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most citedHarnessing Large Language Models for Software Vulnerability Detection: A Comprehensive Benchmarking Study

40 citations · 98 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.CR2026

A2A-ForensicTrace: Offline Verification of Tamper-Evident A2A Runtime Evidence

Adil Alshammari, Sareh Assiri, Hayretdin Bahsi

Security-relevant Agent2Agent (A2A) executions can cross organizational boundaries, leaving investigators without live access to all participating systems. Offline investigation in…

cs.CR2026

A2A-CaseVerify: Merkle-Linked Case-Evidence Verification for Cross-Organization A2A Workflows

Adil Alshammari, Hayretdin Bahsi

Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication enables large language model (LLM) agents to exchange tasks, messages, and artifacts across organizations. A valid message alone does not establi…

cs.CR2026

Offline-Verifiable Accountability for Cross-Organization Agent Messaging: A Preserved Evidence-Bundle Approach

Adil Alshammari, Hayretdin Bahsi

Cross-organization agent workflows require preserved evidence that remains independently verifiable during later audit or dispute review. They may involve multiple organizations, d…

cs.RO2026

When Prompts Control Robots: Prompt Injection Attacks in Multi-Agent Robotic Systems

Neha Nagaraja, Amisha Bagari, Hayretdin Bahsi

Large language models are increasingly integrated into autonomous robotic systems for task planning and control, but this integration exposes them to prompt injection attacks that…

cs.CR2026

From Prompt to Physical Actuation: Holistic Threat Modeling of LLM-Enabled Robotic Systems

Neha Nagaraja, Hayretdin Bahsi, Carlo R. da Cunha

As large language models are integrated into autonomous robotic systems for task planning and control, compromised inputs or unsafe model outputs can propagate through the planning…

cs.CR2026★ 2 cited

Incremental Federated Learning for Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks under Evolving Threat Landscape

Muaan Ur Rehman, Hayretdin Bahsi, Rajesh Kalakoti

The expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has increased the attack surface of networks, necessitating a robust and adaptive intrusion detection systems. Machine learning ba…

cs.CR2026

Where Do LLM-based Systems Break? A System-Level Security Framework for Risk Assessment and Treatment

Neha Nagaraja, Hayretdin Bahsi

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into safety-critical workflows, yet existing security analyses remain fragmented and often isolate model behavior from the…

cs.CR2026

Goal-Driven Risk Assessment for LLM-Powered Systems: A Healthcare Case Study

Neha Nagaraja, Hayretdin Bahsi

While incorporating LLMs into systems offers significant benefits in critical application areas such as healthcare, new security challenges emerge due to the potential cyber kill c…

cs.CR2026

Enhancing Continual Learning for Software Vulnerability Prediction: Addressing Catastrophic Forgetting via Hybrid-Confidence-Aware Selective Replay for Temporal LLM Fine-Tuning

Xuhui Dou, Hayretdin Bahsi, Alejandro Guerra-Manzanares

Recent work applies Large Language Models (LLMs) to source-code vulnerability detection, but most evaluations still rely on random train-test splits that ignore time and overestima…

cs.CR2025

Enhancing Security in LLM Applications: A Performance Evaluation of Early Detection Systems

Valerii Gakh, Hayretdin Bahsi

Prompt injection threatens novel applications that emerge from adapting LLMs for various user tasks. The newly developed LLM-based software applications become more ubiquitous and…

cs.CR2025★ 22 cited

Evaluating explainable AI for deep learning-based network intrusion detection system alert classification

Rajesh Kalakoti, Risto Vaarandi, Hayretdin Bahsi +1

A Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) monitors networks for cyber attacks and other unwanted activities. However, NIDS solutions often generate an overwhelming number of aler…

cs.CR2025

To Protect the LLM Agent Against the Prompt Injection Attack with Polymorphic Prompt

Zhilong Wang, Neha Nagaraja, Lan Zhang +3

LLM agents are widely used as agents for customer support, content generation, and code assistance. However, they are vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, where adversarial inpu…

cs.CR2025★ 14 cited

A Systematic Literature Review of Cyber Security Monitoring in Maritime

Risto Vaarandi, Leonidas Tsiopoulos, Gabor Visky +2

In recent years, many cyber incidents have occurred in the maritime sector, targeting the information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) infrastructure. One of the key…

cs.CR2024★ 20 cited

Using Large Language Models for Template Detection from Security Event Logs

Risto Vaarandi, Hayretdin Bahsi

In modern IT systems and computer networks, real-time and offline event log analysis is a crucial part of cyber security monitoring. In particular, event log analysis techniques ar…

cs.CR2024★ 40 cited

Harnessing Large Language Models for Software Vulnerability Detection: A Comprehensive Benchmarking Study

Karl Tamberg, Hayretdin Bahsi

Despite various approaches being employed to detect vulnerabilities, the number of reported vulnerabilities shows an upward trend over the years. This suggests the problems are not…