AI-Powered Cyber Security: Intelligent Protection, Privacy Preservation and System Resilience

Dear Colleagues,

The rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) into electronic systems has fundamentally transformed the cybersecurity landscape. While AI enables more intelligent, automated, and scalable cyber defense mechanisms, it also empowers adversaries to launch sophisticated, adaptive, and stealthy cyber-attacks. These AI-powered threats pose significant risks to data security, user privacy, and the reliability of modern electronic infrastructures.

This Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive forum for cutting-edge research on AI-powered cyber-attacks and defenses, with a strong emphasis on data privacy, system security, and trustworthy electronic systems. The Issue will bring researchers and practitioners together to explore novel attack methodologies, intelligent detection and mitigation techniques, privacy-preserving AI models, and secure system architectures.

The focus will be on both offensive and defensive perspectives, addressing vulnerabilities across hardware, firmware, software, networks, and cloud-edge-IoT ecosystems. Particular attention will be given to explainable, robust, and resilient AI techniques that can operate in real-world adversarial environments.

Topics:

• AI-driven malware, ransomware, and advanced persistent threats (APTs);
• Adversarial machine learning and attacks against AI-enabled systems;
• Intelligent intrusion detection and prevention using machine learning;
• AI-based anomaly detection for network, cloud, and IoT security;
• Privacy-preserving AI techniques (federated learning, differential privacy);
• Automated cyber threat intelligence and AI-assisted incident response;
• Secure and trustworthy AI models for security-critical electronic systems;
• Hardware- and firmware-level AI security mechanisms;
• Data protection, access control, and privacy risk mitigation using AI;
• Robust, explainable, and resilient AI methods for cyber defense.

Dr. Shancang Li
Dr. Bander Ali Saleh Al-Rimy
Dr. Shanshan Zhao
Guest Editors

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