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Threat-Preserving Representation Sensitivity in Agent-Security Benchmarks
Neeraj Karamchandani, Piyush Nagasubramaniam, Xinhong Xie +2
Security benchmarks for LLM-based agents often report the attack success rate (ASR) as a measure of model robustness and use these scores to compare different models and defense me…
LLM-Based Penetration Testing in the Presence of Honeypots
Xinhong Xie, Piyush Nagasubramaniam, Neeraj Karamchandani +1
Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly employed for offensive cybersecurity tasks such as automated vulnerability discovery, reconnaissance, and penetration testing. Th…
Your Agent's Memories Are Not Its Own: Forged Reasoning Attacks on LLM Agent Memory and Defenses
Neeraj Karamchandani, Piyush Nagasubramaniam, Sencun Zhu +1
Persistent memory has enabled large language model (LLM) agents to store factual knowledge, prior decisions, reasoning histories, tool usage information, and context. While this ha…
The Illusion of Anonymity: Uncovering the Impact of User Actions on Privacy in Web3 Social Ecosystems
Bin Wang, Tianjian Liu, Wenqi Wang +6
The rise of Web3 social ecosystems signifies the dawn of a new chapter in digital interaction, offering significant prospects for user engagement and financial advancement. Nonethe…
HoneyIoT: Adaptive High-Interaction Honeypot for IoT Devices Through Reinforcement Learning
Chongqi Guan, Heting Liu, Guohong Cao +2
As IoT devices are becoming widely deployed, there exist many threats to IoT-based systems due to their inherent vulnerabilities. One effective approach to improving IoT security i…
Generating Practical Adversarial Network Traffic Flows Using NIDSGAN
Bolor-Erdene Zolbayar, Ryan Sheatsley, Patrick McDaniel +4
Network intrusion detection systems (NIDS) are an essential defense for computer networks and the hosts within them. Machine learning (ML) nowadays predominantly serves as the basi…
Let Your Camera See for You: A Novel Two-Factor Authentication Method against Real-Time Phishing Attacks
Yuanyi Sun, Sencun Zhu, Yao Zhao +1
Today, two-factor authentication (2FA) is a widely implemented mechanism to counter phishing attacks. Although much effort has been investigated in 2FA, most 2FA systems are still…
Mitigating Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning
Chen Wu, Xian Yang, Sencun Zhu +1
Malicious clients can attack federated learning systems using malicious data, including backdoor samples, during the training phase. The compromised global model will perform well…
"Are you home alone?" "Yes" Disclosing Security and Privacy Vulnerabilities in Alexa Skills
Dan Su, Jiqiang Liu, Sencun Zhu +2
The home voice assistants such as Amazon Alexa have become increasingly popular due to many interesting voice-activated services provided through special applications called skills…
Toward A Network-Assisted Approach for Effective Ransomware Detection
Tianrou Xia, Yuanyi Sun, Sencun Zhu +2
Ransomware is a kind of malware using cryptographic mechanisms to prevent victims from normal use of their computers. As a result, victims lose the access to their files and deskto…
No Peeking through My Windows: Conserving Privacy in Personal Drones
Alem Fitwi, Yu Chen, Sencun Zhu
The drone technology has been increasingly used by many tech-savvy consumers, a number of defense companies, hobbyists and enthusiasts during the last ten years. Drones often come…
A Study on Smart Online Frame Forging Attacks against Video Surveillance System
Deeraj Nagothu, Jacob Schwell, Yu Chen +2
Video Surveillance Systems (VSS) have become an essential infrastructural element of smart cities by increasing public safety and countering criminal activities. A VSS is normally…
Backdoor Embedding in Convolutional Neural Network Models via Invisible Perturbation
Cong Liao, Haoti Zhong, Anna Squicciarini +2
Deep learning models have consistently outperformed traditional machine learning models in various classification tasks, including image classification. As such, they have become i…
Keeping Context In Mind: Automating Mobile App Access Control with User Interface Inspection
Hao Fu, Zizhan Zheng, Sencun Zhu +1
Recent studies observe that app foreground is the most striking component that influences the access control decisions in mobile platform, as users tend to deny permission requests…