2 papers
cs.CR2026
LNTest: A Testbed for Evaluating Bitcoin Lightning Network-Based Botnets
Thomas Bakaysa, Ahmet Kurt, Abdul-Salem Beibitkhan +6
Bitcoin's Lightning Network (LN) can be exploited as a covert, low-cost command-and-control (C&C) channel for botnets, as demonstrated by the LNBot and D-LNBot designs. However, bo…
cs.CL2026
Left Behind: Cross-Lingual Transfer as a Bridge for Low-Resource Languages in Large Language Models
Abdul-Salem Beibitkhan
We investigate how large language models perform on low-resource languages by benchmarking eight LLMs across five experimental conditions in English, Kazakh, and Mongolian. Using 5…