LLaVul: a Multimodal LLM for Interpretable Vulnerability Reasoning about Source Code

Increasing complexity in software systems places a growing demand on reasoning tools that unlock vulnerabilities manifest in source code. Many current approaches focus on vulnerability analysis as a classifying task, oversimplifying the nuanced and context-dependent real-world scenarios. Even...

Optimizing IoT Threat Detection with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs)

The exponential growth of the Internet of Things IoT has led to the emergence of substantial security concerns, with IoT networks becoming the primary target for cyberattacks. This study examines the potential of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks KANs as an alternative to conventional machine learning...

Information Security Based on LLM Approaches: a Review

Information security is facing increasingly severe challenges, and traditional protection means are difficult to cope with complex and changing threats. In recent years, as an emerging intelligent technology, large language models LLMs have shown a broad application prospect in the field of...

PhishDebate: an LLM-Based Multi-Agent Framework for Phishing Website Detection

Phishing websites continue to pose a significant cybersecurity threat, often leveraging deceptive structures, brand impersonation, and social engineering tactics to evade detection. While recent advances in large language models LLMs have enabled improved phishing detection through contextual...

AI-Based Software Vulnerability Detection: a Systematic Literature Review

Software vulnerabilities in source code pose serious cybersecurity risks, prompting a shift from traditional detection methods e.g., static analysis, rule-based matching to AI-driven approaches. This study presents a systematic review of software vulnerability detection SVD research from 2018 to...

ReGA: Representation-Guided Abstraction for Model-Based Safeguarding of LLMs

Large Language Models LLMs have achieved significant success in various tasks, yet concerns about their safety and security have emerged. In particular, they pose risks in generating harmful content and vulnerability to jailbreaking attacks. To analyze and monitor machine learning models,...

Shadow Defense against Gradient Inversion Attack in Federated Learning

Federated learning FL has emerged as a transformative framework for privacy-preserving distributed training, allowing clients to collaboratively train a global model without sharing their local data. This is especially crucial in sensitive fields like healthcare, where protecting patient data is...

Bridging Expertise Gaps: the Role of LLMs in Human-AI Collaboration for Cybersecurity

This study investigates whether large language models LLMs can function as intelligent collaborators to bridge expertise gaps in cybersecurity decision-making. We examine two representative tasks-phishing email detection and intrusion detection-that differ in data modality, cognitive complexity,...

Dual Explanations Via Subgraph Matching for Malware Detection

Interpretable malware detection is crucial for understanding harmful behaviors and building trust in automated security systems. Traditional explainable methods for Graph Neural Networks GNNs often highlight important regions within a graph but fail to associate them with known benign or maliciou...

A Gradient-Optimized TSK Fuzzy Framework for Explainable Phishing Detection

Phishing attacks represent an increasingly sophisticated and pervasive threat to individuals and organizations, causing significant financial losses, identity theft, and severe damage to institutional reputations. Existing phishing detection methods often struggle to simultaneously achieve high...

Towards Explainable and Lightweight AI for Real-Time Cyber Threat Hunting in Edge Networks

As cyber threats continue to evolve, securing edge networks has become increasingly challenging due to their distributed nature and resource limitations. Many AI-driven threat detection systems rely on complex deep learning models, which, despite their high accuracy, suffer from two major...

Friday Squid Blogging: SQUID Is a New Computational Tool for Analyzing Genomic AI

Yet another SQUID acronym: SQUID, short for Surrogate Quantitative Interpretability for Deepnets, is a computational tool created by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory CSHL scientists. Its designed to help interpret how AI models analyze the genome. Compared with other analysis tools, SQUID is more...