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most citedNODLINK: An Online System for Fine-Grained APT Attack Detection and Investigation

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cs.CR2026

VeriRouter: Towards Verifiable LLM Routing

Mengyu Yao, Ziqi Zhang, Shaofei Li +4

Large language model (LLM) routers are increasingly deployed to optimize quality, latency, and cost through dynamic model selection and request rewriting. However, a compromised ro…

cs.CR2026

RangeFactory: Scalable Construction of Multi-Hop Cyber Ranges

Hanlin Jiang, Puyi Wang, Jiandong Jin +10

Real-world cyberattacks often require sustained progress across multiple hosts and network segments, making multi-hop cyber ranges essential infrastructure for studying and improvi…

cs.CR2026★ 1 cited

Connect the Dots: Knowledge Graph-Guided Crawler Attack on Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

Mengyu Yao, Ziqi Zhang, Ning Luo +5

Stealing attacks pose a persistent threat to the intellectual property of deployed machine-learning systems. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) intensifies this risk by extending…

cs.CR2025

Who Grants the Agent Power? Defending Against Instruction Injection via Task-Centric Access Control

Yifeng Cai, Ziming Wang, Zhaomeng Deng +6

AI agents capable of GUI understanding and Model Context Protocol are increasingly deployed to automate mobile tasks. However, their reliance on over-privileged, static permissions…

cs.CR2025

Who Moved My Transaction? Uncovering Post-Transaction Auditability Vulnerabilities in Modern Super Apps

Junlin Liu, Zhaomeng Deng, Ziming Wang +6

Super apps are the cornerstones of modern digital life, embedding financial transactions into nearly every aspect of daily routine. The prevailing security paradigm for these platf…

cs.CR2025

No Data? No Problem: Synthesizing Security Graphs for Better Intrusion Detection

Yi Huang, Shaofei Li, Yao Guo +3

Provenance graph analysis plays a vital role in intrusion detection, particularly against Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), by exposing complex attack patterns. While recent syst…

cs.CR2025

I Can Tell Your Secrets: Inferring Privacy Attributes from Mini-app Interaction History in Super-apps

Yifeng Cai, Ziqi Zhang, Mengyu Yao +8

Super-apps have emerged as comprehensive platforms integrating various mini-apps to provide diverse services. While super-apps offer convenience and enriched functionality, they ca…

cs.CR2024

TEESlice: Protecting Sensitive Neural Network Models in Trusted Execution Environments When Attackers have Pre-Trained Models

Ding Li, Ziqi Zhang, Mengyu Yao +3

Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) are used to safeguard on-device models. However, directly employing TEEs to secure the entire DNN model is challenging due to the limited compu…

cs.CR2024

SeeWasm: An Efficient and Fully-Functional Symbolic Execution Engine for WebAssembly Binaries

Ningyu He, Zhehao Zhao, Hanqin Guan +6

WebAssembly (Wasm), as a compact, fast, and isolation-guaranteed binary format, can be compiled from more than 40 high-level programming languages. However, vulnerabilities in Wasm…

cs.CR2024

Query Provenance Analysis: Efficient and Robust Defense against Query-based Black-box Attacks

Shaofei Li, Ziqi Zhang, Haomin Jia +3

Query-based black-box attacks have emerged as a significant threat to machine learning systems, where adversaries can manipulate the input queries to generate adversarial examples…

cs.CR2023★ 39 cited

NODLINK: An Online System for Fine-Grained APT Attack Detection and Investigation

Shaofei Li, Feng Dong, Xusheng Xiao +6

Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) attacks have plagued modern enterprises, causing significant financial losses. To counter these attacks, researchers propose techniques that captu…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

No Privacy Left Outside: On the (In-)Security of TEE-Shielded DNN Partition for On-Device ML

Ziqi Zhang, Chen Gong, Yifeng Cai +5

On-device ML introduces new security challenges: DNN models become white-box accessible to device users. Based on white-box information, adversaries can conduct effective model ste…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

Auditing Frameworks Need Resource Isolation: A Systematic Study on the Super Producer Threat to System Auditing and Its Mitigation

Peng Jiang, Ruizhe Huang, Ding Li +5

System auditing is a crucial technique for detecting APT attacks. However, attackers may try to compromise the system auditing frameworks to conceal their malicious activities. In…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

Are we there yet? An Industrial Viewpoint on Provenance-based Endpoint Detection and Response Tools

Feng Dong, Shaofei Li, Peng Jiang +8

Provenance-Based Endpoint Detection and Response (P-EDR) systems are deemed crucial for future APT defenses. Despite the fact that numerous new techniques to improve P-EDR systems…

cs.CR2023

Fuzzing the Latest NTFS in Linux with Papora: An Empirical Study

Edward Lo, Ningyu He, Yuejie Shi +4

Recently, the first feature-rich NTFS implementation, NTFS3, has been upstreamed to Linux. Although ensuring the security of NTFS3 is essential for the future of Linux, it remains…