MASCOT-Android: A Curated Dataset and Automated Collection Pipeline for Android Malware Source Code Specimens

Compared with binaries and decompiled code, malware source code more directly reflects the attackers' original intent. However, the scarcity of source code and the high cost of manual review make such datasets difficult to build and maintain. We propose MASCOT-Android, a curated dataset of Androi...

FuseChain: Runtime Evidence Reconstruction for Software Supply-Chain Attacks

Software supply-chain SSC attacks are increasingly multi-stage, cross-source, and temporally distributed. A single attack campaign may leave weak and fragmented traces across multi-source telemetry that captures different granularities and perspectives of runtime behavior. Existing runtime...

Security Engineering of OpenClaw: Analyzing Attack Surface Expansion and Trust-Boundary Violations

Agentic large language model LLM systems can now execute actions, not only produce text. When model outputs trigger privileged operations such as shell commands, browser automation, or external tool calls, the security problem shifts from alignment alone to system configuration and structural...

FreeType Contour Boundary Validation Utility

This is a FreeType contour boundary validation utility for detecting indexing and integer-limit risks. It implements a validation routine for detecting unsafe contour metadata conditions by evaluating contour counts and index boundaries against expected limits...

FortiSandbox Exposure Scanner

This Metasploit auxiliary scanner module performs passive exposure assessment of FortiSandbox deployments by identifying platform fingerprints, collecting publicly accessible version metadata, and evaluating API exposure levels without using exploit functionality. The module validates whether a...

ClickFix Server Web-Based Social Engineering Delivery Browser Update Prompts

This Python program implements a web server that delivers browser-themed pages designed to instruct visitors to manually execute commands through operating system interfaces such as run dialogs or shell launchers...

Nuclei 3.9.0

Nuclei is a modern, high-performance vulnerability scanner that leverages simple YAML-based templates. It empowers you to design custom vulnerability detection scenarios that mimic real-world conditions, leading to zero false positives...

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...

Certification of Network Quantum Sensing

The distribution of quantum sensors on quantum networks is a key enabler of quantum technologies in interferometry, gravimetry, timekeeping, biological monitoring, and beyond. Yet, guaranteeing the security of these distributed sensors over noisy, insecure networks remains a formidable challenge...

Toward Secure LLM Agents: Threat Surfaces, Attacks, Defenses, and Evaluation

Large language model LLM agents are rapidly moving from conversational interfaces to software components that plan, invoke tools, maintain memory, and act on external environments. This transition changes the nature of security risk. In agentic settings, failures are no longer limited to unsafe...

Hardware-Aware QAOA for Honeypot Traffic Partitioning on 100+ Qubit IBM Quantum Processors

Denial-of-service DoS and distributed denial-of-service DDoS mitigation requires separating malicious traffic from benign traffic while minimizing disruption to legitimate users. Prior work proposed mapping honeypot traffic partitioning to a weighted MaxCut problem and solving the resulting graph...

Ternary Public-Key Cryptosystem

Public-key cryptosystems eliminate the requirement for pre-shared secret keys by enabling encryption with a publicly disclosed key and decryption with a corresponding private key. In this article we generalize the public-key cryptosystems to ternary algebraic structures, with particular attention...

Drupal Core SQL Injection Scanner

CVE-2026-9082 is a remote SQL Injection vulnerability in Drupal Core's database abstraction layer. It affects only sites using PostgreSQL as the database backend. This code simply checks to see if vulnerability endpoints exist and reports back. It is not an exploit...

Lost in Migration: Exposing Android Framework Vulnerabilities in Parallel Java-Kotlin Implementations

Android has adopted Kotlin alongside Java across apps and core system components. During this shift, we observe parallel implementations in the Android Open Source Project AOSP where the same component is implemented in both Java and Kotlin. In principle, their functional purposes are identical. ...

MCPJam Inspector 1.4.2 Defensive API Security Assessment Tool

This Python-based defensive auditing tool evaluates the exposure and security posture of MCP-related API endpoints in a controlled and authorized environment. It is designed to assist security teams in identifying insecure API configurations, exposed execution interfaces, and potential operationa...

Remote Sunrise Helper for Windows GUI Boundary / Access Control Integrity Auditor

This is a script that tests GUI boundary and access controls in Remote Sunrise Helper for Windows. It launches the application, waits for the target window, and provides manual testing guidance. It does not validate process-boundary handling by itself, does not target any specific known...

High-Precision APT Malware Attribution with Out-Of-Scope Resilience

Early attribution of Advanced Persistent Threat APT activity can help defenders prioritise investigation, select countermeasures, and reduce the impact of an intrusion. Malware provides useful attribution evidence, but automated APT malware attribution remains difficult in practice. Existing...

Domain-Conditioned Safety in Frontier Computer-Using Agents: A 793-Episode Browser Benchmark, a Coding-Domain Cross-Reference, and a Reproducibility Audit of Recent Red-Teaming

Recent computer-using-agent CUA red-teaming papers report prompt-injection attack success rates ASR of 42-98%, but these headline numbers cluster on retired models and on the most-vulnerable model in each paper's panel. We ask whether those techniques, reproduced as hand-crafted templates, still...

Human Factors in Cybersecurity in Icelandic Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Cybersecurity threats are increasing in all aspects of society due to the integration of digital systems into modern-day life and a volatile geo-political landscape. Technical factors are an ongoing arms race; however, the threat surface from human and social factors is still present, often...

SeClaw: Spec-Driven Security Task Synthesis for Evaluating Autonomous Agents

Autonomous LLM agents increasingly operate in stateful environments where they access tools, files, memory, and external services. While such capabilities enable complex real-world workflows, they also introduce security risks that are difficult to capture with existing evaluations. Current agent...

Patcher: Post-Hoc Patching of Backdoored Large Language Models

Large language models remain vulnerable to jailbreak backdoor attacks, where adversaries poison safety alignment data to embed hidden triggers that bypass safety mechanisms. Existing defenses often require comprehensive attack information or multiple triggered examples, making them impractical wh...

KubeSec V1 Kubernetes Scanner

KubeSec is a Kubernetes security auditing tool designed to identify dangerous RBAC permissions, insecure pod configurations, exposed secrets, privileged workloads, risky host mounts, weak network exposure, and cluster hardening weaknesses across Kubernetes environments. performs automated read-on...

On the Evaluation of Spiking Neural Network Configurations for Network Intrusion Detection

Network intrusion detection is a core component of modern cybersecurity infrastructure, yet the deep learning models that dominate the field are computationally demanding, motivating interest in lightweight alternatives suited to edge and neuromorphic deployment. Spiking Neural Networks SNNs are...

Optimal Routing and Link Configuration for Covert Heterogeneous Wireless Networks in the Presence of a Friendly Jammer

In modern radio networks, nodes frequently access multiple communication interfaces such as WiFi, cellular, LoRa, and Zigbee. Optimal utilization of such heterogeneous networks HetNets at link and network levels is essential for ensuring efficient and secure communication. Some applications requi...

Stochastic Analysis of Cybersecurity Defense Strategies under Single Attack Scenario

This research presents a novel stochastic framework for proactive cybersecurity defense timing under a single attack scenario. The approach models the defense process as a continuous observation mechanism in which the defense instant and the subsequent observation slot follow independent...

Information Security in Small-Scale Protests: Surveillance of Ugandan Anti-EACOP Protesters

We examine the information security practices of Ugandan climate activists protesting the development of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline EACOP. We conducted five-week fieldwork in Kampala, Uganda, which included interviews with 13 anti-EACOP activists. Through an inductive analysis, we report...

Cybersecurity AI (CAI) Dataset

We present CAI Dataset, a fourteen-month corpus of cybersecurity LLM trajectories collected through the open-source CAI agent framework, built in response to PentestGPT's finding that expert operator trajectories, not base-model capability, are the bottleneck for cybersecurity LLM performance. CA...

Evolving Skill-Structured Attack Memory Enhances LLM Jailbreaking

Jailbreak attacks on large language models LLMs aim to induce LLMs to produce content that they are expected to refuse. Automated black-box jailbreak generation is especially important for safety evaluation, where the attacker observes only model outputs and needs to automatically search for...

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...

Unlocking Apple's Private Cloud Compute: An Analysis of Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence

Many existing Artificial Intelligence AI solutions on mobile devices rely on an extensive collection of sensitive data, raising privacy concerns and often requiring storage for both context and model improvement. Apple's Private Cloud Compute PCC aims to address this by emphasizing mobile device...

A First Measurement Study on Authentication Security in Real-World Remote MCP Servers

The Model Context Protocol MCP is emerging as a common interface connecting large language models LLMs with external services. Remote deployments are becoming increasingly important as agents connect to user-linked online services, such as social, productivity, and financial services. In such...

Botnet Detection on CTU-13 Using Lightweight Machine Learning Models

Botnets are among the most persistent cyber threats, enabling large-scale attacks such as spam, credential theft, and distributed denial-of-service DDoS. While deep learning approaches have recently been applied to botnet detection, they are computationally intensive and often lack...

FreeBSD Security Advisory - FreeBSD-SA-26:22.libcasper

FreeBSD Security Advisory - libcasper3 communicates with helper processes via UNIX domain sockets, and uses the select2 system call to wait for data to become available. However, it does not verify that its socket descriptor fits within select2's descriptor set size limit of FDSETSIZE 1024...

Joern 4.0.540

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...

Edupage Information Disclosure

Both authenticated and publicly accessible anonymous guest accounts on Edupage portal allow an attacker to capture the complete list of user IDs, names students, parents, and teachers, and the associated banking details IBAN codes...

Apple Security Advisory 05-11-2026-3

Apple Security Advisory 05-11-2026-3 - iPadOS 17.7.11 addresses a failed deletion issue...

Flawfinder 2.0.20

Flawfinder searches through source code for potential security flaws, listing potential security flaws sorted by risk, with the most potentially dangerous flaws shown first. This risk level depends not only on the function, but on the values of the parameters of the function...

Botan C++ Crypto Algorithms Library 3.12.0

Botan is a C++ library of cryptographic algorithms, including AES, DES, SHA-1, RSA, DSA, Diffie-Hellman, and many others. It also supports X.509 certificates and CRLs, and PKCS 10 certificate requests, and has a high level filter/pipe message processing system. The library is easily portable to...

Integration of AI in Cybersecurity: Current Trends with a Focused Look at Intrusion Detection Applications

Artificial Intelligence AI is widely adopted today for its ability to detect patterns, automate tasks, and reduce time and cost across various applications. Its integration into Cybersecurity has garnered significant attention, particularly in areas such as intrusion detection, malware analysis,...

Iterative Audit Convergence in LLM-Managed Multi-Agent Systems: A Case Study in Prompt Engineering Quality Assurance

Prompt specifications for multi-agent large language model LLM systems carry data contracts and integration logic across many interdependent files but are rarely subjected to structured-inspection rigor. This paper reports a single-system empirical case study of iterative, agent-driven auditing...

SkillSafetyBench: Evaluating Agent Safety under Skill-Facing Attack Surfaces

Reusable skills are becoming a common interface for extending large language model agents, packaging procedural guidance with access to files, tools, memory, and execution environments. However, this modularity introduces attack surfaces that are largely missed by existing safety evaluations: eve...

Secure (Multiple) Key-Cast over Networks: Multiple Eavesdropping Nodes

We study the secure multiple key-cast problem over noiseless networks under node-based eavesdroppers, where one or more source nodes participate in the generation of distinct secret keys to be shared among designated terminal subsets, while an eavesdropper observing up to $\ell$ nodes, including...

Behavioral Integrity Verification for AI Agent Skills

Agent skills extend LLM agents with privileged third-party capabilities such as filesystem access, credentials, network calls, and shell execution. Existing safety work catches malicious prompts and risky runtime actions, but the skill artifact itself goes unverified. We formalize this as the...

Five Attacks on X402 Agentic Payment Protocol

The x402 protocol revives the HTTP 402 Payment Required status code to enable web-native micropayments across APIs, content, and agents. It combines synchronous HTTP authorization with asynchronous blockchain settlement and introduces a cross-layer attack surface absent from conventional web and...

Windows Registry Privilege Escalation Scanner / Audit Tool

This PowerShell script is a defensive security auditing tool designed to inspect Windows registry areas commonly associated with privilege escalation EoP techniques and system misconfigurations...

GhostLock: SMB Deny-Share Handles As a Zero-Privilege Availability Weapon

GhostLock demonstrates that a low-privileged Windows domain user with standard read access to an SMB share can produce ransomware-equivalent organizational availability impact with zero writes, zero encryption, and zero signals in every behavioral defense the modern enterprise security stack...

A Systematic Security Testing Approach for InterUSS-Based Environments

Unmanned Traffic Management UTM federated ecosystems, such as InterUSS, enable secure coordination among UAS Service Suppliers USSs. However, they bring up some security challenges at the infrastructure level that haven't been fully explored. This paper presents a security testing approach for...

LangChain Core 1.3.2 / 0.3.84 Tracer Deserialization / Credential Disclosure

LangChain Core has a tracer deserialization vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated remote credential exfiltration in affected deployments. Versions 1.3.2 and 0.3.84 are affected...

PRISM: Generation-Time Detection and Mitigation of Secret Leakage in Multi-Agent LLM Pipelines

Multi-agent LLM systems introduce a security risk in which sensitive information accessed by one agent can propagate through shared context and reappear in downstream outputs, even without explicit adversarial intent. We formalise this phenomenon as propagation amplification, where leakage risk...

LITMUS: Benchmarking Behavioral Jailbreaks of LLM Agents in Real OS Environments

The rapid proliferation of LLM-based autonomous agents in real operating system environments introduces a new category of safety risk beyond content safety: behavior jailbreak, where an adversary induces an agent to execute dangerous OS-level operations with irreversible consequences. Existing...