A Novel Solution for Zero-Day Attack Detection in IDS Using Self-Attention and Jensen-Shannon Divergence in WGAN-GP

The increasing sophistication of cyber threats, especially zero-day attacks, poses a significant challenge to cybersecurity. Zero-day attacks exploit unknown vulnerabilities, making them difficult to detect and defend against. Existing approaches patch flaws and deploy an Intrusion Detection Syst...

RedSage: A Cybersecurity Generalist LLM

Cybersecurity operations demand assistant LLMs that support diverse workflows without exposing sensitive data. Existing solutions either rely on proprietary APIs with privacy risks or on open models lacking domain adaptation. To bridge this gap, we curate 11.8B tokens of cybersecurity-focused...

Explainable AI Agents: Capture LLM Tool Call Reasoning with Spring AI

When building AI agents with tool calling capabilities, developers often need insights into why an LLM chose a particular tool—not just which tool it selected. Understanding the model's reasoning process is important for debugging, observability, and building trustworthy AI systems. Spring AI now...

Development Team Augmentation: A Strategic Approach for High-Performance Teams

Scale software teams fast with development team augmentation. Learn when it works best, key models, common mistakes, and how to choose the right partner...

Quantum-Augmented AI/ML for O-RAN: Hierarchical Threat Detection with Synergistic Intelligence and Interpretability (Technical Report)

Open Radio Access Networks O-RAN enhance modularity and telemetry granularity but also widen the cybersecurity attack surface across disaggregated control, user and management planes. We propose a hierarchical defense framework with three coordinated layers-anomaly detection, intrusion...

LLM-Based Vulnerable Code Augmentation: Generate or Refactor?

Vulnerability code-bases often suffer from severe imbalance, limiting the effectiveness of Deep Learning-based vulnerability classifiers. Data Augmentation could help solve this by mitigating the scarcity of under-represented CWEs. In this context, we investigate LLM-based augmentation for...

Beyond Detection: A Comprehensive Benchmark and Study on Representation Learning for Fine-Grained Webshell Family Classification

Malicious WebShells pose a significant and evolving threat by compromising critical digital infrastructures and endangering public services in sectors such as healthcare and finance. While the research community has made significant progress in WebShell detection i.e., distinguishing malicious...

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...

From LLMs to Agents: A Comparative Evaluation of LLMs and LLM-Based Agents in Security Patch Detection

The widespread adoption of open-source software OSS has accelerated software innovation but also increased security risks due to the rapid propagation of vulnerabilities and silent patch releases. In recent years, large language models LLMs and LLM-based agents have demonstrated remarkable...

Black-Box Guardrail Reverse-Engineering Attack

Large language models LLMs increasingly employ guardrails to enforce ethical, legal, and application-specific constraints on their outputs. While effective at mitigating harmful responses, these guardrails introduce a new class of vulnerabilities by exposing observable decision patterns. In this...

Cyberattack Detection in Critical Infrastructure and Supply Chains

Cyberattack detection in Critical Infrastructure and Supply Chains has become challenging in Industry 4.0. Intrusion Detection Systems IDS are deployed to counter the cyberattacks. However, an IDS effectively detects attacks based on the known signatures and patterns, Zero-day attacks go...

PhishSSL: Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning for Phishing Website Detection

Phishing websites remain a persistent cybersecurity threat by mimicking legitimate sites to steal sensitive user information. Existing machine learning-based detection methods often rely on supervised learning with labeled data, which not only incurs substantial annotation costs but also limits...

MALF: A Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Intelligent Fuzzing of Industrial Control Protocols

Industrial control systems ICS are vital to modern infrastructure but increasingly vulnerable to cybersecurity threats, particularly through weaknesses in their communication protocols. This paper presents MALF Multi-Agent LLM Fuzzing Framework, an advanced fuzzing solution that integrates large...

LLM-Generated Samples for Android Malware Detection

Android malware continues to evolve through obfuscation and polymorphism, posing challenges for both signature-based defenses and machine learning models trained on limited and imbalanced datasets. Synthetic data has been proposed as a remedy for scarcity, yet the role of large language models LL...

A Transformer-BiGRU-Based Framework with Data Augmentation and Confident Learning for Network Intrusion Detection

In today's fast-paced digital communication, the surge in network traffic data and frequency demands robust and precise network intrusion solutions. Conventional machine learning methods struggle to grapple with complex patterns within the vast network intrusion datasets, which suffer from data...

MultiFuzz: a Dense Retrieval-Based Multi-Agent System for Network Protocol Fuzzing

Traditional protocol fuzzing techniques, such as those employed by AFL-based systems, often lack effectiveness due to a limited semantic understanding of complex protocol grammars and rigid seed mutation strategies. Recent works, such as ChatAFL, have integrated Large Language Models LLMs to guid...

AutoBnB-RAG: Enhancing Multi-Agent Incident Response with Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Incident response IR requires fast, coordinated, and well-informed decision-making to contain and mitigate cyber threats. While large language models LLMs have shown promise as autonomous agents in simulated IR settings, their reasoning is often limited by a lack of access to external knowledge. ...

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...

MirGuard: Towards a Robust Provenance-Based Intrusion Detection System against Graph Manipulation Attacks

Learning-based Provenance-based Intrusion Detection Systems PIDSes have become essential tools for anomaly detection in host systems due to their ability to capture rich contextual and structural information, as well as their potential to detect unknown attacks. However, recent studies have shown...

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...