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IMC
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Malware prevalence in the KaZaA file-sharing network
In recent years, more than 200 viruses have been reported to use a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network as a propagation vector. Disguised as files that are frequently exchan...
Seungwon Shin, Jaeyeon Jung, Hari Balakrishnan
MOBISYS
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Detecting energy-greedy anomalies and mobile malware variants
Mobile users of computation and communication services have been rapidly adopting battery-powered mobile handhelds, such as PocketPCs and SmartPhones, for their work. However, the...
Hahnsang Kim, Joshua Smith, Kang G. Shin
CCS
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
BLADE: an attack-agnostic approach for preventing drive-by malware infections
Web-based surreptitious malware infections (i.e., drive-by downloads) have become the primary method used to deliver malicious software onto computers across the Internet. To addr...
Long Lu, Vinod Yegneswaran, Phillip A. Porras, Wen...
MOBISYS
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Behavioral detection of malware on mobile handsets
A novel behavioral detection framework is proposed to detect mobile worms, viruses and Trojans, instead of the signature-based solutions currently available for use in mobile devi...
Abhijit Bose, Xin Hu, Kang G. Shin, Taejoon Park
GECCO
2008
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Improving accuracy of immune-inspired malware detectors by using intelligent features
In this paper, we show that a Bio-inspired classifier’s accuracy can be dramatically improved if it operates on intelligent features. We propose a novel set of intelligent feat...
M. Zubair Shafiq, Syed Ali Khayam, Muddassar Faroo...