Silence Is Golden: Leveraging Adversarial Examples to Nullify Audio Control in LDM-Based Talking-Head Generation

Advances in talking-head animation based on Latent Diffusion Models LDM enable the creation of highly realistic, synchronized videos. These fabricated videos are indistinguishable from real ones, increasing the risk of potential misuse for scams, political manipulation, and misinformation. Hence,...

COALESCE: Economic and Security Dynamics of Skill-Based Task Outsourcing among Team of Autonomous LLM Agents

The meteoric rise and proliferation of autonomous Large Language Model LLM agents promise significant capabilities across various domains. However, their deployment is increasingly constrained by substantial computational demands, specifically for Graphics Processing Unit GPU resources. This pape...

Trojan Horse Hunt in Time Series Forecasting for Space Operations

This competition hosted on Kaggle https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/trojan-horse-hunt-in-space is the first part of a series of follow-up competitions and hackathons related to the "Assurance for Space Domain AI Applications" project funded by the European Space Agency...

Are Crypto Ecosystems (De)Centralizing? A Framework for Longitudinal Analysis

Blockchain technology relies on decentralization to resist faults and attacks while operating without trusted intermediaries. Although industry experts have touted decentralization as central to their promise and disruptive potential, it is still unclear whether the crypto ecosystems built around...

Align Is Not Enough: Multimodal Universal Jailbreak Attack against Multimodal Large Language Models

Large Language Models LLMs have evolved into Multimodal Large Language Models MLLMs, significantly enhancing their capabilities by integrating visual information and other types, thus aligning more closely with the nature of human intelligence, which processes a variety of data forms beyond just...

Peyara Remote Mouse 1.0.1 Remote Code Execution

Peyara Remote Mouse version 1.0.1 contains an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in its WebSocket command interface port 1313. The application fails to validate or sanitize simulated keyboard input commands received via WebSocket connections, allowing attackers to chain malicious...

SoK: Concurrency in Blockchain -- a Systematic Literature Review and the Unveiling of a Misconception

Smart contracts, the cornerstone of blockchain technology, enable secure, automated distributed execution. Given their role in handling large transaction volumes across clients, miners, and validators, exploring concurrency is critical. This includes concurrent transaction execution or validation...

Fingerprinting Deep Learning Models Via Network Traffic Patterns in Federated Learning

Federated Learning FL is increasingly adopted as a decentralized machine learning paradigm due to its capability to preserve data privacy by training models without centralizing user data. However, FL is susceptible to indirect privacy breaches via network traffic analysis-an area not explored in...

An Accurate and Efficient Vulnerability Propagation Analysis Framework

Identifying the impact scope and scale is critical for software supply chain vulnerability assessment. However, existing studies face substantial limitations. First, prior studies either work at coarse package-level granularity, producing many false positives, or fail to accomplish whole-ecosyste...

Packet Storm New Exploits for May, 2025

This archive contains all of the 129 exploits added to Packet Storm in May, 2025...

Synchronic Web Digital Identity: Speculations on the Art of the Possible

As search, social media, and artificial intelligence continue to reshape collective knowledge, the preservation of trust on the public infosphere has become a defining challenge of our time. Given the breadth and versatility of adversarial threats, the best--and perhaps only--defense is an equall...

Duality on the Thermodynamics of the Kirchhoff-Law-Johnson-Noise (KLJN) Secure Key Exchange Scheme

This study investigates a duality approach to information leak detection in the generalized Kirchhoff-Law-Johnson-Noise secure key exchange scheme proposed by Vadai, Mingesz, and Gingl VMG-KLJN. While previous work by Chamon and Kish sampled voltages at zero-current instances, this research...

Formal Security Analysis of SPV Clients Versus Home-Based Full Nodes in Bitcoin-Derived Systems

This paper presents a mathematically rigorous formal analysis of Simplified Payment Verification SPV clients, as specified in Section 8 of the original Bitcoin white paper, versus non-mining full nodes operated by home users. It defines security as resistance to divergence from global consensus a...

CSVAR: Enhancing Visual Privacy in Federated Learning Via Adaptive Shuffling against Overfitting

Although federated learning preserves training data within local privacy domains, the aggregated model parameters may still reveal private characteristics. This vulnerability stems from clients' limited training data, which predisposes models to overfitting. Such overfitting enables models to...

Black-Box Crypto Is Useless for Pseudorandom Codes

A pseudorandom code is a keyed error-correction scheme with the property that any polynomial number of encodings appear random to any computationally bounded adversary. We show that the pseudorandomness of any code tolerating a constant rate of random errors cannot be based on black-box reduction...

Understanding the Identity-Transformation Approach in OIDC-Compatible Privacy-Preserving SSO Services

OpenID Connect OIDC enables a user with commercial-off-the-shelf browsers to log into multiple websites, called relying parties RPs, by her username and credential set up in another trusted web system, called the identity provider IdP. Identity transformations are proposed in UppreSSO to provide...

ReGA: Representation-Guided Abstraction for Model-Based Safeguarding of LLMs

Large Language Models LLMs have achieved significant success in various tasks, yet concerns about their safety and security have emerged. In particular, they pose risks in generating harmful content and vulnerability to jailbreaking attacks. To analyze and monitor machine learning models,...

Combining Different Existing Methods for Describing Steganography Hiding Methods

The proliferation of digital carriers that can be exploited to conceal arbitrary data has greatly increased the number of techniques for implementing network steganography. As a result, the literature overlaps greatly in terms of concepts and terminology. Moreover, from a cybersecurity viewpoint,...

Mitigating Disparate Impact of Differentially Private Learning through Bounded Adaptive Clipping

Differential privacy DP has become an essential framework for privacy-preserving machine learning. Existing DP learning methods, however, often have disparate impacts on model predictions, e.g., for minority groups. Gradient clipping, which is often used in DP learning, can suppress larger...

A Systematic Review of Metaheuristics-Based and Machine Learning-Driven Intrusion Detection Systems in IoT

The widespread adoption of the Internet of Things IoT has raised a new challenge for developers since it is prone to known and unknown cyberattacks due to its heterogeneity, flexibility, and close connectivity. To defend against such security breaches, researchers have focused on building...

Quantum Key Distribution by Quantum Energy Teleportation

Quantum energy teleportation QET is a process that leverages quantum entanglement and local operations to transfer energy between two spatially separated locations without physically transporting particles or energy carriers. We construct a QET-based quantum key distribution QKD protocol and...

Nearly-Linear Time Private Hypothesis Selection with the Optimal Approximation Factor

Estimating the density of a distribution from its samples is a fundamental problem in statistics. Hypothesis selection addresses the setting where, in addition to a sample set, we are given $n$ candidate distributions -- referred to as hypotheses -- and the goal is to determine which one best...

Privacy-Aware, Public-Aligned: Embedding Risk Detection and Public Values into Scalable Clinical Text De-Identification for Trusted Research Environments

Clinical free-text data offers immense potential to improve population health research such as richer phenotyping, symptom tracking, and contextual understanding of patient care. However, these data present significant privacy risks due to the presence of directly or indirectly identifying...

From past to Present: a Survey of Malicious URL Detection Techniques, Datasets and Code Repositories

Malicious URLs persistently threaten the cybersecurity ecosystem, by either deceiving users into divulging private data or distributing harmful payloads to infiltrate host systems. Gaining timely insights into the current state of this ongoing battle holds significant importance. However, existin...

Developing a Risk Identification Framework for Foundation Model Uses

As foundation models grow in both popularity and capability, researchers have uncovered a variety of ways that the models can pose a risk to the model's owner, user, or others. Despite the efforts of measuring these risks via benchmarks and cataloging them in AI risk taxonomies, there is little...

A Geometric Square-Based Approach to RSA Integer Factorization

We present a new approach to RSA factorization inspired by geometric interpretations and square differences. This method reformulates the problem in terms of the distance between perfect squares and provides a recurrence relation that allows rapid convergence when the RSA modulus has closely spac...

ARIANNA: an Automatic Design Flow for Fabric Customization and EFPGA Redaction

In the modern global Integrated Circuit IC supply chain, protecting intellectual property IP is a complex challenge, and balancing IP loss risk and added cost for theft countermeasures is hard to achieve. Using embedded configurable logic allows designers to completely hide the functionality of...

SPEAR: Security Posture Evaluation Using AI Planner-Reasoning on Attack-Connectivity Hypergraphs

Graph-based frameworks are often used in network hardening to help a cyber defender understand how a network can be attacked and how the best defenses can be deployed. However, incorporating network connectivity parameters in the attack graph, reasoning about the attack graph when we do not have...

Autoregressive Images Watermarking through Lexical Biasing: an Approach Resistant to Regeneration Attack

Autoregressive AR image generation models have gained increasing attention for their breakthroughs in synthesis quality, highlighting the need for robust watermarking to prevent misuse. However, existing in-generation watermarking techniques are primarily designed for diffusion models, where...

Simple Prompt Injection Attacks Can Leak Personal Data Observed by LLM Agents during Task Execution

Previous benchmarks on prompt injection in large language models LLMs have primarily focused on generic tasks and attacks, offering limited insights into more complex threats like data exfiltration. This paper examines how prompt injection can cause tool-calling agents to leak personal data...

SpeechVerifier: Robust Acoustic Fingerprint against Tampering Attacks Via Watermarking

With the surge of social media, maliciously tampered public speeches, especially those from influential figures, have seriously affected social stability and public trust. Existing speech tampering detection methods remain insufficient: they either rely on external reference data or fail to be bo...

IDCloak: a Practical Secure Multi-Party Dataset Join Framework for Vertical Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning

Vertical privacy-preserving machine learning vPPML enables multiple parties to train models on their vertically distributed datasets while keeping datasets private. In vPPML, it is critical to perform the secure dataset join, which aligns features corresponding to intersection IDs across datasets...

A Large Language Model-Supported Threat Modeling Framework for Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems

Modern transportation systems rely on cyber-physical systems CPS, where cyber systems interact seamlessly with physical systems like transportation-related sensors and actuators to enhance safety, mobility, and energy efficiency. However, growing automation and connectivity increase exposure to...

Video Signature: In-Generation Watermarking for Latent Video Diffusion Models

The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content AIGC has led to significant progress in video generation but also raises serious concerns about intellectual property protection and reliable content tracing. Watermarking is a widely adopted solution to this issue, but existing...

SafeGenes: Evaluating the Adversarial Robustness of Genomic Foundation Models

Genomic Foundation Models GFMs, such as Evolutionary Scale Modeling ESM, have demonstrated significant success in variant effect prediction. However, their adversarial robustness remains largely unexplored. To address this gap, we propose SafeGenes: a framework for Secure analysis of genomic...

The Security Threat of Compressed Projectors in Large Vision-Language Models

The choice of a suitable visual language projector VLP is critical to the successful training of large visual language models LVLMs. Mainstream VLPs can be broadly categorized into compressed and uncompressed projectors, and each offering distinct advantages in performance and computational...

A Unified Framework for Human AI Collaboration in Security Operations Centers with Trusted Autonomy

This article presents a structured framework for Human-AI collaboration in Security Operations Centers SOCs, integrating AI autonomy, trust calibration, and Human-in-the-loop decision making. Existing frameworks in SOCs often focus narrowly on automation, lacking systematic structures to manage...

Assessing and Enhancing Quantum Readiness in Mobile Apps

Quantum computers threaten widely deployed cryptographic primitives such as RSA, DSA, and ECC. While NIST has released post-quantum cryptographic PQC standards e.g., Kyber, Dilithium, mobile app ecosystems remain largely unprepared for this transition. We present a large-scale binary analysis of...

Teaching an Old LLM Secure Coding: Localized Preference Optimization on Distilled Preferences

LLM generated code often contains security issues. We address two key challenges in improving secure code generation. First, obtaining high quality training data covering a broad set of security issues is critical. To address this, we introduce a method for distilling a preference dataset of...

Review of Blockchain-Based Approaches to Spent Fuel Management in Nuclear Power Plants

This study addresses critical challenges in managing the transportation of spent nuclear fuel, including inadequate data transparency, stringent confidentiality requirements, and a lack of trust among collaborating parties, issues prevalent in traditional centralized management systems. Given the...

PackHero: a Scalable Graph-Based Approach for Efficient Packer Identification

Anti-analysis techniques, particularly packing, challenge malware analysts, making packer identification fundamental. Existing packer identifiers have significant limitations: signature-based methods lack flexibility and struggle against dynamic evasion, while Machine Learning approaches require...

Blockchain Powered Edge Intelligence for U-Healthcare in Privacy Critical and Time Sensitive Environment

Edge Intelligence EI serves as a critical enabler for privacy-preserving systems by providing AI-empowered computation and distributed caching services at the edge, thereby minimizing latency and enhancing data privacy. The integration of blockchain technology further augments EI frameworks by...

Practical Adversarial Attacks on Stochastic Bandits Via Fake Data Injection

Adversarial attacks on stochastic bandits have traditionally relied on some unrealistic assumptions, such as per-round reward manipulation and unbounded perturbations, limiting their relevance to real-world systems. We propose a more practical threat model, Fake Data Injection, which reflects...

Hybrid Cloud Security: Balancing Performance, Cost, and Compliance in Multi-Cloud Deployments

The pervasive use of hybrid cloud computing models has changed enterprise as well as Information Technology services infrastructure by giving businesses simple and cost-effective options of combining on-premise IT equipment with public cloud services. hybrid cloud solutions deploy multifaceted...

Con Instruction: Universal Jailbreaking of Multimodal Large Language Models Via Non-Textual Modalities

Existing attacks against multimodal language models MLLMs primarily communicate instructions through text accompanied by adversarial images. In contrast, we exploit the capabilities of MLLMs to interpret non-textual instructions, specifically, adversarial images or audio generated by our novel...

Scaling DeFi with ZK Rollups: Design, Deployment, and Evaluation of a Real-Time Proof-Of-Concept

Ethereum's scalability limitations pose significant challenges for the adoption of decentralized applications dApps. Zero-Knowledge Rollups ZK Rollups present a promising solution, bundling transactions off-chain and submitting validity proofs on-chain to enhance throughput and efficiency. In thi...

Amatriciana: Exploiting Temporal GNNs for Robust and Efficient Money Laundering Detection

Money laundering is a financial crime that poses a serious threat to financial integrity and social security. The growing number of transactions makes it necessary to use automatic tools that help law enforcement agencies detect such criminal activity. In this work, we present Amatriciana, a nove...

Docker under Siege: Securing Containers in the Modern Era

Containerization, driven by Docker, has transformed application development and deployment by enhancing efficiency and scalability. However, the rapid adoption of container technologies introduces significant security challenges that require careful management. This paper investigates key areas o...

Browser Fingerprinting Using WebAssembly

Web client fingerprinting has become a widely used technique for uniquely identifying users, browsers, operating systems, and devices with high accuracy. While it is beneficial for applications such as fraud detection and personalized experiences, it also raises privacy concerns by enabling...

Improving LLM Agents with Reinforcement Learning on Cryptographic CTF Challenges

Large Language Models LLMs still struggle with the structured reasoning and tool-assisted computation needed for problem solving in cybersecurity applications. In this work, we introduce "random-crypto", a cryptographic Capture-the-Flag CTF challenge generator framework that we use to fine-tune a...