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Zenan Ma

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0004-2732-8580ORCID · reported

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Security and privacy · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper
Computational social science and digital humanities · 100%
Network and information security
1 paper
Malware analysis · 100%
Theoretical computer science
1 paper
Mathematical optimization · 100%

Topics — the 1 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Computational social science and digital humanities
opinion dynamics
0.912025
Modeling and Mitigating Social Engineering Malware: Integrating Malware-Opinion Dynamics With Optimal Impulse Control Approaches · IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

optimal impulse control · 2.6differential equation model · 2.6
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Modeling and Mitigating Social Engineering Malware: Integrating Malware-Opinion Dynamics With Optimal Impulse Control Approaches
abstract
Social engineering malware, which exploits both technical and human vulnerabilities, presents challenging for individuals and organizations. However, existing studies typically focus on either technical or human vulnerabilities through case studies or questionnaires, ignoring their combined importance in mitigating such threats. This study pioneers the introduction of a mathematical model to analyze and mitigate the dynamics associated with these combined vulnerabilities. To achieve this, this study proposes an innovative framework, which integrates (a) acoupled malware-opinion dynamics modelto capture the interplay between both types of vulnerabilities, and (b) anoptimal impulse control approachto strategically mitigatingsocial engineering malware. Within this framework, we define an optimization problem, aimed at balancing control costs and malware severity. We derive theoretical conditions for optimal impulse strategies that achieve this balance and develop an iterative algorithm, the convergence and scalability of which have been empirically validated. Experimental results on three real-world social networks and synthetic scale-free networks demonstrate that our strategies consistently achieve an optimal balance by minimizing total expenses, including control costs and losses associated with malware. This finding underscores the effectiveness of routine patching and ongoing security awareness training in standard cybersecurity practices. Further experiments indicate that the strategic, early, and frequent deployment of patches in specific scenarios can effectively reduce unnecessary losses, enhancing overall cybersecurity resilience.
Xiaojuan Cheng, Lu-Xing Yang, Gang Li 0009, Zenan Ma, Tianqing Zhu, Lidan Wang 0001, Shukai Duan 0001
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur.4