AutoEG: Exploiting Known Third-Party Vulnerabilities in Black-Box Web Applications

Large-scale web applications are widely deployed with complex third-party components, inheriting security risks arising from component vulnerabilities. Security assessment is therefore required to determine whether such known vulnerabilities remain practically exploitable in real applications...

Targeted Adversarial Traffic Generation : Black-Box Approach to Evade Intrusion Detection Systems in IoT Networks

The integration of machine learning ML algorithms into Internet of Things IoT applications has introduced significant advantages alongside vulnerabilities to adversarial attacks, especially within IoT-based intrusion detection systems IDS. While theoretical adversarial attacks have been extensive...

New .NET AOT Malware Hides Code as a Black Box to Evade Detection

Researchers at Howler Cell have discovered a new .NET AOT malware campaign that uses a clever scoring system…...

The Role of Learning in Attacking Intrusion Detection Systems

Recent work on network attacks have demonstrated that ML-based network intrusion detection systems NIDS can be evaded with adversarial perturbations. However, these attacks rely on complex optimizations that have large computational overheads, making them impractical in many real-world settings. ...

RPP: A Certified Poisoned-Sample Detection Framework for Backdoor Attacks under Dataset Imbalance

Deep neural networks are highly susceptible to backdoor attacks, yet most defense methods to date rely on balanced data, overlooking the pervasive class imbalance in real-world scenarios that can amplify backdoor threats. This paper presents the first in-depth investigation of how the dataset...

Semantics-Preserving Evasion of LLM Vulnerability Detectors

LLM-based vulnerability detectors are increasingly deployed in security-critical code review, yet their resilience to evasion under behavior-preserving edits remains poorly understood. We evaluate detection-time integrity under a semantics-preserving threat model by instantiating diverse...

PINA: Prompt Injection Attack against Navigation Agents

Navigation agents powered by large language models LLMs convert natural language instructions into executable plans and actions. Compared to text-based applications, their security is far more critical: a successful prompt injection attack does not just alter outputs but can directly misguide...

TrojanPraise: Jailbreak LLMs Via Benign Fine-Tuning

The demand of customized large language models LLMs has led to commercial LLMs offering black-box fine-tuning APIs, yet this convenience introduces a critical security loophole: attackers could jailbreak the LLMs by fine-tuning them with malicious data. Though this security issue has recently bee...

Non-constant-time code generation on ARM32 targets

Summary While the cmov crate has a special backend for aarch64 which uses special CSEL instructions, on 32-bit ARM it uses a portable pure Rust fallback implementation. This implementation uses a combination of bitwise arithmetic and core::hint::blackbox to attempt to coerce constant-time code...

HogVul: Black-Box Adversarial Code Generation Framework against LM-Based Vulnerability Detectors

Recent advances in software vulnerability detection have been driven by Language Model LM-based approaches. However, these models remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks that exploit lexical and syntax perturbations, allowing critical flaws to evade detection. Existing black-box attacks on...

Rectifying Adversarial Examples Using Their Vulnerabilities

Deep neural network-based classifiers are prone to errors when processing adversarial examples AEs. AEs are minimally perturbed input data undetectable to humans posing significant risks to security-dependent applications. Hence, extensive research has been undertaken to develop defense mechanism...

Securing the AI Supply Chain: What Can We Learn from Developer-Reported Security Issues and Solutions of AI Projects?

The rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence AI models and applications has led to an increasingly complex security landscape. Developers of AI projects must contend not only with traditional software supply chain issues but also with novel, AI-specific security threats. However, little is known...

WuppieFuzz: Coverage-Guided, Stateful REST API Fuzzing

Many business processes currently depend on web services, often using REST APIs for communication. REST APIs expose web service functionality through endpoints, allowing easy client interaction over the Internet. To reduce the security risk resulting from exposed endpoints, thorough testing is...

Behavior-Aware and Generalizable Defense against Black-Box Adversarial Attacks for ML-Based IDS

Machine learning based intrusion detection systems are increasingly targeted by black box adversarial attacks, where attackers craft evasive inputs using indirect feedback such as binary outputs or behavioral signals like response time and resource usage. While several defenses have been proposed...

One Leak Away: How Pretrained Model Exposure Amplifies Jailbreak Risks in Finetuned LLMs

Finetuning pretrained large language models LLMs has become the standard paradigm for developing downstream applications. However, its security implications remain unclear, particularly regarding whether finetuned LLMs inherit jailbreak vulnerabilities from their pretrained sources. We investigat...

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...

Frequency Bias Matters: Diving into Robust and Generalized Deep Image Forgery Detection

As deep image forgery powered by AI generative models, such as GANs, continues to challenge today's digital world, detecting AI-generated forgeries has become a vital security topic. Generalizability and robustness are two critical concerns of a forgery detector, determining its reliability when...

"To Survive, I Must Defect": Jailbreaking LLMs Via the Game-Theory Scenarios

As LLMs become more common, non-expert users can pose risks, prompting extensive research into jailbreak attacks. However, most existing black-box jailbreak attacks rely on hand-crafted heuristics or narrow search spaces, which limit scalability. Compared with prior attacks, we propose Game-Theor...

GRAPHTEXTACK: A Realistic Black-Box Node Injection Attack on LLM-Enhanced GNNs

Text-attributed graphs TAGs, which combine structural and textual node information, are ubiquitous across many domains. Recent work integrates Large Language Models LLMs with Graph Neural Networks GNNs to jointly model semantics and structure, resulting in more general and expressive models that...

JPRO: Automated Multimodal Jailbreaking Via Multi-Agent Collaboration Framework

The widespread application of large VLMs makes ensuring their secure deployment critical. While recent studies have demonstrated jailbreak attacks on VLMs, existing approaches are limited: they require either white-box access, restricting practicality, or rely on manually crafted patterns, leadin...