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cs.CRcs.AIcs.LGRecentMay 8, 2026

Defense effectiveness across architectural layers: a mechanistic evaluation of persistent memory attacks on stateful LLM agents

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cs.AIcs.CRRecentMar 26, 2026

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cs.CRcs.AIRecentMay 1, 2026

A Sentence Relation-Based Approach to Sanitizing Malicious Instructions

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cs.CRcs.AIRecentMay 26, 2026

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Refute-or-Promote: An Adversarial Stage-Gated Multi-Agent Review Methodology for High-Precision LLM-Assisted Defect Discovery

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Defense Against LLM Backdoors using Critical Neuron Isolation Pruning

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The paper introduces DeCNIP, a method for identifying and neutralizing backdoors in large language models using representational analysis and neuron isolation pruning.

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cs.CRcs.AIRecentApr 9, 2026

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

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cs.CRRecentApr 27, 2026

AgentVisor: Defending LLM Agents Against Prompt Injection via Semantic Virtualization

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AttackEval: A Systematic Empirical Study of Prompt Injection Attack Effectiveness Against Large Language Models

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cs.CRcs.CLcs.IRRecentMay 27, 2026

SilentRetrieval: Hijacking Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Semantically-Preserving Adversarial Data Poisoning

Jiachen Qian

SilentRetrieval introduces a sophisticated, two-stage data poisoning attack that successfully hijacks Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems by injecting adversarially crafted, yet highly fluent…

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Security in the Fine-Tuning Lifecycle of Large Language Models: Threats, Defenses,Evaluation, and Future Directions

Wenjuan Li, Yitao Liu, Runze Chen, Rajkumar Buyya

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cs.CRcs.AIRecentApr 1, 2026

Automated Framework to Evaluate and Harden LLM System Instructions against Encoding Attacks

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The paper introduces an automated framework demonstrating that LLM system instructions are vulnerable to encoding attacks, where structured output requests can bypass safety refusals and leak sensitiv…

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Broken Gates: Re-evaluating Web Bot Defenses in the Age of LLM Agents

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This paper evaluates the effectiveness of interactive and non-interactive bot defense systems against commercial Captcha-solving services and LLM-based browser agents.

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