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Apache Traffic Server Host Header Stability Scanner

This is a safe verification tool designed to detect abnormal Host header handling behavior in Apache Traffic Server without triggering denial of service conditions. The tool performs controlled HTTP requests and analyzes response stability, connection behavior, and service continuity...

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Automatic, Expressive, and Scalable Fuzzing with Stitching

Fuzzing is a powerful technique for finding bugs in software libraries, but scaling it remains difficult. Automated harness generation commits to fixed API sequences at synthesis time, limiting the behaviors each harness can test. Approaches that instead explore new sequences dynamically lack the...

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PayPal February 2026 Notice of Data Breach

PayPal has released this notice of data breach to its customers following a data exposure issue that spanned from July 1, 2025 to December 13, 2025...

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Increase in Malware Enabled ATM Jackpotting Incidents across United States

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI is releasing this FLASH to disseminate indicators of compromise IOCs and technical details associated with malware enabled ATM jackpotting. Threat actors exploit physical and software vulnerabilities in ATMs and deploy malware to dispense cash without a...

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Radware 2026 Global Threat Analysis Report

This is the Radware 2026 Global Threat Analysis Report that provides details on global network and application attack trends of 2025...

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Can AI Lower the Barrier to Cybersecurity? A Human-Centered Mixed-Methods Study of Novice CTF Learning

Capture-the-Flag CTF competitions serve as gateways into offensive cybersecurity, yet they often present steep barriers for novices due to complex toolchains and opaque workflows. Recently, agentic AI frameworks for cybersecurity promise to lower these barriers by automating and coordinating...

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Drawing the LINE: Cryptographic Analysis and Security Improvements for the LINE E2EE Protocol

LINE has emerged as one of the most popular communication platforms in many East Asian countries, including Thailand and Japan, with millions of active users. Therefore, it is essential to understand its security guarantees. In this work, we present the first provable security analysis of the LIN...

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Windows Registry Active Setup Persistence

This Metasploit module will register a payload to run via the Active Setup mechanism in Windows. Active Setup is a Windows feature that runs once per user at login. It triggers in a user context, losing privileges from admin to user...

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AndroWasm: An Empirical Study on Android Malware Obfuscation through WebAssembly

In recent years, stealthy Android malware has increasingly adopted sophisticated techniques to bypass automatic detection mechanisms and harden manual analysis. Adversaries typically rely on obfuscation, anti-repacking, steganography, poisoning, and evasion techniques to AI-based tools, and...

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Influence of Autoencoder Latent Space on Classifying IoT CoAP Attacks

The Internet of Things IoT presents a unique cybersecurity challenge due to its vast network of interconnected, resource-constrained devices. These vulnerabilities not only threaten data integrity but also the overall functionality of IoT systems. This study addresses these challenges by explorin...

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Detecting PowerShell-Based Fileless Cryptojacking Attacks Using Machine Learning

With the emergence of remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities in ubiquitous libraries and advanced social engineering techniques, threat actors have started conducting widespread fileless cryptojacking attacks. These attacks have become effective with stealthy techniques based on PowerShell-bas...

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SofaWiki 3.9.2 Shell Upload

This is a proof of concept remote shell upload exploit for SofaWiki version 3.9.2 that leverages an issue originally discovered in 2024...

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Python Safe TAR Scanner

This Python tool provides a scanner for TAR archives, designed to detect unsafe or malicious entries before extraction...

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Trojan Horses in Recruiting: A Red-Teaming Case Study on Indirect Prompt Injection in Standard Vs. Reasoning Models

As Large Language Models LLMs are increasingly integrated into automated decision-making pipelines, specifically within Human Resources HR, the security implications of Indirect Prompt Injection IPI become critical. While a prevailing hypothesis posits that "Reasoning" or "Chain-of-Thought" Model...

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PenTiDef: Enhancing Privacy and Robustness in Decentralized Federated Intrusion Detection Systems against Poisoning Attacks

The increasing deployment of Federated Learning FL in Intrusion Detection Systems IDS introduces new challenges related to data privacy, centralized coordination, and susceptibility to poisoning attacks. While significant research has focused on protecting traditional FL-IDS with centralized...

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SmarterMail 16.3.6989.16341 Path Traversal

This PHP proof of concept is a detection-only artifact generator for CVE-2025-52691 affecting SmarterMail version 16.3.6989.16341. It sends a crafted multipart upload request to the /api/upload endpoint, leveraging a path traversal condition in the contextData GUID to determine whether the target...

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The CTI Echo Chamber: Fragmentation, Overlap, and Vendor Specificity in Twenty Years of Cyber Threat Reporting

Despite the high volume of open-source Cyber Threat Intelligence CTI, our understanding of long-term threat actor-victim dynamics remains fragmented due to the lack of structured datasets and inconsistent reporting standards. In this paper, we present a large-scale automated analysis of open-sour...

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What Makes a Good LLM Agent for Real-World Penetration Testing?

LLM-based agents show promise for automating penetration testing, yet reported performance varies widely across systems and benchmarks. We analyze 28 LLM-based penetration testing systems and evaluate five representative implementations across three benchmarks of increasing complexity. Our analys...

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TFL: Targeted Bit-Flip Attack on Large Language Model

Large language models LLMs are increasingly deployed in safety and security critical applications, raising concerns about their robustness to model parameter fault injection attacks. Recent studies have shown that bit-flip attacks BFAs, which exploit computer main memory i.e., DRAM vulnerabilitie...

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Comparison of Security Mechanisms of Mathematical Cipher, Wyner Scheme, QKD, and Quantum Stream Cipher

A new generation of global communications technology has been emerging. These systems, which utilize established device technologies and quantum effect devices, require ultra-high speeds, low cost, and strong security. In recent years, global communication systems have faced various practical...

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MultiVer: Zero-Shot Multi-Agent Vulnerability Detection

We present MultiVer, a zero-shot multi-agent system for vulnerability detection that achieves state-of-the-art recall without fine-tuning. A four-agent ensemble security, correctness, performance, style with union voting achieves 82.7% recall on PyVul, exceeding fine-tuned GPT-3.5 81.3% by 1.4...

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SigInt-Cirtanus 1.0

SigInt-Cirtanus is a Python-based, multi-threaded threat intelligence automation framework designed for defensive cybersecurity operations. It retrieves and processes real-time threat feeds e.g., from URLhaus, validates indicators, and dynamically generates detection artifacts for integration wit...

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Recursive Language Models for Jailbreak Detection: A Procedural Defense for Tool-Augmented Agents

Jailbreak prompts are a practical and evolving threat to large language models LLMs, particularly in agentic systems that execute tools over untrusted content. Many attacks exploit long-context hiding, semantic camouflage, and lightweight obfuscations that can evade single-pass guardrails. We...

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Windows Registry Persistence Via Userinit

This Metasploit module will install a payload that is executed during user logon. It writes a payload executable to disk and modifies the Userinit registry value in "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" to append the payload path, causing it to execute when any user logs in...

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Mind the Gap: Evaluating LLMs for High-Level Malicious Package Detection Vs. Fine-Grained Indicator Identification

The prevalence of malicious packages in open-source repositories, such as PyPI, poses a critical threat to the software supply chain. While Large Language Models LLMs have emerged as a promising tool for automated security tasks, their effectiveness in detecting malicious packages and indicators...

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mailcow: Dockerized Host Header Password Reset Poisoning Scanner

This Metasploit module adds a scanner for a Host header poisoning vulnerability in mailcow:dockerized versions prior to 2025-01a. The vulnerability occurs because the application improperly trusts the HTTP Host header when generating password reset links. By supplying a crafted Host header during...

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Automating Agent Hijacking Via Structural Template Injection

Agent hijacking, highlighted by OWASP as a critical threat to the Large Language Model LLM ecosystem, enables adversaries to manipulate execution by injecting malicious instructions into retrieved content. Most existing attacks rely on manually crafted, semantics-driven prompt manipulation, which...

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Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) Detector

This Metasploit auxiliary module implements a scientific approach to detecting and validating ReDoS vulnerabilities in HTTP-based applications. It leverages context-aware payload generation, length progression testing, and statistical analysis to identify inefficient regular expressions that may...

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Aether Smart Contract Security Analysis Framework 4.7.1

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...

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Discovering Universal Activation Directions for PII Leakage in Language Models

Modern language models exhibit rich internal structure, yet little is known about how privacy-sensitive behaviors, such as personally identifiable information PII leakage, are represented and modulated within their hidden states. We present UniLeak, a mechanistic-interpretability framework that...

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Arc2Morph: Identity-Preserving Facial Morphing with Arc2Face

Face morphing attacks are widely recognized as one of the most challenging threats to face recognition systems used in electronic identity documents. These attacks exploit a critical vulnerability in passport enrollment procedures adopted by many countries, where the facial image is often acquire...

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btrpa-scan BLE Scanner

btrpa-scan is a Bluetooth Low Energy BLE scanner with advanced Resolvable Private Address RPA resolution. Discover nearby BLE devices, track a specific device by MAC address, or resolve privacy-randomized addresses using an Identity Resolving Key IRK...

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TOR Virtual Network Tunneling Tool 0.4.9.5

Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. It also enables software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features. It provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow...

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DARTH-PUM: A Hybrid Processing-Using-Memory Architecture

Analog processing-using-memory PUM; a.k.a. in-memory computing makes use of electrical interactions inside memory arrays to perform bulk matrix-vector multiplication MVM operations. However, many popular matrix-based kernels need to execute non-MVM operations, which analog PUM cannot directly...

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Python Email Header Injection Mitigation Tester

This tool demonstrates how modern Python's email library EmailMessage with policy.default effectively prevents email header injection attacks. By rejecting newline and carriage return characters in header values, the library enforces RFC 5322 compliance and blocks classic injection attempts such ...

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Bluetooth RFCOMM 1.1 Signal-Triggered Air-Gap Interaction

This project demonstrates how Flipper Zero can be used to interact with devices in an Air-Gap context using Bluetooth RFCOMM signals. The system monitors RSSI signal strength and uses statistical peak detection Z-Score analysis to identify significant signal spikes from target devices. When a pea...

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OMNI-STRIKE Multi‑Protocol Wireless Security Testing Platform

OMNI‑STRIKE is a multi‑protocol wireless security assessment application built for Flipper Zero. It is designed to discover nearby wireless devices and perform controlled, authorized security testing in a structured and logged environment...

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From Tool Orchestration to Code Execution: A Study of MCP Design Choices

Model Context Protocols MCPs provide a unified platform for agent systems to discover, select, and orchestrate tools across heterogeneous execution environments. As MCP-based systems scale to incorporate larger tool catalogs and multiple concurrently connected MCP servers, traditional tool-by-too...

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Zero Knowledge (About) Encryption: A Comparative Security Analysis of Three Cloud-based Password Managers

Zero Knowledge Encryption is a term widely used by vendors of cloud-based password managers. Although it has no strict technical meaning, the term conveys the idea that the server, who stores encrypted password vaults on behalf of users, is unable to learn anything about the contents of those...

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Can Adversarial Code Comments Fool AI Security Reviewers -- Large-Scale Empirical Study of Comment-Based Attacks and Defenses against LLM Code Analysis

AI-assisted code review is widely used to detect vulnerabilities before production release. Prior work shows that adversarial prompt manipulation can degrade large language model LLM performance in code generation. We test whether similar comment-based manipulation misleads LLMs during...

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A Unified Evaluation of Learning-Based Similarity Techniques for Malware Detection

Cryptographic digests e.g., MD5, SHA-256 are designed to provide exact identity. Any single-bit change in the input produces a completely different hash, which is ideal for integrity verification but limits their usefulness in many real-world tasks like threat hunting, malware analysis and digita...

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Collaborative Zone-Adaptive Zero-Day Intrusion Detection for IoBT

The Internet of Battlefield Things IoBT relies on heterogeneous, bandwidth-constrained, and intermittently connected tactical networks that face rapidly evolving cyber threats. In this setting, intrusion detection cannot depend on continuous central collection of raw traffic due to disrupted link...

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A Content-Based Framework for Cybersecurity Refusal Decisions in Large Language Models

Large language models and LLM-based agents are increasingly used for cybersecurity tasks that are inherently dual-use. Existing approaches to refusal, spanning academic policy frameworks and commercially deployed systems, often rely on broad topic-based bans or offensive-focused taxonomies. As a...

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A Scan-Based Analysis of Internet-Exposed IoT Devices Using Shodan Data

An open measurement problem in IoT security is whether scan-observable network configurations encode population-level exposure risk beyond individual devices. An analysis of internet-exposed IoT endpoints using a controlled multi-country sample from Shodan Search and Shodan InternetDB, selecting...

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AI Arms and Influence: Frontier Models Exhibit Sophisticated Reasoning in Simulated Nuclear Crises

Today's leading AI models engage in sophisticated behaviour when placed in strategic competition. They spontaneously attempt deception, signaling intentions they do not intend to follow; they demonstrate rich theory of mind, reasoning about adversary beliefs and anticipating their actions; and th...

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What Hackers Talk about When They Talk about AI: Early-Stage Diffusion of a Cybercrime Innovation

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence AI is raising concerns about its potential to transform cybercrime. Beyond empowering novice offenders, AI stands to intensify the scale and sophistication of attacks by seasoned cybercriminals. This paper examines the evolving relationship between...

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Systematic Review of Lightweight Cryptographic Algorithms

The emergence of small computing devices and the integration of processing units into everyday objects has made lightweight cryptography an essential part of the security landscape. Conventional cryptographic algorithms such as AES, RSA, and DES are unsuitable for resource-constrained devices due...

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OpenSSL 3.x QUIC Initial Packet Builder / Sender

This script is a proof of concept QUIC client that constructs fully encrypted initial packets with header protection. It can be used for testing or fuzzing QUIC/TLS 1.3 implementations. The script constructs and sends a cryptographically valid QUIC Initial packet over UDP. It simulates a QUIC...

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Intellicise Wireless Networks Meet Agentic AI: A Security and Privacy Perspective

Intellicise Intelligent and Concise wireless network is the main direction of the evolution of future mobile communication systems, a perspective now widely acknowledged across academia and industry. As a key technology within it, Agentic AI has garnered growing attention due to its advanced...

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Secure and Energy-Efficient Wireless Agentic AI Networks

In this paper, we introduce a secure wireless agentic AI network comprising one supervisor AI agent and multiple other AI agents to provision quality of service QoS for users' reasoning tasks while ensuring confidentiality of private knowledge and reasoning outcomes. Specifically, the supervisor ...

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