CryptoScope: Utilizing Large Language Models for Automated Cryptographic Logic Vulnerability Detection

Cryptographic algorithms are fundamental to modern security, yet their implementations frequently harbor subtle logic flaws that are hard to detect. We introduce CryptoScope, a novel framework for automated cryptographic vulnerability detection powered by Large Language Models LLMs. CryptoScope...

REFN: a Reinforcement-Learning-From-Network Framework against 1-Day/N-Day Exploitations

The exploitation of 1 day or n day vulnerabilities poses severe threats to networked devices due to massive deployment scales and delayed patching average Mean Time To Patch exceeds 60 days. Existing defenses, including host based patching and network based filtering, are inadequate due to limite...

Can Multi-Modal (Reasoning) LLMs Detect Document Manipulation?

Document fraud poses a significant threat to industries reliant on secure and verifiable documentation, necessitating robust detection mechanisms. This study investigates the efficacy of state-of-the-art multi-modal large language models LLMs-including OpenAI O1, OpenAI 4o, Gemini Flash thinking,...

Enhancing GraphQL Security by Detecting Malicious Queries Using Large Language Models, Sentence Transformers, and Convolutional Neural Networks

GraphQL's flexibility, while beneficial for efficient data fetching, introduces unique security vulnerabilities that traditional API security mechanisms often fail to address. Malicious GraphQL queries can exploit the language's dynamic nature, leading to denial-of-service attacks, data...

Amazon Nova AI Challenge -- Trusted AI: Advancing Secure, AI-Assisted Software Development

AI systems for software development are rapidly gaining prominence, yet significant challenges remain in ensuring their safety. To address this, Amazon launched the Trusted AI track of the Amazon Nova AI Challenge, a global competition among 10 university teams to drive advances in secure AI. In...

PRvL: Quantifying the Capabilities and Risks of Large Language Models for PII Redaction

Redacting Personally Identifiable Information PII from unstructured text is critical for ensuring data privacy in regulated domains. While earlier approaches have relied on rule-based systems and domain-specific Named Entity Recognition NER models, these methods fail to generalize across formats...

From Legacy to Standard: LLM-Assisted Transformation of Cybersecurity Playbooks into CACAO Format

Existing cybersecurity playbooks are often written in heterogeneous, non-machine-readable formats, which limits their automation and interoperability across Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response platforms. This paper explores the suitability of Large Language Models, combined with Prom...

A Survey on Data Security in Large Language Models

Large Language Models LLMs, now a foundation in advancing natural language processing, power applications such as text generation, machine translation, and conversational systems. Despite their transformative potential, these models inherently rely on massive amounts of training data, often...

Can LLMs Effectively Provide Game-Theoretic-Based Scenarios for Cybersecurity?

Game theory has long served as a foundational tool in cybersecurity to test, predict, and design strategic interactions between attackers and defenders. The recent advent of Large Language Models LLMs offers new tools and challenges for the security of computer systems; In this work, we investiga...

Using LLMs as a reverse engineering sidekick

This research explores how large language models LLMs can complement, rather than replace, the efforts of malware analysts in the complex field of reverse engineering. LLMs may serve as powerful assistants to streamline workflows, enhance efficiency, and provide actionable insights during malware...

SAEL: Leveraging Large Language Models with Adaptive Mixture-Of-Experts for Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection

With the increasing security issues in blockchain, smart contract vulnerability detection has become a research focus. Existing vulnerability detection methods have their limitations: 1 Static analysis methods struggle with complex scenarios. 2 Methods based on specialized pre-trained models...

How Microsoft defends against indirect prompt injection attacks

Summary The growing adoption of large language models LLMs in enterprise workflows has introduced a new class of adversarial techniques: indirect prompt injection. Indirect prompt injection can be used against systems that leverage large language models LLMs to process untrusted data...

Can We End the Cat-And-Mouse Game? Simulating Self-Evolving Phishing Attacks with LLMs and Genetic Algorithms

Anticipating emerging attack methodologies is crucial for proactive cybersecurity. Recent advances in Large Language Models LLMs have enabled the automated generation of phishing messages and accelerated research into potential attack techniques. However, predicting future threats remains...

Securing Cloud AI and LLMs with TotalAI for Visibility, Risk Context and Control

As enterprises accelerate AI adoption, large language models LLMs hosted on public cloud platforms are quickly becoming the norm due to their simplified access and pricing model. Cloud-native services like AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, and Google Vertex AI offer powerful, pay-as-you-go access to...

The vulnerability of Ollama’s system for running and managing large language models lies in its lack of proper input data validation, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of Ollama’s system for running and managing large language models is related to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code...

The vulnerability of the framework for working with large language models (LLMs) like LlamaIndex lies in the improper restriction on recursive references to entities in the DTD. This allows attackers to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the LlamaIndex framework for working with large language models is related to an improper limitation on recursive references to entities in the DTD. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to cause service failures...

Scout: Leveraging Large Language Models for Rapid Digital Evidence Discovery

Recent technological advancements and the prevalence of technology in day to day activities have caused a major increase in the likelihood of the involvement of digital evidence in more and more legal investigations. Consumer-grade hardware is growing more powerful, with expanding memory and...

Enabling Cyber Security Education through Digital Twins and Generative AI

Digital Twins DTs are gaining prominence in cybersecurity for their ability to replicate complex IT Information Technology, OT Operational Technology, and IoT Internet of Things infrastructures, allowing for real time monitoring, threat analysis, and system simulation. This study investigates how...

EX-NIDS: a Framework for Explainable Network Intrusion Detection Leveraging Large Language Models

This paper introduces eX-NIDS, a framework designed to enhance interpretability in flow-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems NIDS by leveraging Large Language Models LLMs. In our proposed framework, flows labelled as malicious by NIDS are initially processed through a module called the Promp...

Talking like a Phisher: LLM-Based Attacks on Voice Phishing Classifiers

Voice phishing vishing remains a persistent threat in cybersecurity, exploiting human trust through persuasive speech. While machine learning ML-based classifiers have shown promise in detecting malicious call transcripts, they remain vulnerable to adversarial manipulations that preserve semantic...