Assessing the Software Security Comprehension of Large Language Models

Large language models LLMs are increasingly used in software development, but their level of software security expertise remains unclear. This work systematically evaluates the security comprehension of five leading LLMs: GPT-4o-Mini, GPT-5-Mini, Gemini-2.5-Flash, Llama-3.1, and Qwen-2.5, using...

AutoBaxBuilder: Bootstrapping Code Security Benchmarking

As LLMs see wide adoption in software engineering, the reliable assessment of the correctness and security of LLM-generated code is crucial. Notably, prior work has demonstrated that security is often overlooked, exposing that LLMs are prone to generating code with security vulnerabilities. These...

Energy-Efficient Multi-LLM Reasoning for Binary-Free Zero-Day Detection in IoT Firmware

Securing Internet of Things IoT firmware remains difficult due to proprietary binaries, stripped symbols, heterogeneous architectures, and limited access to executable code. Existing analysis methods, such as static analysis, symbolic execution, and fuzzing, depend on binary visibility and...

PT-2025-52494

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Dive versions prior to 0.11.1 Description Dive is an open-source MCP Host Desktop Application that integrates with function-calling LLMs. A critical Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS issue exists in the Mermaid diagram rendering component. The...

A Systematic Study of Code Obfuscation against LLM-Based Vulnerability Detection

As large language models LLMs are increasingly adopted for code vulnerability detection, their reliability and robustness across diverse vulnerability types have become a pressing concern. In traditional adversarial settings, code obfuscation has long been used as a general strategy to bypass...

Jailbreak-Zero: A Path to Pareto Optimal Red Teaming for Large Language Models

This paper introduces Jailbreak-Zero, a novel red teaming methodology that shifts the paradigm of Large Language Model LLM safety evaluation from a constrained example-based approach to a more expansive and effective policy-based framework. By leveraging an attack LLM to generate a high volume of...

Large Language Models As a (Bad) Security Norm in the Context of Regulation and Compliance

The use of Large Language Models LLM by providers of cybersecurity and digital infrastructures of all kinds is an ongoing development. It is suggested and on an experimental basis used to write the code for the systems, and potentially fed with sensitive data or what would otherwise be considered...

Trust in LLM-Controlled Robotics: A Survey of Security Threats, Defenses and Challenges

The integration of Large Language Models LLMs into robotics has revolutionized their ability to interpret complex human commands and execute sophisticated tasks. However, such paradigm shift introduces critical security vulnerabilities stemming from the ''embodiment gap'', a discord between the...

UIXPOSE: Mobile Malware Detection Via Intention-Behaviour Discrepancy Analysis

We introduce UIXPOSE, a source-code-agnostic framework that operates on both compiled and open-source apps. This framework applies Intention Behaviour Alignment IBA to mobile malware analysis, aligning UI-inferred intent with runtime semantics. Previous work either infers intent statically, e.g.,...

SeBERTis: A Framework for Producing Classifiers of Security-Related Issue Reports

Monitoring issue tracker submissions is a crucial software maintenance activity. A key goal is the prioritization of high risk, security-related bugs. If such bugs can be recognized early, the risk of propagation to dependent products and endangerment of stakeholder benefits can be mitigated. To...

PentestEval: Benchmarking LLM-Based Penetration Testing with Modular and Stage-Level Design

Penetration testing is essential for assessing and strengthening system security against real-world threats, yet traditional workflows remain highly manual, expertise-intensive, and difficult to scale. Although recent advances in Large Language Models LLMs offer promising opportunities for...

Security and Detectability Analysis of Unicode Text Watermarking Methods against Large Language Models

Securing digital text is becoming increasingly relevant due to the widespread use of large language models. Individuals' fear of losing control over data when it is being used to train such machine learning models or when distinguishing model-generated output from text written by humans. Digital...

The Role of AI in Modern Penetration Testing

Penetration testing is a cornerstone of cybersecurity, traditionally driven by manual, time-intensive processes. As systems grow in complexity, there is a pressing need for more scalable and efficient testing methodologies. This systematic literature review examines how Artificial Intelligence AI...

Persistent Backdoor Attacks under Continual Fine-Tuning of LLMs

Backdoor attacks embed malicious behaviors into Large Language Models LLMs, enabling adversaries to trigger harmful outputs or bypass safety controls. However, the persistence of the implanted backdoors under user-driven post-deployment continual fine-tuning has been rarely examined. Most prior...

Scale AI Securely with Qualys TotalAI’s Streamlined Onboarding, Deeper Risk Detection, and Compliance-Ready Reporting

Executive Summary Enterprises are entering a phase where AI systems function as decision engines that shape customer interactions, operational workflows, and business outcomes. This creates a new class of risk that is behavioral, contextual, and dynamic, driven by how models interpret instruction...

Patch Wednesday: Root Cause Analysis with LLMs

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Chasing Shadows: Pitfalls in LLM Security Research

Large language models LLMs are increasingly prevalent in security research. Their unique characteristics, however, introduce challenges that undermine established paradigms of reproducibility, rigor, and evaluation. Prior work has identified common pitfalls in traditional machine learning researc...

Defining Cost Function of Steganography with Large Language Models

In this paper, we make the first attempt towards defining cost function of steganography with large language models LLMs, which is totally different from previous works that rely heavily on expert knowledge or require large-scale datasets for cost learning. To achieve this goal, a two-stage...

Prompt injection is a problem that may never be fixed, warns NCSC

Prompt injection is shaping up to be one of the most stubborn problems in AI security, and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has warned that it may never be “fixed” in the way SQL injection was. Two years ago, the NCSC said prompt injection might turn out to be the “SQL injection of th...

A Practical Framework for Evaluating Medical AI Security: Reproducible Assessment of Jailbreaking and Privacy Vulnerabilities across Clinical Specialties

Medical Large Language Models LLMs are increasingly deployed for clinical decision support across diverse specialties, yet systematic evaluation of their robustness to adversarial misuse and privacy leakage remains inaccessible to most researchers. Existing security benchmarks require GPU cluster...