HardSecBench: Benchmarking the Security Awareness of LLMs for Hardware Code Generation

Large language models LLMs are being increasingly integrated into practical hardware and firmware development pipelines for code generation. Existing studies have primarily focused on evaluating the functional correctness of LLM-generated code, yet paid limited attention to its security issues...

Rethinking On-Device LLM Reasoning: Why Analogical Mapping Outperforms Abstract Thinking for IoT DDoS Detection

The rapid expansion of IoT deployments has intensified cybersecurity threats, notably Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks, characterized by increasingly sophisticated patterns. Leveraging Generative AI through On-Device Large Language Models ODLLMs provides a viable solution for real-time...

A Prompt-Based Framework for Loop Vulnerability Detection Using Local LLMs

Loop vulnerabilities are one major risky construct in software development. They can easily lead to infinite loops or executions, exhaust resources, or introduce logical errors that degrade performance and compromise security. The problem are often undetected by traditional static analyzers becau...

Constructing Multi-Label Hierarchical Classification Models for MITRE ATT&CK Text Tagging

MITRE ATT&CK is a cybersecurity knowledge base that organizes threat actor and cyber-attack information into a set of tactics describing the reasons and goals threat actors have for carrying out attacks, with each tactic having a set of techniques that describe the potential methods used in these...

Your 100 Billion Parameter Behemoth is a Liability

The "bigger is better" era of AI is hitting a wall. We are in an LLM bubble, characterized by ruinous inference costs and diminishing returns. The future belongs to Agentic AI powered by specialized Small Language Models SLMs. Think of it as a shift from hiring a single expensive genius to runnin...

Multi-Agent Taint Specification Extraction for Vulnerability Detection

Static Application Security Testing SAST tools using taint analysis are widely viewed as providing higher-quality vulnerability detection results compared to traditional pattern-based approaches. However, performing static taint analysis for JavaScript poses two major challenges. First,...

LLMs in Code Vulnerability Analysis: A Proof of Concept

Context: Traditional software security analysis methods struggle to keep pace with the scale and complexity of modern codebases, requiring intelligent automation to detect, assess, and remediate vulnerabilities more efficiently and accurately. Objective: This paper explores the incorporation of...

Proactively Detecting Threats: A Novel Approach Using LLMs

Enterprise security faces escalating threats from sophisticated malware, compounded by expanding digital operations. This paper presents the first systematic evaluation of large language models LLMs to proactively identify indicators of compromise IOCs from unstructured web-based threat...

The Echo Chamber Multi-Turn LLM Jailbreak

The availability of Large Language Models LLMs has led to a new generation of powerful chatbots that can be developed at relatively low cost. As companies deploy these tools, security challenges need to be addressed to prevent financial loss and reputational damage. A key security challenge is...

Multi-Turn Jailbreaking Attack in Multi-Modal Large Language Models

In recent years, the security vulnerabilities of Multi-modal Large Language Models MLLMs have become a serious concern in the Generative Artificial Intelligence GenAI research. These highly intelligent models, capable of performing multi-modal tasks with high accuracy, are also severely susceptib...

Memory Poisoning Attack and Defense on Memory Based LLM-Agents

Large language model agents equipped with persistent memory are vulnerable to memory poisoning attacks, where adversaries inject malicious instructions through query only interactions that corrupt the agents long term memory and influence future responses. Recent work demonstrated that the MINJA...

RedBench: A Universal Dataset for Comprehensive Red Teaming of Large Language Models

As large language models LLMs become integral to safety-critical applications, ensuring their robustness against adversarial prompts is paramount. However, existing red teaming datasets suffer from inconsistent risk categorizations, limited domain coverage, and outdated evaluations, hindering...

HoneyTrap: Deceiving Large Language Model Attackers to Honeypot Traps with Resilient Multi-Agent Defense

Jailbreak attacks pose significant threats to large language models LLMs, enabling attackers to bypass safeguards. However, existing reactive defense approaches struggle to keep up with the rapidly evolving multi-turn jailbreaks, where attackers continuously deepen their attacks to exploit...

Jailbreaking LLMs and VLMs: Mechanisms, Evaluation, and Unified Defense

This paper provides a systematic survey of jailbreak attacks and defenses on Large Language Models LLMs and Vision-Language Models VLMs, emphasizing that jailbreak vulnerabilities stem from structural factors such as incomplete training data, linguistic ambiguity, and generative uncertainty. It...

Cracking IoT Security: Can LLMs Outsmart Static Analysis Tools?

Smart home IoT platforms such as openHAB rely on Trigger Action Condition TAC rules to automate device behavior, but the interplay among these rules can give rise to interaction threats, unintended or unsafe behaviors emerging from implicit dependencies, conflicting triggers, or overlapping...

Agentic AI for Autonomous Defense in Software Supply Chain Security: Beyond Provenance to Vulnerability Mitigation

The software supply chain attacks are becoming more and more focused on trusted development and delivery procedures, so the conventional post-build integrity mechanisms cannot be used anymore. The available frameworks like SLSA, SBOM and in toto are majorly used to offer provenance and traceabili...

Breaking Audio Large Language Models by Attacking Only the Encoder: A Universal Targeted Latent-Space Audio Attack

Audio-language models combine audio encoders with large language models to enable multimodal reasoning, but they also introduce new security vulnerabilities. We propose a universal targeted latent space attack, an encoder-level adversarial attack that manipulates audio latent representations to...

EquaCode: A Multi-Strategy Jailbreak Approach for Large Language Models Via Equation Solving and Code Completion

Large language models LLMs, such as ChatGPT, have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of fields. However, their trustworthiness remains a significant concern, as they are still susceptible to jailbreak attacks aimed at eliciting inappropriate or harmful responses. However, existing...

From Rookie to Expert: Manipulating LLMs for Automated Vulnerability Exploitation in Enterprise Software

LLMs democratize software engineering by enabling non-programmers to create applications, but this same accessibility fundamentally undermines security assumptions that have guided software engineering for decades. We show in this work how publicly available LLMs can be socially engineered to...

The Imitation Game: Using Large Language Models As Chatbots to Combat Chat-Based Cybercrimes

Chat-based cybercrime has emerged as a pervasive threat, with attackers leveraging real-time messaging platforms to conduct scams that rely on trust-building, deception, and psychological manipulation. Traditional defense mechanisms, which operate on static rules or shallow content filters,...