PhreshPhish: a Real-World, High-Quality, Large-Scale Phishing Website Dataset and Benchmark

Phishing remains a pervasive and growing threat, inflicting heavy economic and reputational damage. While machine learning has been effective in real-time detection of phishing attacks, progress is hindered by lack of large, high-quality datasets and benchmarks. In addition to poor-quality due to...

"Is It Always Watching? Is It Always Listening?" Exploring Contextual Privacy and Security Concerns toward Domestic Social Robots

Equipped with artificial intelligence AI and advanced sensing capabilities, social robots are gaining interest among consumers in the United States. These robots seem like a natural evolution of traditional smart home devices. However, their extensive data collection capabilities, anthropomorphic...

Access Control for Information-Theoretically Secure Key-Document Stores

This paper presents a novel key-based access control technique for secure outsourcing key-value stores where values correspond to documents that are indexed and accessed using keys...

PLA: Prompt Learning Attack against Text-To-Image Generative Models

Text-to-Image T2I models have gained widespread adoption across various applications. Despite the success, the potential misuse of T2I models poses significant risks of generating Not-Safe-For-Work NSFW content. To investigate the vulnerability of T2I models, this paper delves into adversarial...

ARMOR: Aligning Secure and Safe Large Language Models Via Meticulous Reasoning

Large Language Models LLMs have demonstrated remarkable generative capabilities. However, their susceptibility to misuse has raised significant safety concerns. While post-training safety alignment methods have been widely adopted, LLMs remain vulnerable to malicious instructions that can bypass...

Optimal Debiased Inference on Privatized Data Via Indirect Estimation and Parametric Bootstrap

We design a debiased parametric bootstrap framework for statistical inference from differentially private data. Existing usage of the parametric bootstrap on privatized data ignored or avoided handling the effect of clamping, a technique employed by the majority of privacy mechanisms. Ignoring th...

Split Happens: Combating Advanced Threats with Split Learning and Function Secret Sharing

Split Learning SL -- splits a model into two distinct parts to help protect client data while enhancing Machine Learning ML processes. Though promising, SL has proven vulnerable to different attacks, thus raising concerns about how effective it may be in terms of data privacy. Recent works have...

From Alerts to Intelligence: a Novel LLM-Aided Framework for Host-Based Intrusion Detection

Host-based intrusion detection system HIDS is a key defense component to protect the organizations from advanced threats like Advanced Persistent Threats APT. By analyzing the fine-grained logs with approaches like data provenance, HIDS has shown successes in capturing sophisticated attack traces...

DNN Unicode Path Normalization NTLM Hash Disclosure

This exploit targets a vulnerability in DNN formerly DotNetNuke versions 6.0.0 to before 10.0.1 that allows attackers to disclose NTLM hashes through Unicode path normalization attacks...

Crypto-Assisted Graph Degree Sequence Release under Local Differential Privacy

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The Man behind the Sound: Demystifying Audio Private Attribute Profiling Via Multimodal Large Language Model Agents

Our research uncovers a novel privacy risk associated with multimodal large language models MLLMs: the ability to infer sensitive personal attributes from audio data -- a technique we term audio private attribute profiling. This capability poses a significant threat, as audio can be covertly...

Secure and Efficient Quantum Signature Scheme Based on the Controlled Unitary Operations Encryption

Quantum digital signatures ensure unforgeable message authenticity and integrity using quantum principles, offering unconditional security against both classical and quantum attacks. They are crucial for secure communication in high-stakes environments, ensuring trust and long-term protection in...

PRM-Free Security Alignment of Large Models Via Red Teaming and Adversarial Training

Large Language Models LLMs have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse applications, yet they pose significant security risks that threaten their safe deployment in critical domains. Current security alignment methodologies predominantly rely on Process Reward Models PRMs to evaluate...

BURN: Backdoor Unlearning Via Adversarial Boundary Analysis

Backdoor unlearning aims to remove backdoor-related information while preserving the model's original functionality. However, existing unlearning methods mainly focus on recovering trigger patterns but fail to restore the correct semantic labels of poison samples. This limitation prevents them fr...

Reporte De Vulnerabilidades En IIoT. Proyecto DEFENDER

The main objective of this technical report is to conduct a comprehensive study on devices operating within Industrial Internet of Things IIoT environments, describing the scenarios that define this category and analysing the vulnerabilities that compromise their security. To this end, the report...

HASSLE: a Self-Supervised Learning Enhanced Hijacking Attack on Vertical Federated Learning

Vertical Federated Learning VFL enables an orchestrating active party to perform a machine learning task by cooperating with passive parties that provide additional task-related features for the same training data entities. While prior research has leveraged the privacy vulnerability of VFL to...

ExCyTIn-Bench: Evaluating LLM Agents on Cyber Threat Investigation

We present ExCyTIn-Bench, the first benchmark to Evaluate an LLM agent x on the task of Cyber Threat Investigation through security questions derived from investigation graphs. Real-world security analysts must sift through a large number of heterogeneous alert signals and security logs, follow...

Contrastive-KAN: a Semi-Supervised Intrusion Detection Framework for Cybersecurity with Scarce Labeled Data

In the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, cybersecurity and intrusion detection systems are vital for the secure and reliable operation of IoT and IIoT environments. A key challenge in this domain is the scarcity of labeled cyber-attack data, as most industrial systems operate under normal...

From Semantic Web and MAS to Agentic AI: a Unified Narrative of the Web of Agents

The concept of the Web of Agents WoA, which transforms the static, document-centric Web into an environment of autonomous agents acting on users' behalf, has attracted growing interest as large language models LLMs become more capable. However, research in this area is still fragmented across...

REAL-IoT: Characterizing GNN Intrusion Detection Robustness under Practical Adversarial Attack

Graph Neural Network GNN-based network intrusion detection systems NIDS are often evaluated on single datasets, limiting their ability to generalize under distribution drift. Furthermore, their adversarial robustness is typically assessed using synthetic perturbations that lack realism. This...

Interpreting Differential Privacy in Terms of Disclosure Risk

As the use of differential privacy DP becomes widespread, the development of effective tools for reasoning about the privacy guarantee becomes increasingly critical. In pursuit of this goal, we demonstrate novel relationships between DP and measures of statistical disclosure risk. We suggest how...

CAN-Trace Attack: Exploit CAN Messages to Uncover Driving Trajectories

Driving trajectory data remains vulnerable to privacy breaches despite existing mitigation measures. Traditional methods for detecting driving trajectories typically rely on map-matching the path using Global Positioning System GPS data, which is susceptible to GPS data outage. This paper...

AICrypto: a Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Cryptography Capabilities of Large Language Models

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PromptChain: a Decentralized Web3 Architecture for Managing AI Prompts As Digital Assets

We present PromptChain, a decentralized Web3 architecture that establishes AI prompts as first-class digital assets with verifiable ownership, version control, and monetization capabilities. Current centralized platforms lack mechanisms for proper attribution, quality assurance, or fair...

A Mixture of Linear Corrections Generates Secure Code

Large language models LLMs have become proficient at sophisticated code-generation tasks, yet remain ineffective at reliably detecting or avoiding code vulnerabilities. Does this deficiency stem from insufficient learning about code vulnerabilities, or is it merely a result of ineffective...

Secure and Efficient UAV-Based Face Detection Via Homomorphic Encryption and Edge Computing

This paper aims to propose a novel machine learning ML approach incorporating Homomorphic Encryption HE to address privacy limitations in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAV-based face detection. Due to challenges related to distance, altitude, and face orientation, high-resolution imagery and...

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...

Spectral Feature Extraction for Robust Network Intrusion Detection Using MFCCs

The rapid expansion of Internet of Things IoT networks has led to a surge in security vulnerabilities, emphasizing the critical need for robust anomaly detection and classification techniques. In this work, we propose a novel approach for identifying anomalies in IoT network traffic by leveraging...

Efficient Private Inference Based on Helper-Assisted Malicious Security Dishonest Majority MPC

Private inference based on Secure Multi-Party Computation MPC addresses data privacy risks in Machine Learning as a Service MLaaS. However, existing MPC-based private inference frameworks focuses on semi-honest or honest majority models, whose threat models are overly idealistic, while malicious...

Endorsement-Driven Blockchain SSI Framework for Dynamic IoT Ecosystems

Self-Sovereign Identity SSI offers significant potential for managing identities in the Internet of Things IoT, enabling decentralized authentication and credential management without reliance on centralized entities. However, existing SSI frameworks often limit credential issuance and revocation...

Several New Classes of Self-Orthogonal Minimal Linear Codes Violating the Ashikhmin-Barg Condition

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AdvGrasp: Adversarial Attacks on Robotic Grasping from a Physical Perspective

Adversarial attacks on robotic grasping provide valuable insights into evaluating and improving the robustness of these systems. Unlike studies that focus solely on neural network predictions while overlooking the physical principles of grasping, this paper introduces AdvGrasp, a framework for...

LaSM: Layer-Wise Scaling Mechanism for Defending Pop-Up Attack on GUI Agents

Graphical user interface GUI agents built on multimodal large language models MLLMs have recently demonstrated strong decision-making abilities in screen-based interaction tasks. However, they remain highly vulnerable to pop-up-based environmental injection attacks, where malicious visual element...

EventHunter: Dynamic Clustering and Ranking of Security Events from Hacker Forum Discussions

Hacker forums provide critical early warning signals for emerging cybersecurity threats, but extracting actionable intelligence from their unstructured and noisy content remains a significant challenge. This paper presents an unsupervised framework that automatically detects, clusters, and...

A Login Page Transparency and Visual Similarity Based Zero Day Phishing Defense Protocol

Phishing is a prevalent cyberattack that uses look-alike websites to deceive users into revealing sensitive information. Numerous efforts have been made by the Internet community and security organizations to detect, prevent, or train users to avoid falling victim to phishing attacks. Most of thi...

SmartphoneDemocracy: Privacy-Preserving E-Voting on Decentralized Infrastructure Using Novel European Identity

The digitization of democratic processes promises greater accessibility but presents challenges in terms of security, privacy, and verifiability. Existing electronic voting systems often rely on centralized architectures, creating single points of failure and forcing too much trust in authorities...

Backscatter Device-Aided Integrated Sensing and Communication: a Pareto Optimization Framework

Integrated sensing and communication ISAC systems potentially encounter significant performance degradation in densely obstructed urban and non-line-of-sight scenarios, thus limiting their effectiveness in practical deployments. To deal with these challenges, this paper proposes a backscatter...

CLIProv: a Contrastive Log-To-Intelligence Multimodal Approach for Threat Detection and Provenance Analysis

With the increasing complexity of cyberattacks, the proactive and forward-looking nature of threat intelligence has become more crucial for threat detection and provenance analysis. However, translating high-level attack patterns described in Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures TTP intelligence...

Securing Transformer-Based AI Execution Via Unified TEEs and Crypto-Protected Accelerators

Recent advances in Transformer models, e.g., large language models LLMs, have brought tremendous breakthroughs in various artificial intelligence AI tasks, leading to their wide applications in many security-critical domains. Due to their unprecedented scale and prohibitively high development cos...

Demo: Secure Edge Server for Network Slicing and Resource Allocation in Open RAN

Next-Generation Radio Access Networks NGRAN aim to support diverse vertical applications with strict security, latency, and Service-Level Agreement SLA requirements. These demands introduce challenges in securing the infrastructure, allocating resources dynamically, and enabling real-time...

Confidential Wrapped Ethereum

Transparency is one of the key benefits of public blockchains. However, the public visibility of transactions potentially compromises users' privacy. The fundamental challenge is to balance the intrinsic benefits of blockchain openness with the vital need for individual confidentiality. The...

LLMalMorph: on the Feasibility of Generating Variant Malware Using Large-Language-Models

Large Language Models LLMs have transformed software development and automated code generation. Motivated by these advancements, this paper explores the feasibility of LLMs in modifying malware source code to generate variants. We introduce LLMalMorph, a semi-automated framework that leverages...

User-To-PC Authentication through Confirmation on Mobile Devices: on Usability and Performance

Protecting personal computers PCs from unauthorized access typically relies on password authentication, which is know to suffer from cognitive burden and weak credentials. As many users nowadays carry mobile devices with advanced security features throughout their day, there is an opportunity to...

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...

LLM-Stackelberg Games: Conjectural Reasoning Equilibria and Their Applications to Spearphishing

We introduce the framework of LLM-Stackelberg games, a class of sequential decision-making models that integrate large language models LLMs into strategic interactions between a leader and a follower. Departing from classical Stackelberg assumptions of complete information and rational agents, ou...

Hybrid Quantum Security for IPsec

Quantum Key Distribution QKD offers information-theoretic security against quantum computing threats, but integrating QKD into existing security protocols remains an unsolved challenge due to fundamental mismatches between pre-distributed quantum keys and computational key exchange paradigms. Thi...

Implementing and Evaluating Post-Quantum DNSSEC in CoreDNS

The emergence of quantum computers poses a significant threat to current secure service, application and/or protocol implementations that rely on RSA and ECDSA algorithms, for instance DNSSEC, because public-key cryptography based on number factorization or discrete logarithm is vulnerable to...

ADAPT: a Pseudo-Labeling Approach to Combat Concept Drift in Malware Detection

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White-Basilisk: a Hybrid Model for Code Vulnerability Detection

The proliferation of software vulnerabilities presents a significant challenge to cybersecurity, necessitating more effective detection methodologies. We introduce White-Basilisk, a novel approach to vulnerability detection that demonstrates superior performance while challenging prevailing...

Qualcomm Trusted Application Emulation for Fuzzing Testing

In recent years, the increasing awareness of cybersecurity has led to a heightened focus on information security within hardware devices and products. Incorporating Trusted Execution Environments TEEs into product designs has become a standard practice for safeguarding sensitive user information...