OverrideFuzz: Semantic-Aware Grammar Fuzzing for Script-Runtime Vulnerabilities

Script-language runtimes such as Python, Lua, and JavaScript are widely deployed in security sensitive contexts, yet they remain difficult to test because valid inputs must satisfy syntax, dynamic type constraints, and object-level semantics. Existing grammar and reflection-based fuzzers improve...

When Prompts Become Payloads: A Framework for Mitigating SQL Injection Attacks in Large Language Model-Driven Applications

Natural language interfaces to structured databases are becoming increasingly common, largely due to advances in large language models LLMs that enable users to query data using conversational input rather than formal query languages such as SQL. While this paradigm significantly improves usabili...

Skill Description Deception Attack against Task Routing in Internet of Agents

A new paradigm, Internet of Agents IoA, is transforming networked systems into LLM-driven service networks, where heterogeneous agents collaborate through task routing based on their self-declared skill descriptions. Although this promising paradigm enables agentic, distributed, and advanced...

When prompts become shells: RCE vulnerabilities in AI agent frameworks

In this article 1. A representative case study: Semantic Kernel 2. CVE-2026-26030: In-Memory Vector Store 3. CVE-2026-25592: Arbitrary file write through SessionsPythonPlugin 4. The vulnerability 5. Attack chain overview 6. Defending the agentic edge 7. Not bugs, but developed by design 8. CTF...

When prompts become shells: RCE vulnerabilities in AI agent frameworks

In this article 1. A representative case study: Semantic Kernel 2. CVE-2026-26030: In-Memory Vector Store 3. CVE-2026-25592: Arbitrary file write through SessionsPythonPlugin 4. The vulnerability 5. Attack chain overview 6. Defending the agentic edge 7. Not bugs, but developed by design 8. CTF...

Beyond the Wrapper: Identifying Artifact Reliance in Static Malware Classifiers Using TRUSTEE

Modern cybersecurity relies heavily on static machine-learning-based malware classifiers. However, transformations such as packing and other non-semantic modifications applied to executable files limit their reliability. Malware classifiers often learn these unnecessary artifacts rather than the...

Cryptographic and Information-Theoretic Security Capacities for General Arbitrarily Varying Wiretap Channels

We compare the strong secrecy capacities of Arbitrarily Varying Wiretap Channels AVWCs and General Arbitrary Varying Wiretap Channels GAVWCs with their capacities under semantic secrecy constraint and other equivalent cryptographic secrecy constraints. It turns out that the average error and stro...

AFL-ICP: Enhancing Industrial Control Protocol Reliability Via Specification-Guided Fuzzing

Industrial Control Protocols ICPs are critical to the reliability and stability of industrial infrastructure, yet their security is fundamentally compromised by a specification-blindness bottleneck. Modern fuzzers, constrained by observation-driven inference, struggle to penetrate deep protocol...

Pen-Strategist: A Reasoning Framework for Penetration Testing Strategy Formation and Analysis

Cyber threats are rapidly increasing, expanding their impact from large-scale enterprises to government services and individual users, making robust security systems increasingly essential. However, a significant shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals exacerbates this challenge. While...

The Infinite Mutation Engine? Measuring Polymorphism in LLM-Generated Offensive Code

Malware authors have traditionally relied on polymorphic techniques to produce variants in the same malware family, complicating signature-based detection. Integrating generative AI into offensive toolchains enables attackers to synthesize structurally diverse payloads with identical behavior,...

CodeQL 2.25.3

Discover vulnerabilities across a codebase with CodeQL, an industry-leading semantic code analysis engine. CodeQL lets you query code as though it were data. Write a query to find all variants of a vulnerability, eradicating it forever. Then share your query to help others do the same...

WOOTdroid: Whole-System Online On-Device Tracing for Android

System auditing on Android faces two problems. First, existing syscall tracers lose events under load, silently overwriting entries faster than a user space reader can drain them. Second, security-relevant application behavior is mediated through Binder, Android's kernel IPC mechanism, and is...

From CRUD to Autonomous Agents: Formal Validation and Zero-Trust Security for Semantic Gateways in AI-Native Enterprise Systems

Enterprise software engineering is shifting away from deterministic CRUD/REST architectures toward AI-native systems where large language models act as cognitive orchestrators. This transition introduces a critical security tension: probabilistic LLMs weaken classical mechanisms for validation,...

MAL-2026-3102 Malicious code in semantic_search_client (crates.io)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ossf-package-analysis 2495e4537e60cafc5bc13f96987b82749fce367078ee036e3e4fb4421b5bdf4c The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'semantic-search-client' @ 99.0.1 crates.io as malicious. It is considered malicious because: -...

Malicious code in semantic_search_client (crates.io)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ossf-package-analysis 2495e4537e60cafc5bc13f96987b82749fce367078ee036e3e4fb4421b5bdf4c The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'semantic-search-client' @ 99.0.1 crates.io as malicious. It is considered malicious because: -...

Vulnerability Identification by Harnessing Inter-Connected Multi-Source Information

The utilization of third-party open-source libraries is widespread in modern software development. Due to the dependency relationships, vulnerabilities within open-source libraries pose significant security threats to downstream software. However, the library vulnerabilities are usually implicitl...

GoAT-X: A Graph of Auditing Thoughts for Securing Token Transactions in Cross-Chain Contracts

Cross-chain bridges, the critical infrastructure of the multi-chain ecosystem, have become a primary target for attackers, resulting in over $2.8 billion in losses due to subtle implementation flaws. Existing defenses, such as bytecode-level static analysis, are ill-equipped to handle the semanti...

DETOUR: A Practical Backdoor Attack against Object Detection

Object detection OD is critical to real-world vision systems, yet existing backdoor attacks on detection transformers DETRs for OD tasks rely on patch-wise triggers optimized at fixed locations with minimal perturbations. Such attacks overlook that backdoor triggers in the real world may appear a...

Structured Security Auditing and Robustness Enhancement for Untrusted Agent Skills

Agent Skills package SKILL.md files, scripts, reference documents, and repository context into reusable capability units, turning pre-load auditing from single-prompt filtering into cross-file security review. Existing guardrails often flag risk but recover malicious intent inconsistently under...

AgentVisor: Defending LLM Agents against Prompt Injection Via Semantic Virtualization

Large Language Model LLM agents are increasingly used to automate complex workflows, but integrating untrusted external data with privileged execution exposes them to severe security risks, particularly direct and indirect prompt injection. Existing defenses face significant challenges in balanci...