3 papers
cs.CR2026
Building a Robust Risk-Based Access Control System to Combat Ransomware's Capability to Encrypt
Kenan Begovic, Abdulaziz Al-Ali, Qutaibah Malluhi
Ransomware core capability, unauthorized encryption, demands controls that identify and block malicious cryptographic activity without disrupting legitimate use. We present a proba…
cs.LG2025
Exploiting ftrace's function_graph Tracer Features for Machine Learning: A Case Study on Encryption Detection
Kenan Begovic, Abdulaziz Al-Ali, Qutaibah Malluhi
This paper proposes using the Linux kernel ftrace framework, particularly the function graph tracer, to generate informative system level data for machine learning (ML) application…
cs.CR2025
Uncovering Privacy Vulnerabilities through Analytical Gradient Inversion Attacks
Tamer Ahmed Eltaras, Qutaibah Malluhi, Alessandro Savino +2
Federated learning has emerged as a prominent privacy-preserving technique for leveraging large-scale distributed datasets by sharing gradients instead of raw data. However, recent…