Demystifying and Detecting Agentic Workflow Injection Vulnerabilities in GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions is increasingly used to deploy LLM-based agents for repository-centric tasks such as issue triage, pull-request review, code modification, and release assistance. These agentic workflows extend traditional CI/CD automation with agentic capabilities but also create a new injection...

Beyond the Wrapper: Identifying Artifact Reliance in Static Malware Classifiers Using TRUSTEE

Modern cybersecurity relies heavily on static machine-learning-based malware classifiers. However, transformations such as packing and other non-semantic modifications applied to executable files limit their reliability. Malware classifiers often learn these unnecessary artifacts rather than the...

A UEFI System with SPDM to Protect against Unauthorized Device Connections

Attackers willing to compromise computing systems can use malicious peripherals as an attack vector, threatening users that cannot verify the hardware's authenticity. To address this problem, our work uses the Security Protocol and Data Model to propose a UEFI system capable of authenticating PCI...

Stego Battlefield: Evaluating Image Steganography Attacks and Steganalysis Defenses

Image steganography is widely used to protect user privacy and enable covert communication. However, it can also be abused by the adversary as a covert channel to bypass content moderation, disseminate harmful semantics, and even hide malicious instructions in images to elicit dangerous outputs...

SkillScope: Toward Fine-Grained Least-Privilege Enforcement for Agent Skills

Agent Skills have become a practical way to extend LLM agents by packaging metadata, natural-language instructions, and executable resources into reusable capability bundles. However, this growing Skill ecosystem introduces a new compliance risk: a Skill may perform high-impact actions that excee...

TUANDROMD-X: Advanced Entropy and Visual Analytics Dataset for Enhanced Malware Detection and Classification

Malware and malware-based attacks are becoming more prevalent and complex. Attackers regularly come up with new techniques that have the ability to evade conventional and signature-based malware defense. In order to address such threats, there is an increasing demand for advanced and better defen...

On Fixing Insecure AI-Generated Code through Model Fine-Tuning and Prompting Strategies

The security of AI-generated code remains a major obstacle to its widespread adoption. Although code generation models achieve strong performance on functional benchmarks, their outputs frequently contain bugs and security weaknesses that undermine their trustworthiness. Prior work has explored a...

LCC-LLM: Leveraging Code-Centric Large Language Models for Malware Attribution

LLMs are increasingly explored for malware analysis; however, current LLM-based malware attribution remains limited by unsupported indicators and insufficient code-level grounding for identifying malicious and vulnerable code segments. To address these limitations, this research introduces LCC-LL...

SecureMCP: A Policy-Enforced LLM Data Access Framework for AIoT Systems Via Model Context Protocol

The deployment of Large Language Model LLM-generated SQL queries in Artificial Intelligence of Things AIoT systems introduces critical security risks, as prompt injection attacks can manipulate LLMs into producing unauthorized queries that expose sensitive data or execute destructive operations...

Joern 4.0.534

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...

Agentic Vulnerability Reasoning on Windows COM Binaries

Windows Component Object Model COM services run with elevated privileges and are widely accessible to authenticated users, making race conditions in these binaries a critical surface for local privilege escalation. We present SLYP, an end-to-end agentic pipeline that discovers race condition...

AFL-ICP: Enhancing Industrial Control Protocol Reliability Via Specification-Guided Fuzzing

Industrial Control Protocols ICPs are critical to the reliability and stability of industrial infrastructure, yet their security is fundamentally compromised by a specification-blindness bottleneck. Modern fuzzers, constrained by observation-driven inference, struggle to penetrate deep protocol...

Beyond Collection: Measuring the Detection Efficacy of Modern Security Logging Standards

Effective security logging is crucial for the timely and accurate detection of cyber threats; however, the relative effectiveness of various industry-standard logging frameworks remains understudied. This paper addresses this critical gap by presenting the first systematic evaluation of modern...

Apache HTTP Server 2.4.66 Double-Free / Remote Code Execution

Apache HTTP Server version 2.4.66 suffers from a double-free vulnerability related to the HTTP/2 protocol that can allow for remote code execution...

Gray-Box Poisoning of Continuous Malware Ingestion Pipelines

Modern malware detection pipelines rely on continuous data ingestion and machine learning to counter the high volume of novel threats. This work investigates a realistic gray-box poisoning threat model targeting these pipelines. Using the secmlmalware framework, we generate problem-space...

Evaluating the Reliability of Multiple Large Language Models in Risk Assessment: A CIS Controls Based Approach

Proper implementation of technical and administrative controls reinforces an organization's cybersecurity posture and business resilience, reduces risks, and enhances governance, ultimately elevating business maturity. The dynamics of the technological landscape and emerging threats negatively...

YARA-X 1.16.0

YARA-X is a re-incarnation of YARA, a pattern matching tool designed with malware researchers in mind. This new incarnation intends to be faster, safer and more user-friendly than its predecessor. The ultimate goal of YARA-X is replacing YARA as the default pattern matching tool for malware...

PINSIGHT: A Comprehensive Threat Exploration of Domain-Adaptive Wi-Fi Based PIN Code Inference

Wi-Fi signals can be exploited by adversaries as a sensing side channel to eavesdrop on physical information. By monitoring propagation effects of radio waves within the victim's environment, attackers can remotely infer sensitive information. One particularly concerning example is PIN code...

Securing the Web with HSTS-Enforced

TLS stripping attacks expose sensitive web traffic by forcing secure HTTPS connections to fall back to unencrypted HTTP. At present, protection against these attacks relies on website operators explicitly opting into security by deploying mechanisms such as HTTP Strict Transport Security HSTS...

DecodingTrust-Agent Platform (DTap): A Controllable and Interactive Red-Teaming Platform for AI Agents

AI agents are increasingly deployed across diverse domains to automate complex workflows through long-horizon and high-stakes action executions. Due to their high capability and flexibility, such agents raise significant security and safety concerns. A growing number of real-world incidents have...

Pen-Strategist: A Reasoning Framework for Penetration Testing Strategy Formation and Analysis

Cyber threats are rapidly increasing, expanding their impact from large-scale enterprises to government services and individual users, making robust security systems increasingly essential. However, a significant shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals exacerbates this challenge. While...

A Novel Byte-Level Flow-To-Image Encoding Method for Network Intrusion Detection Systems

Network-based Intrusion Detection Systems IDS are predominantly trained on tabular flow records, whose one-dimensional representations limit convolutional architectures from exploiting inter-feature spatial correlations. This paper presents a novel byte-level flow-to-image encoding method that...

AoI-Guided Client Selection for Robust and Timely Federated Intrusion Detection in Cloud-Edge Security Analytics

Federated learning FL is attractive for cloud-edge intrusion detection because it enables collaborative training over distributed telemetry without centralizing raw logs. In production security analytics pipelines, however, only a subset of clients participates in each round, and heterogeneous...

Information Theoretic Adversarial Training of Large Language Models

Large language models LLMs remain vulnerable to adversarial prompting despite advances in alignment and safety, often exhibiting harmful behaviors under novel attack strategies. While adversarial training can improve robustness, existing approaches are computationally expensive and difficult to...

Age Verification in the Web -- Holy Grail to Control Access to Restricted Content

Age verification before accessing restricted content is critical to protecting minors from exposure to harmful material such as pornography, gambling, violence, hateful speech, and substance purchases like alcohol and tobacco. Currently, the absence of reliable age-checking mechanisms allows...

Evolution of Log-Based Detection Rules in Public Repositories

Log-based detection rules remain central to modern security operations, encoding domain expertise that analysts iteratively refine to balance detection coverage against alert volume. Yet while prior work has examined the evolution of network intrusion detection signatures, the longitudinal behavi...

SOCpilot: Verifying Policy Compliance for LLM-Assisted Incident Response

Security operations centers SOCs are beginning to use large language models LLMs as copilots to draft incident-response plans. These plans may include actions that are valid per the catalog but still violate mandatory steps, required ordering, or approval gates before analyst review. SOCpilot mak...

AgentTrust: Runtime Safety Evaluation and Interception for AI Agent Tool Use

Modern AI agents execute real-world side effects through tool calls such as file operations, shell commands, HTTP requests, and database queries. A single unsafe action, including accidental deletion, credential exposure, or data exfiltration, can cause irreversible harm. Existing defenses are...

GLiNER Guard: Unified Encoder Family for Production LLM Safety and Privacy

Production LLM systems require both safety moderation and PII detection under strict latency and cost constraints. This creates a trade-off: autoregressive moderators are accurate but expensive, while lightweight encoders are faster but less capable. We present GLiNER Guard GLiGuard, a unified...

Fundamental Limitations of Post-Quantum Cryptographic Architectures

Modern lattice-based cryptography, particularly the learning with errors paradigm, relies on injecting artificial noise to secure data against quantum adversaries. This study systematically examines the theoretical and physical boundaries of this noise-reliant model across four interconnected...

MOSAIC-Bench: Measuring Compositional Vulnerability Induction in Coding Agents

Coding agents often pass per-prompt safety review yet ship exploitable code when their tasks are decomposed into routine engineering tickets. The challenge is structural: existing safety alignment evaluates overt requests in isolation, leaving models blind to malicious end-states that emerge from...

Internet of Things Security: A Survey on Common Attacks

The exponential growth of the Internet of Things IoT has integrated connected devices into various sectors like smart cities, digital health, and Industry 4.0, generating vast amounts of real-time data to support intelligent decision-making. However, this widespread adoption is fundamentally...

Generating Proof-Of-Vulnerability Tests to Help Enhance the Security of Complex Software

Developers create modern software applications Apps on top of third-party libraries Libs. When library vulnerabilities are reachable through application code, the applications can be vulnerable to software supply chain attacks. Prior work shows that developers often require concrete and executabl...

Redefining AI Red Teaming in the Agentic Era: From Weeks to Hours

AI systems are entering critical domains like healthcare, finance, and defense, yet remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks. While AI red teaming is a primary defense, current approaches force operators into manual, library-specific workflows. Operators spend weeks hand-crafting workflows -...

angr 9.2.214

angr is an open-source binary analysis platform for Python. It combines both static and dynamic symbolic "concolic" analysis, providing tools to solve a variety of tasks...

Firmware Distribution As Attack Surface: A Security Study of ASIC Cryptocurrency Miners

ASIC cryptocurrency miners are a core component of blockchain infrastructures, directly converting computation and energy into monetary value. Despite their economic im- portance, their security is rarely evaluated in a structured manner. In this paper, we show that the firmware distribution...

Tailored Prompts, Targeted Protection: Vulnerability-Specific LLM Analysis for Smart Contracts

Smart contracts on blockchains are prone to diverse security vulnerabilities that can lead to significant financial losses due to their immutable nature. Existing detection approaches often lack flexibility across vulnerability types and rely heavily on manually crafted expert rules. In this pape...

Lightweight Vulnerability Detection from Code Metrics and Token Features

Vulnerability detection for C/C++ code increasingly relies on heavy representations such as code graphs and deep models, while many practical workflows still benefit from fast and reproducible ranking baselines for human triage. This preprint studies a lightweight function-level vulnerability...

The Infinite Mutation Engine? Measuring Polymorphism in LLM-Generated Offensive Code

Malware authors have traditionally relied on polymorphic techniques to produce variants in the same malware family, complicating signature-based detection. Integrating generative AI into offensive toolchains enables attackers to synthesize structurally diverse payloads with identical behavior,...

Root-Cause-Driven Automated Vulnerability Repair

Recent LLM-based systems have made automated vulnerability repair increasingly practical, but two challenges remain. First, without strong signals about where a bug originates, repair agents drift toward shallow edits that silence the observed failure while leaving the underlying defect unresolve...

Rayhunter IMSI Catcher Detector

Rayhunter is a project for detecting IMSI catchers, also known as cell-site simulators or stingrays. It was first designed to run on a cheap mobile hotspot called the Orbic RC400L, but thanks to community efforts, it can support some other devices as well. It's also designed to be as easy to...

Joern 4.0.533

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...

HELO Cryptography: A Lightweight Cryptographic System for Enhancing IoT Security in P2P Data Transmission

The recent surge in security concerns for IoT devices highlights the increasing threat of cryptographic vulnerabilities. These weaknesses can lead to unauthorized access, data breaches, and manipulation of device functions, compromising the privacy and security of both the devices and their users...

The Adversarial Discount - AI, Signal Correlation, and the Cybersecurity Arms Race

We study a contest-theoretic model of adversarial investment in which an attacker and a defender allocate resources to AI-augmented capabilities across multiple attack surfaces. The attacker's investment operates through two channels: it amplifies offensive potency unconditionally and erodes...

GPUBreach: Privilege Escalation Attacks on GPUs Using Rowhammer

NVIDIA GPUs with GDDR memories have been shown susceptible to Rowhammer-based bit-flips, similar to CPUs. However, Rowhammer exploits on GPUs have been limited to injecting untargeted bit-flips in victim data like weights of machine learning models, to degrade model accuracy, unlike CPU exploits...

ARGUS: Defending LLM Agents against Context-Aware Prompt Injection

The rise of Large Language Model LLM agents, augmented with tool use, skills, and external knowledge, has introduced new security risks. Among them, prompt injection attacks, where adversaries embed malicious instructions into the agent workflow, have emerged as the primary threat. However,...

nimrc 1.0.0

nimrm is a native WinRM interactive shell client written in Nim. It's designed to be a compact and fast tool for system administration and authorized security testing. Key features include NTLM and Kerberos authentication, in-memory operations, file transfers, OPSEC awareness, and cross platform...

sshprank 1.7.0

sshprank is a fast SSH mass-scanner, login cracker, and banner grabber tool using the python-masscan and shodan modules...

DNS Spider Multithreaded Bruteforcer 1.5

DNS Spider is a multi-threaded bruteforcer of subdomains that leverages a wordlist and/or character permutation...

PIIGuard: Mitigating PII Harvesting under Adversarial Sanitization

Browsing-enabled LLM assistants can fetch webpages and answer contact-seeking queries, creating a practical channel for scraping contact-style personally identifiable information PII from public pages. Many prior defenses are deployed at the model, service, or agent layer rather than at the webpa...