Privacy Enhanced Mobile User Authentication Method Using Motion Sensors

With the development of hardware devices and the upgrading of smartphones,a large number of users save privacy-related information in mobile devices,mainly smartphones,which puts forward higher demands on the protection of mobile users’privacy information.At present,mobile user authenticationmethods based on humancomputer interaction have been extensively studied due to their advantages of high precision and non-perception,but there are still shortcomings such as low data collection efficiency,untrustworthy participating nodes,and lack of practicability.To this end,this paper proposes a privacy-enhanced mobile user authentication method with motion sensors,which mainly includes:(1)Construct a smart contract-based private chain and federated learning to improve the data collection efficiency of mobile user authentication,reduce the probability of the model being bypassed by attackers,and reduce the overhead of data centralized processing and the risk of privacy leakage;(2)Use certificateless encryption to realize the authentication of the device to ensure the credibility of the client nodes participating in the calculation;(3)Combine Variational Mode Decomposition(VMD)and Long Short-TermMemory(LSTM)to analyze and model the motion sensor data of mobile devices to improve the accuracy of model certification.The experimental results on the real environment dataset of 1513 people show that themethod proposed in this paper can effectively resist poisoning attacks while ensuring the accuracy and efficiency of mobile user authentication.

Generic,efficient,and effective deobfuscation and semantic-aware attack detection for Power Shell scripts

In recent years,Power Shell has increasingly been reported as appearing in a variety of cyber attacks.However,because the PowerShell language is dynamic by design and can construct script fragments at different levels,state-of-the-art static analysis based Power Shell attack detection approaches are inherently vulnerable to obfuscations.In this paper,we design the first generic,effective,and lightweight deobfuscation approach for PowerShell scripts.To precisely identify the obfuscated script fragments,we define obfuscation based on the differences in the impacts on the abstract syntax trees of PowerShell scripts and propose a novel emulation-based recovery technology.Furthermore,we design the first semantic-aware PowerShell attack detection system that leverages the classic objective-oriented association mining algorithm and newly identifies 31 semantic signatures.The experimental results on 2342 benign samples and 4141 malicious samples show that our deobfuscation method takes less than 0.5 s on average and increases the similarity between the obfuscated and original scripts from 0.5%to 93.2%.By deploying our deobfuscation method,the attack detection rates for Windows Defender and VirusTotal increase substantially from 0.33%and 2.65%to 78.9%and 94.0%,respectively.Moreover,our detection system outperforms both existing tools with a 96.7%true positive rate and a 0%false positive rate on average.