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From automated intrusion testing to discovery of zero-day attacks before software launch, agentic AI calls for great promises in security engineering. This strong capability is bound with a similar threat: the security and research…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Brian Challita , Pierre Parrend

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have spurred transformative applications in various domains, ranging from open-source to proprietary LLMs. However, jailbreak attacks, which aim to break safety alignment and user compliance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Chen Xiong , Pin-Yu Chen , Tsung-Yi Ho

Red-teaming is a common practice for mitigating unsafe behaviors in Large Language Models (LLMs), which involves thoroughly assessing LLMs to identify potential flaws and addressing them with responsible and accurate responses. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Suyu Ge , Chunting Zhou , Rui Hou , Madian Khabsa , Yi-Chia Wang , Qifan Wang , Jiawei Han , Yuning Mao

Evaluating the robustness of LLMs to adversarial attacks is crucial for safe deployment, yet current red-teaming methods are often prohibitively expensive. We compare the ability of fast proxy metrics to predict the real-world robustness of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Tim Beyer , Jan Schuchardt , Leo Schwinn , Stephan Günnemann

Foundation model-based agents are increasingly used to automate complex tasks, enhancing efficiency and productivity. However, their access to sensitive resources and autonomous decision-making also introduce significant security risks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Chejian Xu , Mintong Kang , Jiawei Zhang , Zeyi Liao , Lingbo Mo , Mengqi Yuan , Huan Sun , Bo Li

Production LLM systems often rely on separate models for safety and other classification-heavy steps, increasing latency, VRAM footprint, and operational complexity. We instead reuse computation already paid for by the serving LLM: we train…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Gonzalo Ariel Meyoyan , Luciano Del Corro

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) (e.g., Intel SGX and ArmTrustZone) aim to protect sensitive computation from a compromised operating system, yet real deployments remain vulnerable to microarchitectural leakage, side-channel attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Kunal Mukherjee , Spandan Mukherjee

Autonomous web agents such as \textbf{OpenClaw} are rapidly moving into high-impact real-world workflows, but their security robustness under live network threats remains insufficiently evaluated. Existing benchmarks mainly focus on static…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Haochen Zhao , Shaoyang Cui

Ensuring the safe deployment of AI systems is critical in industry settings where biased outputs can lead to significant operational, reputational, and regulatory risks. Thorough evaluation before deployment is essential to prevent these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Chu Fei Luo , Ahmad Ghawanmeh , Bharat Bhimshetty , Kashyap Murali , Murli Jadhav , Xiaodan Zhu , Faiza Khan Khattak

Specialized machine learning models, regardless of architecture and training, are susceptible to failures in deployment. With their increasing use in high risk situations, the ability to audit these models by determining their operational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Rebecca Martin , Jay Patrikar , Sebastian Scherer

Alignment audits aim to robustly identify hidden goals from strategic, situationally aware misaligned models. Despite this threat model, existing auditing methods have not been systematically stress-tested against deception strategies. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Oliver Daniels , Perusha Moodley , Benjamin M. Marlin , David Lindner

This paper proposes a simple yet effective jailbreak attack named FlipAttack against black-box LLMs. First, from the autoregressive nature, we reveal that LLMs tend to understand the text from left to right and find that they struggle to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yue Liu , Xiaoxin He , Miao Xiong , Jinlan Fu , Shumin Deng , Yingwei Ma , Jiaheng Zhang , Bryan Hooi

LLM based agents are increasingly deployed in high stakes settings where they process external data sources such as emails, documents, and code repositories. This creates exposure to indirect prompt injection attacks, where adversarial…

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents that execute tool-augmented, multi-step tasks, where latency is a critical factor for real-world applications. Yet an overlooked threat is Reasoning-Level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xinyu Li , Ronghui Mu , Lin Li , Tianjin Huang , Gaojie Jin

As generative AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), become increasingly integrated into production applications, new attack surfaces and vulnerabilities emerge and put a focus on adversarial threats in natural language and…

Automated red-teaming has become a crucial approach for uncovering vulnerabilities in large language models (LLMs). However, most existing methods focus on isolated safety flaws, limiting their ability to adapt to dynamic defenses and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Yanjiang Liu , Shuhen Zhou , Yaojie Lu , Huijia Zhu , Weiqiang Wang , Hongyu Lin , Ben He , Xianpei Han , Le Sun

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as analyst assistants in security operations centers (SOCs), where they ingest log and alert data to produce triage labels, incident summaries, or remediation advice. We study a structural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Rohan Pandey , Archit Bhujang

In this paper, we introduce a black-box prompt optimization method that uses an attacker LLM agent to uncover higher levels of memorization in a victim agent, compared to what is revealed by prompting the target model with the training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Aly M. Kassem , Omar Mahmoud , Niloofar Mireshghallah , Hyunwoo Kim , Yulia Tsvetkov , Yejin Choi , Sherif Saad , Santu Rana

Prompt leakage poses a compelling security and privacy threat in LLM applications. Leakage of system prompts may compromise intellectual property, and act as adversarial reconnaissance for an attacker. A systematic evaluation of prompt…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Divyansh Agarwal , Alexander R. Fabbri , Ben Risher , Philippe Laban , Shafiq Joty , Chien-Sheng Wu

Multi-agent reinforcement learning has received significant interest in recent years notably due to the advancements made in deep reinforcement learning which have allowed for the developments of new architectures and learning algorithms.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Nicolas Anastassacos , Mirco Musolesi