Reliable Remediation Impact Prediction for Black-Box Security Ratings

Security rating platforms summarize externally observable cyber exposure and are expected to help organizations prioritize remediation. A platform may want to tell an organization how a candidate remediation action would affect its score, but repeatedly exposing exact score responses can reveal...

AI-Generated PowerShell Malware: An Experimental Framework and Dataset

Generative AI has emerged as a significant cybersecurity threat, with several recent attack campaigns leveraging LLMs to generate code for malicious purposes via scripting languages such as PowerShell. Consequently, for cybersecurity analysts, it is imperative to investigate the offensive...

Understanding the Stealthy BGP Hijacking Risk in the ROV Era

The partial deployment of Route Origin Validation ROV poses an unexpected security threat known as stealthy BGP hijacking, i.e., a particularly elusive form of BGP hijacking where malicious routes divert traffic without reaching and thus alerting the victims. This risk remains largely unexplored,...

Evaluating LLMs for Obfuscation Detection and Classification in Android Apps

Android applications apps developers increasingly rely on code obfuscation techniques to hinder reverse engineering and protect intellectual property. However, obfuscation also reduces the effectiveness of static analysis and vulnerability detection tools, creating challenges for Android security...

How Can We Effectively Use LLMs for Phishing Detection?: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Large Language Model-Based Phishing Detection Models

Large language models LLMs have emerged as a promising phishing detection mechanism, addressing the limitations of traditional deep learning-based detectors, including poor generalization to previously unseen websites and a lack of interpretability. However, LLMs' effectiveness for phishing...

1 PoCo: Agentic Proof-Of-Concept Exploit Generation for Smart Contracts

Smart contracts operate in a highly adversarial environment, where vulnerabilities can lead to substantial financial losses. Thus, smart contracts are subject to security audits. In auditing, proof-of-concept PoC exploits play a critical role by demonstrating to the stakeholders that the reported...

MulVuln: Enhancing Pre-Trained LMs with Shared and Language-Specific Knowledge for Multilingual Vulnerability Detection

Software vulnerabilities SVs pose a critical threat to safety-critical systems, driving the adoption of AI-based approaches such as machine learning and deep learning for software vulnerability detection. Despite promising results, most existing methods are limited to a single programming languag...

AEAS: Actionable Exploit Assessment System

Security practitioners face growing challenges in exploit assessment, as public vulnerability repositories are increasingly populated with inconsistent and low-quality exploit artifacts. Existing scoring systems, such as CVSS and EPSS, offer limited support for this task. They either rely on...

Trace Gadgets: Minimizing Code Context for Machine Learning-Based Vulnerability Prediction

As the number of web applications and API endpoints exposed to the Internet continues to grow, so does the number of exploitable vulnerabilities. Manually identifying such vulnerabilities is tedious. Meanwhile, static security scanners tend to produce many false positives. While machine...