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...

LLMxCPG: Context-Aware Vulnerability Detection through Code Property Graph-Guided Large Language Models

Software vulnerabilities present a persistent security challenge, with over 25,000 new vulnerabilities reported in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database in 2024 alone. While deep learning based approaches show promise for vulnerability detection, recent studies reveal critical...

How Search Engines, LLMs, and Third-Party Scrapers Affect Bot Management

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SynthCTI: LLM-Driven Synthetic CTI Generation to Enhance MITRE Technique Mapping

Cyber Threat Intelligence CTI mining involves extracting structured insights from unstructured threat data, enabling organizations to understand and respond to evolving adversarial behavior. A key task in CTI mining is mapping threat descriptions to MITRE ATT&CK techniques. However, this process...

Large Language Models in Cybersecurity: Applications, Vulnerabilities, and Defense Techniques

Large Language Models LLMs are transforming cybersecurity by enabling intelligent, adaptive, and automated approaches to threat detection, vulnerability assessment, and incident response. With their advanced language understanding and contextual reasoning, LLMs surpass traditional methods in...

Introducing Akamai Cloud Pulse: Observability for Your Cloud Infrastructure – Now in Open Beta

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Multi-Trigger Poisoning Amplifies Backdoor Vulnerabilities in LLMs

Recent studies have shown that Large Language Models LLMs are vulnerable to data poisoning attacks, where malicious training examples embed hidden behaviours triggered by specific input patterns. However, most existing works assume a phrase and focus on the attack's effectiveness, offering limite...

The Man behind the Sound: Demystifying Audio Private Attribute Profiling Via Multimodal Large Language Model Agents

Our research uncovers a novel privacy risk associated with multimodal large language models MLLMs: the ability to infer sensitive personal attributes from audio data -- a technique we term audio private attribute profiling. This capability poses a significant threat, as audio can be covertly...

REAL-IoT: Characterizing GNN Intrusion Detection Robustness under Practical Adversarial Attack

Graph Neural Network GNN-based network intrusion detection systems NIDS are often evaluated on single datasets, limiting their ability to generalize under distribution drift. Furthermore, their adversarial robustness is typically assessed using synthetic perturbations that lack realism. This...

From Alerts to Intelligence: a Novel LLM-Aided Framework for Host-Based Intrusion Detection

Host-based intrusion detection system HIDS is a key defense component to protect the organizations from advanced threats like Advanced Persistent Threats APT. By analyzing the fine-grained logs with approaches like data provenance, HIDS has shown successes in capturing sophisticated attack traces...