Quantum-Resistant Authentication Scheme for RFID Systems Using Lattice-Based Cryptography

We propose a novel quantum-resistant mutual authentication scheme for radio-frequency identification RFID systems. Our scheme uses lattice-based cryptography and, in particular, achieves quantum-resistance by leveraging the hardness of the inhomogeneous short integer solution ISIS problem. In...

Evolution of Cybersecurity Subdisciplines: A Science of Science Study

The science of science is an emerging field that studies the practice of science itself. We present the first study of the cybersecurity discipline from a science of science perspective. We examine the evolution of two comparable interdisciplinary communities in cybersecurity: the Symposium on...

DUALGUAGE: Automated Joint Security-Functionality Benchmarking for Secure Code Generation

Large language models LLMs and autonomous coding agents are increasingly used to generate software across a wide range of domains. Yet a core requirement remains unmet: ensuring that generated code is secure without compromising its functional correctness. Existing benchmarks and evaluations for...

Building Browser Agents: Architecture, Security, and Practical Solutions

Browser agents enable autonomous web interaction but face critical reliability and security challenges in production. This paper presents findings from building and operating a production browser agent. The analysis examines where current approaches fail and what prevents safe autonomous operatio...

Steering in the Shadows: Causal Amplification for Activation Space Attacks in Large Language Models

Modern large language models LLMs are typically secured by auditing data, prompts, and refusal policies, while treating the forward pass as an implementation detail. We show that intermediate activations in decoder-only LLMs form a vulnerable attack surface for behavioral control. Building on...

Lessons Lost: Incident Response in the Age of Cyber Insurance and Breach Attorneys

Incident Response IR allows victim firms to detect, contain, and recover from security incidents. It should also help the wider community avoid similar attacks in the future. In pursuit of these goals, technical practitioners are increasingly influenced by stakeholders like cyber insurers and...

Multi-Domain Security for 6G ISAC: Challenges and Opportunities in Transportation

Integrated sensing and communication ISAC will be central to 6G-enabled transportation, providing both seamless connectivity and high-precision sensing. However, this tight integration exposes attack points not encountered in pure sensing and communication systems. In this article, we identify...

Future-Back Threat Modeling: A Foresight-Driven Security Framework

Traditional threat modeling remains reactive-focused on known TTPs and past incident data, while threat prediction and forecasting frameworks are often disconnected from operational or architectural artifacts. This creates a fundamental weakness: the most serious cyber threats often do not arise...

Can MLLMs Detect Phishing? A Comprehensive Security Benchmark Suite Focusing on Dynamic Threats and Multimodal Evaluation in Academic Environments

The rapid proliferation of Multimodal Large Language Models MLLMs has introduced unprecedented security challenges, particularly in phishing detection within academic environments. Academic institutions and researchers are high-value targets, facing dynamic, multilingual, and context-dependent...

Towards Classifying Benign and Malicious Packages Using Machine Learning

Recently, the number of malicious open-source packages in package repositories has been increasing dramatically. While major security scanners focus on identifying known Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVEs in open-source packages, there are very few studies on detecting malicious packages...

A Fuzzy Logic-Based Cryptographic Framework for Real-Time Dynamic Key Generation for Enhanced Data Encryption

With the ever-growing demand for cybersecurity, static key encryption mechanisms are increasingly vulnerable to adversarial attacks due to their deterministic and non-adaptive nature. Brute-force attacks, key compromise, and unauthorized access have become highly common cyber threats. This resear...

It's a Feature, Not a Bug: Secure and Auditable State Rollback for Confidential Cloud Applications

Replay and rollback attacks threaten cloud application integrity by reintroducing authentic yet stale data through an untrusted storage interface to compromise application decision-making. Prior security frameworks mitigate these attacks by enforcing forward-only state transitions state continuit...

New Data Security Requirements and the Proceduralization of Mass Surveillance Law after the European Data Retention Case

This paper discusses the regulation of mass metadata surveillance in Europe through the lens of the landmark judgment in which the Court of Justice of the European Union struck down the Data Retention Directive. The controversial directive obliged telecom and Internet access providers in Europe t...

Scaling Patterns in Adversarial Alignment: Evidence from Multi-LLM Jailbreak Experiments

Large language models LLMs increasingly operate in multi-agent and safety-critical settings, raising open questions about how their vulnerabilities scale when models interact adversarially. This study examines whether larger models can systematically jailbreak smaller ones - eliciting harmful or...

Human-Centered Threat Modeling in Practice: Lessons, Challenges, and Paths Forward

Human-centered threat modeling HCTM is an emerging area within security and privacy research that focuses on how people define and navigate threats in various social, cultural, and technological contexts. While researchers increasingly approach threat modeling from a human-centered perspective,...

TOR Virtual Network Tunneling Tool 0.4.8.20

Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. It also enables software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features. It provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow...

Wapiti Web Application Vulnerability Scanner 3.2.9

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 binary release...

Frequency Diverse (FD)-RIS-Enhanced Covert Communications: Defense against Wiretapping Via Joint Distance-Angle Beamforming

In response to the security blind zone challenges faced by traditional reconfigurable intelligent surface RIS-aided covert communication CC systems, the joint distance-angle beamforming capability of frequency diverse RIS FD-RIS shows significant potential for addressing these limitations...

Secure Low-Altitude Maritime Communications Via Intelligent Jamming

Low-altitude wireless networks LAWNs have emerged as a viable solution for maritime communications. In these maritime LAWNs, unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs serve as practical low-altitude platforms for wireless communications due to their flexibility and ease of deployment. However, the open and...

Enhancing Adversarial Robustness of IoT Intrusion Detection Via SHAP-Based Attribution Fingerprinting

The rapid proliferation of Internet of Things IoT devices has transformed numerous industries by enabling seamless connectivity and data-driven automation. However, this expansion has also exposed IoT networks to increasingly sophisticated security threats, including adversarial attacks targeting...

From Model to Breach: Towards Actionable LLM-Generated Vulnerabilities Reporting

As the role of Large Language Models LLM-based coding assistants in software development becomes more critical, so does the role of the bugs they generate in the overall cybersecurity landscape. While a number of LLM code security benchmarks have been proposed alongside approaches to improve the...

Trustworthiness Calibration Framework for Phishing Email Detection Using Large Language Models

Phishing emails continue to pose a persistent challenge to online communication, exploiting human trust and evading automated filters through realistic language and adaptive tactics. While large language models LLMs such as GPT-4 and LLaMA-3-8B achieve strong accuracy in text classification, thei...

Adversarially Robust and Interpretable Magecart Malware Detection

Magecart skimming attacks have emerged as a significant threat to client-side security and user trust in online payment systems. This paper addresses the challenge of achieving robust and explainable detection of Magecart attacks through a comparative study of various Machine Learning ML models...

Automated and Explainable Denial of Service Analysis for AI-Driven Intrusion Detection Systems

With the increasing frequency and sophistication of Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks, it has become critical to develop more efficient and interpretable detection methods. Traditional detection systems often struggle with scalability and transparency, hindering real-time response and...

Specification-Guided Vulnerability Detection with Large Language Models

Large language models LLMs have achieved remarkable progress in code understanding tasks. However, they demonstrate limited performance in vulnerability detection and struggle to distinguish vulnerable code from patched code. We argue that LLMs lack understanding of security specifications -- the...

Aether - Adaptive Exploit and Threat Hunting Engine for EVM-based Repositories

Aether is a Python-based framework for analyzing Solidity smart contracts, generating vulnerability findings, producing Foundry-based proof-of-concept PoC tests, and optionally validating those tests on mainnet forks. It combines static analysis, prompt-driven LLM analysis, and AI-ensemble...

Android Malware Detection: A Machine Learning Approach

This study examines machine learning techniques like Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines, Logistic Regression, Neural Networks, and ensemble methods to detect Android malware. The study evaluates these models on a dataset of Android applications and analyzes their accuracy, efficiency, and...

Towards Ultra-Low Latency: Binarized Neural Network Architectures for In-Vehicle Network Intrusion Detection

The Control Area Network CAN protocol is essential for in-vehicle communication, facilitating high-speed data exchange among Electronic Control Units ECUs. However, its inherent design lacks robust security features, rendering vehicles susceptible to cyberattacks. While recent research has...

Meta-Learning Based Radio Frequency Fingerprinting for GNSS Spoofing Detection

The rapid development of technology has led to an increase in the number of devices that rely on position, velocity, and time PVT information to perform their functions. As such, the Global Navigation Satellite Systems GNSS have been adopted as one of the most promising solutions to provide PVT...

An Efficient Anomaly Detection Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Markov Process

Wireless Sensor Networks forms the backbone of modern cyber physical systems used in various applications such as environmental monitoring, healthcare monitoring, industrial automation, and smart infrastructure. Ensuring the reliability of data collected through these networks is essential as the...

Windows Persistent Task Scheduler

This Metasploit module establishes persistence by creating a scheduled task to run a payload...

Prevalence of Security and Privacy Risk-Inducing Usage of AI-Based Conversational Agents

Recent improvement gains in large language models LLMs have lead to everyday usage of AI-based Conversational Agents CAs. At the same time, LLMs are vulnerable to an array of threats, including jailbreaks and, for example, causing remote code execution when fed specific inputs. As a result, users...

Coordinated Position Falsification Attacks and Countermeasures for Location-Based Services

With the rise of location-based service LBS applications that rely on terrestrial and satellite infrastructures e.g., GNSS and crowd-sourced Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cellular, and IP databases for positioning, ensuring their integrity and security is paramount. However, we demonstrate that these...

Quantum-Resistant Networks Using Post-Quantum Cryptography

Quantum networks rely on both quantum and classical channels for coordinated operation. Current architectures employ entanglement distribution and key exchange over quantum channels but often assume that classical communication is sufficiently secure. In practice, classical channels protected by...

Victim As a Service: Designing a System for Engaging with Interactive Scammers

Pig butchering, and similar interactive online scams, lower their victims' defenses by building trust over extended periods of conversation - sometimes weeks or months. They have become increasingly public losses at least $75B by one recent study. However, because of their long-term conversationa...

Advancing Honeywords for Real-World Authentication Security

Introduced by Juels and Rivest in 2013, Honeywords, which are decoy passwords stored alongside a real password, appear to be a proactive method to help detect password credentials misuse. However, despite over a decade of research, this technique has not been adopted by major authentication...

RejSCore: Rejection Sampling Core for Multivariate-Based Public Key Cryptography

Post-quantum multivariate public key cryptography MPKC schemes resist quantum threats but require heavy operations, such as rejection sampling, which challenge resource-limited devices. Prior hardware designs have addressed various aspects of MPKC signature generation. However, rejection sampling...

Securing AI Agent Execution

Large Language Models LLMs have evolved into AI agents that interact with external tools and environments to perform complex tasks. The Model Context Protocol MCP has become the de facto standard for connecting agents with such resources, but security has lagged behind: thousands of MCP servers...

On the Cybersecurity of LoRaWAN-Based System: A Smart-Lighting Case Study

Cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things IoT are key technologies in the Industry 4.0 vision. They incorporate sensors and actuators to interact with the physical environment. However, when creating and interconnecting components to form a heterogeneous smart systems architecture, these...

Risk Psychology and Cyber-Attack Tactics

We examine whether measured cognitive processes predict cyber-attack behavior. We analyzed data that included psychometric scale responses and labeled attack behaviors from cybersecurity professionals who conducted red-team operations against a simulated enterprise network. We employed multilevel...

Impacket 0.13.0

Impacket is a collection of Python classes for working with network protocols. Impacket is focused on providing low-level programmatic access to the packets and, for some protocols e.g. SMB1-3 and MSRPC, the protocol implementation itself. Packets can be constructed from scratch, as well as parse...

LAPRAD: LLM-Assisted PRotocol Attack Discovery

With the goal of improving the security of Internet protocols, we seek faster, semi-automatic methods to discover new vulnerabilities in protocols such as DNS, BGP, and others. To this end, we introduce the LLM-Assisted Protocol Attack Discovery LAPRAD methodology, enabling security researchers...

DRsam: Detection of Fault-Based Microarchitectural Side-Channel Attacks in RISC-V Using Statistical Preprocessing and Association Rule Mining

RISC-V processors are becoming ubiquitous in critical applications, but their susceptibility to microarchitectural side-channel attacks is a serious concern. Detection of microarchitectural attacks in RISC-V is an emerging research topic that is relatively underexplored, compared to x86 and ARM...

Quantifying Security for Networked Control Systems: A Review

Networked Control Systems NCSs are integral in critical infrastructures such as power grids, transportation networks, and production systems. Ensuring the resilient operation of these large-scale NCSs against cyber-attacks is crucial for societal well-being. Over the past two decades, extensive...

Forward to Hell? on the Potentials of Misusing Transparent DNS Forwarders in Reflective Amplification Attacks

The DNS infrastructure is infamous for facilitating reflective amplification attacks. Various countermeasures such as server shielding, access control, rate limiting, and protocol restrictions have been implemented. Still, the threat remains throughout the deployment of DNS servers. In this paper...

Exploiting the Potential of Linearity in Automatic Differentiation and Computational Cryptography

The concept of linearity plays a central role in both mathematics and computer science, with distinct yet complementary meanings. In mathematics, linearity underpins functions and vector spaces, forming the foundation of linear algebra and functional analysis. In computer science, it relates to...

Colliding with Adversaries at ECML-PKDD 2025 Adversarial Attack Competition 1st Prize Solution

This report presents the winning solution for Task 1 of Colliding with Adversaries: A Challenge on Robust Learning in High Energy Physics Discovery at ECML-PKDD 2025. The task required designing an adversarial attack against a provided classification model that maximizes misclassification while...

Feedback Lunch: Deep Feedback Codes for Wiretap Channels

We consider reversely-degraded wiretap channels, for which the secrecy capacity is zero if there is no channel feedback. This work focuses on a seeded modular code design for the Gaussian wiretap channel with channel output feedback, combining universal hash functions for security and learned...

Don't Look Up: There Are Sensitive Internal Links in the Clear on GEO Satellites

Geosynchronous GEO satellite links provide IP backhaul to remote critical infrastructure for utilities, telecom, government, military, and commercial users. To date, academic studies of GEO infrastructure have focused on a handful of satellites and specific use cases. The authors of this paper...

WebRTC Metadata and IP Leakage in Modern Browsers: A Cross-Platform Measurement Study

Web Real-Time Communication WebRTC enables real-time peer-to-peer communication, but its Interactive Connectivity Establishment ICE process can unintentionally expose internal and public IP addresses as metadata. This paper presents a cross-platform measurement study of WebRTC metadata leakage...