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most citedA Comprehensive Survey of Advanced Persistent Threat Attribution: Taxonomy, Methods, Challenges and Open Research Problems

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How Do LLM Agents Actually Get the Flag? Trace-Level Provenance for Agentic Offensive Security Evaluation

Kimberly Milner, Minghao Shao, Nanda Rani +8

Capture-the-Flag (CTF) benchmarks are widely used to assess the offensive security capabilities of autonomous language-model agents. Evaluations rely on shallow binary judgments or…

cs.CR2026

Beyond Reproducibility: Towards Security-Aware Evaluation of Research Artifacts

Nanda Rani, Christian Rossow

Research artifacts are widely shared to support reproducibility, and artifact evaluation (AE) has become common at many leading conferences. However, AE mainly checks whether artif…

cs.CR2026

CTFExplorer: Evaluating LLM Offensive Agents Through Multi-Target Web CTF Benchmarking

Nanda Rani, Kimberly Milner, Minghao Shao +9

Existing benchmarks for LLM-based offensive security agents use isolated, single-target setups with a known vulnerable service and fixed objective. They measure exploitation effect…

cs.CR2025

Towards Effective Offensive Security LLM Agents: Hyperparameter Tuning, LLM as a Judge, and a Lightweight CTF Benchmark

Minghao Shao, Nanda Rani, Kimberly Milner +9

Recent advances in LLM agentic systems have improved the automation of offensive security tasks, particularly for Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges. We systematically investigate t…

cs.CR2025

AURA: A Multi-Agent Intelligence Framework for Knowledge-Enhanced Cyber Threat Attribution

Nanda Rani, Sandeep Kumar Shukla

Effective attribution of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) increasingly hinges on the ability to correlate behavioral patterns and reason over complex, varied threat intelligence…

cs.CR2025

CRAKEN: Cybersecurity LLM Agent with Knowledge-Based Execution

Minghao Shao, Haoran Xi, Nanda Rani +9

Large Language Model (LLM) agents can automate cybersecurity tasks and can adapt to the evolving cybersecurity landscape without re-engineering. While LLM agents have demonstrated…