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cs.CR2026

CyberArena: Benchmarking AI Agents in Live Symmetric Attack-and-Defense Combat

Bangya Liu, Jianhong Tu, Yueyang Pan +18

AI agents are demonstrating increasingly strong offensive and defensive cybersecurity capabilities in the real world. Current benchmarks mostly evaluate agents in isolation against…

cs.CR2026

Agent Security Needs Redefinition through a Holistic Framework

Vincent Siu, Jingxuan He, Kyle Montgomery +3

Agent security is widely treated as a question about action content. Defenses ask whether an instruction looks malicious. Benchmarks ask whether an agent performs a harmful soundin…

cs.CR2026

CyberGym-E2E: Scalable Real-World Benchmark for AI Agents' End-to-End Cybersecurity Capabilities

Tianneng Shi, Robin Rheem, Dongwei Jiang +13

AI has the potential to transform cybersecurity by enabling systems that can autonomously detect, analyze, and remediate software vulnerabilities. However, existing cybersecurity e…

cs.CR2026★ 3 cited

ExploitGym: Can AI Agents Turn Security Vulnerabilities into Real Attacks?

Zhun Wang, Nico Schiller, Hongwei Li +13

AI agents are rapidly gaining capabilities that could significantly reshape cybersecurity, making rigorous evaluation urgent. A critical capability is exploitation: turning a vulne…

cs.CR2026

A Framework for Formalizing LLM Agent Security

Vincent Siu, Jingxuan He, Kyle Montgomery +4

Security in LLM agents is inherently contextual. For example, the same action taken by an agent may represent legitimate behavior or a security violation depending on whose instruc…

cs.CR2026

The Attack and Defense Landscape of Agentic AI: A Comprehensive Survey

Juhee Kim, Xiaoyuan Liu, Zhun Wang +4

AI agents that combine large language models with non-AI system components are rapidly emerging in real-world applications, offering unprecedented automation and flexibility. Howev…

cs.CR2026

WebSentinel: Detecting and Localizing Prompt Injection Attacks for Web Agents

Xilong Wang, Yinuo Liu, Zhun Wang +2

Prompt injection attacks manipulate webpage content to cause web agents to execute attacker-specified tasks instead of the user's intended ones. Existing methods for detecting and…

cs.CR2025

VulnLLM-R: Specialized Reasoning LLM with Agent Scaffold for Vulnerability Detection

Yuzhou Nie, Hongwei Li, Chengquan Guo +5

We propose VulnLLM-R, the~\emph{first specialized reasoning LLM} for vulnerability detection. Our key insight is that LLMs can reason about program states and analyze the potential…

cs.CR2025

PromptArmor: Simple yet Effective Prompt Injection Defenses

Tianneng Shi, Kaijie Zhu, Zhun Wang +13

Despite their potential, recent research has demonstrated that LLM agents are vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, where malicious prompts are injected into the agent's input, c…

cs.CR2025

AgentVigil: Generic Black-Box Red-teaming for Indirect Prompt Injection against LLM Agents

Zhun Wang, Vincent Siu, Zhe Ye +6

The strong planning and reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have fostered the development of agent-based systems capable of leveraging external tools and interac…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

CyberGym: Evaluating AI Agents' Real-World Cybersecurity Capabilities at Scale

Zhun Wang, Tianneng Shi, Jingxuan He +3

AI agents have significant potential to reshape cybersecurity, making a thorough assessment of their capabilities critical. However, existing evaluations fall short, because they a…

cs.CR2025

Progent: Securing AI Agents with Privilege Control

Tianneng Shi, Jingxuan He, Zhun Wang +4

AI agents interact with external environments through tool calls, exposing them to attacks like indirect prompt injection that can trigger unauthorized actions. Securing these agen…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

Frontier AI's Impact on the Cybersecurity Landscape

Yujin Potter, Wenbo Guo, Zhun Wang +6

The impact of frontier AI (i.e., AI agents and foundation models) in cybersecurity is rapidly increasing. In this paper, we comprehensively analyze this trend through multiple aspe…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

LeakAgent: RL-based Red-teaming Agent for LLM Privacy Leakage

Yuzhou Nie, Zhun Wang, Ye Yu +4

Recent studies have discovered that large language models (LLM) may be ``fooled'' to output private information, including training data, system prompts, and personally identifiabl…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

SeCodePLT: A Unified Platform for Evaluating the Security of Code GenAI

Yuzhou Nie, Zhun Wang, Yu Yang +7

Existing benchmarks for evaluating the security risks and capabilities (e.g., vulnerability detection) of code-generating large language models (LLMs) face several key limitations:…

cs.CR2024★ 2 cited

LLM-PBE: Assessing Data Privacy in Large Language Models

Qinbin Li, Junyuan Hong, Chulin Xie +10

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become integral to numerous domains, significantly advancing applications in data management, mining, and analysis. Their profound capabilities in…