ML

Securing ML-based Android Malware Detectors: A Defensive Feature Selection Approach against Backdoor Attacks

Backdoors can silently flip Android malware detectors. We defend with feature selection that shrinks the attack surface in both centralised and federated learning, with little cost to clean accuracy.

Bartłomiej Marek, Kacper Pieniążek, Filip Ratajczak, Wojciech Adamczyk, Bartosz Bok, Mateusz Krzysztoń

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