Analyzing the Mirai IoT Botnet and Its Recent Variants: Satori, Mukashi, Moobot, and Sonic

Mirai is undoubtedly one of the most significant Internet of Things IoT botnet attacks in history. In terms of its detrimental effects, seamless spread, and low detection rate, it surpassed its predecessors. Its developers released the source code, which triggered the development of several...

Concrete Security Bounds for Simulation-Based Proofs of Multi-Party Computation Protocols

The concrete security paradigm aims to give precise bounds on the probability that an adversary can subvert a cryptographic mechanism. This is in contrast to asymptotic security, where the probability of subversion may be eventually small, but large enough in practice to be insecure. Fully...

Secure Coding for Web Applications: Frameworks, Challenges, and the Role of LLMs

Secure coding is a critical yet often overlooked practice in software development. Despite extensive awareness efforts, real-world adoption remains inconsistent due to organizational, educational, and technical barriers. This paper provides a comprehensive review of secure coding practices across...

Can We End the Cat-And-Mouse Game? Simulating Self-Evolving Phishing Attacks with LLMs and Genetic Algorithms

Anticipating emerging attack methodologies is crucial for proactive cybersecurity. Recent advances in Large Language Models LLMs have enabled the automated generation of phishing messages and accelerated research into potential attack techniques. However, predicting future threats remains...

Privacy-Preserving Anonymization of System and Network Event Logs Using Salt-Based Hashing and Temporal Noise

System and network event logs are essential for security analytics, threat detection, and operational monitoring. However, these logs often contain Personally Identifiable Information PII, raising significant privacy concerns when shared or analyzed. A key challenge in log anonymization is...

Two Views, One Truth: Spectral and Self-Supervised Features Fusion for Robust Speech Deepfake Detection

Recent advances in synthetic speech have made audio deepfakes increasingly realistic, posing significant security risks. Existing detection methods that rely on a single modality, either raw waveform embeddings or spectral based features, are vulnerable to non spoof disturbances and often overfit...

Scout: Leveraging Large Language Models for Rapid Digital Evidence Discovery

Recent technological advancements and the prevalence of technology in day to day activities have caused a major increase in the likelihood of the involvement of digital evidence in more and more legal investigations. Consumer-grade hardware is growing more powerful, with expanding memory and...

CASCADE: LLM-Powered JavaScript Deobfuscator at Google

Software obfuscation, particularly prevalent in JavaScript, hinders code comprehension and analysis, posing significant challenges to software testing, static analysis, and malware detection. This paper introduces CASCADE, a novel hybrid approach that integrates the advanced coding capabilities o...

Development of a Standardized Testing Environment for QRNGs Based on Semiconductor Laser Phase Noise

Quantum random number generators QRNGs based on semiconductor laser phase noise are an inexpensive and efficient resource for true random numbers. Commercially available technology allows for designing QRNG setups tailored to specific use cases. However, it is important to constantly monitor...

Leveraging Trustworthy AI for Automotive Security in Multi-Domain Operations: Towards a Responsive Human-AI Multi-Domain Task Force for Cyber Social Security

Multi-Domain Operations MDOs emphasize cross-domain defense against complex and synergistic threats, with civilian infrastructures like smart cities and Connected Autonomous Vehicles CAVs emerging as primary targets. As dual-use assets, CAVs are vulnerable to Multi-Surface Threats MSTs,...

SharePoint CVE-2025-53770 Scanner

This is a scanner for the SharePoint unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability, assigned CVE number CVE-2025-53770. The code for this was written by reverse-engineering a payload seen in the wild...

SynthCTI: LLM-Driven Synthetic CTI Generation to Enhance MITRE Technique Mapping

Cyber Threat Intelligence CTI mining involves extracting structured insights from unstructured threat data, enabling organizations to understand and respond to evolving adversarial behavior. A key task in CTI mining is mapping threat descriptions to MITRE ATT&CK techniques. However, this process...

SVAgent: AI Agent for Hardware Security Verification Assertion

Verification using SystemVerilog assertions SVA is one of the most popular methods for detecting circuit design vulnerabilities. However, with the globalization of integrated circuit design and the continuous upgrading of security requirements, the SVA development model has exposed major...

Quantum Skyshield: Quantum Key Distribution and Post-Quantum Authentication for Low-Altitude Wireless Networks in Adverse Skies

Recently, low-altitude wireless networks LAWNs have emerged as a critical backbone for supporting the low-altitude economy, particularly with the densification of unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs and high-altitude platforms HAPs. To meet growing data demands, some LAWN deployments incorporate...

LRCTI: a Large Language Model-Based Framework for Multi-Step Evidence Retrieval and Reasoning in Cyber Threat Intelligence Credibility Verification

Verifying the credibility of Cyber Threat Intelligence CTI is essential for reliable cybersecurity defense. However, traditional approaches typically treat this task as a static classification problem, relying on handcrafted features or isolated deep learning models. These methods often lack the...

A Review of Privacy Metrics for Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Data Generation

Privacy Preserving Synthetic Data Generation PP-SDG has emerged to produce synthetic datasets from personal data while maintaining privacy and utility. Differential privacy DP is the property of a PP-SDG mechanism that establishes how protected individuals are when sharing their sensitive data. I...

Multi-Trigger Poisoning Amplifies Backdoor Vulnerabilities in LLMs

Recent studies have shown that Large Language Models LLMs are vulnerable to data poisoning attacks, where malicious training examples embed hidden behaviours triggered by specific input patterns. However, most existing works assume a phrase and focus on the attack's effectiveness, offering limite...

MalCodeAI: Autonomous Vulnerability Detection and Remediation Via Language Agnostic Code Reasoning

The growing complexity of cyber threats and the limitations of traditional vulnerability detection tools necessitate novel approaches for securing software systems. We introduce MalCodeAI, a language-agnostic, multi-stage AI pipeline for autonomous code security analysis and remediation. MalCodeA...

Crypto-Assisted Graph Degree Sequence Release under Local Differential Privacy

Whitepaper called Crypto-Assisted Graph Degree Sequence Release Under Local Differential Privacy...

Game Theory Meets LLM and Agentic AI: Reimagining Cybersecurity for the Age of Intelligent Threats

Protecting cyberspace requires not only advanced tools but also a shift in how we reason about threats, trust, and autonomy. Traditional cybersecurity methods rely on manual responses and brittle heuristics. To build proactive and intelligent defense systems, we need integrated theoretical...

When Developer Aid Becomes Security Debt: a Systematic Analysis of Insecure Behaviors in LLM Coding Agents

LLM-based coding agents are rapidly being deployed in software development, yet their security implications remain poorly understood. These agents, while capable of accelerating software development, may inadvertently introduce insecure practices. We conducted the first systematic security...

Favicon Trojans: Executable Steganography Via Ico Alpha Channel Exploitation

This paper presents a novel method of executable steganography using the alpha transparency layer of ICO image files to embed and deliver self-decompressing JavaScript payloads within web browsers. By targeting the least significant bit LSB of non-transparent alpha layer image values, the propose...

KeyDroid: a Large-Scale Analysis of Secure Key Storage in Android Apps

Most contemporary mobile devices offer hardware-backed storage for cryptographic keys, user data, and other sensitive credentials. Such hardware protects credentials from extraction by an adversary who has compromised the main operating system, such as a malicious third-party app. Since 2011,...

Towards Privacy-Preserving and Personalized Smart Homes Via Tailored Small Language Models

Large Language Models LLMs have showcased remarkable generalizability in language comprehension and hold significant potential to revolutionize human-computer interaction in smart homes. Existing LLM-based smart home assistants typically transmit user commands, along with user profiles and home...

GPUHammer: Rowhammer Attacks on GPU Memories Are Practical

Rowhammer is a read disturbance vulnerability in modern DRAM that causes bit-flips, compromising security and reliability. While extensively studied on Intel and AMD CPUs with DDR and LPDDR memories, its impact on GPUs using GDDR memories, critical for emerging machine learning applications,...

RAG Safety: Exploring Knowledge Poisoning Attacks to Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Retrieval-Augmented Generation RAG enhances large language models LLMs by retrieving external data to mitigate hallucinations and outdated knowledge issues. Benefiting from the strong ability in facilitating diverse data sources and supporting faithful reasoning, knowledge graphs KGs have been...

Shuffling for Semantic Secrecy

Deep learning draws heavily on the latest progress in semantic communications. The present paper aims to examine the security aspect of this cutting-edge technique from a novel shuffling perspective. Our goal is to improve upon the conventional secure coding scheme to strike a desirable tradeoff...

Suricata IDPE 7.0.11

Suricata is a network intrusion detection and prevention engine developed by the Open Information Security Foundation and its supporting vendors. The engine is multi-threaded and has native IPv6 support. It's capable of loading existing Snort rules and signatures and supports the Barnyard and...

Model Inversion Attacks on Llama 3: Extracting PII from Large Language Models

Large language models LLMs have transformed natural language processing, but their ability to memorize training data poses significant privacy risks. This paper investigates model inversion attacks on the Llama 3.2 model, a multilingual LLM developed by Meta. By querying the model with carefully...

Adaptive Malware Detection Using Sequential Feature Selection: a Dueling Double Deep Q-Network (D3QN) Framework for Intelligent Classification

Traditional malware detection methods exhibit computational inefficiency due to exhaustive feature extraction requirements, creating accuracy-efficiency trade-offs that limit real-time deployment. We formulate malware classification as a Markov Decision Process with episodic feature acquisition a...

Rethinking and Exploring String-Based Malware Family Classification in the Era of LLMs and RAG

Malware Family Classification MFC aims to identify the fine-grained family e.g., GuLoader or BitRAT to which a potential malware sample belongs, in contrast to malware detection or sample classification that predicts only an Yes/No. Accurate family identification can greatly facilitate automated...

Securing Mixed Rust with Hardware Capabilities

The Rust programming language enforces three basic Rust principles, namely ownership, borrowing, and AXM Aliasing Xor Mutability to prevent security bugs such as memory safety violations and data races. However, Rust projects often have mixed code, i.e., code that also uses unsafe Rust, FFI Forei...

Holographic Projection and Cyber Attack Surface: a Physical Analogy for Digital Security

This article presents an in-depth exploration of the analogy between the Holographic Principle in theoretical physics and cyber attack surfaces in digital security. Building on concepts such as black hole entropy and AdS/CFT duality, it highlights how complex infrastructures project their...

Wing FTP Remote Code Execution

Wing FTP versions prior to 7.4.4 proof of concept remote code execution exploit...

OpenSSL Toolkit 3.2.5

OpenSSL is a robust, fully featured Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security protocols with full-strength cryptography world-wide. This is the 3.2 release supported until 23rd November 2025...

American Fuzzy Lop plus plus 4.33c

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...

Vite Arbitrary File Read

Vite suffers from an arbitrary file read vulnerability. Versions prior to 6.2.3, 6.1.2, 6.0.12, 5.4.15, and 4.5.10 are affected...

AppleAVD AV1_Syntax::f Out-Of-Bounds Read

There is an issue in AppleAVD kernel extension with decoding AV1 video files that could potentially be used to read out-of bound data or potentially cause a kernel crash when rendering a malformed video file. The issue was observed on macOS Sonoma 14.5...

Can One Safety Loop Guard Them All? Agentic Guard Rails for Federated Computing

We propose Guardian-FC, a novel two-layer framework for privacy preserving federated computing that unifies safety enforcement across diverse privacy preserving mechanisms, including cryptographic back-ends like fully homomorphic encryption FHE and multiparty computation MPC, as well as statistic...

Decompiling Smart Contracts with a Large Language Model

The widespread lack of broad source code verification on blockchain explorers such as Etherscan, where despite 78,047,845 smart contracts deployed on Ethereum as of May 26, 2025, a mere 767,520 1% are open source, presents a severe impediment to blockchain security. This opacity necessitates the...

Deep CNN Face Matchers Inherently Support Revocable Biometric Templates

One common critique of biometric authentication is that if an individual's biometric is compromised, then the individual has no recourse. The concept of revocable biometrics was developed to address this concern. A biometric scheme is revocable if an individual can have their current enrollment i...

SmartHome-Bench: a Comprehensive Benchmark for Video Anomaly Detection in Smart Homes Using Multi-Modal Large Language Models

Video anomaly detection VAD is essential for enhancing safety and security by identifying unusual events across different environments. Existing VAD benchmarks, however, are primarily designed for general-purpose scenarios, neglecting the specific characteristics of smart home applications. To...

InfoFlood: Jailbreaking Large Language Models with Information Overload

Large Language Models LLMs have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various domains. However, their potential to generate harmful responses has raised significant societal and regulatory concerns, especially when manipulated by adversarial techniques known as "jailbreak" attacks. Existing...

Dynamic Temporal Positional Encodings for Early Intrusion Detection in IoT

The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things IoT has introduced significant security challenges, necessitating efficient and adaptive Intrusion Detection Systems IDS. Traditional IDS models often overlook the temporal characteristics of network traffic, limiting their effectiveness in early thre...

An Efficient Hardware Implementation of Elliptic Curve Point Multiplication over $GF(2^M)$ on FPGA

Elliptic Curve Cryptography ECC is widely accepted for ensuring secure data exchange between resource-limited IoT devices. The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST recommended implementation, such as B-163, is particularly well-suited for Internet of Things IoT applications. Here,...

NAP-Tuning: Neural Augmented Prompt Tuning for Adversarially Robust Vision-Language Models

Vision-Language Models VLMs such as CLIP have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in understanding relationships between visual and textual data through joint embedding spaces. Despite their effectiveness, these models remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks, particularly in the image modality,...

Real-Time Agile Software Management for Edge and Fog Computing Based Smart City Infrastructure

The evolution of smart cities demands scalable, secure, and energy-efficient architectures for real-time data processing. With the number of IoT devices expected to exceed 40 billion by 2030, traditional cloud-based systems are increasingly constrained by bandwidth, latency, and energy limitation...

Watermarking Quantum Neural Networks Based on Sample Grouped and Paired Training

Quantum neural networks QNNs leverage quantum computing to create powerful and efficient artificial intelligence models capable of solving complex problems significantly faster than traditional computers. With the fast development of quantum hardware technology, such as superconducting qubits,...

Towards Reliable Forgetting: a Survey on Machine Unlearning Verification, Challenges, and Future Directions

With growing demands for privacy protection, security, and legal compliance e.g., GDPR, machine unlearning has emerged as a critical technique for ensuring the controllability and regulatory alignment of machine learning models. However, a fundamental challenge in this field lies in effectively...

The Trip to ZigBee Backscatter across a Decade, a Systematic Review

The field of backscatter communication has undergone a profound transformation, evolving from a niche technology for radio-frequency identification RFID into a sophisticated paradigm poised to enable a truly battery-free Internet of Things IoT. This evolution is built upon a deepening understandi...