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Cybersecurity is one of the most pressing technological challenges of our time and requires measures from all sectors of society. A key measure is automated security response, which enables automated mitigation and recovery from cyber…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Kim Hammar

Multi-agent LLM systems decompose workflows across agents, tools, shared context, memory, and decision gates. This modularity improves interpretability, but creates a propagation risk: a bounded perturbation to one component can be reused…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Md Hafizur Rahman , Zafaryab Haider , Tanzim Mahfuz , Prabuddha Chakraborty

Cyber threats are rapidly increasing, expanding their impact from large-scale enterprises to government services and individual users, making robust security systems increasingly essential. However, a significant shortage of skilled…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yasod Ginige , Pasindu Marasinghe , Sajal Jain , Suranga Seneviratne

In our research, we introduce a new concept called "LLM Augmented Pentesting" demonstrated with a tool named "Pentest Copilot," that revolutionizes the field of ethical hacking by integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into penetration…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Dhruva Goyal , Sitaraman Subramanian , Aditya Peela , Nisha P. Shetty

Modern organizations struggle with insurmountable number of vulnerabilities that are discovered and reported by their network and application vulnerability scanners. Therefore, prioritization and focus become critical, to spend their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Constantin Adam , Muhammed Fatih Bulut , Daby Sow , Steven Ocepek , Chris Bedell , Lilian Ngweta

Early detection of network intrusions and cyber threats is one of the main pillars of cybersecurity. One of the most effective approaches for this purpose is to analyze network traffic with the help of artificial intelligence algorithms,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Giacomo Zonneveld , Lorenzo Principi , Marco Baldi

The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) in financial services introduces new operational, regulatory, and security risks. Yet most red-teaming benchmarks remain domain-agnostic and fail to capture failure modes specific to…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-03-12 Fabrizio Dimino , Bhaskarjit Sarmah , Stefano Pasquali

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant potential in enhancing cybersecurity defenses against sophisticated threats. LLM-based penetration testing is an essential step in automating system security evaluations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Junjie Huang , Quanyan Zhu

In the last few years there has been a growing interest in Human Activity Recognition~(HAR) topic. Sensor-based HAR approaches, in particular, has been gaining more popularity owing to their privacy preserving nature. Furthermore, due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Parviz Asghari , Elnaz Soelimani , Ehsan Nazerfard

In modern automotive development, security testing is critical for safeguarding systems against increasingly advanced threats. Attack trees are widely used to systematically represent potential attack vectors, but generating comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Tanmay Khule , Stefan Marksteiner , Jose Alguindigue , Hannes Fuchs , Sebastian Fischmeister , Apurva Narayan

Automated methods for red teaming LLMs are an important tool to identify LLM vulnerabilities that may not be covered in static benchmarks, allowing for more thorough probing. They can also adapt to each specific LLM to discover weaknesses…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Aishwarya Padmakumar , Leon Derczynski , Traian Rebedea , Christopher Parisien

Attack Graph (AG) represents the best-suited solution to support cyber risk assessment for multi-step attacks on computer networks, although their generation suffers from poor scalability due to their combinatorial complexity. Current…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Alessandro Palma , Marco Angelini

The ever-evolving capabilities of cyber attackers force security administrators to focus on the early identification of emerging threats. Targeted cyber attacks usually consist of several phases, from initial reconnaissance of the network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Lukáš Sadlek , Pavel Čeleda , Daniel Tovarňák

An attack taxonomy offers a consistent and structured classification scheme to systematically understand, identify, and classify cybersecurity threat attributes. However, existing taxonomies only focus on a narrow range of attacks and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Md Habibor Rahman , Rocco Cassandro , Thorsten Wuest , Mohammed Shafae

Penetration Testing is a methodology for assessing network security, by generating and executing possible hacking attacks. Doing so automatically allows for regular and systematic testing. A key question is how to generate the attacks. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Carlos Sarraute , Olivier Buffet , Joerg Hoffmann

Cybersecurity is a big challenge as hackers are always trying to find new methods to attack and exploit system vulnerabilities. Cybersecurity threats and risks have increased in recent years, due to the increasing number of devices and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ihab Mohamed , Hesham A. Hefny , Nagy R. Darwish

The growing frequency of cyberattacks has heightened the demand for accurate and efficient threat detection systems. SIEM platforms are important for analyzing log data and detecting adversarial activities through rule-based queries, also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Prasanna N. Wudali , Moshe Kravchik , Ehud Malul , Parth A. Gandhi , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

The objectives of cyberattacks are becoming sophisticated, and attackers are concealing their identity by masquerading as other attackers. Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is gaining attention as a way to collect meaningful knowledge to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Daegeon Kim , Huy Kang Kim

The assessment of cyber risk plays a crucial role for cybersecurity management, and has become a compulsory task for certain types of companies and organizations. This makes the demand for reliable cyber risk assessment tools continuously…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Massimo Battaglioni , Giulia Rafaiani , Franco Chiaraluce , Marco Baldi

Cybersecurity risk analysis plays an essential role in supporting organizations make effective decision about how to manage and control cybersecurity risk. Cybersecurity risk is a function of the interplay between the defender, i.e., the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Jiali Wang , Martin Neil