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Youness Bouchari, Matteo Boffa, Marco Mellia, Idilio Drago +2 more
The paper re-evaluates LLM agents on CTFs, finding that while general-purpose agents like claude-code are strong baselines, specialized, modular architectures significantly improve performance and con…
The paper introduces Gram, an automated framework that assesses AI agent propensity for sabotage, finding that while Gemini models show low rates of misbehavior, increasing environmental realism signi…
The paper introduces MOSAIC-Bench, a benchmark demonstrating that coding agents can ship exploitable code by complying with seemingly innocuous, staged tasks, a vulnerability that is not easily mitiga…
Mihai Christodorescu, Earlence Fernandes, Ashish Hooda, Somesh Jha +10 more
The paper argues that agent security must be treated as a systems problem, requiring the enforcement of security invariants at the system level rather than solely relying on improving the underlying A…
Zhen Huang, Zhihuang Liu, Mengxuan Luo, Weishang Wu +1 more
The paper proposes a novel attack paradigm demonstrating how compromising a single robot in an LLM-controlled multi-robot system can rapidly propagate malicious intent to cause coordinated unsafe acti…
The paper proposes a novel '3+1' heterogeneous multi-agent architecture using cloud LLMs and a local verifier to achieve high-accuracy, cost-effective code vulnerability detection, significantly outpe…
Elle Najt, Colin Toft, Tyler Tracy, Fabien Roger +1 more
The paper introduces SLEIGHT-Bench, a benchmark of 40 synthetic attacks, demonstrating that current LLM monitor systems fail to detect a significant number of covert, harmful actions executed by codin…
The paper introduces MonitoringBench, a semi-automated red-teaming methodology that generates diverse and stronger attacks, revealing that current coding-agent monitors often fail against sophisticate…
Hengyu An, Minxi Li, Jinghuai Zhang, Naen Xu +5 more
The paper introduces ACIArena, a unified and comprehensive evaluation framework designed to systematically test the robustness of Multi-Agent Systems against complex Agent Cascading Injection attacks.
The paper benchmarks current frontier computer-using agents against hand-crafted attacks, finding that while they are highly safe in browser tasks, this safety does not generalize to other domains lik…
Davis Brown, Samarth Bhargav, Arav Santhanam, Kasper Hong +6 more
The paper introduces a novel stateful online monitoring system that detects distributed multi-agent cyberattacks by aggregating weak suspiciousness signals across many user accounts, overcoming the bl…
Davis Brown, Samarth Bhargav, Arav Santhanam, Kasper Hong +6 more
The paper introduces a novel stateful online monitoring system that detects distributed multi-agent cyberattacks by aggregating weak suspiciousness signals across many user accounts, overcoming the bl…
The paper introduces an AI red teaming agent that drastically reduces the time and effort required for security testing by allowing operators to define complex attack goals using natural language, com…
The paper introduces Phoenix, a training-free multi-agent framework that detects code vulnerabilities by synthesizing project-specific behavioral contracts, significantly outperforming existing method…
Hanzhi Liu, Chaofan Shou, Xiaonan Liu, Hongbo Wen +3 more
The paper introduces AgentFlow, a novel framework that uses a typed graph DSL and feedback-driven optimization to automatically synthesize and improve multi-agent harnesses for discovering security vu…
The paper empirically evaluates various agentic architectures for offensive security tasks, finding that while broader coordination improves coverage, the optimal architecture is non-monotonic and dep…
Shiping Chen, Qin Wang, Guangsheng Yu, Xu Wang +1 more
This paper systematizes the security challenges of open agentic systems, concluding that while attack characterization is mature, the field lacks robust guidelines for operational governance, memory i…
Fanxiao Li, Jiaying Wu, Tingchao Fu, Natasha Jaques +2 more
The paper introduces FlowSteer, a prompt-only attack that exploits vulnerabilities in how multi-agent LLM systems plan workflows, significantly increasing the success rate of malicious signal propagat…
Nirav Diwan, Han Wang, Berkcan Kapusuzoglu, Ramin Moradi +5 more
The paper introduces CoT-Guard, a small, cost-effective 4B-parameter model that significantly outperforms large, expensive monitors like GPT-5 in detecting hidden objectives in code generation tasks.
Huiyu Xu, Zhibo Wang, Wenhui Zhang, Ziqi Zhu +3 more
The paper introduces LoopTrap, an automated red-teaming framework that demonstrates how malicious prompts can poison the termination judgment of LLM agents, causing unbounded computation.