Adversarially Robust and Interpretable Magecart Malware Detection

Magecart skimming attacks have emerged as a significant threat to client-side security and user trust in online payment systems. This paper addresses the challenge of achieving robust and explainable detection of Magecart attacks through a comparative study of various Machine Learning ML models...

SHIELD: Securing Healthcare IoT with Efficient Machine Learning Techniques for Anomaly Detection

The integration of IoT devices in healthcare introduces significant security and reliability challenges, increasing susceptibility to cyber threats and operational anomalies. This study proposes a machine learning-driven framework for 1 detecting malicious cyberattacks and 2 identifying faulty...

AutoAdv: Automated Adversarial Prompting for Multi-Turn Jailbreaking of Large Language Models

Large Language Models LLMs remain vulnerable to jailbreaking attacks where adversarial prompts elicit harmful outputs, yet most evaluations focus on single-turn interactions while real-world attacks unfold through adaptive multi-turn conversations. We present AutoAdv, a training-free framework fo...

Trustworthy Quantum Machine Learning: A Roadmap for Reliability, Robustness, and Security in the NISQ Era

Quantum machine learning QML is a promising paradigm for tackling computational problems that challenge classical AI. Yet, the inherent probabilistic behavior of quantum mechanics, device noise in NISQ hardware, and hybrid quantum-classical execution pipelines introduce new risks that prevent...

AI Summarization Optimization

These days, the most important meeting attendee isn’t a person: It’s the AI notetaker. This system assigns action items and determines the importance of what is said. If it becomes necessary to revisit the facts of the meeting, its summary is treated as impartial evidence. But clever meeting...

Scam Shield: Multi-Model Voting and Fine-Tuned LLMs against Adversarial Attacks

Scam detection remains a critical challenge in cybersecurity as adversaries craft messages that evade automated filters. We propose a Hierarchical Scam Detection System HSDS that combines a lightweight multi-model voting front end with a fine-tuned LLaMA 3.1 8B Instruct back end to improve accura...

Machine and Deep Learning for Indoor UWB Jammer Localization

Ultra-wideband UWB localization delivers centimeter-scale accuracy but is vulnerable to jamming attacks, creating security risks for asset tracking and intrusion detection in smart buildings. Although machine learning ML and deep learning DL methods have improved tag localization, localizing...

Secure Control of Connected and Autonomous Electrified Vehicles under Adversarial Cyber-Attacks

Connected and Autonomous Electrified Vehicles CAEV is the solution to the future smart mobility having benefits of efficient traffic flow and cleaner environmental impact. Although CAEV has advantages they are still susceptible to adversarial cyber attacks due to their autonomous electric operati...

Breaking Agent Backbones: Evaluating the Security of Backbone LLMs in AI Agents

AI agents powered by large language models LLMs are being deployed at scale, yet we lack a systematic understanding of how the choice of backbone LLM affects agent security. The non-deterministic sequential nature of AI agents complicates security modeling, while the integration of traditional...

SecureLearn - an Attack-Agnostic Defense for Multiclass Machine Learning against Data Poisoning Attacks

Data poisoning attacks are a potential threat to machine learning ML models, aiming to manipulate training datasets to disrupt their performance. Existing defenses are mostly designed to mitigate specific poisoning attacks or are aligned with particular ML algorithms. Furthermore, most defenses a...

Beyond Text: Multimodal Jailbreaking of Vision-Language and Audio Models through Perceptually Simple Transformations

Multimodal large language models MLLMs have achieved remarkable progress, yet remain critically vulnerable to adversarial attacks that exploit weaknesses in cross-modal processing. We present a systematic study of multimodal jailbreaks targeting both vision-language and audio-language models,...

Enhancing Security in Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Comprehensive Survey on Adversarial Attacks and Defenses

With the wide application of deep reinforcement learning DRL techniques in complex fields such as autonomous driving, intelligent manufacturing, and smart healthcare, how to improve its security and robustness in dynamic and changeable environments has become a core issue in current research...

Active Localization of Close-Range Adversarial Acoustic Sources for Underwater Data Center Surveillance

Underwater data infrastructures offer natural cooling and enhanced physical security compared to terrestrial facilities, but are susceptible to acoustic injection attacks that can disrupt data integrity and availability. This work presents a comprehensive surveillance framework for localizing and...

Exploring the Effect of DNN Depth on Adversarial Attacks in Network Intrusion Detection Systems

Adversarial attacks pose significant challenges to Machine Learning ML systems and especially Deep Neural Networks DNNs by subtly manipulating inputs to induce incorrect predictions. This paper investigates whether increasing the layer depth of deep neural networks affects their robustness agains...

Can You Trust What You See? Alpha Channel No-Box Attacks on Video Object Detection

As object detection models are increasingly deployed in cyber-physical systems such as autonomous vehicles AVs and surveillance platforms, ensuring their security against adversarial threats is essential. While prior work has explored adversarial attacks in the image domain, those attacks in the...

HarmNet: A Framework for Adaptive Multi-Turn Jailbreak Attacks on Large Language Models

Large Language Models LLMs remain vulnerable to multi-turn jailbreak attacks. We introduce HarmNet, a modular framework comprising ThoughtNet, a hierarchical semantic network; a feedback-driven Simulator for iterative query refinement; and a Network Traverser for real-time adaptive attack...

BreakFun: Jailbreaking LLMs Via Schema Exploitation

The proficiency of Large Language Models LLMs in processing structured data and adhering to syntactic rules is a capability that drives their widespread adoption but also makes them paradoxically vulnerable. In this paper, we investigate this vulnerability through BreakFun, a jailbreak methodolog...

Colliding with Adversaries at ECML-PKDD 2025 Adversarial Attack Competition 1st Prize Solution

This report presents the winning solution for Task 1 of Colliding with Adversaries: A Challenge on Robust Learning in High Energy Physics Discovery at ECML-PKDD 2025. The task required designing an adversarial attack against a provided classification model that maximizes misclassification while...

Towards Proactive Defense against Cyber Cognitive Attacks

Cyber cognitive attacks leverage disruptive innovations DIs to exploit psychological biases and manipulate decision-making processes. Emerging technologies, such as AI-driven disinformation and synthetic media, have accelerated the scale and sophistication of these threats. Prior studies primaril...

When Intelligence Fails: An Empirical Study on Why LLMs Struggle with Password Cracking

The remarkable capabilities of Large Language Models LLMs in natural language understanding and generation have sparked interest in their potential for cybersecurity applications, including password guessing. In this study, we conduct an empirical investigation into the efficacy of pre-trained LL...