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20232026
most citedNODLINK: An Online System for Fine-Grained APT Attack Detection and Investigation

39 citations · 42 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CR2026

VeriRouter: Towards Verifiable LLM Routing

Mengyu Yao, Ziqi Zhang, Shaofei Li +4

Large language model (LLM) routers are increasingly deployed to optimize quality, latency, and cost through dynamic model selection and request rewriting. However, a compromised ro…

cs.CR2026

SysEvolve: An AI-native, safe, autonomous adversarial attack-defense co-evolutionary system

Yuhan Meng, Shaofei Li, Jionghao Huang +8

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has created a growing asymmetry in cybersecurity, where attack accelerates toward autonomous execution while defense remains p…

cs.CR2026

RangeFactory: Scalable Construction of Multi-Hop Cyber Ranges

Hanlin Jiang, Puyi Wang, Jiandong Jin +10

Real-world cyberattacks often require sustained progress across multiple hosts and network segments, making multi-hop cyber ranges essential infrastructure for studying and improvi…

cs.CR2026

STAIR: Effective Incident Response Using an End-to-End Agentic Planning Framework

Hanlin Jiang, Jionghao Huang, Shaofei Li +6

Incident response planning is critical for restoring compromised software systems. Existing AIOps methods automate fault diagnosis and remediation and adapt response using feedback…

cs.CR2026★ 1 cited

Connect the Dots: Knowledge Graph-Guided Crawler Attack on Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

Mengyu Yao, Ziqi Zhang, Ning Luo +5

Stealing attacks pose a persistent threat to the intellectual property of deployed machine-learning systems. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) intensifies this risk by extending…

cs.CR2025

PromoGuardian: Detecting Promotion Abuse Fraud with Multi-Relation Fused Graph Neural Networks

Shaofei Li, Xiao Han, Ziqi Zhang +6

As e-commerce platforms develop, fraudulent activities are increasingly emerging, posing significant threats to the security and stability of these platforms. Promotion abuse is on…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

When MCP Servers Attack: Taxonomy, Feasibility, and Mitigation

Weibo Zhao, Jiahao Liu, Bonan Ruan +2

Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers enable AI applications to connect to external systems in a plug-and-play manner, but their rapid proliferation also introduces severe security…

cs.CR2025

KnowHow: Automatically Applying High-Level CTI Knowledge for Interpretable and Accurate Provenance Analysis

Yuhan Meng, Shaofei Li, Jiaping Gui +2

High-level natural language knowledge in CTI reports, such as the ATT&CK framework, is beneficial to counter APT attacks. However, how to automatically apply the high-level knowled…

cs.CR2025

No Data? No Problem: Synthesizing Security Graphs for Better Intrusion Detection

Yi Huang, Shaofei Li, Yao Guo +3

Provenance graph analysis plays a vital role in intrusion detection, particularly against Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), by exposing complex attack patterns. While recent syst…

cs.CR2024

Query Provenance Analysis: Efficient and Robust Defense against Query-based Black-box Attacks

Shaofei Li, Ziqi Zhang, Haomin Jia +3

Query-based black-box attacks have emerged as a significant threat to machine learning systems, where adversaries can manipulate the input queries to generate adversarial examples…

cs.CR2023★ 39 cited

NODLINK: An Online System for Fine-Grained APT Attack Detection and Investigation

Shaofei Li, Feng Dong, Xusheng Xiao +6

Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) attacks have plagued modern enterprises, causing significant financial losses. To counter these attacks, researchers propose techniques that captu…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

Are we there yet? An Industrial Viewpoint on Provenance-based Endpoint Detection and Response Tools

Feng Dong, Shaofei Li, Peng Jiang +8

Provenance-Based Endpoint Detection and Response (P-EDR) systems are deemed crucial for future APT defenses. Despite the fact that numerous new techniques to improve P-EDR systems…