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most citedSoK: Privacy Preserving Machine Learning using Functional Encryption: Opportunities and Challenges

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COPEX: Benchmarking LLM Robustness to Adversarial Context Across Model Context Protocol (MCP) Layers

Nahom Birhan, Mehrdad Rostamzadeh, Sidhant Narula +3

Large language models increasingly mediate tool use in Model Context Protocol (MCP) systems, where adversarial influence may enter through user instructions, tool schemas, tool out…

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TrustShiftProbe: Characterizing, Benchmarking, and Defending Staged Trust Attacks on MCP Servers

Mehrdad Rostamzadeh, Sidhant Narula, Mohammad Ghasemigol +1

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as the standard layer connecting Large Language Model agents to external tool backends. This openness introduces a severe server-side t…

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MCP-DPT: A Defense-Placement Taxonomy and Coverage Analysis for Model Context Protocol Security

Mehrdad Rostamzadeh, Sidhant Narula, Nahom Birhan +2

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables large language models (LLMs) to dynamically discover and invoke third-party tools, significantly expanding agent capabilities while introdu…

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BioShield: A Context-Aware Firewall for Securing Bio-LLMs

Protiva Das, Sovon Chakraborty, Sidhant Narula +5

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) in biological research has significantly lowered the barrier to accessing complex bioinformatics knowledge, ex perimental desi…

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DCInject: Persistent Backdoor Attacks via Frequency Manipulation in Personal Federated Learning

Nahom Birhan, Daniel Wesego, Dereje Shenkut +2

Personalized federated learning (PFL) creates client-specific models to handle data heterogeneity. Previously, PFL has been shown to be naturally resistant to backdoor attack propa…