Detecting Hard-Coded Credentials in Software Repositories Via LLMs

Software developers frequently hard-code credentials such as passwords, generic secrets, private keys, and generic tokens in software repositories, even though it is strictly advised against due to the severe threat to the security of the software. These credentials create attack surfaces...

Private Training and Data Generation by Clustering Embeddings

Deep neural networks often use large, high-quality datasets to achieve high performance on many machine learning tasks. When training involves potentially sensitive data, this process can raise privacy concerns, as large models have been shown to unintentionally memorize and reveal sensitive...

Black-Box Privacy Attacks on Shared Representations in Multitask Learning

Multitask learning MTL has emerged as a powerful paradigm that leverages similarities among multiple learning tasks, each with insufficient samples to train a standalone model, to solve them simultaneously while minimizing data sharing across users and organizations. MTL typically accomplishes th...

Graph-Based Floor Separation Using Node Embeddings and Clustering of WiFi Trajectories

Indoor positioning systems IPSs are increasingly vital for location-based services in complex multi-storey environments. This study proposes a novel graph-based approach for floor separation using Wi-Fi fingerprint trajectories, addressing the challenge of vertical localization in indoor settings...

DiffUMI: Training-Free Universal Model Inversion Via Unconditional Diffusion for Face Recognition

Face recognition technology presents serious privacy risks due to its reliance on sensitive and immutable biometric data. To address these concerns, such systems typically convert raw facial images into embeddings, which are traditionally viewed as privacy-preserving. However, model inversion...

GradEscape: a Gradient-Based Evader against AI-Generated Text Detectors

In this paper, we introduce GradEscape, the first gradient-based evader designed to attack AI-generated text AIGT detectors. GradEscape overcomes the undifferentiable computation problem, caused by the discrete nature of text, by introducing a novel approach to construct weighted embeddings for t...

SecEmb: Sparsity-Aware Secure Federated Learning of On-Device Recommender System with Large Embedding

Federated recommender system FedRec has emerged as a solution to protect user data through collaborative training techniques. A typical FedRec involves transmitting the full model and entire weight updates between edge devices and the server, causing significant burdens to devices with limited...

Robust Anti-Backdoor Instruction Tuning in LVLMs

Large visual language models LVLMs have demonstrated excellent instruction-following capabilities, yet remain vulnerable to stealthy backdoor attacks when finetuned using contaminated data. Existing backdoor defense techniques are usually developed for single-modal visual or language models under...

Poison in the Well: Feature Embedding Disruption in Backdoor Attacks

Backdoor attacks embed malicious triggers into training data, enabling attackers to manipulate neural network behavior during inference while maintaining high accuracy on benign inputs. However, existing backdoor attacks face limitations manifesting in excessive reliance on training data, poor...

Repository Vector Search Methods

The emergence of Large Language Models LLM has propelled Generative AI and surfaced one of its key components to a broad audience: Embeddings. Embeddings are a vector representation of data in a high-dimensional space capturing their semantic meaning. Vector representations allow for more efficie...

EC-LDA : Label Distribution Inference Attack against Federated Graph Learning with Embedding Compression

Graph Neural Networks GNNs have been widely used for graph analysis. Federated Graph Learning FGL is an emerging learning framework to collaboratively train graph data from various clients. However, since clients are required to upload model parameters to the server in each round, this provides t...

BeamClean: Language Aware Embedding Reconstruction

In this work, we consider an inversion attack on the obfuscated input embeddings sent to a language model on a server, where the adversary has no access to the language model or the obfuscation mechanism and sees only the obfuscated embeddings along with the model's embedding table. We propose...

MTL-UE: Learning to Learn Nothing for Multi-Task Learning

Most existing unlearnable strategies focus on preventing unauthorized users from training single-task learning STL models with personal data. Nevertheless, the paradigm has recently shifted towards multi-task data and multi-task learning MTL, targeting generalist and foundation models that can...

Semantic-Aware Contrastive Fine-Tuning: Boosting Multimodal Malware Classification with Discriminative Embeddings

The rapid evolution of malware variants requires robust classification methods to enhance cybersecurity. While Large Language Models LLMs offer potential for generating malware descriptions to aid family classification, their utility is limited by semantic embedding overlaps and misalignment with...

On the Consistency of GNN Explanations for Malware Detection

Control Flow Graphs CFGs are critical for analyzing program execution and characterizing malware behavior. With the growing adoption of Graph Neural Networks GNNs, CFG-based representations have proven highly effective for malware detection. This study proposes a novel framework that dynamically...

Clustering and Analysis of User Behaviour in Blockchain: a Case Study of Planet IX

Decentralised applications dApps that run on public blockchains have the benefit of trustworthiness and transparency as every activity that happens on the blockchain can be publicly traced through the transaction data. However, this introduces a potential privacy problem as this data can be track...

AI Meets Spring Petclinic: Implementing an AI Assistant with Spring AI (Part II)

Recap of Part I In the first part of this blog series, we explored the basics of integrating Spring AI with large language models. We walked through building a custom ChatClient, leveraging Function Calling for dynamic interactions, and refining our prompts to suit the Spring Petclinic use case. ...

MAL-2024-5110 Malicious code in embeddings-validation (PyPI)

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CVE-2024-3033

The CVE-2024-3033 issue affects mintplex-labs/anything-llm, specifically the "/api/v/" endpoint and its sub-routes. It is described as an improper authorization vulnerability that allows unauthenticated users to perform destructive actions on the VectorDB, including resetting the database and del...