Certifying Ghosts: How Cybersecurity AI Agents Break the EU Cyber Resilience Act

The EU Cyber Resilience Act CRA makes a smart bet. It does not demand that products be free of vulnerabilities, but only that manufacturers run a process: assess risk, handle flaws, ship updates. The bet pays off if four things about the world stay true: P1 finding vulnerabilities is slow, skille...

Monitoring Vulnerabilities in Next-Generation Automotive Operating Systems

Software-defined vehicles SDVs are revolutionizing transportation by integrating complex, interconnected hardware, and software systems. This evolution introduces significant security challenges. We present a comprehensive security analysis for SDVs, focusing on software vulnerabilities. We note...

Beware of Agentic Botnets: Scalable Untargeted Promptware Attacks Via Universal and Transferable Adversarial HalluSquatting

The growing adoption of agentic LLM applications has introduced a new threat previously named as promptware. While prior work has established that adversaries can exploit direct channels to LLM applications to apply promptware under weak threat models, many applications do not provide any direct...

XDECAF: An Extensible Data Flow Diagram Analysis Framework for Information Security

xDECAF is an extensible tool for architecture-based data flow analysis with a focus on information security. It combines an extended data flow diagram metamodel of labeled flows and nodes, a domain-specific constraint language with different flow operations, and a browser-based editor backed by a...

Hidden Amplifiers: Cross-Level Risk in Software Supply Chains

Modern software supply chains comprise hundreds of transitive dependencies, yet existing analysis tools operate at either the ecosystem level dependency graphs or the code level static analysis within packages. This separation creates two failure modes. First, false-positive CVE alerts for...

Phoenix Contact TC Router 5004T-5G EU 1.06.18 Security Audit Tool

This script performs a security audit on Phoenix Contact TC Routers to detect indicators of exposure to CVE-2025-41717, without executing any commands or altering the device...

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI in Cybersecurity and Privacy: A Survey of Dual-Use Risks, AI-Generated Malware, Explainability, and Defensive Strategies

Large Language Models LLMs and generative AI GenAI systems, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA, Copilot, Stable Diffusion by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Stability AI, respectively, are revolutionizing cybersecurity, enabling both automated defense and sophisticated attacks...

Beyond Refusal: A Same-Lineage Study of Aligned and Abliterated LLMs for Vulnerability Analysis

Large language model LLM-assisted software security operates at a difficult boundary: the vulnerability-analysis terminology needed for legitimate code review, triage, and repair can closely resemble terminology associated with misuse. Existing safety and cybersecurity evaluations are difficult t...

PackageKit Advanced Vulnerability Assessment with D-Bus and Polkit Security Analysis

This Python tool is an advanced security assessment framework designed to evaluate potential exposure to a PackageKit-related vulnerability scenario by combining version analysis, policy inspection, and D-Bus interaction testing...

Parser Observer for Safe DNG SDK Input Validation / Runtime Monitoring

This C++ utility provides a minimal parser-observation framework for examining how the Adobe DNG SDK handles DNG file inputs while minimizing direct interaction with deeper image-processing stages...

From Regression to Prior-Aware Inference: Solving the ILWE Family in Randomness Leakage Attacks against ML-DSA

ML-DSA is a representative lattice-based signature scheme standardized by NIST. It relies on signing randomness and rejection sampling to ensure that released signatures are statistically independent of the secret key. Practical implementations, however, may leak partial information about this...

When Agents Go Rogue: Activation-Based Detection of Malicious Behaviors in Multi-Agent Systems

While enabling effective collaboration on complex tasks, LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems MAS face critical security challenges due to vulnerabilities at the agent and interaction levels. Most existing MAS security defenses are built upon two core assumptions: semantically-explicit malicious attacks...

QUBO Modeling of Module Learning with Errors: Stability and Scaling in Post-Quantum Cryptography

Lattice-based post-quantum cryptography relies on the hardness of the Learning With Errors LWE and Module Learning With Errors MLWE problems. This work introduces a constructive framework for encoding small MLWE instances as Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization QUBO models suitable for...

MSCENet: A Multi-Scale Correlation Enhanced Network for Anomaly Detection

In the field of multivariate time series anomaly detection, against the backdrop of increasing data complexity and complex dependencies across multiple temporal scales, traditional methods often struggle to simultaneously capture temporal dynamic features and intricate inter-series correlations. ...

Beyond the Syntax: Do Security Experts Trust LLMs for NIDS Rule Engineering?

As network threats evolve, manual NIDS rule engineering has become a critical operational bottleneck. While Large Language Models LLMs show promise for automating this process, their ability to produce production-ready rules remains unvalidated. This paper presents a human-centered investigation...

SA-DRL: Security-Aware Deep Reinforcement Learning for Ransomware Detection with Asymmetric Reward Design

Ransomware detection is a security-critical task in which false negatives and false positives have unequal operational consequences. Conventional machine learning detectors often use symmetric objectives that penalize missed ransomware detections and benign false alarms equally, although a false...

Packed Bitmap Validation Utility for Detecting Pitch Mismatches and Memory-Safety Risks

This C program implements a lightweight validation utility for identifying structural inconsistencies in packed bitmap formats by analyzing relationships between image width, pitch, and bits-per-pixel representations...

ProvICS: A Provenance-Based Intrusion Detection for Industrial Control Systems

The convergence of Information Technology and Operational Technology has exposed Industrial Control Systems ICS to multi-stage cyberattacks that traverse software, network, and physical process layers simultaneously. Although Provenance-based Intrusion Detection Systems PIDS are effective in...

Zeek 8.0.9

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...

PackageKit Evidence-Based Exposure Assessment Tool

This script is a defensive assessment utility designed to evaluate potential exposure around PackageKit deployments using observable system evidence rather than assumptions or exploitation attempts...

SafeLine SL6 / SL6+ Authentication Bypass

The SafeLine SL6 and SL6+ devices integrated into elevator emergency intercom systems are vulnerable to an authentication bypass. This vulnerability allows attackers to bypass authentication requirements and access the device's configuration service via the Bluetooth Low Energy BLE interface...

REFORGE: A Method for Benchmarking LLMs' Reverse Engineering Capabilities in Decompiled Binary Function Naming

Large language models LLMs are increasingly applied to reverse-engineering tasks, and recent threat-intelligence reporting shows them operating inside live offensive-security workflows. Claims about their capability, however, outpace our ability to measure it. Existing benchmarks for LLM-assisted...

Bit2Watt: A Cyber-Physical Vulnerability Exploiting GPU Workloads across Power and Computing Infrastructures

Modern data centers increasingly rely on large-scale GPU clusters and on-site renewable energy resources, resulting in a tightly coupled cyber-physical system between computing workloads and power-electronic-dominated grids. In this paper, we reveal Bit2Watt, a previously unexplored vulnerability...

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS GlobalProtect Authentication Bypass Metasploit Scanner

This Metasploit auxiliary module scans for a potential authentication bypass vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS GlobalProtect Portal and Gateway services...

Measuring Healthcare Data Leaks and Security Flaws at Internet Scale

Systems that process medical data should be meticulously secured. Yet, network services in healthcare environments often fail to implement basic security measures. For example, previous studies showed that network segmentation flaws led to DICOM systems leaking millions of patient records. In...

When Claws Remember but Do Not Tell: Stealthy Memory Injection in Persistent Personal Agents

Persistent personal agents combine long-term memory with access to users' external environments, enabling personalized foreground assistance and proactive background execution. This integration also creates a new path to compromise: untrusted external content can be silently written into persiste...

TACTIC-KG: Toward Small Agent Teams for Cyber Threat Intelligence Knowledge Graph Construction

Cyber Threat Intelligence CTI reports are predominantly unstructured, heterogeneous, and noisy, which limits their direct usability for automated analysis and reasoning. Cybersecurity Knowledge Graphs CSKGs provide a structured representation of adversarial entities, actions, and relations, but...

Slate Digital Connect 1.37.0 Security Scanner

This Python script is a local security scanner designed to detect potential exposure related to Slate Digital Connect and its components associated with CVE-2026-24066 and CVE-2026-24067...

The Cathedral and the Bazaar of Software Vulnerabilities: From the NVD to the CNAs

For decades, the National Vulnerability Database NVD, the "Cathedral", has been the reference source for vulnerability information for downstream research and industry tasks, e.g., software update prioritization. An emerging "Bazaar" of diverse CVE Numbering Authorities CNAs has created many...

Tenda HG7 / HG9 / HG10 Management Interface Assessment Module

This refactored Metasploit module shifts from denial of service testing toward defensive exposure assessment and configuration review. Rather than attempting exploitation or service disruption, it focuses on identifying exposed interfaces, weak configuration indicators, and improving visibility...

Strapi CMS 5.36.1 Security Misconfiguration Detection Scanner

This is a scanner designed to identify potential security misconfigurations in Strapi CMS instances without performing exploitation or data extraction...

Untrusted Content Masking for Web Agents with Security Guarantees

Defenses that provide security guarantees against prompt injection attacks rely on strict isolation between trusted instructions and untrusted data. In text-based environments such as tool-use APIs, this separation arises naturally: agents can reason from interface definitions without ever...

Agent Data Injection Attacks Are Realistic Threats to AI Agents

AI agents act on behalf of user prompts, consuming external data and taking actions based on the agent context. Prior research on AI agent security has primarily focused on indirect prompt injection IPI. Its most well-studied category is instruction injection, where attacker-controlled untrusted...

Blockchain Attacks and Defenses: A Layered and Cross-Domain Survey

Blockchains have evolved from simple distributed ledgers into programmable platforms that process complex application logic and carry significant financial value. All modern Web3 systems share a common goal: providing secure, decentralized, and trustworthy execution in an increasingly...

LifeOS 6.0.5

LifeOS is a Life Operating System. It knows your goals, the people who matter to you, and where you are right now, and it works to move you toward where you want to be. The engine underneath is a verifiable loop: turn any request into testable criteria, then climb until they pass. This is the fir...

Nuclei 3.11.0

Nuclei is a modern, high-performance vulnerability scanner that leverages simple YAML-based templates. It empowers you to design custom vulnerability detection scenarios that mimic real-world conditions, leading to zero false positives...

RustMizan: A Compilable, Contamination-Aware Benchmarking Framework for Rust Vulnerabilities

LLM agents are increasingly applied to vulnerability analysis, but existing benchmarks have not kept pace. They typically rely on small non-compilable snippets, focus on binary classification vulnerable or not, and do not account for the risk that publicly-released datasets are part of model...

OpenSSH 10.4p1

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...

Ghost Traffic: ICMP Tunneling-Based Billing Bypass in LTE Networks

Cellular data billing is a core operational mechanism for mobile Internet service providers ISPs, and a policy gap that excludes a specific protocol from usage accounting can lead to a practical security threat. Some cellular ISPs treat ICMP echo traffic as control traffic rather than user data a...

WPProbe Plugin Enumeration Tool 0.12.4

A fast WordPress plugin and theme scanner that detects installed plugins via REST API enumeration and themes from HTML discovery, then maps them to known vulnerabilities. Over 5,000 plugins detectable without brute-force, thousands more with it...

Detecting Vulnerability-Inducing Commits Via Multi-Stage Reasoning with LLM-Based Agents

Detecting vulnerability-inducing commits VICs at submission time is critical for improving the security and reliability of software systems. However, this task is highly challenging because it requires reasoning about the semantic impact of code changes from heterogeneous information sources,...

Strapi Content API Sanitization Bypass Detection Module Scanner

This Python script assesses exposure to CVE-2026-27886 in Strapi Content API endpoints by performing differential filter validation against where parameters. Detection compares baseline query behavior against controlledfilter predicates to determine whether unsanitized conditions reach backend...

F-ACVAE: A Federated Adaptive Conditional Variational Auto-Encoder for Privacy-Preserving Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks

The rapid proliferation of Internet of things IoT devices has significantly expanded the cyber-attack surface, necessitating robust and privacy-preserving intrusion detection systems IDS. However, centralized learning approaches often suffer from severe performance degradation due to...

Joern 4.0.575

Joern is the bug hunter's workbench. With this tool, you can uncover attack surface, sloppy coding practices, and variants of known vulnerabilities using an interactive code analysis shell. Joern supports C, C++, LLVM bitcode, x86 binaries via Ghidra, JVM bytecode via Soot, and Javascript...

Maestro 0.17.3

Maestro is a cross-platform desktop app for orchestrating your fleet of AI agents and projects. It's a high-velocity solution for hackers who are juggling multiple projects in parallel. Designed for power users who live on the keyboard and rarely touch the mouse. Collaborate with AI to create...

SAP NetWeaver SAML Endpoint Exposure Scanner Tool for Metadata Discovery

This Python script is a defensive security scanner designed to identify exposed SAML-related endpoints on SAP NetWeaver systems SAPBASIS versions 700–918...

HilEnT: Hilbert, Entropy Transformed Image Based Malware Detection

With the increasing threat of malware across various software related domains, malware detection and classification is critical to determine the response actions. Different strategies have been adopted to address the challenge of malware detection. With the advent of deep learning techniques,...

ShadowProbe: Language-Extensible Detection of Hidden Algorithmic Complexity Vulnerabilities

Algorithmic Complexity Vulnerabilities ACVs arise when adversarial inputs trigger worst-case execution behavior, causing severe performance degradation or Denial-of-Service conditions. A key but underexplored source is shadow complexity: non-trivial computational costs hidden inside seemingly...

Security Analysis of RIS-Assisted Physical-Layer Authentication over Multipath Channels

In physical layer authentication, verification of a user's identity is based on the characteristics of the transmission channel through which signals are delivered to the authenticator Bob. In this paper, we assume that the signals received by Bob pass through a \acRIS controlled by Bob and that...

Agentic SABRE: An Uncertainty-Aware Neuro-Symbolic Multi-Agent Framework for Adaptive Ransomware Detection

Ransomware has evolved into a complex, adaptive, and fast-moving adversary category in which static signatures and monolithic classifiers fail to generalise under concept drift, evasion, and behavioural polymorphism. In this paper, we present Agentic SABRE Semantic-Behavioural Arbitration for...