Region-Level Black-Box Defense against Stealthy Embedding-Space Backdoors in CLIP

Contrastive Language--Image Pretraining CLIP has emerged as a dominant vision backbone due to its strong transferability and zero-shot capabilities. However, recent studies reveal a critical vulnerability: embedding-space backdoor attacks. By poisoning only a tiny fraction of image--text pairs,...

Exploring Semantic Labeling Strategies for Third-Party Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Questionnaires

Third-Party Risk Assessment TPRA is a core cybersecurity practice for evaluating suppliers against standards such as ISO/IEC 27001 and NIST. TPRA questionnaires are typically drawn from large repositories of security and compliance questions, yet tailoring assessments to organizational needs...

SafeGenes: Evaluating the Adversarial Robustness of Genomic Foundation Models

Genomic Foundation Models GFMs, such as Evolutionary Scale Modeling ESM, have demonstrated significant success in variant effect prediction. However, their adversarial robustness remains largely unexplored. To address this gap, we propose SafeGenes: a framework for Secure analysis of genomic...