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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

System Card: Claude Mythos Preview

This System Card describes Claude Mythos Preview, a large language model from Anthropic. Mythos Preview is their most capable frontier model to date, and shows a striking leap in scores on many evaluation benchmarks compared to their previous frontier model, Claude Opus 4.6. This System Card...

Broken Quantum: A Systematic Formal Verification Study of Security Vulnerabilities across the Open-Source Quantum Computing Simulator Ecosystem

Quantum computing simulators form the classical software foundation on which virtually all quantum algorithm research depends. We present Broken Quantum, the first comprehensive formal security audit of the open-source quantum computing simulator ecosystem. Applying COBALT QAI -- a four-module...

Anamorphic Encryption with CCA Security: A Standard Model Construction

Anamorphic encryption serves as a vital tool for covert communication, maintaining secrecy even during post-compromise scenarios. Particularly in the receiver-anamorphic setting, a user can shield hidden messages even when coerced into surrendering their secret keys. However, a major bottleneck i...

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...

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 ...

ARuleCon: Agentic Security Rule Conversion

Security Information and Event Management SIEM systems make it possible for detecting intrusion anomalies in real-time manner by their applied security rules. However, the heterogeneity of vendor-specific rules e.g., Splunk SPL, Microsoft KQL, IBM AQL, Google YARA-L, and RSA ESA makes...

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...

SentinelSphere: Integrating AI-Powered Real-Time Threat Detection with Cybersecurity Awareness Training

The field of cybersecurity is confronted with two interrelated challenges: a worldwide deficit of qualified practitioners and ongoing human-factor weaknesses that account for the bulk of security incidents. To tackle these issues, we present SentinelSphere, a platform driven by artificial...

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...

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 3.6.2

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 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,...

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...

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...

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 3.3.7

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 3.5.6

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...

Understanding User Privacy Perceptions of GenAI Smartphones

GenAI smartphones, which natively embed generative AI at the system level, are transforming mobile interactions by automating a wide range of tasks and executing UI actions on behalf of users. Their superior capabilities rely on continuous access to sensitive and context-rich data, raising privac...

Foundations for Agentic AI Investigations from the Forensic Analysis of OpenClaw

Agentic Al systems are increasingly deployed as personal assistants and are likely to become a common object of digital investigations. However, little is known about how their internal state and actions can be reconstructed during forensic analysis. Despite growing popularity, systematic forensi...

Windows Service for User (S4U) Scheduled Task Persistence Schedule Trigger

This Metasploit module creates a scheduled task that will run using service-for-user S4U. This allows the scheduled task to run even as an unprivileged user that is not logged into the device. This will result in lower security context, allowing access to local resources only. The module requires...

Swiss-Bench 003: Evaluating LLM Reliability and Adversarial Security for Swiss Regulatory Contexts

The deployment of large language models LLMs in Swiss financial and regulatory contexts demands empirical evidence of both production reliability and adversarial security, dimensions not jointly operationalized in existing Swiss-focused evaluation frameworks. This paper introduces Swiss-Bench 003...

Argus: Reorchestrating Static Analysis Via a Multi-Agent Ensemble for Full-Chain Security Vulnerability Detection

Recent advancements in Large Language Models LLMs have sparked interest in their application to Static Application Security Testing SAST, primarily due to their superior contextual reasoning capabilities compared to traditional symbolic or rule-based methods. However, existing LLM-based approache...

LLM4CodeRE: Generative AI for Code Decompilation Analysis and Reverse Engineering

Code decompilation analysis is a fundamental yet challenging task in malware reverse engineering, particularly due to the pervasive use of sophisticated obfuscation techniques. Although recent large language models LLMs have shown promise in translating low-level representations into high-level...

Signature Placement in Post-Quantum TLS Certificate Hierarchies: An Experimental Study of ML-DSA and SLH-DSA in TLS 1.3 Authentication

Post-quantum migration in TLS 1.3 should not be understood as a flat substitution problem in which one signature algorithm is replaced by another and deployment cost is inferred directly from primitive-level benchmarks. In certificate-based authentication, the practical effect of a signature fami...

Windows Service for User (S4U) Scheduled Task Persistence Event Trigger

This Metasploit module creates a scheduled task that will run using service-for-user S4U. This allows the scheduled task to run even as an unprivileged user that is not logged into the device. This will result in lower security context, allowing access to local resources only. The module requires...

CritBench: A Framework for Evaluating Cybersecurity Capabilities of Large Language Models in IEC 61850 Digital Substation Environments

The advancement of Large Language Models LLMs has raised concerns regarding their dual-use potential in cybersecurity. Existing evaluation frameworks overwhelmingly focus on Information Technology IT environments, failing to capture the constraints, and specialized protocols of Operational...

Guiding Symbolic Execution with Static Analysis and LLMs for Vulnerability Discovery

Symbolic execution detects vulnerabilities with precision, but applying it to large codebases requires harnesses that set up symbolic state, model dependencies, and specify assertions. Writing these harnesses has traditionally been a manual process requiring expert knowledge, which significantly...

FortiClient EMS 7.4.6 Vulnerability Assessment Tool

CVE-2026-35616 is a pre-authentication API bypass in FortiClient EMS 7.4.5 and 7.4.6 that allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to bypass certificate-based authentication through HTTP header spoofing. The Django application trusts user-controllable HTTP headers X-SSL-CLIENT-VERIFY,...

Your LLM Agent Can Leak Your Data: Data Exfiltration Via Backdoored Tool Use

Tool-use large language model LLM agents are increasingly deployed to support sensitive workflows, relying on tool calls for retrieval, external API access, and session memory management. While prior research has examined various threats, the risk of systematic data exfiltration by backdoored...

Time-Domain Voice Identity Morphing (TD-VIM): A Signal-Level Approach to Morphing Attacks on Speaker Verification Systems

In biometric systems, it is a common practice to associate each sample or template with a specific individual. Nevertheless, recent studies have demonstrated the feasibility of generating "morphed" biometric samples capable of matching multiple identities. These morph attacks have been recognized...

Hackers or Hallucinators? A Comprehensive Analysis of LLM-Based Automated Penetration Testing

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models LLMs has created new opportunities for Automated Penetration Testing AutoPT, spawning numerous frameworks aimed at achieving end-to-end autonomous attacks. However, despite the proliferation of related studies, existing research generally lacks...

SkillSieve: A Hierarchical Triage Framework for Detecting Malicious AI Agent Skills

OpenClaw's ClawHub marketplace hosts over 13,000 community-contributed agent skills, and between 13% and 26% of them contain security vulnerabilities according to recent audits. Regex scanners miss obfuscated payloads; formal static analyzers cannot read the natural language instructions in...

Towards the Development of an LLM-Based Methodology for Automated Security Profiling in Compliance with Ukrainian Cybersecurity Regulations

In recent years, the pace of development of information technology in various areas has increased drastically, forcing cybersecurity specialists to constantly review existing processes in order to prevent unauthorized access to confidential information. Using Ukraine as a primary case study, this...

ClawLess: A Security Model of AI Agents

Autonomous AI agents powered by Large Language Models can reason, plan, and execute complex tasks, but their ability to autonomously retrieve information and run code introduces significant security risks. Existing approaches attempt to regulate agent behavior through training or prompting, which...

Stealthy and Adjustable Text-Guided Backdoor Attacks on Multimodal Pretrained Models

Multimodal pretrained models are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, yet most existing methods rely on visual or multimodal triggers, which are impractical since visually embedded triggers rarely occur in real-world data. To overcome this limitation, we propose a novel Text-Guided Backdoor TGB attack...

Windows Service for User (S4U) Scheduled Task Persistence Logon Trigger

This Metasploit module creates a scheduled task that will run using service-for-user S4U. This allows the scheduled task to run even as an unprivileged user that is not logged into the device. This will result in lower security context, allowing access to local resources only. The module requires...

WebSP-Eval: Evaluating Web Agents on Website Security and Privacy Tasks

Web agents automate browser tasks, ranging from simple form completion to complex workflows like ordering groceries. While current benchmarks evaluate general-purpose performancee.g., WebArena or safety against malicious actionse.g., SafeArena, no existing framework assesses an agent's ability to...

PoC-Adapt: Semantic-Aware Automated Vulnerability Reproduction with LLM Multi-Agents and Reinforcement Learning-Driven Adaptive Policy

While recent approaches leverage large language models LLMs and multi-agent pipelines to automatically generate proof-of-concept PoC exploits from vulnerability reports, existing systems often suffer from two fundamental limitations: unreliable validation based on surface-level execution signals...

From Incomplete Architecture to Quantified Risk: Multimodal LLM-Driven Security Assessment for Cyber-Physical Systems

Cyber-physical systems often contend with incomplete architectural documentation or outdated information resulting from legacy technologies, knowledge management gaps, and the complexity of integrating diverse subsystems over extended operational lifecycles. This architectural incompleteness...

MA-IDS: Multi-Agent RAG Framework for IoT Network Intrusion Detection with an Experience Library

Network Intrusion Detection Systems NIDS face important limitations. Signature-based methods are effective for known attack patterns, but they struggle to detect zero-day attacks and often miss modified variants of previously known attacks, while many machine learning approaches offer limited...