most citedDarkMind: Latent Chain-of-Thought Backdoor in Customized LLMs

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cs.CR2026

Not Where You Think: Protecting Location Privacy Against Reasoning-Based Geolocation

Shanghao Shi, Jian Xiao, Hao Li +5

Recent large reasoning models can infer where ordinary photos were taken using only visual information, creating a serious location privacy risk even when metadata and obvious geog…

cs.CR2026

Mirage: Targeted Jailbreaks Against Post-Generation Safety Checkers in Multimodal Diffusion Models

Shanghao Shi, Chaoyu Zhang, Heng Jin +4

Post-generation safety checkers are widely employed in diffusion-model pipelines to prevent unsafe generated content from reaching users. In this paper, we show that these safety c…

cs.CR2026

MechAudit-40: White-Box Auditing across 40 LLM Attack Mechanisms

Zhen Guo, Shanghao Shi, Shamim Yazdani +2

While LLM attacks span prompt optimization, multi-turn context manipulation, retrieval poisoning, and model backdoors, white-box defenses are typically evaluated on isolated attack…

cs.CR2026

Think Twice Before You Act: Protecting LLM Agents Against Tool Description Poisoning via Isolated Planning

Shanghao Shi, Xiao Wang, Chaoyu Zhang +6

The integration of external tools has substantially expanded the capabilities of large language model (LLM) agents, but it also introduces new attack surfaces beyond prompt injecti…

cs.CR2026

From Efficiency to Leakage -- Privacy Backdoor in Federated Language Model Fine-Tuning

Shanghao Shi, Chaoyu Zhang, Heng Jin +6

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple parties to collaboratively fine-tune language models for domain-specific tasks without sharing raw data. Since full model fine-tuning is of…

cs.LG2026

Low Rank Adaptation for Adversarial Perturbation

Han Liu, Shanghao Shi, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik +2

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), which leverages the insight that model updates typically reside in a low-dimensional space, has significantly improved the training efficiency of Large…

cs.CR2026

TraceGuard: Process-Guided Firewall against Reasoning Backdoors in Large Language Models

Zhen Guo, Shanghao Shi, Hao Li +3

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) introduce a reasoning-level attack surface: adversaries can corrupt intermediate inferences while preserving a plausible trace and an apparently benig…

cs.CR2026

AgentDyn: Are Your Agent Security Defenses Deployable in Real-World Dynamic Environments?

Hao Li, Ruoyao Wen, Shanghao Shi +3

AI agents that autonomously interact with external tools and environments have shown great promise across real-world applications. However, their reliance on external data exposes…

cs.CR2025

Rethinking Jailbreak Detection of Large Vision Language Models with Representational Contrastive Scoring

Peichun Hua, Hao Li, Shanghao Shi +2

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are vulnerable to a growing array of multimodal jailbreak attacks, necessitating defenses that are both generalizable to novel threats and effi…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

DarkMind: Latent Chain-of-Thought Backdoor in Customized LLMs

Zhen Guo, Shanghao Shi, Shamim Yazdani +2

With the rapid rise of personalized AI, customized large language models (LLMs) equipped with Chain of Thought (COT) reasoning now power millions of AI agents. However, their compl…