4 papers
AgentTell: Behavioural Side-Channel Leakage in Browser-Use Agents
Asif Shahriar, Md Nafiu Rahman, Sadif Ahmed +2
Browser-use agents often carry information in their context as they move between websites. While it may be necessary for task completion, it also creates a privacy risk, especially…
Words Speak Louder Than Code: Investigating Cognitive Heuristics in LLM-Based Code Vulnerability Detection
Asif Shahriar, Hongyu Cai, Hadjer Benkraouda +2
Researchers and practitioners increasingly apply Large Language Models (LLMs) for automated vulnerability detection. Recent work has shown that LLMs are susceptible to the same cog…
A Survey on Agentic Security: Applications, Threats and Defenses
Asif Shahriar, Md Nafiu Rahman, Sadif Ahmed +2
LLM-based agents are now used throughout cybersecurity. While these agents facilitate powerful and autonomous security applications, their autonomy opens up new attack surfaces, an…
Inceptive Transformers: Enhancing Contextual Representations through Multi-Scale Feature Learning Across Domains and Languages
Asif Shahriar, Rifat Shahriyar, M Saifur Rahman
Encoder transformer models compress information from all tokens in a sequence into a single [CLS] token to represent global context. This approach risks diluting fine-grained or hi…