Securing Code Understanding: Detecting Natural Backdoor Vulnerability in Code Language Models

Code Language Models CodeLMs have become integral to software engineering, significantly advancing code intelligence tasks. However, their widespread adoption has raised critical security concerns, particularly regarding susceptibility to backdoor attacks. Recent studies have uncovered naturally...

Now You (Still) See Me: Detecting Evasive Steganographic Payloads in LLMs

Large language models can be fine-tuned to encode prompt-borne secrets into fluent, seemingly benign outputs. This creates a steganographic exfiltration risk that is difficult to detect with output-level steganalysis. Recent work proposes mechanistic detection using linear probes that recover the...

Closing the Sim-To-Real Gap: An Evaluation Framework for Autonomous Cyber Defense Configuration of Commercial EDR

Leading commercial endpoint detection and response EDR products have shifted from operator-configured rule sets to multi-component systems where autonomous AI components operate alongside, and increasingly in place of, operator-deployed policies. Autonomous defense agents using commercial EDR as...

CVE-2026-7147

A vulnerability was detected in JoeCastrom mcp-chat-studio up to 1.5.0. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file server/routes/llm.js of the component LLM Models API. Performing a manipulation of the argument req.query.baseurl results in server-side request forgery. Remote...

Only 10% of SOCs Say They’re Getting Excellent Value From AI. Here’s What the Second Wave Has to Deliver

Eighteen months ago, the AI SOC was a marketing line. Today it's a budget item. The category has crossed over from interesting to inevitable, with billions of dollars now flowing into AI-powered security operations platforms, agentic SOC tools, and AI co-pilots built into every layer of the...

Empirical Evaluation of Large Language Models for Migration of Code Fragments to Post-Quantum Cryptography

The transition to post-quantum cryptography PQC requires not only replacing vulnerable cryptographic primitives, but also refactoring the surrounding software logic. While existing PQC migration frameworks provide organizational guidance, practical code-level remediation remains largely manual an...

Steering LLM Viewpoints through Fabricated Evidence Injection

As chatbots increasingly influence daily decision-making, their potential to produce misleading responses poses substantial risks to users. This paper investigates a critical cognitive vulnerability in LLMs: their tendency to uncritically trust external context when presented with fabricated...

SHIELDS: Automating OS Hardening with Iterative Multi-Agent Remediation

Security misconfigurations remain a leading cause of OS-level compromise, and manually keeping systems compliant with standards like Defense Information Systems Agency DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides STIGs is a tedious and expensive process. Existing compliance automation tools can...

Backdoor Unlearning Generalization: A Path toward the Removal of Unknown Triggers in LLMs

Backdoor attacks in Large Language Models LLMs are a growing security concern, where models can generate adversary-chosen content. Existing defenses target backdoors one at a time and typically require knowledge of the trigger, leaving the defender at a structural disadvantage when unknown...

Cross-Vendor Sola ISPM Benchmark: Evaluating Agentic AI for Federated Identity Security Reasoning

The rapid proliferation of multi-cloud and SaaS platforms has transformed Identity Security Posture Management ISPM into a fundamentally cross-vendor challenge: critical misconfigurations and privilege escalation paths increasingly span multiple identity providers, infrastructure layers, and...

MaskForge: Structure-Aware Adaptive Attacks for Jailbreaking Diffusion Large Language Models

Diffusion large language models dLLMs generate text by iteratively denoising partially masked sequences under bidirectional context, exposing a safety surface distinct from autoregressive LLMs. Because mask tokens are native inputs and tokens are committed by confidence rather than position,...

Patcher: Post-Hoc Patching of Backdoored Large Language Models

Large language models remain vulnerable to jailbreak backdoor attacks, where adversaries poison safety alignment data to embed hidden triggers that bypass safety mechanisms. Existing defenses often require comprehensive attack information or multiple triggered examples, making them impractical wh...

New Russia-Linked GREYVIBE Targets Ukraine with AI-Powered Cyberattacks

A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed GREYVIBE has been attributed to ongoing and persistent attacks targeting Ukraine and Ukraine-related entities since at least August 2025. GREYVIBE, per WithSecure, is assessed to be a Russian-speaking group operating broadly in the Russian time zone,...

Persona Attack: Incremental Memory Injection Jailbreak Attack against Large Language Models

As Large Language Models evolve for user convenience, vulnerability to jailbreak attacks continues to be reported despite ongoing efforts in safety training. Traditional jailbreak techniques typically focus on a single prompt injection, neglecting the models' ability to remember the flow of...

S3C2 Summit 2025-07: Government Secure Supply Chain Summit

Software supply chains, while providing immense economic and software development value, are only as strong as their weakest link. Over the past several years, there has been an exponential increase in cyberattacks specifically targeting vulnerable links in critical software supply chains. The...

SAMD: A Tool for Identifying False Data Injection Scenarios in AI/ML-Enabled Medical Devices

The growing integration of artificial intelligence AI and machine learning ML in medical systems requires effective measures to address emerging security risks. One such risk is that of adversaries introducing false data through vulnerable system components during inference, causing misdiagnosis...

Relevance As a Vulnerability: How Web Retrieval Degrades Safety Alignment in LLM Agents

AI agents augment large language models with external tools such as web retrieval, enabling grounded and up-to-date responses. However, incorporating external content into the generation pipeline can weaken the safety alignment mechanisms that govern model outputs. Prior work shows that enabling...

MIRAGE: Context-Aware Prompt Injection against Mobile GUI Agents Via User-Generated Content

Mobile graphical user interface GUI agents driven by vision-language models VLMs perceive the screen as rendered pixels and choose actions from what they see, so they cannot reliably separate trusted interface elements from user-generated content. We present MIRAGE Mobile Injection of Realistic...

BAIT: Boundary-Guided Disclosure Escalation Via Self-Conditioned Reasoning

In this work, we propose BAIT Boundary-Aware Iterative Trap, a three-step jailbreak framework that approaches malicious goals through internal disclosure. BAIT first asks the model to identify the protection boundary, then requires it to refine that boundary, and finally requests a detailed...

Disentangling Adversarial Prompts: A Semantic-Graph Defense for Robust LLM Security

Large Language Models LLMs are increasingly vulnerable to adversarial prompts that exploit semantic ambiguities to bypass safety mechanisms, resulting in harmful or inappropriate outputs. Such attacks, including jailbreaking and prompt injection, pose significant risks to the integrity and...