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...

ContextualJailbreak: Evolutionary Red-Teaming Via Simulated Conversational Priming

Large language models LLMs remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that bypass safety alignment and elicit harmful responses. A growing body of work shows that contextual priming, where earlier turns covertly bias later replies, constitutes a powerful attack surface, with hand-crafted multi-turn...

Apache MINA Insecure Deserialization

The Apache MINA project has released versions 2.2.7 and 2.1.12 to address multiple deserialization vulnerabilities...

httpgrep 2.7

httpgrep is a tool written in Python that scans for HTTP servers and finds given strings in HTTP body and HTTP response headers...

Joern 4.0.532

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...

Public Voting Records: A Record, or an Attack Surface?

This is a whitepaper discussing a formal methodology for auditing voter-file disclosure regimes against linkage attacks...

Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Explainable Malware Analysis

Large Language Models LLMs are increasingly being used as security engineering tools to summarize and explain malware behavior to analysts. A common assumption is that Retrieval-Augmented Generation RAG improves explanation quality by injecting external security knowledge. In this work, we...

FunFuzz: An LLM-Powered Evolutionary Fuzzing Framework

Modern fuzzers increasingly use Large Language Models LLMs to generate structured inputs, but LLM-driven fuzzing is sensitive to prompt initialization and sampling variance, which can reduce exploration efficiency and lead to redundant inputs. We present FunFuzz, a multi-island evolutionary fuzzi...

Zero Day Attacks: Novel Behaviour or Novel Vulnerability?

Zero-day attacks pose severe cybersecurity risks due to their high success rates and stealth. Because signature-based approaches struggle to detect such attacks, building Intrusion Detection Systems IDSs for detecting zero-day attacks is essential. We contend that for an IDS to be effective it mu...

HackerSignal: A Large-Scale Multi-Source Dataset Linking Hacker Community Discourse to the CVE Vulnerability Lifecycle

We introduce HackerSignal, a benchmark for temporal out-of-distribution cyber threat intelligence CTI and cross-source CVE linkage. HackerSignal aggregates 7.45 million exact-deduplicated documents from 64 public forum/source identifiers spanning eight source layers and a 36-year window 1990-2026...

Autonomous LLM Agent Worms: Cross-Platform Propagation, Automated Discovery and Temporal Re-Entry Defense

Autonomous LLM agents operate as long-running processes with persistent workspaces, memory files, scheduled task state, and messaging integrations. These features create a new propagation risk: attacker-influenced content can be written into persistent agent state, re-enter the LLM decision conte...

LiteShield: Hybrid Feature Selection-Driven Lightweight Intrusion Detection for Resource-Constrained IoT Networks

The rapid expansion of Internet of Things IoT deployments has enlarged the attack surface of modern digital infrastructure while exposing a key security mismatch: many intrusion detection systems IDSs remain too computationally expensive for constrained IoT environments. This paper presents...

Hydra Network Logon Cracker 9.7

THC-Hydra is a high quality parallelized login hacker for Samba, Smbnt, Cisco AAA, FTP, POP3, IMAP, Telnet, HTTP Auth, LDAP, NNTP, MySQL, VNC, ICQ, Socks5, PCNFS, Cisco and more. Includes SSL support, parallel scans, and is part of Nessus...

Noisy Networks, Nosy Neighbors: Simple Privacy Attacks against Residential Wireless Traffic

Smart devices, such as light bulbs, TVs, fridges, etc., equipped with computing capabilities and wireless communication, are part of everyday life in many households. Previous work has already shown that a passive eavesdropper can derive private information, household routines, etc., from the...

Reflecthernet: Exfiltrating 100BASE-TX Ethernet Traffic Using a Retroreflector Hardware Trojan

Electromagnetic eavesdropping is a well-established attack vector for remotely monitoring a target activity, most notably displays, over considerable ranges. Other targets have been considered resistant to such attacks or do not exhibit sufficient electromagnetic leakage for practical exploitatio...

A Validated Prompt Bank for Malicious Code Generation: Separating Executable Weapons from Security Knowledge in 1,554 Consensus-Labeled Prompts

Existing benchmarks of language-model refusal on malicious-coding tasks routinely conflate requests for executable malicious software with requests for harmful security knowledge. This conflation matters because the two request types plausibly trigger distinct refusal pathways in safety-aligned...

Revisiting JBShield: Breaking and Rebuilding Representation-Level Jailbreak Defenses

Defending large language models LLMs against jailbreak attacks, such as Greedy Coordinate Gradient GCG, remains a challenge, particularly under adaptive threat models where an attacker directly targets the defense mechanism. JBShield, a recent jailbreak defense with a 0% attack success rate in so...

Stable Agentic Control: Tool-Mediated LLM Architecture for Autonomous Cyber Defense

Agentic systems involved in high-stake decision-making under adversarial pressure need formal guarantees not offered by existing approaches. Motivated by the operational needs of security operations centers SOCs that must configure endpoint detection and response EDR policies under adversarial...

Evaluating Tabular Representation Learning for Network Intrusion Detection

Classic Network Intrusion Detection Systems NIDS often rely on manual feature engineering to extract meaningful patterns from network traffic data. However, this approach requires domain expertise and runs counter to the widely adopted principle of modern machine learning and neural networks: tha...

Lulzbuster 2.0.0

Lulzbuster is a multithreaded, very fast and smart HTTPS directory and file bruteforcer written in C on top of libcurl. Given a target URL and a wordlist, it enumerates valid paths by firing concurrent HTTP requests and reporting back the responses that look like real hits i.e. status codes the...

Observability for Post-Quantum TLS Readiness: A Multi-Surface Evidence Framework

Post-quantum migration in Transport Layer Security TLS requires evidence-aware measurements that distinguish session negotiation, endpoint capability, certificate-chain evidence, and the provenance of missing observations. This distinction is essential under TLS 1.3 encryption, resumption, mutual...

Trojan Hippo: Weaponizing Agent Memory for Data Exfiltration

Memory systems enable otherwise-stateless LLM agents to persist user information across sessions, but also introduce a new attack surface. We characterize the Trojan Hippo attack, a class of persistent memory attacks that operates in a more realistic threat model than prior memory poisoning work:...

QASecClaw: A Multi-Agent LLM Approach for False Positive Reduction in Static Application Security Testing

Static Application Security Testing tools help developers find security vulnerabilities before release, but they often produce many false positives. This increases manual review effort, reduces developer trust, and may cause real vulnerabilities to be ignored among noisy reports. We present...

CyberAId: AI-Driven Cybersecurity for Financial Service Providers

European financial institutions face mounting regulatory pressure while their security operations centres remain constrained not by data or staffing but by reasoning capacity: enterprise SIEMs cover only a fraction of MITRE ATT&CK techniques, two thirds of SOC teams cannot keep pace with alert...

VulKey: Automated Vulnerability Repair Guided by Domain-Specific Repair Patterns

The increasing prevalence of software vulnerabilities highlights the need for effective Automatic Vulnerability Repair AVR tools. While LLM-based approaches are promising, they struggle to incorporate structured security knowledge from sources like CWE and NVD. Current methods either use this...

FIRCE: A Framework for Intrusion Response and Conformal Evaluation

Machine learning-based intrusion detection systems deployed in real-world environments frequently suffer from model degradation due to concept drift, where changes in traffic patterns invalidate training assumptions. To address this, we present FIRCE, a Framework for Intrusion Response and...

Tracing the Dynamics of Refusal: Exploiting Latent Refusal Trajectories for Robust Jailbreak Detection

Representation Engineering typically relies on static refusal vectors derived from terminal representations. We move beyond this paradigm, demonstrating that refusal is a dynamic and sparse process rather than a localized outcome. Using Causal Tracing, we uncover the Refusal Trajectory-a persiste...

CodeQL 2.25.3

Discover vulnerabilities across a codebase with CodeQL, an industry-leading semantic code analysis engine. CodeQL lets you query code as though it were data. Write a query to find all variants of a vulnerability, eradicating it forever. Then share your query to help others do the same...

STARE: Step-Wise Temporal Alignment and Red-Teaming Engine for Multi-Modal Toxicity Attack

Red-teaming Vision-Language Models is essential for identifying vulnerabilities where adversarial image-text inputs trigger toxic outputs. Existing approaches treat image generation as a black box, returning only terminal toxicity scores and leaving open the question of when and how toxic semanti...

KingsGuard: Enclave Data Protection under Real-World TEE Vulnerabilities

Trusted Execution Environments TEEs have emerged as a cornerstone for securing sensitive computations by providing isolated enclaves protected from untrusted software. However, their security guarantees are undermined by vulnerabilities in both the enclave code and the underlying hardware design,...

Phishing Detection in Ethereum Via Temporal Graph Contrastive Learning

Blockchain and decentralized finance have revolutionized the financial ecosystem while simultaneously exposing it to cryptocurrency phishing attacks. Existing phishing detection methods primarily rely on graph learning, but they face significant limitations. Static graph learning approaches fail ...

Self-Adaptive Multi-Agent LLM-Based Security Pattern Selection for IoT Systems

The adoption of Internet of Things IoT systems at the network edge of smart architectures is increasing rapidly, intensifying the need for security mechanisms that are both adaptive and resource-efficient. In such environments, runtime defence mechanisms are no longer limited to detection alone b...

When RAG Chatbots Expose Their Backend: An Anonymized Case Study of Privacy and Security Risks in Patient-Facing Medical AI

Background: Patient-facing medical chatbots based on retrieval-augmented generation RAG are increasingly promoted to deliver accessible, grounded health information. AI-assisted development lowers the barrier to building them, but they still demand rigorous security, privacy, and governance...

Trident: Improving Malware Detection with LLMs and Behavioral Features

Traditionally, machine learning methods for PE malware detection have relied on static features like byte histograms, string information, and PE header contents. One barrier to incorporating dynamic analysis features has been the semi-structured nature of sandbox behavior reports. We show that,...

Integrating Log-Based Security Analytics in Agile Workflows: A Real-World Experience Report

Modern organizations increasingly rely on log data and monitoring signals to protect products against account takeovers and abuse, yet integrating security analytics into fast-moving Agile workflows remains challenging. While it is important to understand how security practices are developed and...

A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Models for Intrusion Detection in Intelligent Transport Systems

AI-powered edge computing security is moving Intelligent Transportation Systems ITS from passive, rule-based protections to proactive, smart, zero-touch, self-sufficient safeguards that neutralize threats in milliseconds. As transportation becomes more connected with edge computing, massive IoT,...

How Code Representation Shapes False-Positive Dynamics in Cross-Language LLM Vulnerability Detection

How code representation format shapes false positive behaviour in cross-language LLM vulnerability detection remains poorly understood. We systematically vary training intensity and code representation format, comparing raw source text with pruned Abstract Syntax Trees at both training time and...

WOOTdroid: Whole-System Online On-Device Tracing for Android

System auditing on Android faces two problems. First, existing syscall tracers lose events under load, silently overwriting entries faster than a user space reader can drain them. Second, security-relevant application behavior is mediated through Binder, Android's kernel IPC mechanism, and is...

Wireshark Analyzer 4.6.5

Wireshark is a GTK+-based network protocol analyzer that lets you capture and interactively browse the contents of network frames. The goal of the project is to create a commercial-quality analyzer for Unix and Win32 and to give Wireshark features that are missing from closed-source sniffers. Thi...

Attention Is Where You Attack

Safety-aligned large language models rely on RLHF and instruction tuning to refuse harmful requests, yet the internal mechanisms implementing safety behavior remain poorly understood. We introduce the Attention Redistribution Attack ARA, a white-box adversarial attack that identifies...

TwinGate: Stateful Defense against Decompositional Jailbreaks in Untraceable Traffic Via Asymmetric Contrastive Learning

Decompositional jailbreaks pose a critical threat to large language models LLMs by allowing adversaries to fragment a malicious objective into a sequence of individually benign queries that collectively reconstruct prohibited content. In real-world deployments, LLMs face a continuous, untraceable...

XekRung Technical Report

We present XekRung, a frontier large language model for cybersecurity, designed to provide comprehensive security capabilities. To achieve this, we develop diverse data synthesis pipelines tailored to the cybersecurity domain, enabling the scalable construction of high-quality training data and...

IWCC 2026 Call for Papers

The 15th International Workshop on Cyber Crime, or IWCC, 2026 call for papers has been announced. It will be held this year in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ARES 2026 in Link�ping, Sweden, August 24th through the 27th, 2026...

Joern 4.0.530

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...

Alignment Contracts for Agentic Security Systems

Agentic security systems increasingly combine LLM planners with tools that can discover, validate, and report vulnerabilities. This creates an asymmetric control problem: the system should retain strong offensive capability inside an authorized engagement, while the same capabilities must be deni...

One Single Hub Text Breaks CLIP: Identifying Vulnerabilities in Cross-Modal Encoders Via Hubness

The hubness problem, in which hub embeddings are close to many unrelated examples, occurs often in high-dimensional embedding spaces and may pose a practical threat for purposes such as information retrieval and automatic evaluation metrics. In particular, since cross-modal similarity between tex...

CVE MCP Server 0.1.0

CVE MCP Server is a production-grade Model Context Protocol MCP server that turns Claude into a full-spectrum security analyst. Instead of juggling 15+ browser tabs across NVD, EPSS, CISA KEV, Shodan, VirusTotal, and GreyNoise, ask Claude one question and get correlated intelligence in seconds...

GNU Transport Layer Security Library 3.8.13

GnuTLS is a secure communications library implementing the SSL and TLS protocols and technologies around them. It provides a simple C language application programming interface API to access the secure communications protocols, as well as APIs to parse and write X.509, PKCS 12, OpenPGP, and other...

Varnish Nuclei Detection Templates

This repository has two-stage Nuclei detection for CVE-2026-34475. It can fingerprint vulnerable Varnish instances, verify cache-key collision behavior, and confirm exploitability via VCL inspection, without triggering the bug...

Jailbroken Frontier Models Retain Their Capabilities

As language model safeguards become more robust, attackers are pushed toward developing increasingly complex jailbreaks. Prior work has found that this complexity imposes a "jailbreak tax" that degrades the target model's task performance. We show that this tax scales inversely with model...