SenseCrypt: Sensitivity-Guided Selective Homomorphic Encryption for Joint Federated Learning in Cross-Device Scenarios

Homomorphic Encryption HE prevails in securing Federated Learning FL, but suffers from high overhead and adaptation cost. Selective HE methods, which partially encrypt model parameters by a global mask, are expected to protect privacy with reduced overhead and easy adaptation. However, in...

From Learning to Unlearning: Biomedical Security Protection in Multimodal Large Language Models

The security of biomedical Multimodal Large Language Models MLLMs has attracted increasing attention. However, training samples easily contain private information and incorrect knowledge that are difficult to detect, potentially leading to privacy leakage or erroneous outputs after deployment. An...

Policy Design in Zero-Trust Distributed Networks: Challenges and Solutions

Traditional security architectures are becoming more vulnerable to distributed attacks due to significant dependence on trust. This will further escalate when implementing agentic AI within the systems, as more components must be secured over a similar distributed space. These scenarios can be...

Measuring the Carbon Footprint of Cryptographic Privacy-Enhancing Technologies

Privacy-enhancing technologies PETs have attracted significant attention in response to privacy regulations, driving the development of applications that prioritize user data protection. At the same time, the information and communication technology ICT sector faces growing pressure to reduce its...

Writebot AI Content Generator SaaS React Template 4.0.0 Shell Upload

Writebot AI Content Generator SaaS React Template versions 4.0.0 and below suffer from a remote shell upload vulnerability...

Log2Sig: Frequency-Aware Insider Threat Detection Via Multivariate Behavioral Signal Decomposition

Insider threat detection presents a significant challenge due to the deceptive nature of malicious behaviors, which often resemble legitimate user operations. However, existing approaches typically model system logs as flat event sequences, thereby failing to capture the inherent frequency dynami...

Cybersecurity of Quantum Key Distribution Implementations

Practical implementations of Quantum Key Distribution QKD often deviate from the theoretical protocols, exposing the implementations to various attacks even when the underlying ideal protocol is proven secure. We present new analysis tools and methodologies for quantum cybersecurity, adapting the...

Leveraging Large Language Models for SQL Behavior-Based Database Intrusion Detection

Database systems are extensively used to store critical data across various domains. However, the frequency of abnormal database access behaviors, such as database intrusion by internal and external attacks, continues to rise. Internal masqueraders often have greater organizational knowledge,...

SVC 2025: the First Multimodal Deception Detection Challenge

Deception detection is a critical task in real-world applications such as security screening, fraud prevention, and credibility assessment. While deep learning methods have shown promise in surpassing human-level performance, their effectiveness often depends on the availability of high-quality a...

Drone Detection with Event Cameras

The diffusion of drones presents significant security and safety challenges. Traditional surveillance systems, particularly conventional frame-based cameras, struggle to reliably detect these targets due to their small size, high agility, and the resulting motion blur and poor performance in...

MambaITD: an Efficient Cross-Modal Mamba Network for Insider Threat Detection

Enterprises are facing increasing risks of insider threats, while existing detection methods are unable to effectively address these challenges due to reasons such as insufficient temporal dynamic feature modeling, computational efficiency and real-time bottlenecks and cross-modal information...

Attack Pattern Mining to Discover Hidden Threats to Industrial Control Systems

This work focuses on validation of attack pattern mining in the context of Industrial Control System ICS security. A comprehensive security assessment of an ICS requires generating a large and variety of attack patterns. For this purpose we have proposed a data driven technique to generate attack...

Multilingual Source Tracing of Speech Deepfakes: a First Benchmark

Recent progress in generative AI has made it increasingly easy to create natural-sounding deepfake speech from just a few seconds of audio. While these tools support helpful applications, they also raise serious concerns by making it possible to generate convincing fake speech in many languages...

Isolate Trigger: Detecting and Eradicating Evade-Adaptive Backdoors

All current detection of backdoor attacks on deep learning models fall under the category of a non essential featuresNEF, which focus on fighting against simple and efficient vertical class backdoor -- trigger is small, few and not overlapping with the source. Evade-adaptive backdoor EAB attacks...

Large Language Models Versus Static Code Analysis Tools: a Systematic Benchmark for Vulnerability Detection

Modern software relies on a multitude of automated testing and quality assurance tools to prevent errors, bugs and potential vulnerabilities. This study sets out to provide a head-to-head, quantitative and qualitative evaluation of six automated approaches: three industry-standard rule-based stat...

Per-Element Secure Aggregation against Data Reconstruction Attacks in Federated Learning

Federated learning FL enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data, but individual model updates may still leak sensitive information. Secure aggregation SecAgg mitigates this risk by allowing the server to access only the sum of client updates, thereby concealing individual...

Evaluating Selective Encryption against Gradient Inversion Attacks

Gradient inversion attacks pose significant privacy threats to distributed training frameworks such as federated learning, enabling malicious parties to reconstruct sensitive local training data from gradient communications between clients and an aggregation server during the aggregation process...

Privacy Risk Predictions Based on Fundamental Understanding of Personal Data and an Evolving Threat Landscape

It is difficult for individuals and organizations to protect personal information without a fundamental understanding of relative privacy risks. By analyzing over 5,000 empirical identity theft and fraud cases, this research identifies which types of personal data are exposed, how frequently...

Eavesdropping Risk in Terahertz Channels by Covered Wavy Surfaces

Terahertz communications offer unprecedented data rates for next-generation wireless networks but suffer blockage susceptibility that restrict coverage and introduce physical-layer security vulnerabilities. Non-line-of-sight relay schemes using metallic wavy surfaces MWS address coverage...

Optimizing Preventive and Reactive Defense Resource Allocation with Uncertain Sensor Signals

Cyber attacks continue to be a cause of concern despite advances in cyber defense techniques. Although cyber attacks cannot be fully prevented, standard decision-making frameworks typically focus on how to prevent them from succeeding, without considering the cost of cleaning up the damages...

Prompt Injection Vulnerability of Consensus Generating Applications in Digital Democracy

Large Language Models LLMs are gaining traction as a method to generate consensus statements and aggregate preferences in digital democracy experiments. Yet, LLMs may introduce critical vulnerabilities in these systems. Here, we explore the impact of prompt-injection attacks targeting consensus...

FlashVault: Versatile In-NAND Self-Encryption with Zero Area Overhead

We present FlashVault, an in-NAND self-encryption architecture that embeds a reconfigurable cryptographic engine into the unused silicon area of a state-of-the-art 4D V-NAND structure. FlashVault supports not only block ciphers for data encryption but also public-key and post-quantum algorithms f...

Attack the Messages, Not the Agents: a Multi-Round Adaptive Stealthy Tampering Framework for LLM-MAS

Large language model-based multi-agent systems LLM-MAS effectively accomplish complex and dynamic tasks through inter-agent communication, but this reliance introduces substantial safety vulnerabilities. Existing attack methods targeting LLM-MAS either compromise agent internals or rely on direct...

Intrusion Detection in Heterogeneous Networks with Domain-Adaptive Multi-Modal Learning

Network Intrusion Detection Systems NIDS play a crucial role in safeguarding network infrastructure against cyberattacks. As the prevalence and sophistication of these attacks increase, machine learning and deep neural network approaches have emerged as effective tools for enhancing NIDS...

WiFinger: Fingerprinting Noisy IoT Event Traffic Using Packet-Level Sequence Matching

IoT environments such as smart homes are susceptible to privacy inference attacks, where attackers can analyze patterns of encrypted network traffic to infer the state of devices and even the activities of people. While most existing attacks exploit ML techniques for discovering such traffic...

Simulating Cyberattacks through a Breach Attack Simulation (BAS) Platform Empowered by Security Chaos Engineering (SCE)

In today digital landscape, organizations face constantly evolving cyber threats, making it essential to discover slippery attack vectors through novel techniques like Security Chaos Engineering SCE, which allows teams to test defenses and identify vulnerabilities effectively. This paper proposes...

When Good Sounds Go Adversarial: Jailbreaking Audio-Language Models with Benign Inputs

As large language models become increasingly integrated into daily life, audio has emerged as a key interface for human-AI interaction. However, this convenience also introduces new vulnerabilities, making audio a potential attack surface for adversaries. Our research introduces WhisperInject, a...

From Legacy to Standard: LLM-Assisted Transformation of Cybersecurity Playbooks into CACAO Format

Existing cybersecurity playbooks are often written in heterogeneous, non-machine-readable formats, which limits their automation and interoperability across Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response platforms. This paper explores the suitability of Large Language Models, combined with Prom...

Bidirectional TLS Handshake Caching for Constrained Industrial IoT Scenarios

While TLS has become the de-facto standard for end-to-end security, its use to secure critical communication in evolving industrial IoT scenarios is severely limited by prevalent resource constraints of devices and networks. Most notably, the TLS handshake to establish secure connections incurs...

Evaluating Software Supply Chain Security in Research Software

The security of research software is essential for ensuring the integrity and reproducibility of scientific results. However, research software security is still largely unexplored. Due to its dependence on open source components and distributed development practices, research software is...

Lightweight Fault Detection Architecture for NTT on FPGA

Post-Quantum Cryptographic PQC algorithms are mathematically secure and resistant to quantum attacks but can still leak sensitive information in hardware implementations due to natural faults or intentional fault injections. The intent fault injection in side-channel attacks reduces the reliabili...

BadBlocks: Low-Cost and Stealthy Backdoor Attacks Tailored for Text-To-Image Diffusion Models

In recent years,Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in the field of image generation.However,recent studies have shown that diffusion models are susceptible to backdoor attacks,in which attackers can manipulate the output by injecting covert triggers such as specific visual pattern...

Linux 6.9 AF_UNIX MSG_OOB Handling Use-After-Free

Linux versions starting at 6.9 have a security bug in the handling of MSGOOB, which causes use-after-free read+write when a sequence of syscalls is executed...

ASTRA: Autonomous Spatial-Temporal Red-Teaming for AI Software Assistants

AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot are rapidly transforming software development, but their safety remains deeply uncertain-especially in high-stakes domains like cybersecurity. Current red-teaming tools often rely on fixed benchmarks or unrealistic prompts, missing many real-world...

libxslt Key Data Storage Use-After-Free

libxslt suffers from a use-after-free vulnerability with key data stored cross-RVT...

Selection-Based Vulnerabilities: Clean-Label Backdoor Attacks in Active Learning

Active learningAL, which serves as the representative label-efficient learning paradigm, has been widely applied in resource-constrained scenarios. The achievement of AL is attributed to acquisition functions, which are designed for identifying the most important data to label. Despite this...

Reputation-Based Partition Scheme for IoT Security

With the popularity of smart terminals, such as the Internet of Things, crowdsensing is an emerging data aggregation paradigm, which plays a pivotal role in data-driven applications. There are some key issues in the development of crowdsensing such as platform security and privacy protection. As...

Botan C++ Crypto Algorithms Library 3.9.0

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...

MalFlows: Context-Aware Fusion of Heterogeneous Flow Semantics for Android Malware Detection

Static analysis, a fundamental technique in Android app examination, enables the extraction of control flows, data flows, and inter-component communications ICCs, all of which are essential for malware detection. However, existing methods struggle to leverage the semantic complementarity across...

BDFirewall: Towards Effective and Expeditiously Black-Box Backdoor Defense in MLaaS

In this paper, we endeavor to address the challenges of backdoor attacks countermeasures in black-box scenarios, thereby fortifying the security of inference under MLaaS. We first categorize backdoor triggers from a new perspective, i.e., their impact on the patched area, and divide them into:...

Smart Car Privacy: Survey of Attacks and Privacy Issues

Automobiles are becoming increasingly important in our day to day life. Modern automobiles are highly computerized and hence potentially vulnerable to attack. Providing many wireless connectivity for vehicles enables a bridge between vehicles and their external environments. Such a connected...

Anti-Tamper Protection for Unauthorized Individual Image Generation

With the advancement of personalized image generation technologies, concerns about forgery attacks that infringe on portrait rights and privacy are growing. To address these concerns, protection perturbation algorithms have been developed to disrupt forgery generation. However, the protection...

RX-INT: a Kernel Engine for Real-Time Detection and Analysis of In-Memory Threats

Malware and cheat developers use fileless execution techniques to evade traditional, signature-based security products. These methods include various types of manual mapping, module stomping, and threadless injection which work entirely within the address space of a legitimate process, presenting...

Real-World Evaluation of Protocol-Compliant Denial-Of-Service Attacks on C-V2X-Based Forward Collision Warning Systems

Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything C-V2X technology enables low-latency, reliable communications essential for safety applications such as a Forward Collision Warning FCW system. C-V2X deployments operate under strict protocol compliance with the 3rd Generation Partnership Project 3GPP and the Societ...

PhishParrot: LLM-Driven Adaptive Crawling to Unveil Cloaked Phishing Sites

Phishing attacks continue to evolve, with cloaking techniques posing a significant challenge to detection efforts. Cloaking allows attackers to display phishing sites only to specific users while presenting legitimate pages to security crawlers, rendering traditional detection systems ineffective...

WordPress Sala Theme 1.1.4 Privilege Escalation

WordPress Sala Theme versions 1.1.4 and below are vulnerable to an unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to reset passwords of arbitrary users — including administrators — by directly invoking an exposed AJAX endpoint without verifying the...

WordPress Alone Theme 7.8.3 Arbitrary Plugin Upload / Code Execution

WordPress Alone Theme versions 7.8.3 and below are vulnerable to an unauthenticated arbitrary file upload vulnerability. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to upload and install arbitrary plugin ZIP files from remote URLs via an unprotected AJAX endpoint — resulting in remote code executi...

WordPress Alone Theme 7.8.3 Arbitrary Plugin Upload

WordPress Alone Theme versions 7.8.3 and below suffer from an arbitrary plugin upload vulnerability...

Swagger UI 1.0.3 Cross Site Scripting

Proof of concept cross site scripting exploit for Swagger UI versions 1.0.3 and below...

SUAD: Solid-Channel Ultrasound Injection Attack and Defense to Voice Assistants

As a versatile AI application, voice assistants VAs have become increasingly popular, but are vulnerable to security threats. Attackers have proposed various inaudible attacks, but are limited by cost, distance, or LoS. Therefore, we propose \nameAttack, a long-range, cross-barrier, and...