The Efficacy of Transformer-based Adversarial Attacks in Security Domains. (arXiv:2310.11597v1 [cs.CR])

Today, the security of many domains rely on the use of Machine Learning to
detect threats, identify vulnerabilities, and safeguard systems from attacks.
Recently, transformer architectures have improved the state-of-the-art
performance on a wide range of tasks such as malware detection and network
intrusion detection. But, before abandoning current approaches to transformers,
it is crucial to understand their properties and implications on cybersecurity
applications. In this paper, we evaluate the robustness of transformers to
adversarial samples for system defenders (i.e., …

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