This editorial argues that as deep learning and foundation models permeate high-stakes domains, AI security must evolve into a rigorous, end-to-end discipline—prioritizing adaptive robustness, lifecycle integrity, privacy safeguards, and system-level governance—to ensure these powerful systems remain trustworthy under adversarial pressure. More >

Distributed Denial of Service attacks remain a critical threat to modern networked systems due to their scale, diversity and evolving attack strategies. Although machine learning and deep learning techniques have been widely explored for DDoS detection, many existing studies rely on inconsistent preprocessing pipelines, single-dataset evaluations and limited reproducibility. This work proposes a unified and resource efficient detection framework that addresses these challenges through systematic data handling and transparent model evaluation. The proposed pipeline integrates data cleaning, memory optimization, class balancing and hybrid feature engineering that combines linear, tree-based, s... More >

The medical information is always vulnerable to security violations. After the COVID-19 pandemic, the volume of medical information has exponentially increased and the major information is in the form of images. So, the security of this image information is crucial during the transfer using modern information and communication technologies from one place to another. Image watermarking is one of the methods to protect the copyright and integrity of medical records. The medical images consist of some area that has vital information regarding the disease and this area will be considered as the region of interest (ROI). Therefore, the protection of the copyright of this vital area is crucial for... More >

This paper investigates the performance of constellation warping techniques in QAM signals as a novel approach for physical layer authentication. We introduce a dynamic watermarking method that embeds subtle warping patterns into QAM constellations, enabling receivers to authenticate legitimate transmissions while detecting spoofing attacks. Our time-varying watermarking scheme employs secure key-based pattern generation to resist replay and estimation attacks. Extensive simulations analyze the system's resilience against various attack types (replay, blind spoofing, and estimation-based) across different signal-to-noise ratios. Results demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves high de... More >

The widespread adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized various sectors, including healthcare and transportation, by facilitating extensive data gathering and the provision of advanced, intelligent services. However, this growth also amplifies the risks of privacy breaches, unauthorized access, and resource exhaustion, particularly in constrained devices that cannot afford heavy cryptographic operations. Existing solutions often compromise between efficiency and security, leaving systems exposed to replay, Man-in-the-Middle, and even quantum-era threats. This paper proposes a novel authentication and privacy-preserving framework tailored for resource-constrained IoT enviro... More >

The continuous threat of malware against digital systems exists because its attack methods develop rapidly, reducing the effectiveness of traditional detection systems. Current static and dynamic analysis methods for malware detection face challenges with scalability and robustness when handling large and complex malware samples. Computer vision now shows that malware binaries contain specific structural patterns when displayed as grayscale images, which can be used for classification. This study investigates GCViT for malware detection through its application to the Malimg dataset, which contains 9,337 samples from 25 malware families. The dataset underwent preprocessing through a two-step... More >

VR empirical data include the sensitive affective and behavioral data (e.g. gaze patterns, physiological signals, facial expressions), placing a person at the risk of re-identification. Tailored privacy-preserving approaches to immersive data have not, however, received much attention in the recent affective-computing investigations. In the present paper, a differentially-privacy (DP) framework is presented as that allows anonymizing VR-based studies of emotion without losing scientific value. The first one is the quantification of re-identification risks through empirical linkage and inference attacks and then the mitigation of the risk through DP mechanisms such as Laplace noise, that soug... More >

This paper presents the Singularity Cipher, a novel cryptographic-steganographic framework that integrates topological transformations and visual paradoxes to achieve multidimensional security. Inspired by the non-orientable properties of the Klein bottle—constructed from two Möbius strips—the cipher applies symbolic twist functions to simulate topological traversal, producing high confusion and diffusion in the ciphertext. The resulting binary data is then encoded using perceptual illusions, such as the missing square paradox, to visually obscure the presence of encrypted content. Unlike conventional ciphers that rely solely on algebraic complexity, the Singularity Cipher introduces a... More >

The emerging field of underwater sensor networks (UWSN) has a vital potential shaping the modern and future landscape that assists in measuring water quality, pollution tracking, and identification of underwater habitats. The challenging conditions in the UWSN environments raise data and security concerns in terms of outliers related to the complicated communication system, poor visibility, and limited resources. The data quality and network efficiency may be affected due to these unwanted conditions, giving rise to certain malicious activities in the network. This study aims to enhance the outlier identification process in terms of security and quality perspectives using the Long Short-Term... More >

The exponential growth in security and storage requirements has led to increasing demand for high-performance solutions, particularly in managing large-scale data objects such as big binaries. Virtual Machines (VMs), a prime example of such binaries, are widely employed across desktops and dynamic server environments to deliver isolated execution contexts while minimizing hardware overhead. However, the proliferation of big binaries imposes significant challenges on both storage infrastructure and secure data transmission mechanisms. To address these issues, this paper proposes a novel "Combined Big Binaries Compression and Encryption" (CBBCE) scheme that jointly performs compression and enc... More >

Presents the inaugural editorial for this issue of the publication. More >