Network Attack Traffic Detection with Hybrid Quantum-Enhanced Convolution Neural Network

The emerging paradigm of Quantum Machine Learning QML combines features of quantum computing and machine learning ML. QML enables the generation and recognition of statistical data patterns that classical computers and classical ML methods struggle to effectively execute. QML utilizes quantum...

TriniMark: a Robust Generative Speech Watermarking Method for Trinity-Level Attribution

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DejaVuzz: Disclosing Transient Execution Bugs with Dynamic Swappable Memory and Differential Information Flow Tracking Assisted Processor Fuzzing

Transient execution vulnerabilities have emerged as a critical threat to modern processors. Hardware fuzzing testing techniques have recently shown promising results in discovering transient execution bugs in large-scale out-of-order processor designs. However, their poor microarchitectural...

Security Bug Report Prediction within and across Projects: a Comparative Study of BERT and Random Forest

Early detection of security bug reports SBRs is crucial for preventing vulnerabilities and ensuring system reliability. While machine learning models have been developed for SBR prediction, their predictive performance still has room for improvement. In this study, we conduct a comprehensive...

A Cryptographic Perspective on Mitigation Vs. Detection in Machine Learning

In this paper, we initiate a cryptographically inspired theoretical study of detection versus mitigation of adversarial inputs produced by attackers of Machine Learning algorithms during inference time. We formally define defense by detection DbD and defense by mitigation DbM. Our definitions com...

BadMoE: Backdooring Mixture-Of-Experts LLMs Via Optimizing Routing Triggers and Infecting Dormant Experts

Mixture-of-Experts MoE have emerged as a powerful architecture for large language models LLMs, enabling efficient scaling of model capacity while maintaining manageable computational costs. The key advantage lies in their ability to route different tokens to different "expert'' networks within th...

Security of a Secret Sharing Protocol on the Qline

Secret sharing is a fundamental primitive in cryptography, and it can be achieved even with perfect security. However, the distribution of shares requires computational assumptions, which can compromise the overall security of the protocol. While traditional Quantum Key Distribution QKD can...

Exploring the Role of Large Language Models in Cybersecurity: a Systematic Survey

With the rapid development of technology and the acceleration of digitalisation, the frequency and complexity of cyber security threats are increasing. Traditional cybersecurity approaches, often based on static rules and predefined scenarios, are struggling to adapt to the rapidly evolving natur...

Craft CMS 4.x / 5.x Remote Code Execution

Craft CMS proof of concept remote code execution exploit. Versions affected are 3.0.0-RC1 to before 3.9.15, 4.0.0-RC1 to before 4.14.15, and 5.0.0-RC1 to before 5.6.17...

Stegano 1.0.0

Stegano is a basic Python Steganography module. Stegano implements two methods of hiding: using the red portion of a pixel to hide ASCII messages, and using the Least Significant Bit LSB technique. It is possible to use a more advanced LSB method based on integers sets. The sets Sieve of...

Simplified and Secure MCP Gateways for Enterprise AI Integration

The increased adoption of the Model Context Protocol MCP for AI Agents necessitates robust security for Enterprise integrations. This paper introduces the MCP Gateway to simplify self-hosted MCP server integration. The proposed architecture integrates security principles, authentication, intrusio...

American Fuzzy Lop plus plus 4.32c

Google's American Fuzzy Lop is a brute-force fuzzer coupled with an exceedingly simple but rock-solid instrumentation-guided genetic algorithm. afl++ is a superior fork to Google's afl. It has more speed, more and better mutations, more and better instrumentation, custom module support, etc...

A Virtual Cybersecurity Department for Securing Digital Twins in Water Distribution Systems

Digital twins DTs help improve real-time monitoring and decision-making in water distribution systems. However, their connectivity makes them easy targets for cyberattacks such as scanning, denial-of-service DoS, and unauthorized access. Small and medium-sized enterprises SMEs that manage these...

Smart Water Security with AI and Blockchain-Enhanced Digital Twins

Water distribution systems in rural areas face serious challenges such as a lack of real-time monitoring, vulnerability to cyberattacks, and unreliable data handling. This paper presents an integrated framework that combines LoRaWAN-based data acquisition, a machine learning-driven Intrusion...

Prompt Injection Attack to Tool Selection in LLM Agents

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SA2FE: a Secure, Anonymous, Auditable, and Fair Edge Computing Service Offloading Framework

The inclusion of pervasive computing devices in a democratized edge computing ecosystem can significantly expand the capability and coverage of near-end computing for large-scale applications. However, offloading user tasks to heterogeneous and decentralized edge devices comes with the dual risk ...

BoxBilling 4.22.1.5 Remote Code Execution

BoxBilling versions 4.22.1.5 and below remote code execution exploit that spawns a php reverse shell...

Leveraging LLM to Strengthen ML-Based Cross-Site Scripting Detection

According to the Open Web Application Security Project OWASP, Cross-Site Scripting XSS is a critical security vulnerability. Despite decades of research, XSS remains among the top 10 security vulnerabilities. Researchers have proposed various techniques to protect systems from XSS attacks, with...

From Paper Trails to Trust on Tracks: Adding Public Transparency to Railways Via Zk-SNARKs

Railways provide a critical service and operate under strict regulatory frameworks for implementing changes or upgrades. Despite their impact on the public, these frameworks do not define means or mechanisms for transparency towards the public, leading to reduced trust and complex tracking...

The Cost of Performance: Breaking ThreadX with Kernel Object Masquerading Attacks

Microcontroller-based IoT devices often use embedded real-time operating systems RTOSs. Vulnerabilities in these embedded RTOSs can lead to compromises of those IoT devices. Despite the significance of security protections, the absence of standardized security guidelines results in various levels...

Securing GenAI Multi-Agent Systems against Tool Squatting: a Zero Trust Registry-Based Approach

The rise of generative AI GenAI multi-agent systems MAS necessitates standardized protocols enabling agents to discover and interact with external tools. However, these protocols introduce new security challenges, particularly; tool squatting; the deceptive registration or representation of tools...

GenPTW: In-Generation Image Watermarking for Provenance Tracing and Tamper Localization

The rapid development of generative image models has brought tremendous opportunities to AI-generated content AIGC creation, while also introducing critical challenges in ensuring content authenticity and copyright ownership. Existing image watermarking methods, though partially effective, often...

Phishing URL Detection Using Bi-LSTM

Phishing attacks threaten online users, often leading to data breaches, financial losses, and identity theft. Traditional phishing detection systems struggle with high false positive rates and are usually limited by the types of attacks they can identify. This paper proposes a deep learning-based...

Prefill-Based Jailbreak: a Novel Approach of Bypassing LLM Safety Boundary

Large Language Models LLMs are designed to generate helpful and safe content. However, adversarial attacks, commonly referred to as jailbreak, can bypass their safety protocols, prompting LLMs to generate harmful content or reveal sensitive data. Consequently, investigating jailbreak methodologie...

IWCC 2025 Call for Papers

The 14th International Workshop on Cyber Crime, or IWCC, 2025 call for papers has been announced. It will be held this year in conjunction with the 20th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ARES 2025. It will take place August 11th through the 14th, 2025 in Ghent,...

SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer Metadata Uploader CVE-2025-31324 Scanner

This tool checks to see if the SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer Metadata Uploader component is vulnerable to CVE-2025-31324 and if there are known webshells in the system...

Llama-3.1-FoundationAI-SecurityLLM-Base-8B Technical Report

As transformer-based large language models LLMs increasingly permeate society, they have revolutionized domains such as software engineering, creative writing, and digital arts. However, their adoption in cybersecurity remains limited due to challenges like scarcity of specialized training data a...

The Automation Advantage in AI Red Teaming

This paper analyzes Large Language Model LLM security vulnerabilities based on data from Crucible, encompassing 214,271 attack attempts by 1,674 users across 30 LLM challenges. Our findings reveal automated approaches significantly outperform manual techniques 69.5% vs 47.6% success rate, despite...

A Case Study on the Use of Representativeness Bias As a Defense against Adversarial Cyber Threats

Cyberspace is an ever-evolving battleground involving adversaries seeking to circumvent existing safeguards and defenders aiming to stay one step ahead by predicting and mitigating the next threat. Existing mitigation strategies have focused primarily on solutions that consider software or hardwa...

Metadata-Private Messaging without Coordination

For those seeking end-to-end private communication free from pervasive metadata tracking and censorship, the Tor network has been the de-facto choice in practice, despite its susceptibility to traffic analysis attacks. Recently, numerous metadata-private messaging proposals have emerged with the...

Hybrid Privacy Policy-Code Consistency Check Using Knowledge Graphs and LLMs

The increasing concern in user privacy misuse has accelerated research into checking consistencies between smartphone apps' declared privacy policies and their actual behaviors. Recent advances in Large Language Models LLMs have introduced promising techniques for semantic comparison, but these...

Trusted Compute Units: a Framework for Chained Verifiable Computations

Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies DLTs facilitate decentralized computations across trust boundaries. However, ensuring complex computations with low gas fees and confidentiality remains challenging. Recent advances in Confidential Computing -- leveraging hardware-based Trusted...

SILENT: a New Lens on Statistics in Software Timing Side Channels

Cryptographic research takes software timing side channels seriously. Approaches to mitigate them include constant-time coding and techniques to enforce such practices. However, recent attacks like Meltdown 42, Spectre 37, and Hertzbleed 70 have challenged our understanding of what it means for...

SoK: a Survey of Mixing Techniques and Mixers for Cryptocurrencies

Blockchain technologies have overturned the digital finance industry by introducing a decentralized pseudonymous means of monetary transfer. The pseudonymous nature introduced privacy concerns, enabling various deanonymization techniques, which in turn spurred development of stronger...

SAGE: a Generic Framework for LLM Safety Evaluation

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AGATE: Stealthy Black-Box Watermarking for Multimodal Model Copyright Protection

Recent advancement in large-scale Artificial Intelligence AI models offering multimodal services have become foundational in AI systems, making them prime targets for model theft. Existing methods select Out-of-Distribution OoD data as backdoor watermarks and retrain the original model for...

Cybersecurity for Autonomous Vehicles

The increasing adoption of autonomous vehicles is bringing a major shift in the automotive industry. However, as these vehicles become more connected, cybersecurity threats have emerged as a serious concern. Protecting the security and integrity of autonomous systems is essential to prevent...

DeeCLIP: a Robust and Generalizable Transformer-Based Framework for Detecting AI-Generated Images

This paper introduces DeeCLIP, a novel framework for detecting AI-generated images using CLIP-ViT and fusion learning. Despite significant advancements in generative models capable of creating highly photorealistic images, existing detection methods often struggle to generalize across different...

The Dark Side of Digital Twins: Adversarial Attacks on AI-Driven Water Forecasting

Digital twins DTs are improving water distribution systems by using real-time data, analytics, and prediction models to optimize operations. This paper presents a DT platform designed for a Spanish water supply network, utilizing Long Short-Term Memory LSTM networks to predict water consumption...

Fast and Robust Speckle Pattern Authentication by Scale Invariant Feature Transform Algorithm in Physical Unclonable Functions

Nowadays, due to the growing phenomenon of forgery in many fields, the interest in developing new anti-counterfeiting device and cryptography keys, based on the Physical Unclonable Functions PUFs paradigm, is widely increased. PUFs are physical hardware with an intrinsic, irreproducible disorder...

Inception: Jailbreak the Memory Mechanism of Text-To-Image Generation Systems

Currently, the memory mechanism has been widely and successfully exploited in online text-to-image T2I generation systems e.g., DALL E 3 for alleviating the growing tokenization burden and capturing key information in multi-turn interactions. Despite its practicality, its security analyses have...

On the Prevalence and Usage of Commit Signing on GitHub: a Longitudinal and Cross-Domain Study

GitHub is one of the most widely used public code development platform. However, the code hosted publicly on the platform is vulnerable to commit spoofing that allows an adversary to introduce malicious code or commits into the repository by spoofing the commit metadata to indicate that the code...

ChipletQuake: On-Die Digital Impedance Sensing for Chiplet and Interposer Verification

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SAGA: a Security Architecture for Governing AI Agentic Systems

Large Language Model LLM-based agents increasingly interact, collaborate, and delegate tasks to one another autonomously with minimal human interaction. Industry guidelines for agentic system governance emphasize the need for users to maintain comprehensive control over their agents, mitigating...

Evaluating Organization Security: User Stories of European Union NIS2 Directive

The NIS2 directive requires EU Member States to ensure a consistently high level of cybersecurity by setting risk-management measures for essential and important entities. Evaluations are necessary to assess whether the required security level is met. This involves understanding the needs and goa...

JailbreaksOverTime: Detecting Jailbreak Attacks under Distribution Shift

Safety and security remain critical concerns in AI deployment. Despite safety training through reinforcement learning with human feedback RLHF 32, language models remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that bypass safety guardrails. Universal jailbreaks - prefixes that can circumvent alignment fo...

Comparative Analysis of AI-Driven Security Approaches in DevSecOps: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Directions

The integration of security within DevOps, known as DevSecOps, has gained traction in modern software development to address security vulnerabilities while maintaining agility. Artificial Intelligence AI and Machine Learning ML have been increasingly leveraged to enhance security automation, thre...

Provably Secure Public-Key Steganography Based on Admissible Encoding

The technique of hiding secret messages within seemingly harmless covertext to evade examination by censors with rigorous security proofs is known as provably secure steganography PSS. PSS evolves from symmetric key steganography to public-key steganography, functioning without the requirement of...

Rational Points and Zeta Functions of Humbert Surfaces with Square Discriminant

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FCGHunter: Towards Evaluating Robustness of Graph-Based Android Malware Detection

Graph-based detection methods leveraging Function Call Graphs FCGs have shown promise for Android malware detection AMD due to their semantic insights. However, the deployment of malware detectors in dynamic and hostile environments raises significant concerns about their robustness. While recent...