SynGhost

Syntactic-Ghost SynGhost SynGhost: Invisible and Universal Task-agnostic Backdoor Attack via Syntactic Transfer Contributions & Characteristics SynGhost has the following contributions To mitigate the risks of existing task-agnostic backdoors, we propose $\mathttmaxEntropy$, an entropy-based...

LLM-Based Weak Annotation for Cybersecurity Tweet Classification: A Teacher-Student Framework

Cyber threat intelligence CTI relies on the timely identification of emerging threats, enabling organizations and security analysts to support situational awareness and decision-making. Social media platforms such as X formerly Twitter have become valuable CTI sources because vulnerabilities and...

New Study Uncovers Text-to-SQL Model Vulnerabilities Allowing Data Theft and DoS Attacks

A group of academics has demonstrated novel attacks that leverage Text-to-SQL models to produce malicious code that could enable adversaries to glean sensitive information and stage denial-of-service DoS attacks. "To better interact with users, a wide range of database applications employ AI...