AnyPoC: Universal Proof-Of-Concept Test Generation for Scalable LLM-Based Bug Detection

While recent LLM-based agents can identify many candidate bugs in source code, their reports remain static hypotheses that require manual validation, limiting the practicality of automated bug detection. We frame this challenge as a test generation task: given a candidate report, synthesizing an...

Saleor Cross Site Scripting

Saleor suffers from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability via an unrestricted file upload functionality. This issue has been patched in versions 3.22.27, 3.21.43, and 3.20.108...

Beyond Static Sandboxing: Learned Capability Governance for Autonomous AI Agents

Autonomous AI agents built on open-source runtimes such as OpenClaw expose every available tool to every session by default, regardless of the task. A summarization task receives the same shell execution, subagent spawning, and credential access capabilities as a code deployment task, a 15x...

The Code Whisperer: LLM and Graph-Based AI for Smell and Vulnerability Resolution

Code smells and software vulnerabilities both increase maintenance cost, yet they are often handled by separate tools that miss structural context and produce noisy warnings. This paper presents The Code Whisperer, a hybrid framework that combines graph-based program analysis with large language...

Machine Learning-Based Detection of MCP Attacks

The Model Context Protocol MCP is a new and emerging technology that extends the functionality of large language models, improving workflows but also exposing users to a new attack surface. Several studies have highlighted related security flaws, but MCP attack detection remains underexplored. To...

A Relay a Day Keeps the AirTag Away: Practical Relay Attacks on Apple's AirTags

Apple AirTags use Apple's Find My network: when nearby iDevices detect a lost tag, they anonymously forward an encrypted location report to Apple, which the tag's owner can then fetch to locate the item. That encryption protects privacy -- neither the finder nor Apple learns the owner's identity ...

Organizational Security Resource Estimation Via Vulnerability Queueing

We provide an approach that closely estimates an organization's cyber resources directly from vulnerability timestamps, using a non-stationary queueing framework. Traditional attack-surface metrics operate on static snapshots, ignoring the core attack-defense dynamics within information systems,...

Automatic Teller Machines for Offline E-Cash

Electronic cash e-cash is a digital alternative to physical currency that allows anonymous transactions between users and merchants. Typically, coins in an e-cash scheme are only dispensed through a central bank. A drawback of this approach is that the bank is always on the critical path during...

Jailbreaking the Matrix: Nullspace Steering for Controlled Model Subversion

Large language models remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks -- inputs designed to bypass safety mechanisms and elicit harmful responses -- despite advances in alignment and instruction tuning. We propose Head-Masked Nullspace Steering HMNS, a circuit-level intervention that i identifies attentio...

WPProbe Plugin Enumeration Tool 0.11.6

A fast WordPress plugin and theme scanner that detects installed plugins via REST API enumeration and themes from HTML discovery, then maps them to known vulnerabilities. Over 5,000 plugins detectable without brute-force, thousands more with it...

RRC Steganography

This is a proof of concept tool called Rotation Range-Coding RRC Steganography - an efficient and provably secure linguistic steganographic method that embeds secret messages into natural-language text generated by large language models. Included is the whitepaper discussing this tool called...

S3CDM: A Secret-Sharing-Scheme-Based Cyberattack Detection Model and Its Simulation Implementation

We design and develop a secret-sharing-scheme-based cyberattack detection modelS3CDMthat can detect unauthorized or illegal activities especially insider attacks and protect sensitive information within complex network infrastructures of large organizations. The model splits a secret among a grou...

Personal AI Infrastructure 4.0.3

PAI is a Personalized AI Platform designed to magnify your capabilities. It's designed for humans most of all, but can be used by teams, companies, or Federations of Planets desiring to be better versions of themselves. The goal of the project is to get people working with AI and lower the bar...

Lodash 4.17.12 Prototype Pollution Scanner

This tool is a multi-threaded CLI scanner designed to detect potential Prototype Pollution vulnerabilities in web applications using Lodash. It targets endpoints that may improperly handle user-supplied JSON input and perform unsafe object merging operations e.g., via defaultsDeep. The scanner...

BadSkill: Backdoor Attacks on Agent Skills Via Model-In-Skill Poisoning

Agent ecosystems increasingly rely on installable skills to extend functionality, and some skills bundle learned model artifacts as part of their execution logic. This creates a supply-chain risk that is not captured by prompt injection or ordinary plugin misuse: a third-party skill may appear...

CLIP-Inspector: Model-Level Backdoor Detection for Prompt-Tuned CLIP Via OOD Trigger Inversion

Organisations with limited data and computational resources increasingly outsource model training to Machine Learning as a Service MLaaS providers, who adapt vision-language models VLMs such as CLIP to downstream tasks via prompt tuning rather than training from scratch. This semi-honest setting...

Event-Driven Temporal Graph Networks for Asynchronous Multi-Agent Cyber Defense in NetForge_RL

The transition of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning MARL policies from simulated cyber wargames to operational Security Operations Centers SOCs is fundamentally bottlenecked by the Sim2Real gap. Legacy simulators abstract away network protocol physics, rely on synchronous ticks, and provide clea...

ADAM: A Systematic Data Extraction Attack on Agent Memory Via Adaptive Querying

Large Language Model LLM agents have achieved rapid adoption and demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of applications. To improve reasoning and task execution, modern LLM agents would incorporate memory modules or retrieval-augmented generation RAG mechanisms, enabling them to...

Maestro 0.15.3

Maestro is a cross-platform desktop app for orchestrating your fleet of AI agents and projects. It's a high-velocity solution for hackers who are juggling multiple projects in parallel. Designed for power users who live on the keyboard and rarely touch the mouse. Collaborate with AI to create...

Falco 0.43.1

Sysdig Falco is a behavioral activity monitoring agent that is open source and comes with native support for containers. Falco lets you define highly granular rules to check for activities involving file and network activity, process execution, IPC, and much more, using a flexible syntax. Falco...

DSpace 7.x / 8.x XMLUI Data Extraction

This Python script sends an HTTP request to a DSpace XMLUI "discover" endpoint using specific query parameters and session cookies. It attempts to retrieve up to 100 records in XML format and saves the response locally as a raw XML dump file. After downloading the data, it performs a basic text...

Like a Hammer, It Can Build, It Can Break: Large Language Model Uses, Perceptions, and Adoption in Cybersecurity Operations on Reddit

Large language models LLMs have recently emerged as promising tools for augmenting Security Operations Center SOC workflows, with vendors increasingly marketing autonomous AI solutions for SOCs. However, there remains a limited empirical understanding of how such tools are used, perceived, and...

DSpace 5.x / 6.x Full Repository Extractor

This Python script is an automated extraction tool targeting a DSpace-based repository. It leverages an open Solr search query to enumerate repository item handles, then audits each item to discover and download associated bitstream files typically PDFs. The script also attempts sequence-based...

ChatGPT, Is This Real? the Influence of Generative AI on Writing Style in Top-Tier Cybersecurity Papers

With the release of ChatGPT in 2022, generative AI has significantly lowered the cost of polishing and rewriting text. Due to its widespread usage, conference organizers instated specific requirements researchers need to adhere to when using GenAI. When asked to rewrite text, GenAI can introduce...

Tracing the Chain: Deep Learning for Stepping-Stone Intrusion Detection

Stepping-stone intrusions SSIs are a prevalent network evasion technique in which attackers route sessions through chains of compromised intermediate hosts to obscure their origin. Effective SSI detection requires correlating the incoming and outgoing flows at each relay host at extremely low fal...

ACIArena: Toward Unified Evaluation for Agent Cascading Injection

Collaboration and information sharing empower Multi-Agent Systems MAS but also introduce a critical security risk known as Agent Cascading Injection ACI. In such attacks, a compromised agent exploits inter-agent trust to propagate malicious instructions, causing cascading failures across the...

Your Agent Is Mine: Measuring Malicious Intermediary Attacks on the LLM Supply Chain

Large language model LLM agents increasingly rely on third-party API routers to dispatch tool-calling requests across multiple upstream providers. These routers operate as application-layer proxies with full plaintext access to every in-flight JSON payload, yet no provider enforces cryptographic...

Windows Telemetry Persistence

This is a Metasploit module that provides a persistence mechanism that installs a new telemetry provider for windows. If telemetry is turned on, when the scheduled task launches, it will execute the telemetry provider and execute our payload with system permissions...

OpenSCAP Libraries 1.3.14

The openscap project is a set of open source libraries that support the SCAP Security Content Automation Protocol set of standards from NIST. It supports CPE, CCE, CVE, CVSS, OVAL, and XCCDF...

Follow My Eyes: Backdoor Attacks on VLM-Based Scanpath Prediction

Scanpath prediction models forecast the sequence and timing of human fixations during visual search, driving foveated rendering and attention-based interaction in mobile systems where their integrity is a first-class security concern. We present the first study of backdoor attacks against VLM-bas...

Security Concerns in Generative AI Coding Assistants: Insights from Online Discussions on GitHub Copilot

Generative Artificial Intelligence GenAI has become a central component of many development tools e.g., GitHub Copilot that support software practitioners across multiple programming tasks, including code completion, documentation, and bug detection. However, current research has identified...

RansomTrack: A Hybrid Behavioral Analysis Framework for Ransomware Detection

Ransomware poses a serious and fast-acting threat to critical systems, often encrypting files within seconds of execution. Research indicates that ransomware is the most reported cybercrime in terms of financial damage, highlighting the urgent need for early-stage detection before encryption is...

Vulnerability Detection with Interprocedural Context in Multiple Languages: Assessing Effectiveness and Cost of Modern LLMs

Large Language Models LLMs have been a promising way for automated vulnerability detection. However, most prior studies have explored the use of LLMs to detect vulnerabilities only within single functions, disregarding those related to interprocedural dependencies. These studies overlook...

Securing Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Taxonomy of Attacks, Defenses, and Future Directions

Retrieval-augmented generation RAG significantly enhances large language models LLMs but introduces novel security risks through external knowledge access. While existing studies cover various RAG vulnerabilities, they often conflate inherent LLM risks with those specifically introduced by RAG. I...

Why Network Segmentation Projects Fail

Network segmentation is a foundational enterprise security control. Despite its recognized benefits, segmentation initiatives frequently fail in practice, and the field lacks a systematic empirical explanation for why these projects do not achieve their intended outcomes. This paper presents an...

OpenSCAP Libraries 1.4.4

The openscap project is a set of open source libraries that support the SCAP Security Content Automation Protocol set of standards from NIST. It supports CPE, CCE, CVE, CVSS, OVAL, and XCCDF...

SkillTrojan: Backdoor Attacks on Skill-Based Agent Systems

Skill-based agent systems tackle complex tasks by composing reusable skills, improving modularity and scalability while introducing a largely unexamined security attack surface. We propose SkillTrojan, a backdoor attack that targets skill implementations rather than model parameters or training...

Beyond Single Reports: Evaluating Automated ATT&CK Technique Extraction in Multi-Report Campaign Settings

Large-scale cyberattacks, referred to as campaigns, are documented across multiple CTI reports from diverse sources, with some providing a high-level overview of attack techniques and others providing technical details. Extracting attack techniques from reports is essential for organizations to...

OpenSSL Toolkit 3.3.7

OpenSSL is a robust, fully featured Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security protocols with full-strength cryptography world-wide. This is the 3.3 release...

OpenSSL Toolkit 3.0.20

OpenSSL is a robust, fully featured Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security protocols with full-strength cryptography world-wide. This is the 3.0 LTS release...

OpenSSL Toolkit 3.6.2

OpenSSL is a robust, fully featured Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security protocols with full-strength cryptography world-wide. This is the 3.6 release...

Aether Smart Contract Security Analysis Framework 6.0

Aether is a Python-based framework for analyzing Solidity smart contracts, generating vulnerability findings, producing Foundry-based proof-of-concept PoC tests, and validating exploits on mainnet forks. It combines Solidity AST parsing, taint analysis, control flow graph analysis, cross-contract...

Aether Smart Contract Security Analysis Framework 5.0.2

Aether is a Python-based framework for analyzing Solidity smart contracts, generating vulnerability findings, producing Foundry-based proof-of-concept PoC tests, and validating exploits on mainnet forks. It combines Solidity AST parsing, taint analysis, control flow graph analysis, cross-contract...

MCP-DPT: A Defense-Placement Taxonomy and Coverage Analysis for Model Context Protocol Security

The Model Context Protocol MCP enables large language models LLMs to dynamically discover and invoke third-party tools, significantly expanding agent capabilities while introducing a distinct security landscape. Unlike prompt-only interactions, MCP exposes pre-execution artifacts, shared context,...

OpenSSL Toolkit 3.4.5

OpenSSL is a robust, fully featured Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security protocols with full-strength cryptography world-wide. This is the 3.4 release...

Vulnerability Abundance: A Formal Proof of Infinite Vulnerabilities in Code

We present a constructive proof that a single C program, the Vulnerability Factory, admits a countably infinite set of distinct, independently CVE-assignable software vulnerabilities. We formalise the argument using elementary set theory, verify it against MITRE's CVE Numbering Authority counting...

Hiding in the Tunnels: Unmasking the New Stealthy BPFDoor Variants

This is Rapid7's whitepaper discussing BPFDoor variants. Advanced persistent threats APTs are locked in a continuous arms race with network defenders. As static indicators of compromise IoCs for the notorious BPFDoor malware became widely deployed by security vendors, the threat actors went back ...

Hiding an Ear in Plain Sight: On the Practicality and Implications of Acoustic Eavesdropping with Telecom Fiber Optic Cable

Optical fibers are widely regarded as reliable communication channels due to their resistance to external interference and low signal loss. This paper demonstrates a critical side channel within telecommunication optical fiber that allows for acoustic eavesdropping. By exploiting the sensitivity ...

OpenSSL Toolkit 3.5.6

OpenSSL is a robust, fully featured Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security protocols with full-strength cryptography world-wide. This is the 3.5 LTS release...

VulGD: A LLM-Powered Dynamic Open-Access Vulnerability Graph Database

Software vulnerabilities continue to pose significant threats to modern information systems, requiring a timely and accurate risk assessment. Public repositories, such as the National Vulnerability Database and CVE details, are regularly updated, but predominantly utilize relational data models...