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cs.LGcs.CRcs.CVRecentMay 22, 2026

Sample-wise Targeted Adversarial Attacks on Test-time Adaptation

Phuc Duc Nguyen, Quang Duc Nguyen

The paper introduces a sample-wise targeted adversarial attack that successfully misclassifies only specific, triggered inputs during test-time adaptation while maintaining the overall label distribut…

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cs.CRRecentMay 23, 2026

Analyzing Concentration, Temporal Routines and Targeting in Public Ransomware Leak Site Data

Lea Müller, York Yannikos

By analyzing over 27,000 posts from 325 public ransomware leak sites, this paper demonstrates that ransomware groups exhibit non-random, predictable operational regularities concerning victim concentr…

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cs.CRcs.AIcs.HCRecentMay 14, 2026

Known By Their Actions: Fingerprinting LLM Browser Agents via UI Traces

William Lugoloobi, Samuelle Marro, Jabez Magomere, Joss Wright +1 more

This paper demonstrates that an agent's behavioral patterns, captured through passive UI interaction traces, are sufficient to identify the underlying LLM model with high accuracy, posing a significan…

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cs.CLRecentJun 1, 2026

SkillHarm: Lifecycle-Aware Skill-Based Attacks via Automated Construction

Yuting Ning, Zhehao Zhang, Yash Kumar Lal, Boyu Gou +7 more

The paper introduces SkillHarm, a comprehensive benchmark and automated framework for evaluating skill-based attacks across the entire agent skill-use lifecycle, demonstrating that current agents rema…

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cs.CRRecentMay 15, 2026

STRIKE: A Structured Taxonomy of Cybercrime for Risk, Impact, Knowledge, and Evolution

Melissa Pappy, Linh Nguyen, Suman Kumar, Byungkwan Jung +1 more

The paper introduces STRIKE, a multi-dimensional structured taxonomy designed to provide a comprehensive and unified framework for classifying the rapidly evolving complexity of modern cybercrimes.

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cs.CRcs.AIcs.LGRecentMar 30, 2026

Kill-Chain Canaries: Stage-Level Tracking of Prompt Injection Across Attack Surfaces and Model Safety Tiers

Haochuan Kevin Wang, Zechen Zhang

The paper introduces a kill-chain canary methodology to diagnose prompt injection vulnerabilities across multi-stage LLM pipelines, revealing that write-node placement and document format are critical…

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cs.CRcs.AIcs.SERecentMay 31, 2026

Needles at Scale: LLM-Assisted Target Selection for Windows Vulnerability Research

Michael J. Bommarito

The paper introduces Symbolicate-Enrich-Sample, a pipeline that efficiently filters millions of functions in a Windows OS to create a highly prioritized, manageable shortlist of potential vulnerabilit…

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cs.CRcs.AIcs.SERecentMay 31, 2026

Needles at Scale: LLM-Assisted Target Selection for Windows Vulnerability Research

Michael J. Bommarito

The paper introduces Symbolicate-Enrich-Sample, a low-cost pipeline that drastically reduces the search space of a whole operating system by prioritizing vulnerable functions, turning millions of pote…

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cs.CRRecentMay 6, 2026

WAAA! Web Adversaries Against Agentic Browsers

Sohom Datta, Alex Nahapetyan, William Enck, Alexandros Kapravelos

This paper proposes the first web-focused threat model for agentic browsers, demonstrating that traditional web social engineering attacks can be amplified into dangerous, reproducible threats when ex…

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cs.CRcs.AIRecentMay 8, 2026

CyBiasBench: Benchmarking Bias in LLM Agents for Cyber-Attack Scenarios

Taein Lim, Seongyong Ju, Munhyeok Kim, Hyunjun Kim +1 more

The paper introduces CyBiasBench, a comprehensive benchmark that quantifies the inherent, agent-specific bias in LLM agents' attack selection patterns in cybersecurity scenarios.

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cs.CRRecentMay 4, 2026

Zero Day Attacks: Novel Behaviour or Novel Vulnerability?

Nnamdi Jibunoh, Sara Khanchi, Adetokunbo Makanju

The paper argues that zero-day attacks primarily exploit undisclosed vulnerabilities rather than exhibiting novel behaviors, advocating for vulnerability-centric detection methods over purely behavior…

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cs.CRcs.AIRecentMay 27, 2026

Technical Report: Exploring the Emerging Threats of the Agent Skill Ecosystem

Luca Beurer-Kellner, Aleksei Kudrinskii, Marco Milanta, Kristian Bonde Nielsen +2 more

The paper analyzes a large corpus of AI agent skills, identifying a significant percentage of malicious payloads that pose serious security risks to users and systems.

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cs.CRcs.AIRecentMay 27, 2026

Technical Report: Exploring the Emerging Threats of the Agent Skill Ecosystem

Luca Beurer-Kellner, Aleksei Kudrinskii, Marco Milanta, Kristian Bonde Nielsen +2 more

The paper analyzes a large sample of AI agent skills, revealing that a significant percentage contain critical security vulnerabilities and malicious payloads, necessitating automated security analysi…

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cs.CRRecentApr 5, 2026

SkillAttack: Automated Red Teaming of Agent Skills through Attack Path Refinement

Zenghao Duan, Yuxin Tian, Zhiyi Yin, Liang Pang +5 more

SkillAttack is a red-teaming framework that dynamically tests the exploitability of latent vulnerabilities in LLM agent skills using adversarial prompting, demonstrating that even benign skills pose s…

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cs.AIcs.CRRecentMay 11, 2026

MATRA: Modeling the Attack Surface of Agentic AI Systems -- OpenClaw Case Study

Tim Van hamme, Thomas Vissers, Javier Carnerero-Cano, Mario Fritz +3 more

The paper introduces MATRA, a systematic threat modeling framework, to assess how known LLM threats translate into concrete, deployment-specific risks within autonomous agentic AI systems.

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cs.CRRecentApr 4, 2026

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

Jackson Wang

AttackEval systematically evaluates the effectiveness of 250 prompt injection prompts across ten attack categories, finding that composite and obfuscation attacks are highly effective against current…

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cs.CRcs.AIcs.LGRecentMay 22, 2026

PoisonForge: Task-Level Targeted Poisoning Benchmark for Instruction-Tuned LLMs

Luze Sun, Anshuman Suri, Harsh Chaudhari, Cristina Nita-Rotaru +1 more

The paper introduces PoisonForge, a comprehensive benchmark demonstrating that even a small number of targeted poisoned examples can significantly compromise the safety and reliability of instruction-…

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cs.LGcs.CRRecentMar 20, 2026

Graph-Aware Stealthy Poison-Text Backdoors for Text-Attributed Graphs

Qi Luo, Minghui Xu, Dongxiao Yu, Xiuzhen Cheng

The paper proposes TAGBD, a graph-aware backdoor attack that demonstrates that inconspicuous poison text alone can reliably compromise text-attributed graph learning systems.

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cs.CRcs.AIRecentMay 8, 2026

WebTrap: Stealthy Mid-Task Hijacking of Browser Agents During Navigation

Zhichao Liu, Wenbo Pan, Haining Yu, Ge Gao +2 more

WebTrap introduces a stealthy, mid-task hijacking attack that successfully compromises browser agents during long-horizon tasks by seamlessly fusing malicious instructions with the original user goal.

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cs.CRcs.LGRecentMay 23, 2026

Poisoning the Watchtower: Prompt Injection Attacks Against LLM-Augmented Security Operations Through Adversarial Log Content

Rohan Pandey, Archit Bhujang

The paper introduces 'log-substrate prompt injection,' demonstrating that attacker-controlled log fields can be used to manipulate LLM-powered security analysis, with persona hijacking and context man…

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