A Systematic Study on the Design of Odd-Sized Highly Nonlinear Boolean Functions Via Evolutionary Algorithms

This paper focuses on the problem of evolving Boolean functions of odd sizes with high nonlinearity, a property of cryptographic relevance. Despite its simple formulation, this problem turns out to be remarkably difficult. We perform a systematic evaluation by considering three solution encodings...

AiXamine: Simplified LLM Safety and Security

Evaluating Large Language Models LLMs for safety and security remains a complex task, often requiring users to navigate a fragmented landscape of ad hoc benchmarks, datasets, metrics, and reporting formats. To address this challenge, we present aiXamine, a comprehensive black-box evaluation...

TrojanDam: Detection-Free Backdoor Defense in Federated Learning through Proactive Model Robustification Utilizing OOD Data

Federated learning FL systems allow decentralized data-owning clients to jointly train a global model through uploading their locally trained updates to a centralized server. The property of decentralization enables adversaries to craft carefully designed backdoor updates to make the global model...

RRC Signaling Storm Detection in O-RAN

The Open Radio Access Network O-RAN marks a significant shift in the mobile network industry. By transforming a traditionally vertically integrated architecture into an open, data-driven one, O-RAN promises to enhance operational flexibility and drive innovation. In this paper, we harness O-RAN's...

EFFACT: a Highly Efficient Full-Stack FHE Acceleration Platform

Fully Homomorphic Encryption FHE is a set of powerful cryptographic schemes that allows computation to be performed directly on encrypted data with an unlimited depth. Despite FHE's promising in privacy-preserving computing, yet in most FHE schemes, ciphertext generally blows up thousands of time...

BadApex: Backdoor Attack Based on Adaptive Optimization Mechanism of Black-Box Large Language Models

Previous insertion-based and paraphrase-based backdoors have achieved great success in attack efficacy, but they ignore the text quality and semantic consistency between poisoned and clean texts. Although recent studies introduce LLMs to generate poisoned texts and improve the stealthiness,...

Omnissa Horizon Client for Windows Privilege Escalation

A local privilege escalation vulnerability was privately reported in Omnissa Horizon Client for Windows. Updates are available to remediate this vulnerability in impacted versions of the client. The fixed version is 2503...

Adversary-Augmented Simulation for Fairness Evaluation and Defense in Hyperledger Fabric

This paper presents an adversary model and a simulation framework specifically tailored for analyzing attacks on distributed systems composed of multiple distributed protocols, with a focus on assessing the security of blockchain networks. Our model classifies and constrains adversarial actions...

The Evolution of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) from Concept to Implementation

Zero Trust Architecture ZTA is one of the paradigm changes in cybersecurity, from the traditional perimeter-based model to perimeterless. This article studies the core concepts of ZTA, its beginning, a few use cases and future trends. Emphasising the always verify and least privilege access, some...

InjectLab: a Tactical Framework for Adversarial Threat Modeling against Large Language Models

Large Language Models LLMs are changing the way people interact with technology. Tools like ChatGPT and Claude AI are now common in business, research, and everyday life. But with that growth comes new risks, especially prompt-based attacks that exploit how these models process language. InjectLa...

Topological Analysis of Mixer Activities in the Bitcoin Network

Cryptocurrency users increasingly rely on obfuscation techniques such as mixers, swappers, and decentralised or no-KYC exchanges to protect their anonymity. However, at the same time, these services are exploited by criminals to conceal and launder illicit funds. Among obfuscation services, mixer...

How to Enhance Downstream Adversarial Robustness (Almost) without Touching the Pre-Trained Foundation Model?

With the rise of powerful foundation models, a pre-training-fine-tuning paradigm becomes increasingly popular these days: A foundation model is pre-trained using a huge amount of data from various sources, and then the downstream users only need to fine-tune and adapt it to specific downstream...

Investigating Cybersecurity Incidents Using Large Language Models in Latest-Generation Wireless Networks

The purpose of research: Detection of cybersecurity incidents and analysis of decision support and assessment of the effectiveness of measures to counter information security threats based on modern generative models. The methods of research: Emulation of signal propagation data in MIMO systems,...

WordPress Simple Dashboard 2.0 Privilege Escalation

WordPress Simple Dashboard plugin versions 2.0 and below suffer from an unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability...

WordPress Portfolleo 1.2 Shell Upload

WordPress Portfolleo plugin versions 1.2 and below suffer from a remote shell upload vulnerability...

GNUnet P2P Framework 0.24.0

GNUnet is a peer-to-peer framework with focus on providing security. All peer-to-peer messages in the network are confidential and authenticated. The framework provides a transport abstraction layer and can currently encapsulate the network traffic in UDP IPv4 and IPv6, TCP IPv4 and IPv6, HTTP, o...

Linux FUSE Use-After-Free

FUSE in Linux allows use-after reads of write buffers, allowing theft of partial /etc/shadow hashes...

Linux FUSE Uninitialized Memory Read

FUSE on Linux has an issue where a page is marked uptodate while actually containing uninitialized data beyond EOF, so uninitialized memory can be read via mmap on systems without init-on-alloc...

Apache Tomcat Remote Code Execution

Apache Tomcat proof of concept remote code execution exploit that affects versions 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.2, 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.34, and 9.0.0.M1 through 9.0.98...

JSONPath-plus Remote Code Execution

JSONpath-plus versions prior to 10.3.0 are vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability due to improper input sanitization. This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-21534...

Botan C++ Crypto Algorithms Library 3.7.1

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...

SENTINEL: A Multi-Pathway Architecture for Detecting Living-Off-The-Land APT Attacks on Windows Command Lines

Living-Off-the-Land LOTL is the dominant evasion technique of Advanced Persistent Threat APT actors, exploiting legitimate Windows utilities to conduct malicious operations without deploying custom malware and enabling state-sponsored campaigns to maintain persistent access within military and...

A Feature-Rich Embedded NIDS with EBPF/XDP: Detector and Architecture Trade-Offs

Distributed Denial-of-Service DDoS attacks remain a serious threat to transport networks, with recent attack volumes exceeding 30 Tbps, and the telecommunications industry being the main target. Recent work has yet to study the impact of the hosting software architecture on network monitoring...

Access Control As Verified Parse Constraints

Commercial security gateways repeatedly ship implementation bugs in the code path between the network and the policy decision: hand-written enforcement logic that diverges from the policy author's intent, and ad-hoc request parsers at the network boundary that introduce memory-safety flaws of the...

Function Name Is All You Need to Detect Blockchain Application Attacks

Blockchain application attacks, targeting business logic bugs in decentralized applications dApps, have been an increasing concern to their developers and users, causing significant financial loss. Existing attack detectors either rely on handcrafted rules for detection, or need difficult-to-obta...

Hearing the Whispers: Black-Box Membership Inference Attacks on Finetuned TTS Models

Text-to-Speech TTS foundation models are increasingly fine-tuned on private datasets to synthesize highly personalized voices, introducing severe privacy risks by exposing both biometric identities and sensitive speech content. Existing black-box membership inference attacks MIAs follow a two-sta...

Nmap 7.99 Memory Exhaustion

Nmap version 7.99 and earlier contain a loop with an unreachable exit condition in the Packet:parseoptions method of nselib/packet.lua. A remote host that is the target of a scan can exhaust the memory of the scanning Nmap process and terminate it by replying with a packet that carries a...

Security Games on Series-Parallel Attack Graphs with Adaptive Attackers

We study security games on attack graphs, where an adaptive attacker seeks to reach a target by sequentially attempting stochastic controls along the current attack frontier, while a defender allocates limited resources across controls to delay compromise. The attacker may choose among...

The Claws in Plain Sight: Unauthorized Context Disclosure through LLM Agent Tool Calls

LLM agents routinely construct tool-call arguments from user profiles, conversation history, retrieved documents, and prior tool results. However, legitimate access to contextual information does not imply authorization to transmit that information for every purpose or destination. We present Cla...

Structural Inference in Undocumented Mobile Databases: A Reproducible Benchmark for Evaluating Agentic Reasoning in Digital Forensics

Agentic large language models are increasingly used in digital forensic analysis, yet their ability to infer relational structure inside undocumented mobile application databases remains poorly understood. In forensic contexts, structurally incorrect inferences can yield results that appear...

ldis Lua Disassembler 20260818

This is ldis, a disassembler for lua binary files. It works for binaries compiled by the 5.4 and 5.5 branches of lua, discovering the compiler used to compile into the opcodes, and delivers the assembly opcodes and data in an easy to read form. It is similar to the output produced by luac -l -l,...

SUSE Security Advisory - SUSE-SU-2026:3634-1

SUSE Security Advisory - This update for rsync fixes the following issues...

Red Hat Security Advisory 2026-54599-03

Red Hat Security Advisory 2026-54599-03 - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.21.29 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements. Issues addressed include bypass, information leakage, privilege escalation, and traversal vulnerabilities...

Red Hat Security Advisory 2026-33521-03

Red Hat Security Advisory 2026-33521-03 - An update for Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs is now available...

Red Hat Security Advisory 2026-54581-03

Red Hat Security Advisory 2026-54581-03 - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.20.34 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements. Issues addressed include buffer overflow, bypass, information leakage, privilege escalation, and traversa...

Red Hat Security Advisory 2026-54769-03

Red Hat Security Advisory 2026-54769-03 - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.22.10 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements. Issues addressed include bypass, code execution, denial of service, double free, out of bounds write,...

Gitea 1.27.0 diffpatch Remote Code Execution

Gitea version 1.27.0 and below contains a remote code execution vulnerability in the diffpatch API. An authenticated attacker with repository write access can submit the same specially crafted patch multiple times to trigger Git's three-way merge fallback and cause an executable post-index-change...

AI across the Intrusion Lifecycle

Gambit has investigated three unrelated threat actors that illustrate how attackers are incorporating AI into real-world intrusions and the roles AI systems now play during offensive operations...

A Calibrated and Explainable Bimodal Machine Learning Framework for Hybrid Intrusion Detection

Modern communication systems face critical gaps in detecting unknown attacks and rare threat classes due to extreme data imbalance and black-box decision logic. We propose a bimodal framework of calibrated and explainable machine learning ML for network security, unifying known-class precision wi...

DSPrompt: Dynamic Soft Prompt Defense against M-RAG Corruption

Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation M-RAG is increasingly vulnerable to adversarial attacks where malicious data are crafted to produce embeddings that align with benign entries in the vector space, deceiving retrieval and inducing harmful outputs. Existing defenses primarily operate at que...

openSUSE Security Advisory - openSUSE-SU-2026:11524-1

openSUSE Security Advisory - These are all security issues fixed in the python313-pysaml2-7.5.4-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed...

Beyond Single-Vulnerability Evaluation: Closing the Engineering Decision Gap between C Retrofits and Native Safety

While decades of research have produced numerous retrofitted memory-safety protections for C, these mechanisms are almost exclusively evaluated in isolation, targeting specific vulnerability classes. This siloed evaluation paradigm leaves practitioners without a clear understanding of the...

YAVIN: A Unified Architecture for Secure Edge Processing in Memory

Secure, private multi-tenant execution spanning processors, memory, and accelerators remains one of the most significant challenges in modern edge computing systems. Simultaneously, processing-in-memory PIM has emerged as an effective approach for reducing the Von Neumann bottleneck by moving...

Beyond Source: An Empirical Study of Python Bytecode Security Risks

Python package security is largely source-centric, yet Python runtimes can execute bytecode directly through .pyc files, compiled-only modules, and marshalled code objects, creating an inspection-execution gap. We present an empirical study of Python bytecode as a security artifact. We measure...

Vaulted Passkeys: A Device-Bound Proposal for Authenticated Credential Export and Import

Hardware authenticators deliberately resist private-key extraction, yet replacement, disaster recovery, and controlled migration create a legitimate need for portability. Existing guidance for device-bound credentials commonly reduces recovery risk by registering an additional authenticator befor...

WordPress 7.0.2 Cross Site Scripting Checker

A vulnerability checker for a pre-authentication reflected cross site scripting vulnerability in WordPress version 7.0.2. The issue occurs in username handling on failed login attempts and can potentially be chained with administrator interaction and additional functionality to achieve code...

Plaintext Recovery against Post-Filtering Access Control

Fine-grained access control FGAC mechanisms such as row-level security RLS and document-level security DLS are widely deployed in databases to restrict access to data stored in physical indexing structures shared by multiple users e.g., in multi-tenant databases, or in the implementation of...

Apple Security Advisory 07-27-2026-1

Apple Security Advisory 07-27-2026-1 - iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6 addresses buffer overflow, bypass, code execution, heap corruption, information leakage, integer overflow, out of bounds access, out of bounds read, out of bounds write, spoofing, and use-after-free vulnerabilities...

Paged Out! Magazine Issue 1

Paged Out! magazine issue 1 includes sections related to algorithms, assembly, electronics, file formats, game development, OS internals, phreaking, programming, radio, retro stuff, reverse engineering, security / hacking, and system administration...

RFE Standards

Minimum Viable Standard MVS & Request for Evidence RFE Framework - Decompose bloated, legacy RFCs X.509/ASN.1 and RFC 3986 URIs into usage-driven, empirical standards. Coverage is dictated by observable real-world usage data plus an explicit Criticality Override Registry - not design-by-committee...