Quantum Machine Learning for Cybersecurity: A Taxonomy and Future Directions

The increasing number of cyber threats and rapidly evolving tactics, as well as the high volume of data in recent years, have caused classical machine learning, rules, and signature-based defence strategies to fail, rendering them unable to keep up. An alternative, Quantum Machine Learning QML, h...

Cybercrime and Computer Forensics in Epoch of Artificial Intelligence in India

The integration of generative Artificial Intelligence into the digital ecosystem necessitates a critical re-evaluation of Indian criminal jurisprudence regarding computational forensics integrity. While algorithmic efficiency enhances evidence extraction, a research gap exists regarding the Digit...

PHANTOM: Progressive High-Fidelity Adversarial Network for Threat Object Modeling

The scarcity of cyberattack data hinders the development of robust intrusion detection systems. This paper introduces PHANTOM, a novel adversarial variational framework for generating high-fidelity synthetic attack data. Its innovations include progressive training, a dual-path VAE-GAN...

ByteShield: Adversarially Robust End-To-End Malware Detection through Byte Masking

Research has proven that end-to-end malware detectors are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In response, the research community has proposed defenses based on randomized and derandomized smoothing. However, these techniques remain susceptible to attacks that insert large adversarial payloads. To...

LLM-PEA: Leveraging Large Language Models against Phishing Email Attacks

Email phishing is one of the most prevalent and globally consequential vectors of cyber intrusion. As systems increasingly deploy Large Language Models LLMs applications, these systems face evolving phishing email threats that exploit their fundamental architectures. Current LLMs require...

ThinkTrap: Denial-Of-Service Attacks against Black-Box LLM Services Via Infinite Thinking

Large Language Models LLMs have become foundational components in a wide range of applications, including natural language understanding and generation, embodied intelligence, and scientific discovery. As their computational requirements continue to grow, these models are increasingly deployed as...

Web Technologies Security in the AI Era: A Survey of CDN-Enhanced Defenses

The modern web stack, which is dominated by browser-based applications and API-first backends, now operates under an adversarial equilibrium where automated, AI-assisted attacks evolve continuously. Content Delivery Networks CDNs and edge computing place programmable defenses closest to users and...

Adversarial Limits of Quantum Certification: When Eve Defeats Detection

Security of quantum key distribution QKD relies on certifying that observed correlations arise from genuine quantum entanglement rather than eavesdropper manipulation. Theoretical security proofs assume idealized conditions, practical certification must contend with adaptive adversaries who...

One Detector Fits All: Robust and Adaptive Detection of Malicious Packages from PyPI to Enterprises

The rise of supply chain attacks via malicious Python packages demands robust detection solutions. Current approaches, however, overlook two critical challenges: robustness against adversarial source code transformations and adaptability to the varying false positive rate FPR requirements of...

Whispering poetry at AI can make it break its own rules

Most of the big AI makers don't like people using their models for unsavory activity. Ask one of the mainstream AI models how to make a bomb or create nerve gas and you'll get the standard "I don't help people do harmful things" response. That has spawned a cat-and-mouse game of people who try to...

Physical ID-Transfer Attacks against Multi-Object Tracking Via Adversarial Trajectory

Multi-Object Tracking MOT is a critical task in computer vision, with applications ranging from surveillance systems to autonomous driving. However, threats to MOT algorithms have yet been widely studied. In particular, incorrect association between the tracked objects and their assigned IDs can...

Prompt Injection Through Poetry

In a new paper, "Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models," researchers found that turning LLM prompts into poetry resulted in jailbreaking the models: Abstract : We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn...

SD-CGAN: Conditional Sinkhorn Divergence GAN for DDoS Anomaly Detection in IoT Networks

The increasing complexity of IoT edge networks presents significant challenges for anomaly detection, particularly in identifying sophisticated Denial-of-Service DoS attacks and zero-day exploits under highly dynamic and imbalanced traffic conditions. This paper proposes SD-CGAN, a Conditional...

HarmonicAttack: An Adaptive Cross-Domain Audio Watermark Removal

The availability of high-quality, AI-generated audio raises security challenges such as misinformation campaigns and voice-cloning fraud. A key defense against the misuse of AI-generated audio is by watermarking it, so that it can be easily distinguished from genuine audio. As those seeking to...

Semantic Superiority Vs. Forensic Efficiency: A Comparative Analysis of Deep Learning and Psycholinguistics for Business Email Compromise Detection

Business Email Compromise BEC is a sophisticated social engineering threat that manipulates organizational hierarchies and exploits psychological vulnerabilities, leading to significant financial damage. According to the 2024 FBI Internet Crime Report, BEC accounts for over $2.9 billion in annual...

Next-Generation MIMO Transceivers for Integrated Sensing and Communications: Unique Security Vulnerabilities and Solutions

Integrated sensing and communications ISAC, which is recognized as a key enabler for sixth generation 6G, has brought new opportunities for intelligent, sustainable, and connected wireless networks. Multiple-input multiple-output MIMO transceiver technology lies at the core of this paradigm,...

GHSA-2FCV-QWW3-9V6H Babylon's malformed vote extensions are not rejected

Summary Adversarial validators can send large vote extensions by using non-existing protobuf tags. This will result in the rejection of the subsequent block proposal. Eventually, all block proposals will be rejected by all validators. Impact A small group of adversarial validators can cause a cha...

Babylon's malformed vote extensions are not rejected

Summary Adversarial validators can send large vote extensions by using non-existing protobuf tags. This will result in the rejection of the subsequent block proposal. Eventually, all block proposals will be rejected by all validators. Impact A small group of adversarial validators can cause a cha...

FedPoisonTTP: A Threat Model and Poisoning Attack for Federated Test-Time Personalization

Test-time personalization in federated learning enables models at clients to adjust online to local domain shifts, enhancing robustness and personalization in deployment. Yet, existing federated learning work largely overlooks the security risks that arise when local adaptation occurs at test tim...

A Novel and Practical Universal Adversarial Perturbations against Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Intrusion Detection Systems

Intrusion Detection Systems IDS play a vital role in defending modern cyber physical systems against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. Deep Reinforcement Learning-based IDS, have shown promise due to their adaptive and generalization capabilities. However, recent studies reveal their...