Outputs (19)

Exploring the use of fitness landscape analysis for understanding malware evolution (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Babaagba, K., Murali, R., & Thomson, S. L. (2024, July). Exploring the use of fitness landscape analysis for understanding malware evolution. Presented at ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2024, Melbourne, Australia

We conduct a preliminary study exploring the potential of using fitness landscape analysis for understanding the evolution of malware. This type of optimisation is fairly new and has not previously been studied through the lens of landscape analysis.... Read More about Exploring the use of fitness landscape analysis for understanding malware evolution.

Can Federated Models Be Rectified Through Learning Negative Gradients? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tahir, A., Tan, Z., & Babaagba, K. O. Can Federated Models Be Rectified Through Learning Negative Gradients?. Presented at 13th EAI International Conference, BDTA 2023, Edinburgh

Federated Learning (FL) is a method to train machine learning (ML) models in a decentralised manner, while preserving the privacy of data from multiple clients. However, FL is vulnerable to malicious attacks, such as poisoning attacks, and is challen... Read More about Can Federated Models Be Rectified Through Learning Negative Gradients?.

Image Forgery Detection using Cryptography and Deep Learning (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Oke, A., & Babaagba, K. O. (2024). Image Forgery Detection using Cryptography and Deep Learning. In Big Data Technologies and Applications. BDTA 2023 (62-78). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52265-9_5

The advancement of technology has undoubtedly exposed everyone to a remarkable array of visual imagery. Nowadays, digital technology is eating away the trust and historical confidence people have in the integrity of imagery. Deep learning is often us... Read More about Image Forgery Detection using Cryptography and Deep Learning.

Emotion Recognition on Social Media Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) Techniques (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gomez, L. R., Watt, T., Babaagba, K. O., Chrysoulas, C., Homay, A., Rangarajan, R., & Liu, X. (2023). Emotion Recognition on Social Media Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) Techniques. In ICISS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 6th International Conferen

In recent years, text has been the main form of communication on social media platforms such as Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Emotion Recognition from these platforms can be exploited for all sorts of applications. Through the mea... Read More about Emotion Recognition on Social Media Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) Techniques.

A Generative Neural Network for Improving Metamorphic Malware Detection in IoT Mobile Devices (2023)
Book Chapter
Turnbull, L., Tan, Z., & Babaagba, K. O. (2024). A Generative Neural Network for Improving Metamorphic Malware Detection in IoT Mobile Devices. In A. Ismail Awad, A. Ahmad, K. Raymond Choo, & S. Hakak (Eds.), Internet of Things Security and Privacy: Pract

There has been an upsurge in malicious attacks in recent years, impacting computer systems and networks. More and more novel malware families aimed at information assets were launched daily over the past year. A particularly threatening malicious gro... Read More about A Generative Neural Network for Improving Metamorphic Malware Detection in IoT Mobile Devices.

Challenges and Considerations in Data Recovery from Solid State Media: A Comparative Analysis with Traditional Devices (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Spalding, A., Tan, Z., & Babaagba, K. O. (2023, November). Challenges and Considerations in Data Recovery from Solid State Media: A Comparative Analysis with Traditional Devices. Presented at The International Symposium on Intelligent and Trustworthy Comp

Data recovery for forensic analysis of both hard drives and solid state media presents its own unique set of challenges. Hard drives face mechanical failures and data fragmentation , but their sequential storage and higher success rates make recovery... Read More about Challenges and Considerations in Data Recovery from Solid State Media: A Comparative Analysis with Traditional Devices.

An Evolutionary based Generative Adversarial Network Inspired Approach to Defeating Metamorphic Malware (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Babaagba, K. O., & Wylie, J. (2023). An Evolutionary based Generative Adversarial Network Inspired Approach to Defeating Metamorphic Malware. In GECCO '23 Companion: Proceedings of the Companion Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (1753-17

Defeating dangerous families of malware like polymorphic and metamorphic malware have become well studied due to their increased attacks on computer systems and network. Traditional Machine Learning (ML) models have been used in detecting this malwar... Read More about An Evolutionary based Generative Adversarial Network Inspired Approach to Defeating Metamorphic Malware.

Evolutionary based Transfer Learning Approach to Improving Classification of Metamorphic Malware (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Babaagba, K. O., & Ayodele, M. (2023). Evolutionary based Transfer Learning Approach to Improving Classification of Metamorphic Malware. In Applications of Evolutionary Computation – 26th International Conference, EvoApplications 2023 (161-176). https:

The proliferation of metamorphic malware has recently gained a lot of research interest. This is because of their ability to transform their program codes stochastically. Several detectors are unable to detect this malware family because of how quick... Read More about Evolutionary based Transfer Learning Approach to Improving Classification of Metamorphic Malware.

A Generative Adversarial Network Based Approach to Malware Generation Based on Behavioural Graphs (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McLaren, R. A., Babaagba, K., & Tan, Z. (2023). A Generative Adversarial Network Based Approach to Malware Generation Based on Behavioural Graphs. In Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science: 8th International Conference, LOD 2022, Certosa di Po

As the field of malware detection continues to grow, a shift in focus is occurring from feature vectors and other common, but easily obfuscated elements to a semantics based approach. This is due to the emergence of more complex malware families that... Read More about A Generative Adversarial Network Based Approach to Malware Generation Based on Behavioural Graphs.

A Generative Neural Network for Enhancing Android Metamorphic Malware Detection based on Behaviour Profiling (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turnbull, L., Tan, Z., & Babaagba, K. (2022). A Generative Neural Network for Enhancing Android Metamorphic Malware Detection based on Behaviour Profiling. In 2022 IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (DSC). https://doi.org/10.1109/DSC54232

Malicious software trends show a persistent yearly increase in volume and cost impact. More than 350,000 new malicious or unwanted programs that target various technologies were registered daily over the past year. Metamorphic malware is a specifical... Read More about A Generative Neural Network for Enhancing Android Metamorphic Malware Detection based on Behaviour Profiling.