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most citedRevealing the Black Box of Device Search Engine: Scanning Assets, Strategies, and Ethical Consideration

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cs.CR2026

MATE: Policy-Aware Security Auditing for Mobile Agents via Synthesis-Driven Trajectory Learning

Changyue Jiang, Jiayi Wang, Xin Wen +3

Mobile agents powered by foundation models now automate complex, multi-step workflows on real devices, but their trajectories can violate app-specific security policies. Existing t…

cs.CR2026

One Click to Leak: Characterizing the Real-World Usage and Threat Impact of MNO-based Single Sign-On Websites

Jiasheng Huang, Mingxuan Liu, Pei Chen +7

Mobile Network Operator (MNO)-based Single Sign-On (MSSO) is a password-free authentication framework relying on mobile data sessions. Unlike traditional SSO, it shifts the Identit…

cs.CR2026

Fingerprinting Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Collapsed Generation

Yuanmin Huang, Chen Chen, Geng Hong +5

Proprietary text-to-image diffusion models are increasingly distributed as hosted services and downloadable checkpoints, making their intellectual property (IP) protection an incre…

cs.CR2026

FlowGuard: From Signals to Evidence for MCP Security Detection

Baichao An, Pei Chen, Geng Hong +2

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables LLM agents to interact with external tools through metadata exchange, tool invocation, and response consumption. Existing MCP security scan…

cs.CR2026

Rethinking MCP Security: A Large-Scale Study of Runtime MCP Servers and Security Scanner Reliability

Pei Chen, Baichao An, Mengying Wu +6

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has rapidly established itself as a standard interface for enabling LLM-based agents to interact with external tools and services. As MCP servers a…

cs.CV2026

AEGIS: A Mechanism-Guided Defense against Visual Synonym Jailbreaks in Text-to-Image Models

Yuanmin Huang, Zhenfei Zhang, Mi Zhang +5

Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved high visual fidelity and broad adoption, but remain vulnerable to safety violations when adversaries exploit them to synthesize illicit…

cs.CR2026

The Emergence of Autonomous Penetration Capabilities in Large Language Model-Powered AI Systems

Jiaqi Luo, Jiarun Dai, Zhile Chen +8

Nowadays, the autonomous execution of cyberattacks capable of causing substantial real-world harm is widely regarded as one of the critical red lines that frontier AI systems must…

cs.CR2026

AgentCyberRange: Benchmarking Frontier AI Systems in Realistic Cyber Ranges

Fengyu Liu, Jiarun Dai, Yihe Fan +11

Frontier AI systems are increasingly capable of cybersecurity tasks, including codebase inspection, vulnerability detection, and exploitation. However, evaluating their offensive c…

cs.CR2026

CyberEvolver: Structured Self-Evolution for Cybersecurity Agents On the Fly

Yihe Fan, Changyi Li, Lichen Xu +4

LLM-based agents are increasingly used for cybersecurity tasks, but most existing systems rely on fixed, human-designed scaffolds that struggle to adapt across diverse targets and…

cs.CV2026

Unified Safe In-context Image Generation in Multimodal Diffusion Transformers via Restricting Unsafe Information Flows

Xiang Yang, Feifei Li, Mi Zhang +4

Diffusion transformers (DiTs) equipped with multimodal attention (MM-Attn) have become a dominant paradigm for image generation. However, preventing the generation of harmful conte…

cs.CV2026

Broken Memories: Detecting and Mitigating Memorization in Diffusion Models with Degraded Generations

Yuanmin Huang, Mi Zhang, Chen Chen +4

While diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images, their tendency to memorize training data poses significant privacy and copyright risks. In this work, we for the fir…

cs.CR2026

AgentGuard: An Attribute-Based Access Control Framework for Tool-Use LLM-Based Agent

Jiaqi Luo, Songyang Peng, Jiarun Dai +6

LLM-based agents have recently attracted significant attention due to their ability to autonomously invoke relevant tools to accomplish complex tasks. However, recent studies have…

cs.CL2026

From Anchors to Supervision: Memory-Graph Guided Corpus-Free Unlearning for Large Language Models

Wenxuan Li, Zhenfei Zhang, Mi Zhang +4

Large language models (LLMs) may memorize sensitive or copyrighted content, raising significant privacy and legal concerns. While machine unlearning has emerged as a potential reme…

cs.CV2026

SafeRoPE: Risk-specific Head-wise Embedding Rotation for Safe Generation in Rectified Flow Transformers

Xiang Yang, Feifei Li, Mi Zhang +3

Recent Text-to-Image (T2I) models based on rectified-flow transformers (e.g., SD3, FLUX) achieve high generative fidelity but remain vulnerable to unsafe semantics, especially when…

cs.CR2026

Unveiling the Resilience of LLM-Enhanced Search Engines against Black-Hat SEO Manipulation

Pei Chen, Geng Hong, Xinyi Wu +6

The emergence of Large Language Model-enhanced Search Engines (LLMSEs) has revolutionized information retrieval by integrating web-scale search capabilities with AI-powered summari…

cs.CR2026

Invisible Threats from Model Context Protocol: Generating Stealthy Injection Payload via Tree-based Adaptive Search

Yulin Shen, Xudong Pan, Geng Hong +1

Recent advances in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) have enabled large language models (LLMs) to invoke external tools with unprecedented ease. This creates a new class of powerful…

cs.AI2026

MirrorGuard: Toward Secure Computer-Use Agents via Simulation-to-Real Reasoning Correction

Wenqi Zhang, Yulin Shen, Changyue Jiang +3

Large foundation models are integrated into Computer Use Agents (CUAs), enabling autonomous interaction with operating systems through graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to perform c…

cs.AI2026

WebTrap Park: An Automated Platform for Systematic Security Evaluation of Web Agents

Xinyi Wu, Jiagui Chen, Geng Hong +4

Web Agents are increasingly deployed to perform complex tasks in real web environments, yet their security evaluation remains fragmented and difficult to standardize. We present We…

cs.CR2026

When Bots Take the Bait: Exposing and Mitigating the Emerging Social Engineering Attack in Web Automation Agent

Xinyi Wu, Geng Hong, Yueyue Chen +5

Web agents, powered by large language models (LLMs), are increasingly deployed to automate complex web interactions. The rise of open-source frameworks (e.g., Browser Use, Skyvern-…

cs.CR2025

MCPZoo: A Large-Scale Dataset of Runnable Model Context Protocol Servers for AI Agent

Mengying Wu, Pei Chen, Geng Hong +6

Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables agents to interact with external tools, yet empirical research on MCP is hindered by the lack of large-scale, accessible datasets. We present M…

cs.CV2025

SmartSight: Mitigating Hallucination in Video-LLMs Without Compromising Video Understanding via Temporal Attention Collapse

Yiming Sun, Mi Zhang, Feifei Li +2

Despite Video Large Language Models having rapidly advanced in recent years, perceptual hallucinations pose a substantial safety risk, which severely restricts their real-world app…

cs.CR2025

Shell or Nothing: Real-World Benchmarks and Memory-Activated Agents for Automated Penetration Testing

Wuyuao Mai, Geng Hong, Qi Liu +5

Penetration testing is critical for identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities, yet traditional approaches remain expensive, time-consuming, and dependent on expert human…

cs.CL2025

ReasoningGuard: Safeguarding Large Reasoning Models with Inference-time Safety Aha Moments

Yuquan Wang, Mi Zhang, Yining Wang +4

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in reasoning-intensive tasks, but they remain vulnerable to harmful content generation, particularly in the m…

cs.CR2025

PRISON: Unmasking the Criminal Potential of Large Language Models

Xinyi Wu, Geng Hong, Pei Chen +3

As large language models (LLMs) advance, concerns about their misconduct in complex social contexts intensify. Existing research overlooked the systematic understanding and assessm…