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CLARO: Clutter Aware Robot Orchestrator for Open-Vocabulary Grasping using VLM Agents
Sungsu Kim, Vineet Bhat, Prashanth Krishnamurthy +2
Robots that follow natural-language instructions unlock a wide range of autonomous applications in households, warehouses, and labs. Real-world environments are diverse and often h…
Which Image Property Carries the Jailbreak? A Controlled Dissection of Image-to-Text Jailbreaks
Boyuan Chen, Yehia Dawoud, Hailemariam Mersha +4
Image-to-text jailbreaks place harmful intent in text, image content, or the relationship between them. We examine image-side factors across four published attack families on a 313…
Where Does the Audio Jailbreak Live? A Controlled Frequency-Depth Audit of AdvWave-P on Qwen2-Audio
Boyuan Chen, Minseok Kim, Sohaila Abdulsattar +4
We audit frequency and decoder-depth claims for AdvWave-P, an additive audio jailbreak, on Qwen2-Audio. The protocol masks frequency components of the perturbation in the short-tim…
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…
Sandbox-Enabled Digital Twin for Cyber-Physical Systems
Meet Udeshi, Md Raz, Prashanth Krishnamurthy +2
Firmware/software in cyber-physical system (CPS) embedded devices/controllers can have vulnerabilities stemming from multiple sources such as weak security practices, outdated libr…
Long-Term and Short-Term Transistor Aging in Deep Neural Networks: Impact and Mitigation
Alireza Sarmadi, Virinchi Roy Surabhi, Prashanth Krishnamurthy +3
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are used in a variety of real-world applications including, for example, image classification and speech recognition. The inference accuracy of DNN impl…
RESCORE: LLM-Driven Simulation Recovery in Control Systems Research Papers
Vineet Bhat, Shiqing Wei, Ali Umut Kaypak +3
Reconstructing numerical simulations from control systems research papers is often hindered by underspecified parameters and ambiguous implementation details. We define the task of…
AI In Cybersecurity Education -- Scalable Agentic CTF Design Principles and Educational Outcomes
Haoran Xi, Minghao Shao, Kimberly Milner +11
Large language models are rapidly changing how learners acquire and demonstrate cybersecurity skills. However, when human--AI collaboration is allowed, educators still lack validat…
Safeguarding LLMs Against Misuse and AI-Driven Malware Using Steganographic Canaries
Md Raz, Venkata Sai Charan Putrevu, Meet Udeshi +3
AI-powered malware increasingly exploits cloud-hosted generative-AI services and large language models (LLMs) as analysis engines for reconnaissance and code generation. Simultaneo…
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…
BOP-ASK: Object-Interaction Reasoning for Vision-Language Models
Vineet Bhat, Sungsu Kim, Valts Blukis +6
Vision Language Models (VLMs) have achieved impressive performance on spatial reasoning benchmarks, yet these evaluations mask critical weaknesses in understanding object interacti…
From Trace to Line: LLM Agent for Real-World OSS Vulnerability Localization
Haoran Xi, Minghao Shao, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt +2
Large language models show promise for vulnerability discovery, yet prevailing methods inspect code in isolation, struggle with long contexts, and focus on coarse function- or file…
Binary Diff Summarization using Large Language Models
Meet Udeshi, Venkata Sai Charan Putrevu, Prashanth Krishnamurthy +4
Security of software supply chains is necessary to ensure that software updates do not contain maliciously injected code or introduce vulnerabilities that may compromise the integr…
Ransomware 3.0: Self-Composing and LLM-Orchestrated
Md Raz, Meet Udeshi, P. V. Sai Charan +3
Using automated reasoning, code synthesis, and contextual decision-making, we introduce a new threat that exploits large language models (LLMs) to autonomously plan, adapt, and exe…
SCAMPER -- Synchrophasor Covert chAnnel for Malicious and Protective ERrands
Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Ramesh Karri, Farshad Khorrami
We note that constituent fields (notably the fraction-of-seconds timestamp field) in the data payload structure of the synchrophasor communication protocol (IEEE C37.118 standard)…
An Orchestrated Sandbox for Side-Channel Analysis of Cyber-Physical Systems Malware
Meet Udeshi, Venkata Sai Charan Putrevu, Prashanth Krishnamurthy +2
Embedded devices powering cyber-physical systems (CPS) are increasingly internet-exposed, placing critical infrastructure under active threat. Dynamic analysis of embedded malware…
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…
MapleGrasp: Mask-guided Feature Pooling for Language-driven Efficient Robotic Grasping
Vineet Bhat, Naman Patel, Prashanth Krishnamurthy +2
Robotic manipulation of unseen objects via natural language commands remains challenging. Language driven robotic grasping (LDRG) predicts stable grasp poses from natural language…
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…
3D CAVLA: Leveraging Depth and 3D Context to Generalize Vision Language Action Models for Unseen Tasks
Vineet Bhat, Yu-Hsiang Lan, Prashanth Krishnamurthy +2
Robotic manipulation in 3D requires effective computation of N degree-of-freedom joint-space trajectories that enable precise and robust control. To achieve this, robots must integ…
Enabling Deep Visibility into VxWorks-Based Embedded Controllers in Cyber-Physical Systems for Anomaly Detection
Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Ramesh Karri, Farshad Khorrami
We propose the DIVER (Defensive Implant for Visibility into Embedded Run-times) framework for real-time deep visibility into embedded control devices in cyber-physical systems (CPS…
D-CIPHER: Dynamic Collaborative Intelligent Multi-Agent System with Planner and Heterogeneous Executors for Offensive Security
Meet Udeshi, Minghao Shao, Haoran Xi +9
Large Language Models (LLMs) have been used in cybersecurity such as autonomous security analysis or penetration testing. Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges serve as benchmarks to a…
Real-Time Multi-Modal Subcomponent-Level Measurements for Trustworthy System Monitoring and Malware Detection
Farshad Khorrami, Ramesh Karri, Prashanth Krishnamurthy
With increasingly sophisticated cyber-adversaries able to access a wider repertoire of mechanisms to implant malware such as ransomware, CPU/GPU keyloggers, and stealthy kernel roo…
SHIELD: A Host-Independent Framework for Ransomware Detection using Deep Filesystem Features
Md Raz, Venkata Sai Charan Putrevu, Prashanth Krishnamurthy +2
Ransomware's escalating sophistication necessitates tamper-resistant, off-host detection solutions that capture deep disk activity beyond the reach of a compromised operating syste…