Honglu He, Zhiying Zhu, Xinpeng Zhang^*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.3, pp. 2617-2633, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.025923

Abstract In recent years, the number of parameters of deep neural networks (DNNs) has been increasing rapidly. The training of DNNs is typically computation-intensive. As a result, many users leverage cloud computing and outsource their training procedures. Outsourcing computation results in a potential risk called backdoor attack, in which a welltrained DNN would perform abnormally on inputs with a certain trigger. Backdoor attacks can also be classified as attacks that exploit fake images. However, most backdoor attacks design a uniform trigger for all images, which can be easily detected and removed. In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive backdoor attack.… More >

Jingwei Hao^*, Senlin Luo, Limin Pan

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.1, pp. 719-734, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.033923

Abstract The byte stream is widely used in malware detection due to its independence of reverse engineering. However, existing methods based on the byte stream implement an indiscriminate feature extraction strategy, which ignores the byte function difference in different segments and fails to achieve targeted feature extraction for various byte semantic representation modes, resulting in byte semantic confusion. To address this issue, an enhanced adversarial byte function associated method for malware backdoor attack is proposed in this paper by categorizing various function bytes into three functions involving structure, code, and data. The Minhash algorithm, grayscale mapping, and state transition probability statistics… More >

Daniyal M. Alghazzawi¹, Osama Bassam J. Rabie¹, Surbhi Bhatia², Syed Hamid Hasan^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 1173-1193, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.022748

Abstract The Deep Neural Networks (DNN) training process is widely affected by backdoor attacks. The backdoor attack is excellent at concealing its identity in the DNN by performing well on regular samples and displaying malicious behavior with data poisoning triggers. The state-of-art backdoor attacks mainly follow a certain assumption that the trigger is sample-agnostic and different poisoned samples use the same trigger. To overcome this problem, in this work we are creating a backdoor attack to check their strength to withstand complex defense strategies, and in order to achieve this objective, we are developing an improved Convolutional Neural Network (ICNN) model… More >