Fortress and Gatekeeper: Theorizing Transitive Trust in Third-Party Cybersecurity Risk Governance

Third-party vendors, such as analytics platforms, cloud services, identity providers, and software suppliers, are increasingly embedded in digital service delivery. While these arrangements enable scale and specialization, they also move customer data and security-relevant practices into...

Tool Use Enables Undetectable Steganography in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

Increasingly autonomous agentic AI systems pose novel multi-agent risks, such as secret collusion via covert communication channels. The natural defence to these collusion attempts is to monitor plain-text communication, but the efficacy of monitors has been called into doubt by increasingly...

DroidBreaker: Practical and Functional Problem-Space Attacks on Machine-Learning Android Malware Detectors

Adversarial APKs are Android applications modified in the problem space to evade machine-learning malware detectors. In this work, we first show that, despite claims, existing problem-space attacks remain largely impractical. Most techniques leverage software transplantation to inject entire beni...

Burnyard: Future of Malware Analysis

Malware analysis is a critical aspect of modern cybersecurity. The prevailing industry practice, sandboxing, involves executing suspicious binaries within isolated virtual machines in large-scale data centers. However, this approach can unintentionally expose samples to public platforms such as...

TOTOLink N300RH Endpoint Scanner

This Metasploit auxiliary module is a safe scanner designed to detect TOTOLINK N300RH devices by identifying web interface fingerprints. It checks for indicators like TOTOLINK or N300RH in HTTP responses and verifies whether the setWiFiBasicConfig CGI endpoint is accessible...

VS Code Extension Persistence Installer

This Python3 script acts as a persistence mechanism that creates and installs a custom VS Code extension designed to execute a specified operating system command whenever VS Code starts. The script generates a new extension, configures it to activate automatically, registers it with VS Code, and...

American Fuzzy Lop plus plus 5.01c

Google's American Fuzzy Lop is a brute-force fuzzer coupled with an exceedingly simple but rock-solid instrumentation-guided genetic algorithm. afl++ is a superior fork to Google's afl. It has more speed, more and better mutations, more and better instrumentation, custom module support, etc...

Unquoted Service Path Detection and Remediation Tool for Windows

This PowerShell script is a comprehensive security auditing tool designed to detect and fix unquoted service path vulnerabilities in Windows services...

A Data-Driven Security Quantification Framework for IoT-Based Systems

The Internet of Things IoT is integral to modern cyber-physical systems. Quantitative cybersecurity assessment in IoT environments remains challenging due to heterogeneous system architectures, evolving threat landscapes, and the limited availability of reliable probabilistic exploitability data...

ngxray Vulnerability Scanner

ngxray is a static vulnerability scanner for nginx configurations. It parses configs with nginx's own tokenizer and matches against declarative JSON rules to detect known CVEs in rewrite/script engine directive patterns...

Side-Channel Attacks Bypass Protection in 3D Printers

Active Motor Noise Cancellation AMNC ships in commercial fused deposition modeling FDM 3D printers as a hardware countermeasure against acoustic side-channel attacks that target intellectual property IP. We present the first empirical evaluation of a deployed AMNC countermeasure, using a public...

The Emergence of Autonomous Penetration Capabilities in Large Language Model-Powered AI Systems

Nowadays, the autonomous execution of cyberattacks capable of causing substantial real-world harm is widely regarded as one of the critical red lines that frontier AI systems must not cross. Within this broader red-line scenario, autonomous penetration represents a core enabling capability and...

A Robust Framework for Sybil Attack Detection in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Sybil attacks create an illusion of traffic congestion by utilizing fake identities, which undermines the reliable and safe operation of vehicular ad hoc networks VANETs. Existing detection mechanisms struggle to effectively handle Sybil attacks as they are i susceptible to high false positive...

ACPM Concurrent Transfer Stress Tester for Channel Synchronization Validation

This C program is a multi-threaded concurrency reproducer intended to stress-test concurrent invocations of acpmdoxfer against the same ACPM channel in order to observe synchronization behavior, race conditions, error handling, and driver stability under contention...

ACPM Multithreaded Minimal Transfer Stress Tester

This C program is a lightweight multi-threaded stress test designed to evaluate concurrent behavior of the acpmdoxfer interface under repeated small-size transfer operations across multiple threads sharing the same ACPM handle...

FreeBSD Security Advisory - FreeBSD-SA-26:28.capsicum

FreeBSD Security Advisory - sigqueue2 was marked as permitted in capability mode with the introduction of Capsicum in 2011, but the implementation of kernsigqueue did not include a capability mode check restricting signal delivery to the calling process's own PID...

FreeBSD Security Advisory - FreeBSD-SA-26:27.sound

FreeBSD Security Advisory - The sound4 driver contained two memory-safety errors in its mmap2 support. First, dspmmapsingle validated the requested mapping by checking the sum of the user-supplied offset and length against the buffer size. This addition could overflow, so that a large offset and...

FreeBSD Security Advisory - FreeBSD-SA-26:29.ip6_multicast

FreeBSD Security Advisory - The kernel handler for IPV6MSFILTER dropped a serializing lock in order to copy the source-filter list from userspace, then reacquired the lock. During this window another thread could free the multicast filter structure, leaving the handler with a stale pointer to fre...

phpVMS 7.0.5 Security Exposure Scanner

This script is a non-destructive security scanner designed to assess phpVMS installations by performing read-only HTTP requests. It fingerprints targets using known phpVMS-related signatures and checks for the presence and accessibility of common importer and administration endpoints...

FreeBSD Security Advisory - FreeBSD-SA-26:34.vt

FreeBSD Security Advisory - The CONSHISTORY ioctl handler did not adequately validate the requested history size. A large value caused an integer overflow in the buffer size calculation, resulting in a heap allocation smaller than expected. Subsequent initialization of the buffer wrote beyond the...

Secrets Best Not Shared: DNS Privacy Enhancements for the Constrained IoT

Attackers often identify DNS traffic to disrupt or compromise Internet services. While prior work has focused on encrypting queries using DNS over TLS, HTTPS, or QUIC to counter such attacks, we consider IETF protocols designed for resource-constrained IoT devices and empirically analyze the...

Unveiling Privacy Risks in Multi-Modal Large Language Models: Task-Specific Vulnerabilities and Mitigation Challenges

Privacy risks in text-only Large Language Models LLMs are well studied, particularly their tendency to memorize and leak sensitive information. However, Multi-modal Large Language Models MLLMs, which process both text and images, introduce unique privacy challenges that remain underexplored...

State of Agentic AI Security and Governance

An OWASP white paper analyzing the security, governance, and risk management considerations surrounding agentic AI systems, including autonomous decision-making, tool access, prompt injection, data protection, and organizational oversight. This is version 2.01...

Multi-Domain Check Point IKEv2 Mitigation Script for CVE-2026-50751

A Check Point MDS administrative automation script that iterates through all configured management domains and updates Remote Access VPN global properties to enforce IKEv2-only encryption. The script publishes the resulting configuration changes and is intended as a mitigation measure rather than...

FDM: A Framework for Decision-Making to Build ML-Based Malware Detection Systems

Selecting appropriate machine learning ML configurations for malware detection is a complex, multi-criteria problem. Model choice, feature engineering, and update mechanisms must jointly satisfy operational constraints that vary across deployment contexts. This paper proposes the Framework for...

CodeQL 2.25.6

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...

Don't Trust Us: A Privacy-By-Design Android Malware Detection Pipeline

Android malware detection increasingly relies on collecting and processing sensitive user data, including device identifiers, network artifacts, and runtime traces, while privacy is too often treated as a secondary concern. Existing privacy-aware approaches typically enforce privacy after data...

Gate AI: LLM Security Benchmark Evaluation Methodology and Results

Published evaluations of prompt-injection and jailbreak detectors for Large Language Models often suffer from two systematic weaknesses: per-dataset threshold tuning and undisclosed operating points. We describe an evaluation harness that addresses both. The detector under evaluation is scored...

Do You Dare to Try Test-Driven Forensics? Increasing Trust in Desktop Forensics with ADARE

Digital forensic relies on validated tools and established procedures, yet the underlying operating systems, applications, and analysis tools evolve rapidly. This evolution can cause artifact behavior and tool outputs to drift, silently degrading repeatability and confidence in long-lived forensi...

Analyzing Concentration, Temporal Routines and Targeting in Public Ransomware Leak Site Data

Ransomware has grown to become one of the most damaging types of cybercrime, affecting private and public organizations in any sector. While early types of ransomware targeted many victims via automated attacks, ransomware groups have started to specifically target organizations and companies in...

Backchaining Loss of Control Mitigations from Mission-Specific Benchmarks in National Security

Affordances and permissions are promising and timely safety levers for mitigating Loss of Control LoC threats in high-stakes deployment contexts, such as national security. Deployers in defense and intelligence could rely on several approaches to identify which affordances and permissions should ...

DASM: Domain-Aware Sharpness Minimization for Multi-Domain Voice Stream Steganalysis

The growing use of information hiding in network streaming media for covert communication poses a significant security threat, necessitating the development of robust detection technologies. However, existing steganalysis methods for network voice streams mostly rely on data distributions in...

Awakening the Hydra: Stabilizing Multi-Concept Backdoor Injection in Text-To-Image Diffusion Models

Text-to-image diffusion models are increasingly developed through open-source reuse and repeated downstream fine-tuning, where reused checkpoints are difficult to verify and thus more susceptible to hidden backdoor behaviors. In such ecosystems, a single pretrained model may be sequentially adapt...

A No-Defense Defense against Gradient-Based Adversarial Attacks on ML-NIDS: Is Less More?

Gradient-based adversarial attacks subtly manipulate inputs of Machine Learning ML models to induce incorrect predictions. This paper investigates whether careful architectural choices alone can yield an inherently robust Deep Neural Network DNN-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems NIDS,...

Hallucination As Exploit: Evidence-Carrying Multimodal Agents

Multimodal agents use screenshots, documents, and webpages to choose tool calls. When a false visual claim triggers a click, email, extraction, or transfer, hallucination becomes an authorization failure rather than an answer-quality error. We formalize this failure mode as hallucination-to-actio...

Devilray: A Systematic Adversarial Model Revealing Blind Spots in Fake Base Station Detection

Fake Base Station FBS detection has been a critical focus of cellular security research for over two decades. However, significant financial and regulatory barriers to accessing commercial FBS C-FBS devices have limited direct visibility into real-world operations, forcing detection systems to be...

Rosemary 1.1.0

Rosemary is a cross-platform transparent tunneling platform designed for network pivoting. Unlike traditional tools that rely on TUN/TAP interfaces or require per-application proxy configuration like proxychains, Rosemary intercepts traffic at the kernel level...

On the (Non-)Resilience of Encrypted Controllers to Covert Attacks

The security of networked control systems NCS is receiving increasing attention from both cyber-security and system-theoretic perspectives. The former focuses on classical IT security goals such as confidentiality, integrity, and availability of process data, while the latter investigates tailore...

angr 9.2.215

angr is an open-source binary analysis platform for Python. It combines both static and dynamic symbolic "concolic" analysis, providing tools to solve a variety of tasks...

Comment and Control: Hijacking Agentic Workflows Via Context-Grounded Evolution

Automation platforms such as GitHub Actions and n8n are increasingly adopting so-called agentic workflows, which integrate Large Language Model LLM agents for tasks such as code review and data synchronization. While bringing convenience for developers, this integration exposes a new risk: An...

Windows/x86 (XP SP3) (English) calc.exe Shellcode

15 bytes small Windows/x86 XP SP3 English calc.exe shellcode...

Adversarial SQL Injection Generation with LLM-Based Architectures

SQL injection SQLi attacks are still one of the serious attacks ranked in the Open Worldwide Application Security Project OWASP Top 10 threats. Today, with advances in Artificial Intelligence AI, especially in Large Language Models LLMs, an opportunity has been created for automating adversarial...

Strategic Commitments Shape Collective Cybersecurity under AI Inequality

The growing integration of AI into cybersecurity is reshaping the balance between attackers and defenders. When access to advanced AI-enabled defence tools is uneven, resource-limited defenders may be unable to adopt effective protection, creating persistent system vulnerabilities. We study the...

Joern 4.0.536

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...

AI-Driven Security Alert Screening and Alert Fatigue Mitigation in Security Operations Centers: A Comprehensive Survey

Security alert screening is the downstream task of filtering, prioritizing, correlating, and contextualizing alerts for analyst attention in Security Operations Centers. This survey reviews artificial-intelligence-driven alert screening and alert-fatigue mitigation from 2015 to 2026. We synthesiz...

Spying across Chiplets: Side-Channel Attacks in 2.5/3D Integrated Systems

Advanced packaging and chiplet-based integration are increasingly adopted to build complex heterogeneous systems beyond the limits of monolithic scaling. While these architectures offer major benefits in terms of modularity, yield, and performance, they also introduce new physical attack surfaces...

PINSIGHT: A Comprehensive Threat Exploration of Domain-Adaptive Wi-Fi Based PIN Code Inference

Wi-Fi signals can be exploited by adversaries as a sensing side channel to eavesdrop on physical information. By monitoring propagation effects of radio waves within the victim's environment, attackers can remotely infer sensitive information. One particularly concerning example is PIN code...

Evaluating the Reliability of Multiple Large Language Models in Risk Assessment: A CIS Controls Based Approach

Proper implementation of technical and administrative controls reinforces an organization's cybersecurity posture and business resilience, reduces risks, and enhances governance, ultimately elevating business maturity. The dynamics of the technological landscape and emerging threats negatively...

nimrc 1.0.0

nimrm is a native WinRM interactive shell client written in Nim. It's designed to be a compact and fast tool for system administration and authorized security testing. Key features include NTLM and Kerberos authentication, in-memory operations, file transfers, OPSEC awareness, and cross platform...

PIIGuard: Mitigating PII Harvesting under Adversarial Sanitization

Browsing-enabled LLM assistants can fetch webpages and answer contact-seeking queries, creating a practical channel for scraping contact-style personally identifiable information PII from public pages. Many prior defenses are deployed at the model, service, or agent layer rather than at the webpa...