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Bounty 295: Why ownPublicKey Can't Be Trusted for Access...

Backdoor Threats in Variational Quantum Circuits: Taxonomy, Attacks, and Defenses

Variational quantum algorithms VQAs are a central paradigm for noisy intermediate-scale NISQ quantum computing, yet their reliance on predesigned and pretrained variational quantum circuits VQCs introduces critical security vulnerabilities, particularly backdoor attacks. These attacks embed hidde...

Hardware-Efficient Compound IC Protection with Lightweight Cryptography

Over the years, many techniques have been introduced to protect integrated circuits ICs from hardware security threats that emerged in the globalized IC manufacturing supply chain, such as overproduction and piracy. However, most of these techniques have been rendered inefficient since they do no...

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...

Cybersecurity AI: The World's Top AI Agent for Security Capture-The-Flag (CTF)

Are Capture-the-Flag competitions obsolete? In 2025, Cybersecurity AI CAI systematically conquered some of the world's most prestigious hacking competitions, achieving Rank 1 at multiple events and consistently outperforming thousands of human teams. Across five major circuits-HTB's AI vs Humans,...

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MAL-2025-47403 Malicious code in kreme-circuits (npm)

The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity. --- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 115a80b8aadb1029e4fdf7ec27a30991a73af718770b70a89211f740bbad9c40 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered...

Malicious code in kreme-circuits (npm)

The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity. --- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 115a80b8aadb1029e4fdf7ec27a30991a73af718770b70a89211f740bbad9c40 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered...

Quantum AI Algorithm Development for Enhanced Cybersecurity: a Hybrid Approach to Malware Detection

This study explores the application of quantum machine learning QML algorithms to enhance cybersecurity threat detection, particularly in the classification of malware and intrusion detection within high-dimensional datasets. Classical machine learning approaches encounter limitations when dealin...

Evaluating Security Properties in the Execution of Quantum Circuits

Quantum computing is a disruptive technology that is expected to offer significant advantages in many critical fields e.g. drug discovery and cryptography. The security of information processed by such machines is therefore paramount. Currently, modest Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum NISQ device...

Ransomware Negotiation: Dynamics and Privacy-Preserving Mechanism Design

Ransomware attacks have become a pervasive and costly form of cybercrime, causing tens of millions of dollars in losses as organizations increasingly pay ransoms to mitigate operational disruptions and financial risks. While prior research has largely focused on proactive defenses, the...

Designing with Deception: ML- and Covert Gate-Enhanced Camouflaging to Thwart IC Reverse Engineering

Integrated circuits ICs are essential to modern electronic systems, yet they face significant risks from physical reverse engineering RE attacks that compromise intellectual property IP and overall system security. While IC camouflage techniques have emerged to mitigate these risks, existing...

Next-Generation Quantum Neural Networks: Enhancing Efficiency, Security, and Privacy

This paper provides an integrated perspective on addressing key challenges in developing reliable and secure Quantum Neural Networks QNNs in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum NISQ era. In this paper, we present an integrated framework that leverages and combines existing approaches to enhance...

Adversarial Threats in Quantum Machine Learning: a Survey of Attacks and Defenses

Quantum Machine Learning QML integrates quantum computing with classical machine learning, primarily to solve classification, regression and generative tasks. However, its rapid development raises critical security challenges in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum NISQ era. This chapter examines...

Cut Tracing with E-Graphs for Boolean FHE Circuit Synthesis

Fully Homomorphic Encryption FHE is a promising privacy-preserving technology enabling secure computation over encrypted data. A major limitation of current FHE schemes is their high runtime overhead. As a result, automatic optimization of circuits describing FHE computation has garnered...

ReDASH: Fast and efficient Scaling in Arithmetic Garbled Circuits for Secure Outsourced Inference

Whitepaper called ReDASH: Fast and efficient Scaling in Arithmetic Garbled Circuits for Secure Outsourced Inference...

Forensics of Error Rates of Quantum Hardware

There has been a rise in third-party cloud providers offering quantum hardware as a service to improve performance at lower cost. Although these providers provide flexibility to the users to choose from several qubit technologies, quantum hardware, and coupling maps; the actual execution of the...

Towards Fuzzing Zero-Knowledge Proof Circuits (Short Paper)

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VApps: Verifiable Applications at Internet Scale

Blockchain technology promises a decentralized, trustless, and interoperable infrastructure. However, widespread adoption remains hindered by issues such as limited scalability, high transaction costs, and the complexity of maintaining coherent verification logic across different blockchain layer...