Technical Report: Exploring the Emerging Threats of the Agent Skill Ecosystem

We analyzed 3,984 AI agent skills from major marketplaces and found 76 confirmed malicious payloads, including credential theft, backdoor installation, and data exfiltration. 13.4% of all skills contain at least one critical-level security issue and at least 8 manually confirmed malicious skills...

When the Ruler Is Broken: Parsing-Induced Suppression in LLM-Based Security Log Evaluation

LLM-based SOC log classifiers are commonly evaluated using regular-expression pipelines that extract structured fields from free-form model output. We demonstrate that this practice introduces a class of silent, systematic evaluation errors, which we term parsing-induced suppression that can caus...

MCPThreatHive: Automated Threat Intelligence for Model Context Protocol Ecosystems

The rapid proliferation of Model Context Protocol MCP-based agentic systems has introduced a new category of security threats that existing frameworks are inadequately equipped to address. We present MCPThreatHive, an open-source platform that automates the end-to-end lifecycle of MCP threat...

Towards Secure Agent Skills: Architecture, Threat Taxonomy, and Security Analysis

Agent Skills is an emerging open standard that defines a modular, filesystem-based packaging format enabling LLM-based agents to acquire domain-specific expertise on demand. Despite rapid adoption across multiple agentic platforms and the emergence of large community marketplaces, the security...

Safeguarding LLMs against Misuse and AI-Driven Malware Using Steganographic Canaries

AI-powered malware increasingly exploits cloud-hosted generative-AI services and large language models LLMs as analysis engines for reconnaissance and code generation. Simultaneously, enterprise uploads expose sensitive documents to third-party AI vendors. Both threats converge at the AI service...

AI-Driven Cybersecurity Threats: A Survey of Emerging Risks and Defensive Strategies

Artificial Intelligence's dual-use nature is revolutionizing the cybersecurity landscape, introducing new threats across four main categories: deepfakes and synthetic media, adversarial AI attacks, automated malware, and AI-powered social engineering. This paper aims to analyze emerging risks,...

Security in the Era of Perceptive Networks: A Comprehensive Taxonomic Framework for Integrated Sensing and Communication Security

Integrated Sensing and Communication ISAC represents a significant shift in the 6G landscape, where wireless networks both sense the environment and communicate. While prior comprehensive surveys have established foundational elements of ISAC security, discussed perception-focused security models...

Cracking IoT Security: Can LLMs Outsmart Static Analysis Tools?

Smart home IoT platforms such as openHAB rely on Trigger Action Condition TAC rules to automate device behavior, but the interplay among these rules can give rise to interaction threats, unintended or unsafe behaviors emerging from implicit dependencies, conflicting triggers, or overlapping...

Standardized Threat Taxonomy for AI Security, Governance, and Regulatory Compliance

The accelerating deployment of artificial intelligence systems across regulated sectors has exposed critical fragmentation in risk assessment methodologies. A significant "language barrier" currently separates technical security teams, who focus on algorithmic vulnerabilities e.g., MITRE ATLAS,...

Cybersecurity of High-Altitude Platform Stations: Threat Taxonomy, Attacks and Defenses with Standards Mapping - DDoS Attack Use Case

High-Altitude Platform Stations HAPS are emerging stratospheric nodes within non-terrestrial networks. We provide a structured overview of HAPS subsystems and principal communication links, map cybersecurity and privacy exposure across communication, control, and power subsystems, and propose a...

Agentic AI Security: Threats, Defenses, Evaluation, and Open Challenges

Agentic AI systems powered by large language models LLMs and endowed with planning, tool use, memory, and autonomy, are emerging as powerful, flexible platforms for automation. Their ability to autonomously execute tasks across web, software, and physical environments creates new and amplified...