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...

Security Attack and Defense Strategies for Autonomous Agent Frameworks: A Layered Review with OpenClaw As a Case Study

Autonomous agent frameworks built upon large language models LLMs are evolving into complex, tool-integrated, and continuously operating systems, introducing security risks beyond traditional prompt-level vulnerabilities. As this paradigm is still at an early stage of development, a timely and...

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,...

Apple Security Advisory 04-22-2026-2

Apple Security Advisory 04-22-2026-2 - iOS 18.7.8 and iPadOS 18.7.8 address a logging issue with improved data redaction...

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...

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...

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...

I Can't Recognize (Yet): Delayed Rendering to Defeat Visual Phishing Detectors

Phishing webpages are continuously polluting the Web. Plenty of countermeasures have been proposed and the most advanced techniques leverage machine-learning methods that infer whether a webpage is benign or not by inspecting its visual representation. Yet, despite the demonstrated effectiveness ...

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...

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...

RoboKA: KAN Informed Multimodal Learning for RoboCall Surveillance System

Wide exploration on robocall surveillance research is hindered due to limited access to public datasets, due to privacy concerns. In this work, we first curate Robo-SAr, a synthetic robocall dataset designed for robocall surveillance research. Robo-SAr comprises of 200 unwanted and 1200 legitimat...

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...

Indirect Prompt Injection in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Prevalence, Techniques, and Objectives

As LLMs are increasingly integrated into systems that browse, retrieve, summarize, and act on web content, webpages have become an untrusted input vector for downstream model behavior. This enables site owners, contributors, and adversaries to embed instructions directly in web resources, i.e.,...

Joern 4.0.529

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...

FreeBSD Security Advisory - FreeBSD-SA-26:12.dhclient

FreeBSD Security Advisory - The BOOTP file field is written to the lease file without escaping embedded double-quotes, allowing injection of arbitrary dhclient.conf directives. When the lease file is subsequently re-parsed by dhclient, e.g., after a system restart, an attacker-controlled field fr...

FreeBSD Security Advisory - FreeBSD-SA-26:14.pf

FreeBSD Security Advisory - Incorrect packet validation allowed unbounded recursion parsing SCTP chunk parameters. This can eventually result in a stack overflow and panic...

FreeBSD Security Advisory - FreeBSD-SA-26:15.dhclient

FreeBSD Security Advisory - As dhclient is building an environment to pass to dhclient-script, it may need to resize the array of string pointers. The code which expands the array incorrectly calculates its new size when requesting memory, resulting in a heap buffer overrun...

FreeBSD Security Advisory - FreeBSD-SA-26:16.libnv

FreeBSD Security Advisory - When exchanging data over a socket, libnv uses select2 to wait for data to arrive. However, it does not verify whether the provided socket descriptor fits in select2's file descriptor set size limit of FDSETSIZE 1024...

FreeBSD Security Advisory - FreeBSD-SA-26:17.libnv

FreeBSD Security Advisory - When processing the header of an incoming message, libnv failed to properly validate the message size...

PrestaShop Version Hunter

psversionhunter.py fingerprints a PrestaShop installation by comparing the versions of its native modules against the module versions bundled with a known PrestaShop release tag. This is useful when a target does not expose the PrestaShop core version directly but still exposes native module...

angr 9.2.213

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...

Taking a Bite out of the Forbidden Fruit: Characterizing Third-Party Iranian IOS App Stores

Due to U.S. sanctions and strict internet censorship, Iranian iOS users are barred from accessing the Apple App Store and developer services. In response, despite violating Apple's developer terms, a thriving underground ecosystem of third-party iOS app stores has emerged to serve Iranian users...

Beyond Code Reasoning: A Specification-Anchored Audit Framework for Expert-Augmented Security Verification

Security-critical software is routinely audited by tools that reason about vulnerabilities as repository-local code patterns. Yet specification-governed systems -- protocol stacks, consensus implementations, cryptographic libraries -- are constrained by invariants and correctness conditions defin...

Static Attribution of Android Residential Proxy Malware Using Graph Kernels

Android residential proxy applications represent a growing class of potentially-unwanted programs PUPs that covertly route third-party traffic through end-user devices, enabling ad fraud, credential abuse, and evasion of geolocation controls by sophisticated threat actors. Attributing an unknown...

Formulating Subgroup Discovery As a Quantum Optimization Problem for Network Security

While current network intrusion detection systems achieve satisfactory accuracy, they often lack explainability. Subgroup Discovery SD addresses this by building interpretable rules that characterize feature interactions associated with attack traffic. With large datasets, classical heuristic bea...

FreeBSD Security Advisory - FreeBSD-SA-26:13.exec

FreeBSD Security Advisory - An operator precedence bug in the kernel results in a scenario where a buffer overflow causes attacker-controlled data to overwrite adjacent execve2 argument buffers...

VulStyle: A Multi-Modal Pre-Training for Code Stylometry-Augmented Vulnerability Detection

We present VulStyle, a multi-modal software vulnerability detection model that jointly encodes function-level source code, non-terminal Abstract Syntax Tree AST structure, and code stylometry CStyle features. Prior work in code representation primarily leverages token-level models or full AST...

Toward Autonomous SOC Operations: End-To-End LLM Framework for Threat Detection, Query Generation, and Resolution in Security Operations

Security Operations Centers SOCs face mounting operational challenges. These challenges come from increasing threat volumes, heterogeneous SIEM platforms, and time-consuming manual triage workflows. We present an end-to-end threat management framework that integrates ensemble-based detection,...

Logic-to-Code Execution via Indirect Prompt Injection

This document explores a critical architectural vulnerability in Large Language Model LLM implementations, specifically within Command Line Interface CLI tools and automated agentic workflows. The research demonstrates how the absence of separation between the control plane instructions and the...

Threat-Oriented Digital Twinning for Security Evaluation of Autonomous Platforms

Open, unclassified research on secure autonomy is constrained by limited access to operational platforms, contested communications infrastructure, and representative adversarial test conditions. This paper presents a threat-oriented digital twinning methodology for cybersecurity evaluation of...

MARD: A Multi-Agent Framework for Robust Android Malware Detection

With the rapid evolution of Android applications, traditional machine learning-based detection models suffer from concept drift. Additionally, they are constrained by shallow features, lacking deep semantic understanding and interpretability of decisions. Although Large Language Models LLMs...

From CRUD to Autonomous Agents: Formal Validation and Zero-Trust Security for Semantic Gateways in AI-Native Enterprise Systems

Enterprise software engineering is shifting away from deterministic CRUD/REST architectures toward AI-native systems where large language models act as cognitive orchestrators. This transition introduces a critical security tension: probabilistic LLMs weaken classical mechanisms for validation,...

EDySec: A Deep Learning-Based Explainable Dynamic Analysis Framework for Detecting Malicious Packages in PyPI Ecosystem

The security of open-source software repositories is increasingly threatened by next-gen software supply chain attacks. These attacks include multiphase malware execution, remote access activation, and dynamic payload generation. Traditional Machine Learning ML detectors struggle to detect these...

Large Language Models As Explainable Cyberattack Detectors for Energy Industrial Control Systems

In modern energy systems, industrial control systems ICS and power-system SCADA require intrusion detection that is not only accurate but also auditable by operators. The ICS intrusion-detection landscape is currently dominated by established supervised detectors. In this paper, we study whether ...

AgentWard: A Lifecycle Security Architecture for Autonomous AI Agents

Autonomous AI agents extend large language models into full runtime systems that load skills, ingest external content, maintain memory, plan multi-step actions, and invoke privileged tools. In such systems, security failures rarely remain confined to a single interface; instead, they can propagat...

An Empirical Security Evaluation of LLM-Generated Cryptographic Rust Code

Developers and organizations are using Large Language Models LLMs to generate security-critical code more frequently than ever, including cryptographic solutions for their products. This study presents an empirical evaluation of cryptographic security in 240 Rust code samples for two crypto...

Medoid Prototype Alignment for Cross-Plant Unknown Attack Detection in Industrial Control Systems

Deploying an intrusion detector trained in one industrial plant to another remains difficult because Industrial Control System ICS traffic is highly site-dependent, labels are scarce, and unseen attacks often appear after deployment. To address this challenge, this paper introduces a medoid...

Windows Persistence via UserInitMprLogonScript Registry Key

This Python script demonstrates a Windows persistence technique based on modifying the HKCU\Environment\UserInitMprLogonScript registry value, which allows execution of a program each time the user logs in...

OpenSOC-AI: Democratizing Security Operations with Parameter Efficient LLM Log Analysis

Small and medium sized businesses SMBs face an escalating cybersecurity threat landscape, yet most lack the resources to staff full Security Operations Centers SOCs or deploy enterprise grade detection platforms. This paper presents OpenSOC-AI, a lightweight log analysis framework that uses...

Towards Agentic Investigation of Security Alerts

Security analysts are overwhelmed by the volume of alerts and the low context provided by many detection systems. Early-stage investigations typically require manual correlation across multiple log sources, a task that is usually time-consuming. In this paper, we present an experimental, agentic...

RowHammer Vulnerability Counter (RVC): Redefining RowHammer Detection with Victim-Centric Tracking

The Rowhammer vulnerability poses an increasing challenge with newer generations of DRAM and aggressive technology scaling. Existing mitigation techniques, such as Graphene, Twice, and Hydra, primarily rely on tracking activation counts for each row and issuing refreshes when a row reaches a...

Selenium Grid 4.11.0 Selenoid Backend Detection and Safe Session Validation Inspector

The provided Python script is a non-exploit reconnaissance and validation tool designed to identify Selenium Grid or Selenoid deployments exposed via HTTP APIs...

Network Impact of Post-Quantum Certificate Chain Sizes on Time to First Byte in TLS Deployments

Post-Quantum Cryptography PQC is a rapidly growing deployment challenge as cryptographically relevant quantum computers CRQC continue to advance, leaving traditional cryptographic algorithms used in X.509 vulnerable to attack. However, PQC introduces significant deployment challenges in real-worl...

Dynamic Cyber Ranges

As LLM-driven agents advance in cybersecurity, Jeopardy CTF benchmarks are approaching saturation and cyber ranges, the natural next evaluation frontier, offer diminishing resistance under their current static design. We validate this observation by deploying an LLM-driven Advanced Persistent...

Structured Security Auditing and Robustness Enhancement for Untrusted Agent Skills

Agent Skills package SKILL.md files, scripts, reference documents, and repository context into reusable capability units, turning pre-load auditing from single-prompt filtering into cross-file security review. Existing guardrails often flag risk but recover malicious intent inconsistently under...

From Spoofing to Trust: Emergency Alerts Spoofing Testbed and Cross-Cell Verification

Public warning systems PWS in cellular networks enable authorities to broadcast emergency alerts to all mobile phones in a geographic region in the event of threats such as earthquakes or severe weather. If an attacker can imitate these alerts and transmit a forged warning containing fake news or...

Symbolic Execution Meets Multi-LLM Orchestration: Detecting Memory Vulnerabilities in Incomplete Rust CVE Snippets

This paper presents a system combining symbolic execution KLEE with a 4-agent multi-LLM architecture for detecting memory vulnerabilities in Rust unsafe code. A central challenge we address is the incomplete-code problem: CVE database entries provide only isolated code snippets that lack struct...

python-ecdsa DER Parser Security Test Suite

This Python script is a security test and validation suite for the python-ecdsa library, focused on detecting potential DER Distinguished Encoding Rules parsing anomalies that may relate to CVE-2026-33936...

MAS-SZZ: Multi-Agentic SZZ Algorithm for Vulnerability-Inducing Commit Identification

Accurate vulnerability-inducing commit identification serves as a foundation for a series of software security tasks, such as vulnerability detection and affected version analysis. A straightforward solution is the SZZ algorithm, which traces back through the code history to identify the earliest...

Poster: ClawdGo: Endogenous Security Awareness Training for Autonomous AI Agents

Autonomous AI agents deployed on platforms such as OpenClaw face prompt injection, memory poisoning, supply-chain attacks, and social engineering, yet existing defences address only the platform perimeter, leaving the agent's own threat judgement entirely untrained. We present ClawdGo, a framewor...