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Siren represents a pioneering research effort aimed at fortifying cybersecurity through strategic integration of deception, machine learning, and proactive threat analysis. Drawing inspiration from mythical sirens, this project employs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Samhruth Ananthanarayanan , Girish Kulathumani , Ganesh Narayanan

Fraudulent activities are rapidly evolving, employing increasingly diverse and sophisticated methods that pose serious threats to individuals, organizations, and society. This paper proposes the FIST Framework (Fraud Incident Structured…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yu-Chen Dai , Lu-An Chen , Sy-Jye Her , Yu-Xian Jiang

Open Cyber threat intelligence (OpenCTI) information is available in an unstructured format from heterogeneous sources on the Internet. We present CyNER, an open-source python library for cybersecurity named entity recognition (NER). CyNER…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Md Tanvirul Alam , Dipkamal Bhusal , Youngja Park , Nidhi Rastogi

We present Foundation-Sec-8B-Reasoning, the first open-source native reasoning model for cybersecurity. Built upon our previously released Foundation-Sec-8B base model (derived from Llama-3.1-8B-Base), the model is trained through a…

We introduce GIER (Gap-driven Iterative Enhancement of Responses), a general framework for improving large language model (LLM) outputs through self-reflection and revision based on conceptual quality criteria. Unlike prompting strategies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Rinku Dewri

Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competitions play a central role in modern cybersecurity as a platform for training practitioners and evaluating offensive and defensive techniques derived from real-world vulnerabilities. Despite recent advances in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Xiaonan Liu , Zhihao Li , Xiao Lan , Hao Ren , Haizhou Wang , Xingshu Chen

Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly transitioning from conversational assistants to autonomous agents embedded in critical organizational functions, including Security Operations Centers (SOCs), financial systems, and infrastructure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Giuseppe Canale , Kashyap Thimmaraju

The critical need for transparent and trustworthy machine learning in cybersecurity operations drives the development of this integrated Explainable AI (XAI) framework. Our methodology addresses three fundamental challenges in deploying AI…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Norrakith Srisumrith , Sunantha Sodsee

With the significant progress of large reasoning models in complex coding and reasoning tasks, existing benchmarks, like LiveCodeBench and CodeElo, are insufficient to evaluate the coding capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in real…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Shiyi Xu , Yiwen Hu , Yingqian Min , Zhipeng Chen , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Cybersecurity tools are increasingly automated with artificial intelligent (AI) capabilities to match the exponential scale of attacks, compensate for the relatively slower rate of training new cybersecurity talents, and improve of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Hetong Jiang , Taejun Choi , Ryan K. L. Ko

We are releasing a new suite of security benchmarks for LLMs, CYBERSECEVAL 3, to continue the conversation on empirically measuring LLM cybersecurity risks and capabilities. CYBERSECEVAL 3 assesses 8 different risks across two broad…

Ensuring the safety and harmlessness of Large Language Models (LLMs) has become equally critical as their performance in applications. However, existing safety alignment methods typically suffer from safety-performance trade-offs and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yichi Zhang , Siyuan Zhang , Yao Huang , Zeyu Xia , Zhengwei Fang , Xiao Yang , Ranjie Duan , Dong Yan , Yinpeng Dong , Jun Zhu

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have driven interest in automating cybersecurity penetration testing workflows, offering the promise of faster and more consistent vulnerability assessment for enterprise systems. Existing LLM…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Katsuaki Nakano , Reza Fayyazi , Shanchieh Jay Yang , Michael Zuzak

Artificial Intelligence (AI) advancements have enabled the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) that can perform a variety of tasks with remarkable semantic understanding and accuracy. ChatGPT is one such LLM that has gained…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-02 M. Mehdi Kholoosi , M. Ali Babar , Roland Croft

Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to significantly enhance threat intelligence by automating the collection, preprocessing, and analysis of threat data. However, the usability of these tools is critical to ensure their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Sanchana Srikanth , Mohammad Hasanuzzaman , Farah Tasnur Meem

Security attacks are growing in an exponential manner and their impact on existing systems is seriously high and can lead to dangerous consequences. However, in order to reduce the effect of these attacks, penetration tests are highly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Jean-Paul A. Yaacoub , Hassan N. Noura , Ola Salman , Ali Chehab

We introduce ${\rm C{\small LEVER}}$, a high-quality, curated benchmark of 161 problems for end-to-end verified code generation in Lean. Each problem consists of (1) the task of generating a specification that matches a held-out…

Ethical hacking today relies on highly skilled practitioners executing complex sequences of commands, which is inherently time-consuming, difficult to scale, and prone to human error. To help mitigate these limitations, we previously…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Haitham S. Al-Sinani , Chris J. Mitchell

Large language models(LLMs) are currently at the forefront of the machine learning field, which show a broad application prospect but at the same time expose some risks of privacy leakage. We combined Fully Homomorphic Encryption(FHE) and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Zhang Ruoyan , Zheng Zhongxiang , Bao Wankang

Classical cybersecurity is often perceived as a rigid science discipline filled with computer scientists and mathematicians. However, due to the rapid pace of technology development and integration, new criminal enterprises, new defense…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Emily Kesler