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SKILLLITE: Evidence-Guided Malicious Skill Auditing with Compact LLMs
Haoran Ou, Gelei Deng, Xuanye Zhang +3
As LLM-based agents perform increasingly complex tasks, Agent Skills have emerged as a flexible mechanism for extending their capabilities. An Agent Skill packages task-specific in…
Auditing Chinese Web-scale Corpora via Sampled BPE Token Statistics
Qingjie Zhang, Ziqi Tang, Jie Zhang +7
Chinese web pollution has surfaced in LLMs, motivating audits of upstream Chinese corpora. However, auditing such corpora faces three challenges: (1) their web-scale size makes ful…
When Claws Remember but Do Not Tell: Stealthy Memory Injection in Persistent Personal Agents
Yechao Zhang, Shiqian Zhao, Jiawen Zhang +5
Persistent personal agents combine long-term memory with access to users' external environments, enabling personalized foreground assistance and proactive background execution. Thi…
Turning Bias into Bugs: Bandit-Guided Style Manipulation Attacks on LLM Judges
Xianglin Yang, Bryan Hooi, Gelei Deng +2
The known stylistic biases in LLM judges, such as a preference for verbosity or specific sentence structures, present an underexplored security vulnerability. In this work, we intr…
Mind Your HEARTBEAT! Claw Background Execution Inherently Enables Silent Memory Pollution
Yechao Zhang, Shiqian Zhao, Jie Zhang +5
We identify a critical security vulnerability in mainstream Claw personal AI agents: untrusted content encountered during heartbeat-driven background execution can silently pollute…
AutoEG: Exploiting Known Third-Party Vulnerabilities in Black-Box Web Applications
Ruozhao Yang, Mingfei Cheng, Gelei Deng +3
Large-scale web applications are widely deployed with complex third-party components, inheriting security risks arising from component vulnerabilities. Security assessment is there…
DECEIVE-AFC: Adversarial Claim Attacks against Search-Enabled LLM-based Fact-Checking Systems
Haoran Ou, Kangjie Chen, Gelei Deng +4
Fact-checking systems with search-enabled large language models (LLMs) have shown strong potential for verifying claims by dynamically retrieving external evidence. However, the ro…
"Are You Sure?": An Empirical Study of Human Perception Vulnerability in LLM-Driven Agentic Systems
Xinfeng Li, Shenyu Dai, Kelong Zheng +4
Large language model (LLM) agents are rapidly becoming trusted copilots in high-stakes domains like software development and healthcare. However, this deepening trust introduces a…
Do LLMs and VLMs Share Neurons for Inference? Evidence and Mechanisms of Cross-Modal Transfer
Chenhang Cui, An Zhang, Yuxin Chen +5
Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have rapidly advanced across various domains, yet they still lag behind strong text-only large language models (LLMs) on tasks that require mul…
Risky-Bench: Evaluating Agentic Safety Risks in Real-World Life-Assist Deployments
Jingnan Zheng, Yanzhen Luo, Jingjun Xu +8
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as agents that operate in real-world environments, introducing safety risks beyond linguistic harm through tool use, external…
Self-Guard: Defending Large Reasoning Models via enhanced self-reflection
Jingnan Zheng, Jingjun Xu, Yanzhen Luo +6
The emergence of Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) introduces a new paradigm of explicit reasoning, enabling remarkable advances yet posing unique risks such as reasoning manipulation…
PentestEval: Benchmarking LLM-based Penetration Testing with Modular and Stage-Level Design
Ruozhao Yang, Mingfei Cheng, Gelei Deng +3
Penetration testing is essential for assessing and strengthening system security against real-world threats, yet traditional workflows remain highly manual, expertise-intensive, an…
When Search Goes Wrong: Red-Teaming Web-Augmented Large Language Models
Haoran Ou, Kangjie Chen, Xingshuo Han +4
Large Language Models (LLMs) have been augmented with web search to overcome the limitations of the static knowledge boundary by accessing up-to-date information from the open Inte…
Visible Yet Unreadable: A Systematic Blind Spot of Vision Language Models Across Writing Systems
Jie Zhang, Ting Xu, Gelei Deng +5
Writing is a universal cultural technology that reuses vision for symbolic communication. Humans display striking resilience: we readily recognize words even when characters are fr…
When Audio and Text Disagree: Revealing Text Bias in Large Audio-Language Models
Cheng Wang, Gelei Deng, Xianglin Yang +2
Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) are enhanced with audio perception capabilities, enabling them to effectively process and understand multimodal inputs that combine audio and te…
RSafe: Incentivizing proactive reasoning to build robust and adaptive LLM safeguards
Jingnan Zheng, Xiangtian Ji, Yijun Lu +6
Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to exhibit vulnerabilities despite deliberate safety alignment efforts, posing significant risks to users and society. To safeguard against th…
IRCopilot: Automated Incident Response with Large Language Models
Xihuan Lin, Jie Zhang, Gelei Deng +4
Incident response plays a pivotal role in mitigating the impact of cyber attacks. In recent years, the intensity and complexity of global cyber threats have grown significantly, ma…
Beyond Retrieval: Improving Evidence Quality for LLM-based Multimodal Fact-Checking
Haoran Ou, Gelei Deng, Xingshuo Han +4
The increasing multimodal disinformation, where deceptive claims are reinforced through coordinated text and visual content, poses significant challenges to automated fact-checking…
Enhancing Model Defense Against Jailbreaks with Proactive Safety Reasoning
Xianglin Yang, Gelei Deng, Jieming Shi +2
Large language models (LLMs) are vital for a wide range of applications yet remain susceptible to jailbreak threats, which could lead to the generation of inappropriate responses.…
Safe + Safe = Unsafe? Exploring How Safe Images Can Be Exploited to Jailbreak Large Vision-Language Models
Chenhang Cui, Gelei Deng, An Zhang +5
Recent advances in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have showcased strong reasoning abilities across multiple modalities, achieving significant breakthroughs in various real-wo…
Fine-Grained Verifiers: Preference Modeling as Next-token Prediction in Vision-Language Alignment
Chenhang Cui, An Zhang, Yiyang Zhou +4
The recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) and pre-trained vision models have accelerated the development of vision-language large models (VLLMs), enhancing the intera…