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most citedRobot hazards: from safety to security

17 citations · 75 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.CR2026

Dynamic Cyber Ranges

Víctor Mayoral-Vilches, María Sanz-Gómez, Francesco Balassone +6

As LLM-driven agents advance in cybersecurity, Jeopardy CTF benchmarks are approaching saturation and cyber ranges, the natural next evaluation frontier, offer diminishing resistan…

cs.CR2026

Cybersecurity AI: Hacking Consumer Robots in the AI Era

Víctor Mayoral-Vilches, Unai Ayucar-Carbajo, Olivier Laflamme +5

Is robot cybersecurity broken by AI? Consumer robots -- from autonomous lawnmowers to powered exoskeletons and window cleaners -- are rapidly entering homes and workplaces, yet the…

cs.CR2026

Towards Cybersecurity Superintelligence: from AI-guided humans to human-guided AI

Víctor Mayoral-Vilches, Stefan Rass, Martin Pinzger +14

Cybersecurity superintelligence -- artificial intelligence exceeding the best human capability in both speed and strategic reasoning -- represents the next frontier in security. Th…

cs.CR2025

CAI: An Open, Bug Bounty-Ready Cybersecurity AI

Víctor Mayoral-Vilches, Luis Javier Navarrete-Lozano, María Sanz-Gómez +10

By 2028 most cybersecurity actions will be autonomous, with humans teleoperating. We present the first classification of autonomy levels in cybersecurity and introduce Cybersecurit…

cs.RO2020★ 4 cited

alurity, a toolbox for robot cybersecurity

Víctor Mayoral-Vilches, Irati Abad-Fernández, Martin Pinzger +8

The reuse of technologies and inherent complexity of most robotic systems is increasingly leading to robots with wide attack surfaces and a variety of potential vulnerabilities. Gi…

cs.RO2020★ 3 cited

Can ROS be used securely in industry? Red teaming ROS-Industrial

Víctor Mayoral-Vilches, Martin Pinzger, Stefan Rass +2

With its growing use in industry, ROS is rapidly becoming a standard in robotics. While developments in ROS 2 show promise, the slow adoption cycles in industry will push widesprea…

cs.RO2020

DevSecOps in Robotics

Víctor Mayoral-Vilches, Nuria García-Maestro, McKenna Towers +1

Quality in software is often understood as "execution according to design purpose" whereas security means that "software will not put data or computing systems at risk of unauthori…

cs.CR2019

Industrial robot ransomware: Akerbeltz

Víctor Mayoral-Vilches, Lander Usategui San Juan, Unai Ayucar Carbajo +5

Cybersecurity lessons have not been learnt from the dawn of other technological industries. In robotics, the existing insecurity landscape needs to be addressed immediately. Severa…

cs.CR2019★ 9 cited

Introducing the Robot Vulnerability Database (RVD)

Víctor Mayoral Vilches, Lander Usategui San Juan, Bernhard Dieber +2

Cybersecurity in robotics is an emerging topic that has gained significant traction. Researchers have demonstrated some of the potentials and effects of cyber attacks on robots lat…

cs.CR2018★ 6 cited

Volatile memory forensics for the Robot Operating System

Víctor Mayoral Vilches, Laura Alzola Kirschgens, Endika Gil-Uriarte +2

The increasing impact of robotics on industry and on society will unavoidably lead to the involvement of robots in incidents and mishaps. In such cases, forensic analyses are key t…

cs.CR2018★ 1 cited

Aztarna, a footprinting tool for robots

Víctor Mayoral Vilches, Gorka Olalde Mendia, Xabier Perez Baskaran +5

Industry 4.0 is changing the commonly held assumption that robots are to be deployed in closed and isolated networks. When analyzed from a security point of view, the global pictur…

cs.CY2018★ 3 cited

Robotics CTF (RCTF), a playground for robot hacking

Gorka Olalde Mendia, Lander Usategui San Juan, Xabier Perez Bascaran +9

Robots state of insecurity is onstage. There is an emerging concern about major robot vulnerabilities and their adverse consequences. However, there is still a considerable gap bet…

cs.RO2018★ 15 cited

Towards an open standard for assessing the severity of robot security vulnerabilities, the Robot Vulnerability Scoring System (RVSS)

Víctor Mayoral Vilches, Endika Gil-Uriarte, Irati Zamalloa Ugarte +7

Robots are typically not created with security as a main concern. Contrasting to typical IT systems, cyberphysical systems rely on security to handle safety aspects. In light of th…

cs.CY2018★ 17 cited

Robot hazards: from safety to security

Laura Alzola Kirschgens, Irati Zamalloa Ugarte, Endika Gil Uriarte +2

Robotics landscape is experiencing big changes. Robots are spreading and will soon be everywhere. Systems traditionally employed in industry are being replaced by collaborative rob…

cs.CR2018★ 17 cited

Introducing the Robot Security Framework (RSF), a standardized methodology to perform security assessments in robotics

Víctor Mayoral Vilches, Laura Alzola Kirschgens, Asier Bilbao Calvo +10

Robots have gained relevance in society, increasingly performing critical tasks. Nonetheless, robot security is being underestimated. Robotics security is a complex landscape, whic…