arXiv:2609.27422v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning-based malware detectors are commonly updated by fine-tuning on newly collected samples, but this practical update pipeline also creates an attack surface for training-time backdoor attacks.
RAMP: Reversing Adversarial Perturbations to Strengthen Clean-Label Backdoor Attacks against Malware Detectors
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