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LLM-based agents show promise for automating penetration testing, yet reported performance varies widely across systems and benchmarks. We analyze 28 LLM-based penetration testing systems and evaluate five representative implementations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Gelei Deng , Yi Liu , Yuekang Li , Ruozhao Yang , Xiaofei Xie , Jie Zhang , Han Qiu , Tianwei Zhang

The field of software security testing, more specifically penetration testing, is an activity that requires high levels of expertise and involves many manual testing and analysis steps. This paper explores the potential usage of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Andreas Happe , Jürgen Cito

AI agents are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection attacks, where malicious instructions embedded in external content or tool outputs cause unintended or harmful behavior. Inspired by the well-established concept of firewalls, we show…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Rishika Bhagwatkar , Kevin Kasa , Abhay Puri , Gabriel Huang , Irina Rish , Graham W. Taylor , Krishnamurthy Dj Dvijotham , Alexandre Lacoste

Rising concern for the societal implications of artificial intelligence systems has inspired a wave of academic and journalistic literature in which deployed systems are audited for harm by investigators from outside the organizations…

The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has led to its integration into various areas, especially with Large Language Models (LLMs) significantly enhancing capabilities in Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC).…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Guangba Yu , Gou Tan , Haojia Huang , Zhenyu Zhang , Pengfei Chen , Roberto Natella , Zibin Zheng

AI-assisted research is crossing a threshold: fully automated systems can now generate research papers for as little as $15, while long-horizon agents can execute experiments, draft manuscripts, and simulate critique with minimal human…

The safety of autonomous AI agents is increasingly recognized as a critical open problem. As agents transition from passive text generators to active actors capable of executing shell commands, modifying files, calling APIs, and browsing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ashwin Aravind

AI assistants are being increasingly used by students enrolled in higher education institutions. While these tools provide opportunities for improved teaching and education, they also pose significant challenges for assessment and learning…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Beatriz Borges , Negar Foroutan , Deniz Bayazit , Anna Sotnikova , Syrielle Montariol , Tanya Nazaretzky , Mohammadreza Banaei , Alireza Sakhaeirad , Philippe Servant , Seyed Parsa Neshaei , Jibril Frej , Angelika Romanou , Gail Weiss , Sepideh Mamooler , Zeming Chen , Simin Fan , Silin Gao , Mete Ismayilzada , Debjit Paul , Alexandre Schöpfer , Andrej Janchevski , Anja Tiede , Clarence Linden , Emanuele Troiani , Francesco Salvi , Freya Behrens , Giacomo Orsi , Giovanni Piccioli , Hadrien Sevel , Louis Coulon , Manuela Pineros-Rodriguez , Marin Bonnassies , Pierre Hellich , Puck van Gerwen , Sankalp Gambhir , Solal Pirelli , Thomas Blanchard , Timothée Callens , Toni Abi Aoun , Yannick Calvino Alonso , Yuri Cho , Alberto Chiappa , Antonio Sclocchi , Étienne Bruno , Florian Hofhammer , Gabriel Pescia , Geovani Rizk , Leello Dadi , Lucas Stoffl , Manoel Horta Ribeiro , Matthieu Bovel , Yueyang Pan , Aleksandra Radenovic , Alexandre Alahi , Alexander Mathis , Anne-Florence Bitbol , Boi Faltings , Cécile Hébert , Devis Tuia , François Maréchal , George Candea , Giuseppe Carleo , Jean-Cédric Chappelier , Nicolas Flammarion , Jean-Marie Fürbringer , Jean-Philippe Pellet , Karl Aberer , Lenka Zdeborová , Marcel Salathé , Martin Jaggi , Martin Rajman , Mathias Payer , Matthieu Wyart , Michael Gastpar , Michele Ceriotti , Ola Svensson , Olivier Lévêque , Paolo Ienne , Rachid Guerraoui , Robert West , Sanidhya Kashyap , Valerio Piazza , Viesturs Simanis , Viktor Kuncak , Volkan Cevher , Philippe Schwaller , Sacha Friedli , Patrick Jermann , Tanja Käser , Antoine Bosselut

The integration of artificial intelligence into automated penetration testing (AutoPT) has highlighted the necessity of simulation modeling for the training of intelligent agents, due to its cost-efficiency and swift feedback capabilities.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yunfei Wang , Shixuan Liu , Wenhao Wang , Changling Zhou , Chao Zhang , Jiandong Jin , Cheng Zhu

Securing AI agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) represents one of the most critical challenges in AI security today. Unlike traditional software, AI agents leverage LLMs as their "brain" to autonomously perform actions via…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Itay Hazan , Yael Mathov , Guy Shtar , Ron Bitton , Itsik Mantin

We analyzed 3,984 AI agent skills from major marketplaces and found 76 confirmed malicious payloads, including credential theft, backdoor installation, and data exfiltration. 13.4% of all skills contain at least one critical-level security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Luca Beurer-Kellner , Aleksei Kudrinskii , Marco Milanta , Kristian Bonde Nielsen , Hemang Sarkar , Liran Tal

What should a developer inspect before deploying an LLM agent: the model, the tool code, the deployment configuration, or all three? In practice, many security failures in agent systems arise not from model weights alone, but from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Haiyue Zhang , Yi Nian , Yue Zhao

Defending against today's increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks requires security analysts to continuously translate evolving attacker tradecraft into detection logic. This places defenders in a reactive posture, requiring constantly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Scott Freitas , Amir Gharib

With the rapid advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP), large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 have gained significant traction in diverse applications, including security vulnerability scanning. This paper investigates the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Madjid G. Tehrani , Eldar Sultanow , William J. Buchanan , Mahkame Houmani , Christel H. Djaha Fodja

In recent years, the importance of smart contract security has been heightened by the increasing number of attacks against them. To address this issue, a multitude of static application security testing (SAST) tools have been proposed for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Kaixuan Li , Yue Xue , Sen Chen , Han Liu , Kairan Sun , Ming Hu , Haijun Wang , Yang Liu , Yixiang Chen

Problem Space: AI Vulnerabilities and Quantum Threats Generative AI vulnerabilities: model inversion, data poisoning, adversarial inputs. Quantum threats Shor Algorithm breaking RSA ECC encryption. Challenge Secure generative AI models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Petar Radanliev

High-precision CNC machining of free-form aerospace components requires bounded compensations informed by inspection, simulation, and process knowledge. Off-the-shelf large language model (LLM) assistants can generate text, but they do not…

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) agents into web browsers introduces security challenges that go beyond traditional web application threat models. Prior work has identified prompt injection as a new attack vector for web…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Kaiyuan Zhang , Mark Tenenholtz , Kyle Polley , Jerry Ma , Denis Yarats , Ninghui Li

As Large Language Models (LLMs) have become integral to both research and daily operations, rigorous evaluation is crucial. This assessment is important not only for individual tasks but also for understanding their societal impact and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Zeeshan Rasheed , Muhammad Waseem , Kari Systä , Pekka Abrahamsson

Agentic AI coding editors driven by large language models have recently become more popular due to their ability to improve developer productivity during software development. Modern editors such as Cursor are designed not just for code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yue Liu , Yanjie Zhao , Yunbo Lyu , Ting Zhang , Haoyu Wang , David Lo