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20202026
most citedAI Agents Under Threat: A Survey of Key Security Challenges and Future Pathways

184 citations · 187 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CR2026

Recovering Process Variables from Industrial Network Traffic via Search-Based Optimization

Chuan Sheng, Shan Jiang, Jianming Zhao +1

Process variables (PVs) provide the process evidence needed for process-aware security monitoring in industrial cyber-physical systems (CPSs). However, existing supervisory infrast…

cs.AI2026

On-Policy Distillation for LLM Safety: A Routing Approach to Template-Robust Realignment

Yongjian Guo, Wanlun Ma, Lingyu Shen +2

Fine-tuning is the dominant paradigm for specializing large language models (LLMs), yet it exposes a critical vulnerability: malicious data providers can embed harmful behaviors in…

cs.CR2026

Beyond Her: Safety Dynamics in Role-play AI Companions

Zehang Deng, Zhaoyang Xie, Changzhou Han +8

The film 'Her' pictured a future of love between humans and AI. That future has quietly emerged in the form of Role-play AI Companions (RACs), where emotionally responsive interact…

cs.CV2026

Sword: Style-Robust World Models as Simulators via Dynamic Latent Bootstrapping for VLA Policy Post-Training

Jiaxuan Gao, Yongjian Guo, Zhong Guan +5

The integration of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models with World Models has gained increasing attention. One representative approach treats learned World Models as generative simu…

cs.CR2026

Five Queries Are Enough: Query-Efficient and Surrogate-Free Membership Inference Attacks on RAG via Entailment

Nguyen Linh Bao Nguyen, Wanlun Ma, Viet Vo +4

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become central to large language model (LLM) deployments, grounding responses in enterprise or proprietary data to reduce hallucinations. H…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

MCPXKIT: The Unified Toolkit for Analyzing Model Context Protocol Security

Yongjian Guo, Puzhuo Liu, Wanlun Ma +5

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as a universal standard that enables AI agents to seamlessly connect with external tools, significantly enhancing their functionality.…

cs.CR2024★ 184 cited

AI Agents Under Threat: A Survey of Key Security Challenges and Future Pathways

Zehang Deng, Yongjian Guo, Changzhou Han +4

An Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent is a software entity that autonomously performs tasks or makes decisions based on pre-defined objectives and data inputs. AI agents, capable o…

cs.CL2023

Multi-modal Representation Learning for Social Post Location Inference

Ruiting Dai, Jiayi Luo, Xucheng Luo +3

Inferring geographic locations via social posts is essential for many practical location-based applications such as product marketing, point-of-interest recommendation, and infecto…

cs.CR2023

The "code'' of Ethics:A Holistic Audit of AI Code Generators

Wanlun Ma, Yiliao Song, Minhui Xue +2

AI-powered programming language generation (PLG) models have gained increasing attention due to their ability to generate source code of programs in a few seconds with a plain prog…

cs.CR2022★ 2 cited

The "Beatrix'' Resurrections: Robust Backdoor Detection via Gram Matrices

Wanlun Ma, Derui Wang, Ruoxi Sun +3

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are susceptible to backdoor attacks during training. The model corrupted in this way functions normally, but when triggered by certain patterns in the i…

cs.CR2020

Analysis of Trending Topics and Text-based Channels of Information Delivery in Cybersecurity

Tingmin Wu, Wanlun Ma, Sheng Wen +4

Computer users are generally faced with difficulties in making correct security decisions. While an increasingly fewer number of people are trying or willing to take formal securit…