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cs.CR2026

Who Pays the Price? Stakeholder-Centric Prompt Injection Benchmarking for Real-world Web Agents

Zihao Wang, Yiming Li, Yutong Wu +8

LLM-based web agents are increasingly deployed in real-world settings such as e-commerce, where they interact extensively with untrusted web content while executing actions that ca…

cs.CR2026

DECEIVE-AFC: Adversarial Claim Attacks against Search-Enabled LLM-based Fact-Checking Systems

Haoran Ou, Kangjie Chen, Gelei Deng +4

Fact-checking systems with search-enabled large language models (LLMs) have shown strong potential for verifying claims by dynamically retrieving external evidence. However, the ro…

cs.CR2025

When Search Goes Wrong: Red-Teaming Web-Augmented Large Language Models

Haoran Ou, Kangjie Chen, Xingshuo Han +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been augmented with web search to overcome the limitations of the static knowledge boundary by accessing up-to-date information from the open Inte…

cs.CR2025

Towards Effective Prompt Stealing Attack against Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

Shiqian Zhao, Chong Wang, Yiming Li +7

Text-to-Image (T2I) models, represented by DALLE and Midjourney, have gained huge popularity for creating realistic images. The quality of these images relies on the careful…

cs.CR2025

Coward: Collision-based OOD Watermarking for Practical Proactive Federated Backdoor Detection

Wenjie Li, Siying Gu, Yiming Li +4

Backdoor detection is currently the mainstream defense against backdoor attacks in federated learning (FL), where a small number of malicious clients can upload poisoned updates to…

cs.CR2025

BadLingual: A Novel Lingual-Backdoor Attack against Large Language Models

Zihan Wang, Hongwei Li, Rui Zhang +5

In this paper, we present a new form of backdoor attack against Large Language Models (LLMs): lingual-backdoor attacks. The key novelty of lingual-backdoor attacks is that the lang…

cs.CR2024

ART: Automatic Red-teaming for Text-to-Image Models to Protect Benign Users

Guanlin Li, Kangjie Chen, Shudong Zhang +2

Large-scale pre-trained generative models are taking the world by storm, due to their abilities in generating creative content. Meanwhile, safeguards for these generative models ar…

cs.CR2023★ 5 cited

Multi-target Backdoor Attacks for Code Pre-trained Models

Yanzhou Li, Shangqing Liu, Kangjie Chen +3

Backdoor attacks for neural code models have gained considerable attention due to the advancement of code intelligence. However, most existing works insert triggers into task-speci…

cs.CR2023★ 2 cited

Extracting Cloud-based Model with Prior Knowledge

Shiqian Zhao, Kangjie Chen, Meng Hao +4

Machine Learning-as-a-Service, a pay-as-you-go business pattern, is widely accepted by third-party users and developers. However, the open inference APIs may be utilized by malicio…

cs.CR2020★ 4 cited

Stealthy and Efficient Adversarial Attacks against Deep Reinforcement Learning

Jianwen Sun, Tianwei Zhang, Xiaofei Xie +4

Adversarial attacks against conventional Deep Learning (DL) systems and algorithms have been widely studied, and various defenses were proposed. However, the possibility and feasib…