Layer Order Semantics for Automata-Based Cybersecurity

Layered cybersecurity pipelines transform evidence before they decide on it, and the order of those transformations determines which security facts become visible to which layer. This paper gives layer order a finite-state semantics built from a layer-order automaton, deterministic sequential...

When Discovery Outpaces Remediation: Modeling AI-Accelerated Vulnerability Discovery in Interconnected Systems

Advanced AI systems for code analysis, binary analysis, fuzzing orchestration, and penetration-test planningmay significantly increase the rate at which latent vulnerabilities are discovered. While improved discovery can benefit defenders, it can also overload remediation pipelines and accelerate...

Now You (Still) See Me: Detecting Evasive Steganographic Payloads in LLMs

Large language models can be fine-tuned to encode prompt-borne secrets into fluent, seemingly benign outputs. This creates a steganographic exfiltration risk that is difficult to detect with output-level steganalysis. Recent work proposes mechanistic detection using linear probes that recover the...

Framework for Discovering GPS Spoofing Attacks in Drone Swarms

Swarm robotics, particularly drone swarms, are used in various safety-critical tasks. While a lot of attention has been given to improving swarm control algorithms for improved intelligence, the security implications of various design choices in swarm control algorithms have not been studied. We...

Set Shaping Theory As a Complementary Payload-Shaping Layer for Steganography

This paper studies the use of Set Shaping Theory SST as a reversible payload-shaping layer for least significant bit LSB image steganography. The proposal is not intended to replace existing steganographic methods or to compete with them as a new embedding scheme. Instead, SST is positioned as a...

Malicious Package

Overview knot-date-utils-rb is a malicious package. This package is part of a malicious cluster of Ruby gems published by the threat actor knot-theory. Designed to impersonate legitimate utilities, it executes a payload upon installation that harvests environment variables, SSH keys, AWS...

Malicious Package

Overview knot-devise-jwt-helper is a malicious package. This package is part of a malicious cluster of Ruby gems published by the threat actor knot-theory. Designed to impersonate legitimate utilities, it executes a payload upon installation that harvests environment variables, SSH keys, AWS...

MAL-2026-3630 Malicious code in knot-activesupport-logger (RubyGems)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: google-open-source-security a4e4f74e90479d472a307d311d48214827e21cf93ecf9b0b62ff2cb72adb2c9e This package is a malicious packages part of the Go BufferZoneCorp and RubyGems knot-theory clusters. The packages in this cluster steal...

Cybercrime and Prevention: Colonel Blotto in Social Engineering

Cybercriminals increasingly target the human factor rather than continuously advancing technological defense mechanisms. Consequently, institutions that allocate substantial resources to strengthening their cybersecurity infrastructure may remain vulnerable if a deceived employee voluntarily...

Information Theoretic Adversarial Training of Large Language Models

Large language models LLMs remain vulnerable to adversarial prompting despite advances in alignment and safety, often exhibiting harmful behaviors under novel attack strategies. While adversarial training can improve robustness, existing approaches are computationally expensive and difficult to...

Strategic Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Architecture for Cost-Effective Code Vulnerability Detection

Automated code vulnerability detection is critical for software security, yet existing approaches face a fundamental trade-off between detection accuracy and computational cost. We propose a heterogeneous multi-agent architecture inspired by game-theoretic principles, combining cloud-based LLM...

Vulnerability Abundance: A Formal Proof of Infinite Vulnerabilities in Code

We present a constructive proof that a single C program, the Vulnerability Factory, admits a countably infinite set of distinct, independently CVE-assignable software vulnerabilities. We formalise the argument using elementary set theory, verify it against MITRE's CVE Numbering Authority counting...

Explainable PQC: A Layered Interpretive Framework for Post-Quantum Cryptographic Security Assumptions

This paper studies how post-quantum cryptographic PQC security assumptions can be represented and communicated through a structured, layered framework that is useful for technical interpretation but does not replace formal cryptographic proofs. We propose "Explainable PQC,'' an interdisciplinary...

Cyber Deception for Mission Surveillance Via Hypergame-Theoretic Deep Reinforcement Learning

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAVs are valuable for mission-critical systems like surveillance, rescue, or delivery. Not surprisingly, such systems attract cyberattacks, including Denial-of-Service DoS attacks to overwhelm the resources of mission drones MDs. How can we defend UAV mission systems...

Game-Theoretic Modeling of Stealthy Intrusion Defense against MDP-Based Attackers

The rapid expansion of Internet use has increased system exposure to cyber threats, with advanced persistent threats APTs being especially challenging due to their stealth, prolonged duration, and multi-stage attacks targeting high-value assets. In this study, we model APT evolution as a strategi...

On Moltbook

The MIT Technology Review has a good article on Moltbook, the supposed AI-only social network: Many people have pointed out that a lot of the viral comments were in fact posted by people posing as bots. But even the bot-written posts are ultimately the result of people pulling the strings, more...

STARDIS: Strategic Scheduling and Deceptive Signaling for Satellite Intrusion Detection System Deployment

Satellite communication networks operate under stringent computational constraints and are susceptible to sophisticated cyberattacks. This paper introduces a novel defense framework that decouples security optimization into ground-based analysis and onboard real-time execution. In the long-term...

Orbital Escalation: Modeling Satellite Ransomware Attacks Using Game Theory

Ransomware has yet to reach orbit, but the conditions for such an attack already exist. This paper presents the first game-theoretic framework for modeling ransomware against satellites: the orbital escalation game. In this model, the attacker escalates ransom demands across orbital passes, while...

Exploit for CVE-2026-23829

SimoesCTT-mailpit-phase-reconstructor It's a CRLF injection in...

AI Arms and Influence: Frontier Models Exhibit Sophisticated Reasoning in Simulated Nuclear Crises

Today's leading AI models engage in sophisticated behaviour when placed in strategic competition. They spontaneously attempt deception, signaling intentions they do not intend to follow; they demonstrate rich theory of mind, reasoning about adversary beliefs and anticipating their actions; and th...