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cs.CR2026

The Safeguard Worked. Is the LLM System Safer?

Pingyu Wu, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu

Safeguards in deployed LLM services are evaluated by refusal, attack success, and policy violation rates. Those rates characterize how a control performed on the requests it was te…

cs.CR2026

PURA: Provably Unbiased and Robust Multi-Bit Watermarking for AI-Generated Text Attribution

Yaofei Wang, Jinyang Guo, Shuchao Du +6

Fine-grained attribution of AI-generated text is becoming increasingly important for accountability and auditing, yet existing multi-bit watermarking methods still struggle to simu…

cs.CR2026

Breadcrumbing Search Agents

Xuebin Li, Hanqing Zhao, Siyuan Liang +4

LLM-based search agents are widely used for information-seeking tasks, but their reliance on external tool returns introduces a critical security risk: web content retrieved during…

cs.CR2026

Safeguards Based on Copyable Context Cannot Provide Reliable Safety for LLMs

Pingyu Wu, Lingyao Zhu, Weiming Zhang +1

Large language model safeguards decide whether to answer before seeing how an answer will be used. This creates a basic problem for dual-use tasks: the same answer can help an auth…

cs.CR2026

FARI: Robust One-Step Inversion for Watermarking in Diffusion Models

Jindong Yang, Han Fang, Weiming Zhang +2

Inversion-based watermarking is a promising approach to authenticate diffusion-generated images, yet practical use is bottlenecked by inversion that is both slow and error-prone. W…

cs.CR2026

State-Dependent Safety Failures in Multi-Turn Language Model Interaction

Pengcheng Li, Jie Zhang, Tianwei Zhang +5

Safety alignment in large language models is typically evaluated under isolated queries, yet real-world use is inherently multi-turn. Although multi-turn jailbreaks are empirically…

cs.CR2026

SemBind: Binding Diffusion Watermarks to Semantics Against Black-Box Forgery Attacks

Xin Zhang, Zijin Yang, Kejiang Chen +3

Latent-based watermarks, integrated into the generation process of latent diffusion models (LDMs), simplify detection and attribution of generated images. However, recent black-box…

cs.CR2026

STEAD: Robust Provably Secure Linguistic Steganography with Diffusion Language Model

Yuang Qi, Na Zhao, Qiyi Yao +4

Recent provably secure linguistic steganography (PSLS) methods rely on mainstream autoregressive language models (ARMs) to address historically challenging tasks, that is, to disgu…

cs.CR2025

A high-capacity linguistic steganography based on entropy-driven rank-token mapping

Jun Jiang, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu +1

Linguistic steganography enables covert communication through embedding secret messages into innocuous texts; however, current methods face critical limitations in payload capacity…

cs.CR2025

EditMark: Watermarking Large Language Models based on Model Editing

Shuai Li, Kejiang Chen, Jun Jiang +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, but their training requires extensive data and computational resources, rendering them valuable digital asse…

cs.CR2025

SafeGuider: Robust and Practical Content Safety Control for Text-to-Image Models

Peigui Qi, Kunsheng Tang, Wenbo Zhou +5

Text-to-image models have shown remarkable capabilities in generating high-quality images from natural language descriptions. However, these models are highly vulnerable to adversa…

cs.CR2025

PSRT: Accelerating LRM-based Guard Models via Prefilled Safe Reasoning Traces

Jiawei Zhao, Yuang Qi, Weiming Zhang +2

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on tasks such as mathematics and code generation. Motivated by these strengths, recent work has empirically d…

cs.CR2025

BURN: Backdoor Unlearning via Adversarial Boundary Analysis

Yanghao Su, Jie Zhang, Yiming Li +6

Backdoor unlearning aims to remove backdoor-related information while preserving the model's original functionality. However, existing unlearning methods mainly focus on recovering…

cs.CR2025★ 2 cited

Provably Secure Public-Key Steganography Based on Admissible Encoding

Xin Zhang, Kejiang Chen, Na Zhao +2

The technique of hiding secret messages within seemingly harmless covertext to evade examination by censors with rigorous security proofs is known as provably secure steganography…

cs.CR2025

GIFDL: Generated Image Fluctuation Distortion Learning for Enhancing Steganographic Security

Xiangkun Wang, Kejiang Chen, Yuang Qi +3

Minimum distortion steganography is currently the mainstream method for modification-based steganography. A key issue in this method is how to define steganographic distortion. Wit…

cs.CR2025

Beyond the Edge of Function: Unraveling the Patterns of Type Recovery in Binary Code

Gangyang Li, Xiuwei Shang, Shaoyin Cheng +5

Type recovery is a crucial step in binary code analysis, holding significant importance for reverse engineering and various security applications. Existing works typically simply t…

cs.CR2024★ 3 cited

AutoPT: How Far Are We from the End2End Automated Web Penetration Testing?

Benlong Wu, Guoqiang Chen, Kejiang Chen +5

Penetration testing is essential to ensure Web security, which can detect and fix vulnerabilities in advance, and prevent data leakage and serious consequences. The powerful infere…

cs.CR2024

SQL Injection Jailbreak: A Structural Disaster of Large Language Models

Jiawei Zhao, Kejiang Chen, Weiming Zhang +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) are susceptible to jailbreak attacks that can induce them to generate harmful content. Previous jailbreak methods primarily exploited the internal prop…

cs.CR2024

On the Vulnerability of Text Sanitization

Meng Tong, Kejiang Chen, Xiaojian Yuan +4

Text sanitization, which employs differential privacy to replace sensitive tokens with new ones, represents a significant technique for privacy protection. Typically, its performan…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

AquaLoRA: Toward White-box Protection for Customized Stable Diffusion Models via Watermark LoRA

Weitao Feng, Wenbo Zhou, Jiyan He +6

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-quality images. Recently, the open-source models represented by Stable Diffusion (SD) are thriving and are acce…

cs.CR2024

FoC: Figure out the Cryptographic Functions in Stripped Binaries with LLMs

Xiuwei Shang, Guoqiang Chen, Shaoyin Cheng +4

Analyzing the behavior of cryptographic functions in stripped binaries is a challenging but essential task. Cryptographic algorithms exhibit greater logical complexity compared to…

cs.CR2024

Provably Secure Disambiguating Neural Linguistic Steganography

Yuang Qi, Kejiang Chen, Kai Zeng +2

Recent research in provably secure neural linguistic steganography has overlooked a crucial aspect: the sender must detokenize stegotexts to avoid raising suspicion from the eavesd…

cs.CR2024

Model X-ray:Detecting Backdoored Models via Decision Boundary

Yanghao Su, Jie Zhang, Ting Xu +3

Backdoor attacks pose a significant security vulnerability for deep neural networks (DNNs), enabling them to operate normally on clean inputs but manipulate predictions when specif…

cs.CR2023★ 12 cited

Silent Guardian: Protecting Text from Malicious Exploitation by Large Language Models

Jiawei Zhao, Kejiang Chen, Xiaojian Yuan +3

The rapid development of large language models (LLMs) has yielded impressive success in various downstream tasks. However, the vast potential and remarkable capabilities of LLMs al…