HackWorld: Evaluating Computer-Use Agents on Exploiting Web Application Vulnerabilities

Web applications are prime targets for cyberattacks as gateways to critical services and sensitive data. Traditional penetration testing is costly and expertise-intensive, making it difficult to scale with the growing web ecosystem. While language model agents show promise in cybersecurity, moder...

AgentSentinel: an End-To-End and Real-Time Security Defense Framework for Computer-Use Agents

Large Language Models LLMs have been increasingly integrated into computer-use agents, which can autonomously operate tools on a user's computer to accomplish complex tasks. However, due to the inherently unstable and unpredictable nature of LLM outputs, they may issue unintended tool commands or...

VPI-Bench: Visual Prompt Injection Attacks for Computer-Use Agents

Computer-Use Agents CUAs with full system access enable powerful task automation but pose significant security and privacy risks due to their ability to manipulate files, access user data, and execute arbitrary commands. While prior work has focused on browser-based agents and HTML-level attacks,...