Wei Qiao - Publications

1// Publications

2// Wei Qiao | # Co-first Author | * Corresponding Author

4// 2026

Cutting the Fuse: Actionable APT Attack Blocking in Provenance-based IDS.
Weiheng Wu, Wei Qiao^#, Teng Li, Yebo Feng, Zhuo Ma, Jianfeng Ma, Yang Liu.
Proceedings of the 35th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2026.

Forge: A Robust Multi-tab Website Fingerprinting Attack via Blind Source Separation.
Yitan Huang, Wei Qiao^#, Ding Wang, Meng Shen, Di Zhao, Linxu Li, Susu Cui, Bo Jiang, Zhigang Lu, Baoxu Liu.
Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2026 (WWW), 2026.

Btda: A Robust Framework for Encrypted Traffic Classification with Byte-Level TLS Data Augmentation.
Ding Wang, Xiaobo Yang, Zelin Cui, Wei Qiao, Weiheng Wu, Yitan Huang, Susu Cui, Bo Jiang, Zhigang Lu.
2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2026.

TrafficMoE: Adaptive Multi-Perspective Feature Fusion for Enhancing Malicious Traffic General Detection Capability.
Jian Qin, Xueying Han, Yunpeng Li, Dongqi Han, Wei Qiao, Xiaobo Yang, Zelin Cui, Bo Jiang, Zhigang Lu.
2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2026.

8// 2025

Slot: Provenance-Driven APT Detection through Graph Reinforcement Learning.
Wei Qiao, Yebo Feng, Teng Li, Zhuo Ma, Yulong Shen, JianFeng Ma, Yang Liu.
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2025, pp. 963-977.

SauronEyes: Disentangling Voluminous Logs to Unveil Camouflaged Attack Intentions.
Wei Qiao, Weiheng Wu, Song Liu, Teng Li, Yebo Feng, Zehui Wang, Junrong Liu, Bo Jiang, Zhigang Lu, Baoxu Liu.
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2025.

Chaos: Robust Spatio-Temporal Fusion for Generalizable APT Provenance Tracing.
Teng Li, Wei Qiao(*), Yebo Feng, Jiahua Xu, Paolo Tasca, Weiguo Lin, Zexu Dang, Zhuo Ma, Jianfeng Ma.
International Conference on Data Security and Privacy Protection (DSPP), 2025, pp. 507-524. Best Paper Award

Brewing Vodka: Distilling Pure Knowledge for Lightweight Threat Detection in Audit Logs.
Weiheng Wu, Wei Qiao, Wenhao Yan, Bo Jiang, Yuling Liu, Baoxu Liu, Zhigang Lu, Junrong Liu.
Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025 (WWW), 2025, pp. 2172-2182.

Sentient: Multi-Scenario Behavioral Intent Analysis for Advanced Persistent Threat Detection.
Wenhao Yan, Ning An, Wei Qiao, Weiheng Wu, Bo Jiang, Yuling Liu, Zhigang Lu, Junrong Liu.
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025.

Towards Effective Black-Box Attacks on DoH Tunnel Detection Systems.
Linghao Li, Yan Zhu, Yun Li, Wei Qiao, Zelin Cui, Susu Cui, Bo Jiang, Zhigang Lu.
Computer Networks, 2025, pp. 111524.

PathWatcher: A Path-Based Behavior Detection Method for Attack Detection and Investigation.
Zehui Wang, Hao Li, Yinhao Qi, Wei Qiao, Song Liu, Chen Zhang, Bo Jiang, Zhigang Lu.
Computers & Security, 2025, pp. 104563.

PanThreat: Global Resource-Based Anomaly Detection for APTs.
Wenhao Yan, Weiheng Wu, Bingsheng Bi, Wei Qiao, Bo Jiang, Yuling Liu, Junrong Liu.
28th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD), 2025, pp. 135-140.

DCASI: A Sequence-based Attack Investigation Method Using DTW Contrastive Learning.
Yun Li, Wei Qiao, Yan Zhu, Yunxiang Wang, Bo Jiang, Zhigang Lu.
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2025, pp. 1-5.

LogWF: Anomaly Detection for Distributed Systems Based on Log Workflow Mining.
Teng Li, Shengkai Zhang, Yebo Feng, Jiahua Xu, Yaxuan Xie, Wei Qiao, Jianfeng Ma.
45th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems WorkShop (ICDCSW), 2025.

27// 2023

T-trace: Constructing the APTs Provenance Graphs through Multiple Syslogs Correlation.
Teng Li, Ximeng Liu, Wei Qiao, Xiongjie Zhu, Yulong Shen, Jianfeng Ma.
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2023, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 1179-1195.