Bastet: A Fine-Grained Expert-Labeled Dataset for DeFi Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection

Smart contract vulnerabilities in Decentralized Finance DeFi protocols resulted in over 1.49 billion USD in confirmed losses in 2024 alone, across 192 incidents 1. As LLM-based vulnerability detection emerges as a promising approach to address these threats, the quality of evaluation datasets has...

MCP-DPT: A Defense-Placement Taxonomy and Coverage Analysis for Model Context Protocol Security

The Model Context Protocol MCP enables large language models LLMs to dynamically discover and invoke third-party tools, significantly expanding agent capabilities while introducing a distinct security landscape. Unlike prompt-only interactions, MCP exposes pre-execution artifacts, shared context,...