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5 papers

cs.CR2026

aiXamine: Unified Black-Box Evaluation of Cross-Dimensional Trade-offs in LLM Safety, Security, and Privacy

Fatih Deniz, Yazan Boshmaf, Dorde Popovic +1

The critical failure modes in deployed large language models (LLMs) are cross-dimensional: a model can score 99.3 in safety alignment while refusing one in three benign queries, or…

cs.LG2025

StructTransform: A Scalable Attack Surface for Safety-Aligned Large Language Models

Shehel Yoosuf, Temoor Ali, Ahmed Lekssays +2

In this work, we present a series of structure transformation attacks on LLM alignment, where we encode natural language intent using diverse syntax spaces, ranging from simple str…

cs.CR2025

aiXamine: Simplified LLM Safety and Security

Fatih Deniz, Dorde Popovic, Yazan Boshmaf +4

Evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) for safety and security remains a complex task, often requiring users to navigate a fragmented landscape of ad hoc benchmarks, datasets, met…

cs.CR2025

DeBackdoor: A Deductive Framework for Detecting Backdoor Attacks on Deep Models with Limited Data

Dorde Popovic, Amin Sadeghi, Ting Yu +2

Backdoor attacks are among the most effective, practical, and stealthy attacks in deep learning. In this paper, we consider a practical scenario where a developer obtains a deep mo…

cs.CR2025

MANTIS: Detection of Zero-Day Malicious Domains Leveraging Low Reputed Hosting Infrastructure

Fatih Deniz, Mohamed Nabeel, Ting Yu +1

Internet miscreants increasingly utilize short-lived disposable domains to launch various attacks. Existing detection mechanisms are either too late to catch such malicious domains…