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most citedDeepfake in the Metaverse: Security Implications for Virtual Gaming, Meetings, and Offices

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cs.CR2025

Can Current Detectors Catch Face-to-Voice Deepfake Attacks?

Nguyen Linh Bao Nguyen, Alsharif Abuadbba, Kristen Moore +1

The rapid advancement of generative models has enabled the creation of increasingly stealthy synthetic voices, commonly referred to as audio deepfakes. A recent technique, FOICE [U…

cs.CL2025

Adversarial Attacks Against Automated Fact-Checking: A Survey

Fanzhen Liu, Alsharif Abuadbba, Kristen Moore +5

In an era where misinformation spreads freely, fact-checking (FC) plays a crucial role in verifying claims and promoting reliable information. While automated fact-checking (AFC) h…

cs.CY2025

RINSER: Accurate API Prediction Using Masked Language Models

Muhammad Ejaz Ahmed, Christopher Cody, Muhammad Ikram +5

Malware authors commonly use obfuscation to hide API identities in binary files, making analysis difficult and time-consuming for a human expert to understand the behavior and inte…

cs.LG2025

Towards Faithful Class-level Self-explainability in Graph Neural Networks by Subgraph Dependencies

Fanzhen Liu, Xiaoxiao Ma, Jian Yang +6

Enhancing the interpretability of graph neural networks (GNNs) is crucial to ensure their safe and fair deployment. Recent work has introduced self-explainable GNNs that generate e…

cs.LG2025★ 7 cited

Uncovering Gradient Inversion Risks in Practical Language Model Training

Xinguo Feng, Zhongkui Ma, Zihan Wang +4

The gradient inversion attack has been demonstrated as a significant privacy threat to federated learning (FL), particularly in continuous domains such as vision models. In contras…

cs.CR2025★ 2 cited

From Promise to Peril: Rethinking Cybersecurity Red and Blue Teaming in the Age of LLMs

Alsharif Abuadbba, Chris Hicks, Kristen Moore +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) are set to reshape cybersecurity by augmenting red and blue team operations. Red teams can exploit LLMs to plan attacks, craft phishing content, simula…

cs.CV2025

LLMs Are Not Yet Ready for Deepfake Image Detection

Shahroz Tariq, David Nguyen, M. A. P. Chamikara +3

The growing sophistication of deepfakes presents substantial challenges to the integrity of media and the preservation of public trust. Concurrently, vision-language models (VLMs),…

cs.CR2025

What is the Cost of Differential Privacy for Deep Learning-Based Trajectory Generation?

Erik Buchholz, Natasha Fernandes, David D. Nguyen +3

While location trajectories offer valuable insights, they also reveal sensitive personal information. Differential Privacy (DP) offers formal protection, but achieving a favourable…

cs.CR2025

Enhancing Malware Fingerprinting through Analysis of Evasive Techniques

Alsharif Abuadbba, Sean Lamont, Ejaz Ahmed +6

As malware detection evolves, attackers adopt sophisticated evasion tactics. Traditional file-level fingerprinting, such as cryptographic and fuzzy hashes, is often overlooked as a…

cs.CR2025

EPhishCADE: A Privacy-Aware Multi-Dimensional Framework for Email Phishing Campaign Detection

Wei Kang, Nan Wang, Jang Seung +2

Phishing attacks, typically carried out by email, remain a significant cybersecurity threat with attackers creating legitimate-looking websites to deceive recipients into revealing…

cs.LG2025

H-FLTN: A Privacy-Preserving Hierarchical Framework for Electric Vehicle Spatio-Temporal Charge Prediction

Robert Marlin, Raja Jurdak, Alsharif Abuadbba

The widespread adoption of Electric Vehicles (EVs) poses critical challenges for energy providers, particularly in predicting charging time (temporal prediction), ensuring user pri…

cs.CR2025

Large Language Model Adversarial Landscape Through the Lens of Attack Objectives

Nan Wang, Kane Walter, Yansong Gao +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a transformative leap in artificial intelligence, enabling the comprehension, generation, and nuanced interaction with human language on an u…

cs.CR2025

Privacy Preserving Charge Location Prediction for Electric Vehicles

Robert Marlin, Raja Jurdak, Alsharif Abuadbba +1

By 2050, electric vehicles (EVs) are projected to account for 70% of global vehicle sales. While EVs provide environmental benefits, they also pose challenges for energy generation…

cs.CR2025

Comprehensive Evaluation of Cloaking Backdoor Attacks on Object Detector in Real-World

Hua Ma, Alsharif Abuadbba, Yansong Gao +2

The exploration of backdoor vulnerabilities in object detectors, particularly in real-world scenarios, remains limited. A significant challenge lies in the absence of a natural phy…