9 papers
Firewalls to Secure Dynamic LLM Agentic Networks
Sahar Abdelnabi, Amr Gomaa, Eugene Bagdasarian +2
The emergence of agent-to-agent communication protocols mirrors the early internet: powerful connectivity with minimal security infrastructure. When AI agents communicate on behalf…
Can Large Language Models Really Recognize Your Name?
Dzung Pham, Peter Kairouz, Niloofar Mireshghallah +3
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used in privacy pipelines to detect and remedy sensitive data leakage. These solutions often rely on the premise that LLMs can r…
OverThink: Slowdown Attacks on Reasoning LLMs
Abhinav Kumar, Jaechul Roh, Ali Naseh +4
Most flagship language models generate explicit reasoning chains, enabling inference-time scaling. However, producing these reasoning chains increases token usage (i.e., reasoning…
Privacy Reasoning in Ambiguous Contexts
Ren Yi, Octavian Suciu, Adria Gascon +3
We study the ability of language models to reason about appropriate information disclosure - a central aspect of the evolving field of agentic privacy. Whereas previous works have…
Network-Level Prompt and Trait Leakage in Local Research Agents
Hyejun Jeong, Mohammadreza Teymoorianfard, Abhinav Kumar +2
We show that Web and Research Agents (WRAs) -- language-model-based systems that investigate complex topics on the Internet -- are vulnerable to inference attacks by passive networ…
Throttling Web Agents Using Reasoning Gates
Abhinav Kumar, Jaechul Roh, Ali Naseh +2
AI web agents use Internet resources at far greater speed, scale, and complexity -- changing how users and services interact. Deployed maliciously or erroneously, these agents coul…