5 papers
A Survey of LLM-Driven Penetration Testing: Taxonomy, Co-Evolution, and Open Challenges
Zheyuan He, Jiaxun Dong, Zihao Li +6
Agents4Pentest, an emerging class of LLM-based autonomous penetration testing systems, has become a rapidly growing area in security research. Despite this growth, the field still…
Proving and Rewarding Client Diversity to Strengthen Resilience of Blockchain Networks
Javier Ron, Zheyuan He, Martin Monperrus
Client diversity is a cornerstone of blockchain resilience, yet most networks suffer from a dangerously skewed distribution of client implementations. This monoculture exposes the…
Large Language Models for Blockchain Security: A Systematic Literature Review
Zheyuan He, Zihao Li, Sen Yang +5
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools across various domains within cyber security. Notably, recent studies are increasingly exploring LLMs applied to the con…
fAmulet: Finding Finalization Failure Bugs in Polygon zkRollup
Zihao Li, Xinghao Peng, Zheyuan He +2
Zero-knowledge layer 2 protocols emerge as a compelling approach to overcoming blockchain scalability issues by processing transactions through the transaction finalization process…
Nurgle: Exacerbating Resource Consumption in Blockchain State Storage via MPT Manipulation
Zheyuan He, Zihao Li, Ao Qiao +6
Blockchains, with intricate architectures, encompass various components, e.g., consensus network, smart contracts, decentralized applications, and auxiliary services. While offerin…