JPRO: Automated Multimodal Jailbreaking Via Multi-Agent Collaboration Framework

The widespread application of large VLMs makes ensuring their secure deployment critical. While recent studies have demonstrated jailbreak attacks on VLMs, existing approaches are limited: they require either white-box access, restricting practicality, or rely on manually crafted patterns, leadin...

Understanding the (In)Security of Vibe-Coded Applications

Recent advances in large language models LLMs have enabled vibe coding, an emerging software development paradigm in which users create applications primarily through natural-language interactions with AI agents. Due to its low barrier to entry, vibe coding is rapidly gaining adoption in practice...

ShellGames: Speculative LLM-Driven SSH Deception

Cyber deception and Moving Target Defense are promising strategies that aim to disrupt adversaries by increasing uncertainty. However, sustaining long-lived, credible interactive sessions with adversaries remains an open challenge. Large Language Models LLMs offer a promising path toward more...

LITE-SOC: Lightweight Security Operations Center Simulator for Cybersecurity Education

This innovative practice WIP paper describes LITE-SOC, a lightweight web-based Security Operations Center SOC simulator designed for instructor-led cybersecurity education. SOC analysts must triage large volumes of alerts, separate genuine threats from false positives, and communicate decisions...

Joern 4.0.539

Joern is the bug hunter's workbench. With this tool, you can uncover attack surface, sloppy coding practices, and variants of known vulnerabilities using an interactive code analysis shell. Joern supports C, C++, LLVM bitcode, x86 binaries via Ghidra, JVM bytecode via Soot, and Javascript...

Toward Autonomous SOC Operations: End-To-End LLM Framework for Threat Detection, Query Generation, and Resolution in Security Operations

Security Operations Centers SOCs face mounting operational challenges. These challenges come from increasing threat volumes, heterogeneous SIEM platforms, and time-consuming manual triage workflows. We present an end-to-end threat management framework that integrates ensemble-based detection,...

Security Is Relative: Training-Free Vulnerability Detection Via Multi-Agent Behavioral Contract Synthesis

Deep learning for vulnerability detection has shown promising results on early benchmarks, but recent evaluations reveal catastrophic degradation: models achieving F1 0.68 on legacy datasets collapse to 0.031 under strict deduplication. We identify the root cause as the semantic ambiguity problem...

Boot Verification Program Persistence

This Metasploit module establishes persistence by configuring the BootVerificationProgram registry key. It uploads a payload executable and modifies the ImagePath value under HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\BootVerificationProgram. The payload is executed by the Service Control Manager earl...

LLM-Based Agents for Software and Systems Security: Approaches, Applications, and Assessment

Software and systems security workflows are typically procedural: analysts inspect heterogeneous artifacts, form hypotheses, invoke tools, interpret outputs, and revise plans. Large language model LLM-based agents, which can plan, use tools, retain state, and revise actions across multi-step...

OWASP Subtractive Security Top 10 Project

The OWASP Subtractive Security Top 10 Project is an initiative to identify, document, and promote the highest-impact opportunities for reducing cyber risk through the elimination of attack paths. Unlike traditional security guidance that focuses primarily on adding controls, the Subtractive...

Separating Secrets from Placeholders: A Hybrid CNN-CodeBERT Framework for Three-Class Credential Leakage Detection

Credential leakage in public source code repositories poses a critical security threat, with over 23.8 million secrets exposed in 2024 alone. Existing detection tools suffer from high false-positive rates because rigid pattern matching and binary classification schemes fail to distinguish genuine...

AgentSOC: A Multi-Layer Agentic AI Framework for Security Operations Automation

Security Operations Centers SOCs increasingly encounter difficulties in correlating heterogeneous alerts, interpreting multi-stage attack progressions, and selecting safe and effective response actions. This study introduces AgentSOC, a multi-layered agentic AI framework that enhances SOC...

SkillAttack: Automated Red Teaming of Agent Skills through Attack Path Refinement

LLM-based agent systems increasingly rely on agent skills sourced from open registries to extend their capabilities, yet the openness of such ecosystems makes skills difficult to thoroughly vet. Existing attacks rely on injecting malicious instructions into skills, making them easily detectable b...

Evasion-Resilient Detection of DNS-Over-HTTPS Data Exfiltration: A Practical Evaluation and Toolkit

The purpose of this project is to assess how well defenders can detect DNS-over-HTTPS DoH file exfiltration, and which evasion strategies can be used by attackers. While providing a reproducible toolkit to generate, intercept and analyze DoH exfiltration, and comparing Machine Learning vs...

CacheTrap: Injecting Trojans in LLMs without Leaving Any Traces in Inputs or Weights

Adversarial weight perturbation has emerged as a concerning threat to LLMs that either use training privileges or system-level access to inject adversarial corruption in model weights. With the emergence of innovative defensive solutions that place system- and algorithm-level checks and correctio...

MalRAG: A Retrieval-Augmented LLM Framework for Open-Set Malicious Traffic Identification

Fine-grained identification of IDS-flagged suspicious traffic is crucial in cybersecurity. In practice, cyber threats evolve continuously, making the discovery of novel malicious traffic a critical necessity as well as the identification of known classes. Recent studies have advanced this goal wi...

SASER: Stego Attacks on Open-Source LLMs

Open-source large language models LLMs have demonstrated considerable dominance over proprietary LLMs in resolving neural processing tasks, thanks to the collaborative and sharing nature. Although full access to source codes, model parameters, and training data lays the groundwork for transparenc...

WordPress WPMasterToolKit 1.13.1 Shell Upload

WordPress WPMasterToolKit plugin versions 1.13.1 and below remote shell upload exploit...

MikroTik RouterOS Username Enumeration

MikroTik RouterOS suffers from a username enumeration vulnerability...

MemMorph: Tool Hijacking in LLM Agents Via Memory Poisoning

LLM-driven agents are capable of selecting external tools to complete users' tasks. However, attackers could compromise such process, steering agents toward inappropriate/wrong tools and enabling malicious actions. Most existing attacks primarily manipulate the tool metadata, which is easily...

ARIstoteles -- Dissecting Apple's Baseband Interface

Wireless chips and interfaces expose a substantial remote attack surface. As of today, most cellular baseband security research is performed on the Android ecosystem, leaving a huge gap on Apple devices. With iOS jailbreaks, last-generation wireless chips become fairly accessible for performance...

Sparse Autoencoders Are Capable LLM Jailbreak Mitigators

Jailbreak attacks remain a persistent threat to large language model safety. We propose Context-Conditioned Delta Steering CC-Delta, an SAE-based defense that identifies jailbreak-relevant sparse features by comparing token-level representations of the same harmful request with and without...

A Structured Cyber Threat Intelligence Dataset Using STIX 2.1 Entities and MITRE ATT&CK Mappings

Cyber threat intelligence CTI reports are typically written in unstructured formats, which complicates the extraction and analysis of important entities and adversarial behaviors. Although existing CTI research provides extraction tools, knowledge-graph frameworks, and MITRE ATT&CK mapped dataset...

Espanso 2.3.0 Configuration Security Auditor

This Python script implements a security auditing tool for Espanso configuration files. The EspansoSecurityAuditor class scans Espanso match configurations for potentially dangerous shell commands, insecure permissions, and suspicious execution patterns that could indicate malicious automation or...

APT-Agent: Automated Penetration Testing Using Large Language Models

Penetration testing is essential to securing modern web infrastructures, yet traditional manual methods struggle to keep pace with their scale and complexity. Large Language Models LLMs offer new opportunities for automating these tasks, but existing approaches face two persistent challenges:...

PickleFuzzer: A Case Study in Fuzzing for Discrepancies between Python Pickle Implementations

Python's native serialization protocol, pickle, is a powerful but insecure format for transferring untrusted data. It is frequently used, especially for saving machine learning models, despite known security challenges. While developers sometimes mitigate this risk by restricting imports during...

AgentShield: Deception-Based Compromise Detection for Tool-Using LLM Agents

Defenses against indirect prompt injection IPI in tool-using LLM agents share two structural weaknesses. First, they all attempt to prevent attacks rather than detect the compromises that slip through. Second, they have only been evaluated in English, leaving users of low-resource languages such ...

Large Language Models Cannot Reliably Detect Vulnerabilities in JavaScript: The First Systematic Benchmark and Evaluation

Researchers have proposed numerous methods to detect vulnerabilities in JavaScript, especially those assisted by Large Language Models LLMs. However, the actual capability of LLMs in JavaScript vulnerability detection remains questionable, necessitating systematic evaluation and comprehensive...

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...

Poking around in the Dark: Why a Shared Understanding of Components Matters

By listing the components included in an application, Software Bills of Materials SBOMs are intended to support the timely identification of vulnerable components and ensure the security of the software supply chain. However, we question the underlying assumption that there is agreement on the...

EchoLeak: the First Real-World Zero-Click Prompt Injection Exploit in a Production LLM System

Large language model LLM assistants are increasingly integrated into enterprise workflows, raising new security concerns as they bridge internal and external data sources. This paper presents an in-depth case study of EchoLeak CVE-2025-32711, a zero-click prompt injection vulnerability in Microso...

AI-Assisted Design of a Post-Quantum Cryptographic Accelerator: A Deployed-Silicon Case Study

Post-quantum migration is mandated on published timelines, and silicon that ships with a defect cannot be patched remotely. The standard acceptance gate cannot detect an entire class of ML-DSA defects. Signing resamples until a candidate meets its norm bounds, so the executed path varies with the...

FROST: Fingerprinting Remotely Using OPFS-based SSD Timing

Prior work showed that variations in SSD access time can be used to leak information about user activity, e.g., the websites a user accesses, and for covert data transmission. To achieve this, SSD contention side channels require accurate high-resolution timing measurements of I/O operations, e.g...

FuzzingBrain V2: A Multi-Agent LLM System for Automated Vulnerability Discovery and Reproduction

Software vulnerabilities pose critical security threats, with nearly 50,000 CVEs reported in 2025. While Large Language Models LLMs show promise for automated vulnerability detection, three key challenges remain. First, LLM-generated vulnerability reports suffer from high false positive rates and...

SecureForge: Finding and Preventing Vulnerabilities in LLM-Generated Code Via Prompt Optimization

LLM coding agents now generate code at an unprecedented scale, yet LLM-generated code introduces cybersecurity vulnerabilities into codebases without human involvement. Even when frontier models are explicitly asked to write secure production code with relevant weaknesses to avoid in context, we...

Insights into Security-Related AI-Generated Pull Requests

Recent years have experienced growing contributions of AI coding agents that assist human developers in various software engineering tasks. However, this growing AI-assisted autonomy raises questions about security and trust. In this paper, we analyze more than 33,000 AI-generated pull requests P...

Terminal Wrench: A Dataset of 331 Reward-Hackable Environments and 3,632 Exploit Trajectories

The authors of this paper release Terminal Wrench, a subset of 331 terminal-agent benchmark environments, copied from the popular open benchmarks that are demonstrably reward-hackable. The data set includes 3,632 hack trajectories and 2,352 legitimate baseline trajectories across three frontier...

Description-Code Inconsistency in Real-World MCP Servers: Measurement, Detection, and Security Implications

The Model Context Protocol MCP has emerged as a critical standard empowering Large Language Models LLMs to utilize external tools. In this ecosystem, LLMs rely on natural language descriptions provided by MCP servers to select and execute functions. This interaction implicitly assumes that tool...

Measuring Real-World Prompt Injection Attacks in LLM-Based Resume Screening

LLMs are vulnerable to prompt injection attacks. However, this vulnerability has been primarily demonstrated conceptually in academic studies or through a few anecdotal case studies. Its prevalence and impact in real-world LLM-based applications are largely unexplored. In this work, we present th...

AXE: An Agentic EXploit Engine for Confirming Zero-Day Vulnerability Reports

Vulnerability detection tools are widely adopted in software projects, yet they often overwhelm maintainers with false positives and non-actionable reports. Automated exploitation systems can help validate these reports; however, existing approaches typically operate in isolation from detection...

Hiding in the AI Traffic: Abusing MCP for LLM-Powered Agentic Red Teaming

Generative AI is reshaping offensive cybersecurity by enabling autonomous red team agents that can plan, execute, and adapt during penetration tests. However, existing approaches face trade-offs between generality and specialization, and practical deployments reveal challenges such as...

REx86: A Local Large Language Model for Assisting in X86 Assembly Reverse Engineering

Reverse engineering RE of x86 binaries is indispensable for malware and firmware analysis, but remains slow due to stripped metadata and adversarial obfuscation. Large Language Models LLMs offer potential for improving RE efficiency through automated comprehension and commenting, but cloud-hosted...

SAEFUZZ: Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection through Statically Guided Evolutionary Fuzzing

The effectiveness of smart contract fuzzing depends strongly on whether generated transactions reach deep, state-dependent execution paths. Existing fuzzers often generate highly random call sequences, wasting executions on semantically invalid or low-value states and leaving vulnerabilities that...

Code-Augur: Agentic Vulnerability Detection Via Specification Inference

The advent of agentic vulnerability detection is already becoming a watershed moment for software security. Audits conducted entirely by autonomous LLM agents are uncovering critical vulnerabilities in fundamental software underpinning digital society. Many of these vulnerabilities remained maske...

YARA-X 1.17.0

YARA-X is a re-incarnation of YARA, a pattern matching tool designed with malware researchers in mind. This new incarnation intends to be faster, safer and more user-friendly than its predecessor. The ultimate goal of YARA-X is replacing YARA as the default pattern matching tool for malware...

Context-Aware Phishing Email Detection Using Machine Learning and NLP

Phishing attacks remain among the most prevalent cybersecurity threats, causing significant financial losses for individuals and organizations worldwide. This paper presents a machine learning-based phishing email detection system that analyzes email body content using natural language processing...

VulnResolver: A Hybrid Agent Framework for LLM-Based Automated Vulnerability Issue Resolution

As software systems grow in complexity, security vulnerabilities have become increasingly prevalent, posing serious risks and economic costs. Although automated detection tools such as fuzzers have advanced considerably, effective resolution still often depends on human expertise. Existing...

Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution: Protocols, Security, and Open Problems

Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution TF-QKD has emerged as a potential protocol for long distance secure communication, overcoming the rate-distance limitations of conventional quantum key distribution without requiring trusted repeaters. By having two parties transmit phase encoded weak coherent...

Mind the Gap: Robustness Risks in PII Detection Systems

Personally Identifiable Information PII detection is a foundational component of data protection infrastructure where missed entities constitute direct privacy and security risks. Although modern PII systems report strong performance on standard benchmarks, we show that these evaluations mask...

HarmQ: Harmonic Backdoor Attacks against Quantum Neural Networks

Quantum Neural Networks QNNs have emerged as a promising paradigm for quantum machine learning in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum NISQ era, leveraging quantum phenomena such as superposition and entanglement to process information in exponentially large Hilbert spaces. However, QNNs inherit...