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most citedDeepfake in the Metaverse: Security Implications for Virtual Gaming, Meetings, and Offices

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cs.CR2026

Continuous Assurance of Agentic Security Auditors for Software Delivery Decision Gates

Guy Lupo, Nguyen Hung Nguyen, Viet Vo +4

Large language model (LLM)-based repository auditors are increasingly deployed as security controls within continuous integration (CI) pipelines, where their findings admit, block,…

cs.CR2026

Connecting the Dots in Agentic AI Security: A Cross-Dimensional Threat Taxonomy, Evaluation Maturity, and Open Challenges

Heewon Baek, Alsharif Abuadbba, Kristen Moore +2

Agentic AI extends LLM security beyond generated content to persistent state, autonomous actions, tool use, and interactions with humans and other agents. Existing threat classific…

cs.CR2026

DEFEAT: Stitching Fragmented File I/O Contexts for Early Ransomware Detection

Muhammad Ejaz Ahmed, Hyoungshick Kim, Mohsen Ali Alawami +4

Ransomware increasingly fragments its file operations across temporary and intermediate files, scattering the semantic context that links individual I/O events to an overarching en…

cs.AI2026

Shadow Queries for Private Retrieval in Vector Databases

Xinguo Feng, Zhongkui Ma, Zihan Wang +4

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly rely on information retrieval (IR) systems, such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), to incorporate domain-specific knowledge without…

cs.CY2026

Shifting from Injection to Interaction: Rethinking Web Security in the Age of LLMs and Beyond

Nivedita Singh, Alsharif Abuadbba, Yansong Gao +2

Large language models (LLMs) are becoming integral to web applications and browser agents, transforming online interactions while introducing new attack vectors and reshaping longs…

cs.CR2026

DisCTI: Who Needs to Know Timely? Automated Sector-Aware Cyber Threat Intelligence Dissemination

Fajar Wijitrisnanto, Alsharif Abuadbba, Yansong Gao +1

The timely dissemination of cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is critical for organizations to mount swift and effective incident response. When valid CTI is delivered to the right s…

cs.CR2026

GraftyVul: Synthesising Insecure Programs Through Real-World Vulnerability Grafting

Omri Ram, Mitchell Horner, Ron Van der Meyden +2

Vulnerability datasets underpin a wide range of security research, including vulnerability detection, automated remediation, and secure code generation. However, existing datasets…

cs.SE2026

Understanding the Impact of AI Code Assistants on Security API Usage: An Empirical Study

Zahra Mousavi, Chadni Islam, M. Ali Babar +2

AI code assistants are transforming software development, but their implications for software security remain a major concern, particularly in the context of security APIs. These A…

cs.SD2026

GRIDEX: Grid-Grounded Forensic Explanations for Deepfake Spectrogram Analysis

Thi Ngan Ha Do, Tingmin Wu, Alsharif Abuadbba +1

The advancement of speech generation technologies has made artificial speech increasingly realistic. Although modern classification models can achieve high accuracy when it comes t…

cs.CR2026

APT-Agent: Automated Penetration Testing using Large Language Models

William Guanting Li, Alsharif Abuadbba, Kristen Moore +1

Penetration testing is essential to securing modern web infrastructures, yet traditional manual methods struggle to keep pace with their scale and complexity. Large Language Models…

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.CL2026

Mitigating Gradient Inversion Risks in Language Models via Token Obfuscation

Xinguo Feng, Zhongkui Ma, Zihan Wang +2

Training and fine-tuning large-scale language models largely benefit from collaborative learning, but the approach has been proven vulnerable to gradient inversion attacks (GIAs),…

cs.CR2026

Human Society-Inspired Approaches to Agentic AI Security: The 4C Framework

Alsharif Abuadbba, Nazatul Sultan, Surya Nepal +1

AI is moving from domain-specific autonomy in closed, predictable settings to large-language-model-driven agents that plan and act in open, cross-organizational environments. As a…

cs.CR2026

NADD: Amplifying Noise for Effective Diffusion-based Adversarial Purification

David D. Nguyen, The-Anh Ta, Yansong Gao +1

The strategy of combining diffusion-based generative models with classifiers continues to demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on adversarial robustness benchmarks. Known as ad…