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There are very few SotA deception systems based on Large Language Models. The existing ones are limited only to simulating one type of service, mainly SSH shells. These systems - but also the deception technologies not based on LLMs - lack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Muris Sladić , Veronica Valeros , Carlos Catania , Sebastian Garcia

The rapid evolution of cyber threats necessitates innovative solutions for detecting and analyzing malicious activity. Honeypots, which are decoy systems designed to lure and interact with attackers, have emerged as a critical component in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Hakan T. Otal , M. Abdullah Canbaz

Cybersecurity honeypots are deception tools for engaging attackers and gather intelligence, but traditional low or medium-interaction honeypots often rely on static, pre-scripted interactions that can be easily identified by skilled…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Pranjay Malhotra

Cybersecurity threats continue to increase, with a growing number of previously unknown attacks each year targeting both large corporations and smaller entities. This scenario demands the implementation of advanced security measures, not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Javier Jiménez-Román , Florina Almenares-Mendoza , Alfonso Sánchez-Macián

Honeypots are decoy systems used for gathering valuable threat intelligence or diverting attackers away from production systems. Maximising attacker engagement is essential to their utility. However research has highlighted that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Adetayo Adebimpe , Helmut Neukirchen , Thomas Welsh

Honeypots are decoy systems mimicking real system components designed to defend against cyber attacks. Recently, LLMs increasingly serve as simulation backbones for honeypots. They enable defenders to construct high-interaction honeypots…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Mark Vero , Fabian Kaczmarczyck , Ivan Petrov , Ilia Shumailov , Jamie Hayes , Niels Heinen , Tianqi Fan , Luca Invernizzi , Martin Vechev

With the increasing prevalence of security incidents, the adoption of deception-based defense strategies has become pivotal in cyber security. This work addresses the challenge of scalability in designing honeytokens, a key component of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Daniel Reti , Norman Becker , Tillmann Angeli , Anasuya Chattopadhyay , Daniel Schneider , Sebastian Vollmer , Hans D. Schotten

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are extensively used in critical infrastructures ensuring efficient, reliable, and continuous operations. However, their increasing connectivity and addition of advanced features make them vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Christoforos Vasilatos , Dunia J. Mahboobeh , Hithem Lamri , Manaar Alam , Michail Maniatakos

Honeypots, as a strategic cyber-deception mechanism designed to emulate authentic interactions and bait unauthorized entities, often struggle with balancing flexibility, interaction depth, and deception. They typically fail to adapt to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Ziyang Wang , Jianzhou You , Haining Wang , Tianwei Yuan , Shichao Lv , Yang Wang , Limin Sun

Writing software exploits is an important practice for offensive security analysts to investigate and prevent attacks. In particular, shellcodes are especially time-consuming and a technical challenge, as they are written in assembly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Pietro Liguori , Erfan Al-Hossami , Domenico Cotroneo , Roberto Natella , Bojan Cukic , Samira Shaikh

Attacks powered by Large Language Model (LLM) agents represent a growing threat to modern cybersecurity. To address this concern, we present LLM Honeypot, a system designed to monitor autonomous AI hacking agents. By augmenting a standard…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Reworr , Dmitrii Volkov

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) promised to resolve the long-standing paradox in honeypot design: achieving high-fidelity deception with low operational risk. Since late 2022, a flurry of research has demonstrated steady progress…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Robert A. Bridges , Thomas R. Mitchell , Mauricio Muñoz , Ted Henriksson

Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT and GPT-4, are designed to provide useful and safe responses. However, adversarial prompts known as 'jailbreaks' can circumvent safeguards, leading LLMs to generate potentially harmful content.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Peng Ding , Jun Kuang , Dan Ma , Xuezhi Cao , Yunsen Xian , Jiajun Chen , Shujian Huang

The rising use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to create and disseminate malware poses a significant cybersecurity challenge due to their ability to generate and distribute attacks with ease. A single prompt can initiate a wide array of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Jamal Al-Karaki , Muhammad Al-Zafar Khan , Marwan Omar

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has enhanced software development processes, minimizing the time and effort required for coding and enhancing developer productivity. However, despite their potential benefits, code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Swaroop Dora , Deven Lunkad , Naziya Aslam , S. Venkatesan , Sandeep Kumar Shukla

Honeypots are used in IT Security to detect and gather information about ongoing intrusions, e.g., by documenting the approach of an attacker. Honeypots do so by presenting an interactive system that seems just like a valid application to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Christoph Pohl , Michael Meier , Hans-Joachim Hof

Question-and-answer agents like ChatGPT offer a novel tool for use as a potential honeypot interface in cyber security. By imitating Linux, Mac, and Windows terminal commands and providing an interface for TeamViewer, nmap, and ping, it is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Forrest McKee , David Noever

Rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) has achieved major advances in reasoning, planning, and function-calling capabilities. Multi-agentic collaborative frameworks using such LLMs place them at the center of solving software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Swapnil Shinde , Sahil Wadhwa , Andy Luo , Akshay Gupta , Mohammad Shahed Sorower

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in software security, but their trustworthiness in generating accurate vulnerability advisories remains uncertain. This study investigates the ability of ChatGPT to (1) generate plausible…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Bayu Fedra Abdullah , Yusuf Sulistyo Nugroho , Brittany Reid , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Kazumasa Shimari , Kenichi Matsumoto

LLM models are increasingly used to generate code, but the quality and security of this code are often uncertain. Several recent studies have raised alarm bells, indicating that such AI-generated code may be particularly vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Kobra Khanmohammadi , Pooria Roy , Raphael Khoury , Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj , Wilfried Patrick Konan
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