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most citedNYU CTF Bench: A Scalable Open-Source Benchmark Dataset for Evaluating LLMs in Offensive Security

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cs.CR2026

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…

cs.CR2026

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…

cs.CR2026

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…

cs.CR2025

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…

cs.CR2025

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…

cs.CR2025

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…

cs.CR2025

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…

cs.CR2025

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…

cs.CR2024★ 3 cited

NYU CTF Bench: A Scalable Open-Source Benchmark Dataset for Evaluating LLMs in Offensive Security

Minghao Shao, Sofija Jancheska, Meet Udeshi +10

Large Language Models (LLMs) are being deployed across various domains today. However, their capacity to solve Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges in cybersecurity has not been thoro…

cs.CR2023★ 2 cited

REMaQE: Reverse Engineering Math Equations from Executables

Meet Udeshi, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Hammond Pearce +2

Cybersecurity attacks on embedded devices for industrial control systems and cyber-physical systems may cause catastrophic physical damage as well as economic loss. This could be a…