ZkVC: Fast Zero-Knowledge Proof for Private and Verifiable Computing

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Secure Transfer Learning: Training Clean Models against Backdoor in (Both) Pre-Trained Encoders and Downstream Datasets

Transfer learning from pre-trained encoders has become essential in modern machine learning, enabling efficient model adaptation across diverse tasks. However, this combination of pre-training and downstream adaptation creates an expanded attack surface, exposing models to sophisticated backdoor...

A Scalable Framework for Post-Quantum Authentication in Public Key Infrastructures

This work explores the performance and scalability of a hierarchical certificate authority framework with automated certificate issuance employing post-quantum cryptographic PQC signature algorithms. The system is designed for compatibility with both classical and PQC algorithms, promoting...

MULTI-LF: a Unified Continuous Learning Framework for Real-Time DDoS Detection in Multi-Environment Networks

Detecting Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks in Multi-Environment M-En networks presents significant challenges due to diverse malicious traffic patterns and the evolving nature of cyber threats. Existing AI-based detection systems struggle to adapt to new attack strategies and lack...

OpenSSH 10.0p1

OpenSSH is the premier connectivity tool for remote login with the SSH protocol. It encrypts all traffic to eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks. In addition, OpenSSH provides a large suite of secure tunneling capabilities, several authentication methods, and...

WordPress Motors 1.4.64 Arbitrary Plugin Installation

WordPress Motors plugin versions 1.4.64 and below suffer from an arbitrary plugin installation vulnerability...

OpenSCAP Libraries 1.3.12

The openscap project is a set of open source libraries that support the SCAP Security Content Automation Protocol set of standards from NIST. It supports CPE, CCE, CVE, CVSS, OVAL, and XCCDF...

Next.js Middleware Authorization Bypass

Proof of concept exploit that demonstrates an authorization bypass being exploited in Next.js middleware...

Linux ax88179_rx_fixup() Out-Of-Bounds Access

drivers/net/usb/ax88179178a.c contains multiple out-of-bounds accesses in ax88179rxfixup, the function responsible for taking a buffer received over USB and splitting it up into ethernet packets...

How to Create a Scan to Identify Remote Command Execution

This whitepaper covers how to create a scan in Perl to identify remote command execution in web applications. Depending on the context of the environment and architecture, the content of the paper can be applied to APIs in addition to presenting how to correct or avoid RCE problems at the code...

How to Create a Scan to Identify Command Injection

This whitepaper covers how to create a scan in Perl to identify remote code injection in web applications. Depending on the context of the environment and architecture, the content of the paper can be applied to APIs in addition to presenting how to correct or avoid remote code injection problems...

LimeSurvey 5.2.4 Shell Upload

LimeSurvey version 5.2.4 proof of concept exploit that upload a malicious PHP plugin to obtain a reverse shell...

American Fuzzy Lop plus plus 5.03c

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...

AKRASIA: Stealthy Backdoor Attack on Reasoning-Based Code LLMs

We present AKRASIA, a stealthy, inference-time backdoor attack against reasoning-based Code LLMs. AKRASIA aims to achieve a backdoor target e.g., malicious code execution in reasoning LLMs while evading automated defenses and human inspection. To achieve this, AKRASIA probes the victim LLM to...

Cyber-Electromagnetic Anomaly Detection through Time-Series Analysis

Military operations benefit from the coordination between kinetic and non-kinetic domains. In particular, the coordination of cyber operations and electromagnetic warfare has become increasingly relevant for gaining operational advantage. This coordination is also relevant for Cyber Situational...

"Am I Just That Dumb?": Applicability, Action and Verification in Consumer IoT Security Advice

Public campaigns urge people to change default passwords on Internet of Things IoT devices and keep them updated, assuming users can independently determine whether the advice applies. We gave 28 participants in the Netherlands two pieces of government-issued advice reflecting guidance in several...

Automotive HSMs - Architectural Challenges and Security Implications

Automotive electronic control units ECUs increasingly depend on hardware-rooted security to protect software integrity, authenticity, and lifecycle management in the presence of remote and physical threats. Hardware Security Modules HSMs have become a key building block in automotive...

A Meta-Study on Replication Papers in Usable Security and Privacy

The field of usable security and privacy research is a young and expanding field, which is still developing standards for its research, e.g. regarding replications. We used a mixed-method approach, in order to get a better understanding of the current state of replications in the field of usable...

From Noise to Signal: Improving Security Log Anomaly Detection Using LLMs with Endpoint-Specific Logs

Existing approaches to anomalous behaviour log detection, such as Wazuh rely primarily on predefined detection rules, while statistical anomaly detection approaches such as OpenSearch identify deviations from previously observed behavioural patterns. Recent research has investigated LLMs for log...

Zeek 8.0.10

Zeek is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know. While focusing on network security monitoring, Zeek provides a comprehensive platform for more general network traffic analysis as well. Well grounded in more than 15 years of research, Zeek ha...

angr 9.3.3

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...

Wapiti Web Application Vulnerability Scanner 3.3.2

Wapiti is a web application vulnerability scanner. It will scan the web pages of a deployed web application and will fuzz the URL parameters and forms to find common web vulnerabilities. This is the source code release...

CTIFoundry: An Agent-Native Corpus Scaffold for Cyber Threat Intelligence

Cyber threat intelligence CTI is increasingly consumed not by human analysts but by LLM agents that compose multi-step investigations at query time. The harness side of this shift has matured rapidly planning loops, tool protocols, context management, but the corpus side has not: threat reports a...

xspawn macOS launchd Parent Spoofing Client

xspawn is a macOS process execution utility that submits programs directly to launchd through its private XPC bootstrap interface. Rather than executing the requested program itself, xspawn causes launchd to spawn the process through xpcproxy, resulting in Endpoint Security and EDR telemetry...

Red Hat Security Advisory 2026-55855-03

Red Hat Security Advisory 2026-55855-03 - An update for libssh is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. Issues addressed include buffer overflow, bypass, denial of service, information leakage, and use-after-free vulnerabilities...

tcpreplay 4.6.1

tcpreplay is a BSD-style licensed tool to replay saved tcpdump files at arbitrary speeds. It provides a variety of features for replaying traffic for both passive sniffer devices as well as inline devices such as routers, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems. Many NIDSs fare poorly when...

SureForms 2.1.2 Denial of Service

SureForms version 2.1.2 and below contains a denial of service vulnerability in its form submission functionality. A remote attacker can submit a large number of attacker-controlled key-value pairs containing oversized content, resulting in resource exhaustion and temporarily preventing...

Red Hat Security Advisory 2026-56029-03

Red Hat Security Advisory 2026-56029-03 - An update for pipewire is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support. Issues addressed include a code execution vulnerability...

Red Hat Security Advisory 2026-55860-03

Red Hat Security Advisory 2026-55860-03 - An update for haproxy is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability...

Red Hat Security Advisory 2026-55762-03

Red Hat Security Advisory 2026-55762-03 - An update for multiple packages is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8...

Red Hat Security Advisory 2026-55763-03

Red Hat Security Advisory 2026-55763-03 - An update for kpatch-patch-5140-687101 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9...

memdumper macOS EDR Process Attribution Evasion

memdumper is a macOS process memory inspection utility that injects a dynamic library into an existing signed binary possessing Apple debugger and DYLD-related entitlements. The injected library uses the entitled process to obtain a target task port, search or dump readable process memory, attach...

Securing AI-Generated Code: A Just-In-Time Vulnerability Detection and Remediation Pipeline

AI-assisted development tools generate vulnerable code at significant rates, yet few automated mechanisms exist to detect, enrich, fix, and verify security issues at development velocity, particularly ones that ground remediation in real-world threat context. This paper presents an automated...

Quantum-Safe Web Service Architecture Using Time-Based One-Time Passwords

One-Time Passwords OTPs have become a common option for multi-factor authentication in several applications. For instance, during website login processes, OTPs are often used in conjunction with traditional text-based usernames and passwords to verify whether the access request originates from a...

LLMs for Zero-Shot Threat Detection Via Structured Risk Indicators

We propose a two-stage large language model LLM framework for zero-shot detection of insider threats and advanced persistent threats APTs from heterogeneous security logs. The framework models user activity as chronological timelines and incorporates retrieval-augmented generation RAG to provide...

MindsDB Minds Platform Cowork Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

MindsDB Minds Platform Cowork contains an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in the Cowork server API where unauthenticated settings modification can be combined with the Anton agent scratchpad functionality to execute arbitrary Python code without sandboxing. This proof of conce...

Fastjson 1.2.83 Remote Code Execution

Fastjson versions 1.2.68 through 1.2.83 contain a remote code execution vulnerability that can allow an attacker to cause a vulnerable application to load attacker-controlled Java classes. This proof of concept generates a malicious JAR containing a reverse shell payload, serves the JAR over HTTP...

When Time Meets Space: Entropy Integration and Dynamic Threshold for Adaptive DDoS Detection in SDN

Entropy-based Distributed Denial of Service DDoS detection in Software-Defined Networking SDN commonly relies on spatial traffic distributions and static or loosely adaptive thresholds, making it vulnerable to legitimate traffic fluctuations in Internet of Things IoT environments. This paper...

Operationalizing Cyber Threat Intelligence with GraphRAG

When a security researcher publishes a report on a cyberattack, detection engineers are supposed to turn it into working detection rules. In practice, most automated attempts at this only extract the simplest clues from the report --- bad IP addresses, domain names, and file hashes --- and turn...

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...

OpenSSL Security Advisory 20260813

OpenSSL Security Advisory 20260813 - When an OpenSSL QUIC server Listener SSL object processes valid QUIC Initial packets for unknown destination connection IDs, it can allocate and queue new incoming channels without enforcing any limit...

CoSA: Context-Aware Severity Assessment Via Context Analysis with Large Language Models

Accurate vulnerability severity assessment is essential for prioritizing remediation, yet manually assessing Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base metrics remains labor-intensive. Existing automated approaches often fail to capture the repository-level evidence required for assessing many...

Concept Drift Detection and Adaptive Retraining of Malware Classification Models

Concept drift refers to changes over time in the statistical properties of data, as compared to the data that was used to train a learning model. Machine learning models for malware detection or classification are particularly susceptible to performance degradation caused by concept drift, as...

Adversarial Robustness in Smishing Detection: A Comparative Analysis of Adversarial Fragility in Classical Vs. Transformer-Based Detection Systems

Smishing detection systems are commonly trained and evaluated on clean, monolingual text. In low-resource settings, however, attackers frequently circumvent these systems through character obfuscation, cross-lingual code-switching, and structural perturbation. This study evaluates adversarial...

LLM-Assisted Dynamic Threat Analysis for Attacker-Reachable Software Weaknesses in Autonomous Vehicles

Autonomous vehicles depend on large safety-critical software stacks, where weaknesses reachable from adversarial inputs may affect steering, braking, or other control decisions. Static analysis can identify candidate sites, but dynamically confirming exploitability requires executable test...

Labels Are Not Endpoints: Treatment Leakage and Construct Validity in MCP Agent Security Evaluation

Security evaluations of tool-using agents often equate stored labels with behavioral facts. We audit a preserved campaign by tracing 10,200 execution rows to 180 model-bound requests, 45 semantic requests, and 15 observable stimuli. Two schema treatments were delivered, but the planned external...

ROLoad-PMP: Securing Sensitive Operations for Kernels and Bare-Metal Firmware

A common way for attackers to compromise victim systems is hijacking sensitive operations e.g., control-flow transfers with attacker-controlled inputs. Existing solutions in general only protect parts of these targets and have high performance overheads, which are impractical and hard to deploy o...

ATOBench: Tracing How Autonomous Penetration-Testing Agents Verify Vulnerabilities When Target Evidence Lies

Autonomous penetration-testing agents rely on target responses. These responses guide both subsequent actions and the final report. A deceptive response can therefore redirect both the attack trajectory and the agent's verification process. However, final reports reveal little about how an agent...

Black Hat Europe 2023 Conference Slides

Black Hat Europe 2023 conference slides for topics Unmasking APTs: An Automated Approach for Real-World Threat Attribution, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Build a Modern Detection & Response Program, The Pool Party You Will Never Forget: New Process Injection Techniques Using Windows Thread...

Slips: Behavioral Evidence Aggregation for Network Security

Network intrusion detection systems often analyze individual packets or flows, although malicious behavior may develop across many connections and over time. This may limit their ability to combine isolated detections into a coherent assessment of host behavior. Packet-level features may also be...