect, a new deep learning-based automated framework for
detecting malware attacks in Windows systems. The framework uses an NLP-based encoder …

SDIF-CNN: Stacking deep image features using fine-tuned convolution neural network models for real-world malware detection and classification

S Kumar, K Panda - Applied Soft Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
The detection of malware is a complex problem in the area of Internet security. Developing a
malware defense system that is less costly to detect large-scale malware is needed. This …

A State-of-the-Art Review of Malware Attack Trends and Defense Mechanism.

J Ferdous, R Islam, A Mahboubi, MZ Islam - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increasing sophistication of malware threats has led to growing concerns in the anti-
malware community, as malware poses a significant danger to online users despite the …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic literature review on Windows malware detection: Techniques, research issues, and future directions

P Maniriho, AN Mahmood, MJM Chowdhury - Journal of Systems and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The aim of this systematic literature review (SLR) is to provide a comprehensive overview of
the current state of Windows malware detection techniques, research issues, and future …

Superiority combination learning distributed particle swarm optimization for large-scale optimization

ZJ Wang, Q Yang, YH Zhang, SH Chen… - Applied Soft Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
Large-scale optimization problems (LSOPs) have become increasingly significant and
challenging in the evolutionary computation (EC) community. This article proposes a …

An intelligent feature selection method using binary teaching-learning based optimization algorithm and ANN

M Khorashadizade, S Hosseini - Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory …, 2023 - Elsevier
The most challenging issue in dealing with big datasets is the large number of their
dimensions. Feature selection is a technique for reducing the dimensionality of datasets by …