2 papers
cs.SE2026
What Counts as the Same Task? Executable Contracts for Robustness Evaluation of Tool-Using Agents
Shaikh Akib Shahriyar, MD. Akil Raihan Iftee, Armon Barton +1
Robustness tests for tool-using agents often change the agent's environment, for example by hiding a hostile note in an invoice, and then judge the agent by what it does. The resul…
cs.CR2026
Tracing the Chain: Deep Learning for Stepping-Stone Intrusion Detection
Nate Mathews, Nicholas Hopper, Matthew Wright
Stepping-stone intrusions (SSIs) are a prevalent network evasion technique in which attackers route sessions through chains of compromised intermediate hosts to obscure their origi…