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most citedThe Role of Machine Learning in Cybersecurity

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cs.CR2022★ 3 cited

"Real Attackers Don't Compute Gradients": Bridging the Gap Between Adversarial ML Research and Practice

Giovanni Apruzzese, Hyrum S. Anderson, Savino Dambra +3

Recent years have seen a proliferation of research on adversarial machine learning. Numerous papers demonstrate powerful algorithmic attacks against a wide variety of machine learn…

cs.CR2022★ 29 cited

Mitigating Adversarial Gray-Box Attacks Against Phishing Detectors

Giovanni Apruzzese, V. S. Subrahmanian

Although machine learning based algorithms have been extensively used for detecting phishing websites, there has been relatively little work on how adversaries may attack such "phi…

cs.CR2022★ 3 cited

Cybersecurity in the Smart Grid: Practitioners' Perspective

Jacqueline Meyer, Giovanni Apruzzese

The Smart Grid (SG) is a cornerstone of modern society, providing the energy required to sustain billions of lives and thousands of industries. Unfortunately, as one of the most cr…

cs.CR2022★ 35 cited

Multi-SpacePhish: Extending the Evasion-space of Adversarial Attacks against Phishing Website Detectors using Machine Learning

Ying Yuan, Giovanni Apruzzese, Mauro Conti

Existing literature on adversarial Machine Learning (ML) focuses either on showing attacks that break every ML model, or defenses that withstand most attacks. Unfortunately, little…

cs.CR2022★ 6 cited

Attribute Inference Attacks in Online Multiplayer Video Games: a Case Study on Dota2

Pier Paolo Tricomi, Lisa Facciolo, Giovanni Apruzzese +1

Did you know that over 70 million of Dota2 players have their in-game data freely accessible? What if such data is used in malicious ways? This paper is the first to investigate su…

cs.CR2022★ 20 cited

Wild Networks: Exposure of 5G Network Infrastructures to Adversarial Examples

Giovanni Apruzzese, Rodion Vladimirov, Aliya Tastemirova +1

Fifth Generation (5G) networks must support billions of heterogeneous devices while guaranteeing optimal Quality of Service (QoS). Such requirements are impossible to meet with hum…

cs.CR2022★ 272 cited

The Role of Machine Learning in Cybersecurity

Giovanni Apruzzese, Pavel Laskov, Edgardo Montes de Oca +4

Machine Learning (ML) represents a pivotal technology for current and future information systems, and many domains already leverage the capabilities of ML. However, deployment of M…

cs.CR2022★ 29 cited

SoK: The Impact of Unlabelled Data in Cyberthreat Detection

Giovanni Apruzzese, Pavel Laskov, Aliya Tastemirova

Machine learning (ML) has become an important paradigm for cyberthreat detection (CTD) in the recent years. A substantial research effort has been invested in the development of sp…

cs.LG2022

Concept-based Adversarial Attacks: Tricking Humans and Classifiers Alike

Johannes Schneider, Giovanni Apruzzese

We propose to generate adversarial samples by modifying activations of upper layers encoding semantically meaningful concepts. The original sample is shifted towards a target sampl…

cs.CR2022★ 129 cited

The Cross-evaluation of Machine Learning-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems

Giovanni Apruzzese, Luca Pajola, Mauro Conti

Enhancing Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) with supervised Machine Learning (ML) is tough. ML-NIDS must be trained and evaluated, operations requiring data where benign a…