Layered, Overlapping, and Inconsistent: a Large-Scale Analysis of the Multiple Privacy Policies and Controls of U.S. Banks

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PROTEAN: Federated Intrusion Detection in Non-IID Environments through Prototype-Based Knowledge Sharing

In distributed networks, participants often face diverse and fast-evolving cyberattacks. This makes techniques based on Federated Learning FL a promising mitigation strategy. By only exchanging model updates, FL participants can collaboratively build detection models without revealing sensitive...

IThermTroj: Exploiting Intermittent Thermal Trojans in Multi-Processor System-On-Chips

Thermal Trojan attacks present a pressing concern for the security and reliability of System-on-Chips SoCs, especially in mobile applications. The situation becomes more complicated when such attacks are more evasive and operate sporadically to stay hidden from detection mechanisms. In this paper...

DATABench: Evaluating Dataset Auditing in Deep Learning from an Adversarial Perspective

The widespread application of Deep Learning across diverse domains hinges critically on the quality and composition of training datasets. However, the common lack of disclosure regarding their usage raises significant privacy and copyright concerns. Dataset auditing techniques, which aim to...

Hunting in the Dark: Metrics for Early Stage Traffic Discovery

Threat hunting is an operational security process where an expert analyzes traffic, applying knowledge and lightweight tools on unlabeled data in order to identify and classify previously unknown phenomena. In this paper, we examine threat hunting metrics and practice by studying the detection of...

Evaluating the Critical Risks of Amazon'S Nova Premier under the Frontier Model Safety Framework

Nova Premier is Amazon's most capable multimodal foundation model and teacher for model distillation. It processes text, images, and video with a one-million-token context window, enabling analysis of large codebases, 400-page documents, and 90-minute videos in a single prompt. We present the fir...

Hybrid Approach to Directed Fuzzing

Program analysis and automated testing have recently become an essential part of SSDLC. Directed greybox fuzzing is one of the most popular automated testing methods that focuses on error detection in predefined code regions. However, it still lacks ability to overcome difficult program...

Large Language Models for Network Intrusion Detection Systems: Foundations, Implementations, and Future Directions

Large Language Models LLMs have revolutionized various fields with their exceptional capabilities in understanding, processing, and generating human-like text. This paper investigates the potential of LLMs in advancing Network Intrusion Detection Systems NIDS, analyzing current challenges,...

Efficient Unlearning with Privacy Guarantees

Privacy protection laws, such as the GDPR, grant individuals the right to request the forgetting of their personal data not only from databases but also from machine learning ML models trained on them. Machine unlearning has emerged as a practical means to facilitate model forgetting of data...

CLIP-Guided Backdoor Defense through Entropy-Based Poisoned Dataset Separation

Deep Neural Networks DNNs are susceptible to backdoor attacks, where adversaries poison training data to implant backdoor into the victim model. Current backdoor defenses on poisoned data often suffer from high computational costs or low effectiveness against advanced attacks like clean-label and...

Cyclic Equalizability of Words and Its Application to Card-Based Cryptography

Card-based cryptography is a research area to implement cryptographic procedures using a deck of physical cards. In recent years, it has been found to be related to finite group theory and algebraic combinatorics, and is becoming more and more closely connected to the field of mathematics. In thi...

The Hidden Threat in Plain Text: Attacking RAG Data Loaders

Large Language Models LLMs have transformed human-machine interaction since ChatGPT's 2022 debut, with Retrieval-Augmented Generation RAG emerging as a key framework that enhances LLM outputs by integrating external knowledge. However, RAG's reliance on ingesting external documents introduces new...

FIDESlib: a Fully-Fledged Open-Source FHE Library for Efficient CKKS on GPUs

Word-wise Fully Homomorphic Encryption FHE schemes, such as CKKS, are gaining significant traction due to their ability to provide post-quantum-resistant, privacy-preserving approximate computing; an especially desirable feature in Machine-Learning-as-a-Service MLaaS cloud-computing paradigms...

Beyond Training-Time Poisoning: Component-Level and Post-Training Backdoors in Deep Reinforcement Learning

Deep Reinforcement Learning DRL systems are increasingly used in safety-critical applications, yet their security remains severely underexplored. This work investigates backdoor attacks, which implant hidden triggers that cause malicious actions only when specific inputs appear in the observation...

Red Teaming AI Red Teaming

Red teaming has evolved from its origins in military applications to become a widely adopted methodology in cybersecurity and AI. In this paper, we take a critical look at the practice of AI red teaming. We argue that despite its current popularity in AI governance, there exists a significant gap...

Bullshark on Narwhal: Implementation-Level Workflow Analysis of Round-Based DAG Consensus in Theory and Practice

Round-based DAGs enable high-performance Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus, yet their technical advantages remain underutilized due to their short history. While research on consensus protocols is active in both academia and industry, many studies overlook implementation-level algorithms, leavin...

Extreme Learning Machine Based System for DDoS Attacks Detections on IoMT Devices

The Internet of Medical Things IoMT represents a paradigm shift in the healthcare sector, enabling the interconnection of medical devices, sensors, and systems to enhance patient monitoring, diagnosis, and management. The rapid evolution of IoMT presents significant benefits to the healthcare...

A Systematization of Security Vulnerabilities in Computer Use Agents

Computer Use Agents CUAs, autonomous systems that interact with software interfaces via browsers or virtual machines, are rapidly being deployed in consumer and enterprise environments. These agents introduce novel attack surfaces and trust boundaries that are not captured by traditional threat...

Attacker'S Noise Can Manipulate Your Audio-Based LLM in the Real World

This paper investigates the real-world vulnerabilities of audio-based large language models ALLMs, such as Qwen2-Audio. We first demonstrate that an adversary can craft stealthy audio perturbations to manipulate ALLMs into exhibiting specific targeted behaviors, such as eliciting responses to...

AIDE 0.19.1

AIDE Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment is a free replacement for Tripwiretm. It generates a database that can be used to check the integrity of files on server. It uses regular expressions for determining which files get added to the database. You can use several message digest algorithms ...

BackFed: an Efficient and Standardized Benchmark Suite for Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning

Federated Learning FL systems are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where adversaries train their local models on poisoned data and submit poisoned model updates to compromise the global model. Despite numerous proposed attacks and defenses, divergent experimental settings, implementation errors, a...

LIFT: Automating Symbolic Execution Optimization with Large Language Models for AI Networks

Dynamic Symbolic Execution DSE is a key technique in program analysis, widely used in software testing, vulnerability discovery, and formal verification. In distributed AI systems, DSE plays a crucial role in identifying hard-to-detect bugs, especially those arising from complex network...

QNAP Remote Code Execution

QNAP proof of concept stack overflow remote code execution exploit. This has been addressed in versions QTS 5.1.7.2770 build 20240520, hero h5.1.7.2770 build 20240520 and above...

Q-Detection: a Quantum-Classical Hybrid Poisoning Attack Detection Method

Data poisoning attacks pose significant threats to machine learning models by introducing malicious data into the training process, thereby degrading model performance or manipulating predictions. Detecting and sifting out poisoned data is an important method to prevent data poisoning attacks...

Phantom Subgroup Poisoning: Stealth Attacks on Federated Recommender Systems

Federated recommender systems FedRec have emerged as a promising solution for delivering personalized recommendations while safeguarding user privacy. However, recent studies have demonstrated their vulnerability to poisoning attacks. Existing attacks typically target the entire user group, which...

The Landscape of Memorization in LLMs: Mechanisms, Measurement, and Mitigation

Large Language Models LLMs have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of tasks, yet they also exhibit memorization of their training data. This phenomenon raises critical questions about model behavior, privacy risks, and the boundary between learning and memorization. Addressi...

Adaptive Variation-Resilient Random Number Generator for Embedded Encryption

With a growing interest in securing user data within the internet-of-things IoT, embedded encryption has become of paramount importance, requiring light-weight high-quality Random Number Generators RNGs. Emerging stochastic device technologies produce random numbers from stochastic physical...

How Not to Detect Prompt Injections with an LLM

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Disappearing Ink: Obfuscation Breaks N-Gram Code Watermarks in Theory and Practice

Distinguishing AI-generated code from human-written code is becoming crucial for tasks such as authorship attribution, content tracking, and misuse detection. Based on this, N-gram-based watermarking schemes have emerged as prominent, which inject secret watermarks to be detected during the...

Emergent Misalignment As Prompt Sensitivity: a Research Note

Betley et al. 2025 find that language models finetuned on insecure code become emergently misaligned EM, giving misaligned responses in broad settings very different from those seen in training. However, it remains unclear as to why emergent misalignment occurs. We evaluate insecure models across...

Wallets As Universal Access Devices

Wallets are access points for the digital economys value creation. Wallets for blockchains store the end-users cryptographic keys for administrating their digital assets and enable access to blockchain Web3 systems. Web3 delivers new service opportunities. This chapter focuses on the Web3 enabled...

VOLTRON: Detecting Unknown Malware Using Graph-Based Zero-Shot Learning

The persistent threat of Android malware presents a serious challenge to the security of millions of users globally. While many machine learning-based methods have been developed to detect these threats, their reliance on large labeled datasets limits their effectiveness against emerging,...

Nuclei 3.4.7

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...

Arbiter PUF: Uniqueness and Reliability Analysis Using Hybrid CMOS-Stanford Memristor Model

In an increasingly interconnected world, protecting electronic devices has grown more crucial because of the dangers of data extraction, reverse engineering, and hardware tampering. Producing chips in a third-party manufacturing company can let hackers change the design. As the Internet of Things...

UniAud: a Unified Auditing Framework for High Auditing Power and Utility with One Training Run

Differentially private DP optimization has been widely adopted as a standard approach to provide rigorous privacy guarantees for training datasets. DP auditing verifies whether a model trained with DP optimization satisfies its claimed privacy level by estimating empirical privacy lower bounds...

Model Inversion Attacks on Llama 3: Extracting PII from Large Language Models

Large language models LLMs have transformed natural language processing, but their ability to memorize training data poses significant privacy risks. This paper investigates model inversion attacks on the Llama 3.2 model, a multilingual LLM developed by Meta. By querying the model with carefully...

SoK: a Systematic Review of Context- and Behavior-Aware Adaptive Authentication in Mobile Environments

As mobile computing becomes central to digital interaction, researchers have turned their attention to adaptive authentication for its real-time, context- and behavior-aware verification capabilities. However, many implementations remain fragmented, inconsistently apply intelligent techniques, an...

Static Analysis for Detecting Transaction Conflicts in Ethereum Smart Contracts

Ethereum smart contracts operate in a concurrent environment where multiple transactions can be submitted simultaneously. However, the Ethereum Virtual Machine EVM enforces sequential execution of transactions within each block to prevent conflicts arising from concurrent access to the same state...

Enhancing Phishing Detection in Financial Systems through NLP

The threat of phishing attacks in financial systems is continuously growing. Therefore, protecting sensitive information from unauthorized access is paramount. This paper discusses the critical need for robust email phishing detection. Several existing methods, including blacklists and whitelists...

Attention Slipping: a Mechanistic Understanding of Jailbreak Attacks and Defenses in LLMs

As large language models LLMs become more integral to society and technology, ensuring their safety becomes essential. Jailbreak attacks exploit vulnerabilities to bypass safety guardrails, posing a significant threat. However, the mechanisms enabling these attacks are not well understood. In thi...

README: Robust Error-Aware Digital Signature Framework Via Deep Watermarking Model

Deep learning-based watermarking has emerged as a promising solution for robust image authentication and protection. However, existing models are limited by low embedding capacity and vulnerability to bit-level errors, making them unsuitable for cryptographic applications such as digital...

Adaptive Malware Detection Using Sequential Feature Selection: a Dueling Double Deep Q-Network (D3QN) Framework for Intelligent Classification

Traditional malware detection methods exhibit computational inefficiency due to exhaustive feature extraction requirements, creating accuracy-efficiency trade-offs that limit real-time deployment. We formulate malware classification as a Markov Decision Process with episodic feature acquisition a...

False Alarms, Real Damage: Adversarial Attacks Using LLM-Based Models on Text-Based Cyber Threat Intelligence Systems

Cyber Threat Intelligence CTI has emerged as a vital complementary approach that operates in the early phases of the cyber threat lifecycle. CTI involves collecting, processing, and analyzing threat data to provide a more accurate and rapid understanding of cyber threats. Due to the large volume ...

Rethinking and Exploring String-Based Malware Family Classification in the Era of LLMs and RAG

Malware Family Classification MFC aims to identify the fine-grained family e.g., GuLoader or BitRAT to which a potential malware sample belongs, in contrast to malware detection or sample classification that predicts only an Yes/No. Accurate family identification can greatly facilitate automated...

Hijacking JARVIS: Benchmarking Mobile GUI Agents against Unprivileged Third Parties

Mobile GUI agents are designed to autonomously execute diverse device-control tasks by interpreting and interacting with mobile screens. Despite notable advancements, their resilience in real-world scenarios where screen content may be partially manipulated by untrustworthy third parties remains...

Nuclei 3.4.6

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...

MalVol-25: a Diverse, Labelled and Detailed Volatile Memory Dataset for Malware Detection and Response Testing and Validation

This paper addresses the critical need for high-quality malware datasets that support advanced analysis techniques, particularly machine learning and agentic AI frameworks. Existing datasets often lack diversity, comprehensive labelling, and the complexity necessary for effective machine learning...

BlowPrint: Blow-Based Multi-Factor Biometrics for Smartphone User Authentication

Biometric authentication is a widely used security mechanism that leverages unique physiological or behavioral characteristics to authenticate users. In multi-factor biometrics MFB, multiple biometric modalities, e.g., physiological and behavioral, are integrated to mitigate the limitations...

Quantum Protocols for Rabin Oblivious Transfer

Rabin oblivious transfer is the cryptographic task where Alice wishes to receive a bit from Bob but it may get lost with probability 1/2. In this work, we provide protocol designs which yield quantum protocols with improved security. Moreover, we provide a constant lower bound on any quantum...

S-Leak: Leakage-Abuse Attack against Efficient Conjunctive SSE Via S-Term Leakage

Conjunctive Searchable Symmetric Encryption CSSE enables secure conjunctive searches over encrypted data. While leakage-abuse attacks LAAs against single-keyword SSE have been extensively studied, their extension to conjunctive queries faces a critical challenge: the combinatorial explosion of...