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We introduce scheming honeypot evaluations, a framework for testing whether models will pursue instrumental goals if given the opportunity. Our scheming honeypot evaluations take the form of coding tasks in Google's alignment research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Victoria Krakovna , David Lindner , Lewis Ho , Sebastian Farquhar , Rohin Shah

Fog and edge computing require adaptive control schemes that can handle partial observability, severe latency requirements, and dynamically changing workloads. Recent research on Agentic AI (AAI) increasingly integrates reasoning systems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Saeed Akbar , Muhammad Waqas , Rahmat Ullah

In this paper, we revisit the use of honeypots for detecting reflective amplification attacks. These measurement tools require careful design of both data collection and data analysis including cautious threshold inference. We survey common…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Marcin Nawrocki , John Kristoff , Raphael Hiesgen , Chris Kanich , Thomas C. Schmidt , Matthias Wählisch

In this paper, we present NetMoniAI, an agentic AI framework for automatic network monitoring and security that integrates decentralized analysis with lightweight centralized coordination. The framework consists of two layers: autonomous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Pallavi Zambare , Venkata Nikhil Thanikella , Nikhil Padmanabh Kottur , Sree Akhil Akula , Ying Liu

Deception technology has proven to be a sound approach against threats to information systems. Aside from well-established honeypots, decoy elements, also known as honeytokens, are an excellent method to address various types of threats.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Daniel Reti , Daniel Fraunholz , Janis Zemitis , Daniel Schneider , Hans Dieter Schotten

Securing Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems requires addressing the complex cyber risks introduced by autonomous, decision-making, and adaptive behaviors. Agentic AI systems are increasingly deployed across industries,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Sunil Arora , John Hastings

Deep neural networks (DNN) are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Numerous efforts either try to patch weaknesses in trained models, or try to make it difficult or costly to compute adversarial examples that exploit them. In our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Shawn Shan , Emily Wenger , Bolun Wang , Bo Li , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

Agentic AI systems can plan, call tools, inspect code, interact with web applications, and coordinate multi-step workflows. These same capabilities change the economics of cyber offense. The central near-term risk is not that every…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Christopher Koch

In the network security arms race, the defender is significantly disadvantaged as they need to successfully detect and counter every malicious attack. In contrast, the attacker needs to succeed only once. To level the playing field, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Myles Foley , Chris Hicks , Kate Highnam , Vasilios Mavroudis

AI agents are increasingly deployed to act autonomously in the world, yet there is still no reliable way to trace a harmful agent back to the account that deployed it. This creates the same accountability gap across both ends of the intent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ruben Chocron , Doron Jonathan Ben Chayim , Eyal Lenga , Gilad Gressel , Alina Oprea , Yisroel Mirsky

The rapid expansion of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks and the Internet of Things (IoT) has catalyzed the evolution from centralized cloud intelligence towards decentralized edge general intelligence. However, traditional edge…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Ruichen Zhang , Guangyuan Liu , Yinqiu Liu , Changyuan Zhao , Jiacheng Wang , Yunting Xu , Dusit Niyato , Jiawen Kang , Yonghui Li , Shiwen Mao , Sumei Sun , Xuemin Shen , Dong In Kim

AI agents aim to solve complex tasks by combining text-based reasoning with external tool calls. Unfortunately, AI agents are vulnerable to prompt injection attacks where data returned by external tools hijacks the agent to execute…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Edoardo Debenedetti , Jie Zhang , Mislav Balunović , Luca Beurer-Kellner , Marc Fischer , Florian Tramèr

Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems provide convenient and relevant ways to analyze, model, and simulate complex systems composed of a large number of entities that interact at different levels of abstraction. In this paper, we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Ahmad Esmaeili , John C. Gallagher , John A. Springer , Eric T. Matson

Intellicise (Intelligent and Concise) wireless network is the main direction of the evolution of future mobile communication systems, a perspective now widely acknowledged across academia and industry. As a key technology within it, Agentic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Rui Meng , Zhidi Zhang , Song Gao , Yaheng Wang , Xiaodong Xu , Yijing Lin , Yiming Liu , Chenyuan Feng , Lexi Xu , Yi Ma , Ping Zhang , Rahim Tafazolli

Evaluating the safety of frontier AI systems is an increasingly important concern, helping to measure the capabilities of such models and identify risks before deployment. However, it has been recognised that if AI agents are aware that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Joel Dyer , Daniel Jarne Ornia , Nicholas Bishop , Anisoara Calinescu , Michael Wooldridge

The increasing number of connected devices and the complexity of Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems are demanding new architectures for managing and securing these networked environments. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are security…

The ongoing shift of AI models from centralized cloud APIs to local AI agents on edge devices is enabling \textit{Client-Side Autonomous Agents (CSAAs)} -- persistent personal agents that can plan, access local context, and invoke tools on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Taotao Wang , Lizhao You , Jingwen Tong , Chonghe Zhao , Shengli Zhang

The proliferation of IoT systems, has seen them targeted by malicious third parties. To address this, realistic protection and investigation countermeasures need to be developed. Such countermeasures include network intrusion detection and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Nickolaos Koroniotis , Nour Moustafa , Elena Sitnikova , Benjamin Turnbull

As AI agents attempt to autonomously act on users' behalf, they raise transparency and control issues. We argue that permission-based access control is indispensable in providing meaningful control to the users, but conventional permission…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yuhao Wu , Ke Yang , Franziska Roesner , Tadayoshi Kohno , Ning Zhang , Umar Iqbal

AI-based defensive solutions are necessary to defend networks and information assets against intelligent automated attacks. Gathering enough realistic data for training machine learning-based defenses is a significant practical challenge.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Kalle Kujanpää , Willie Victor , Alexander Ilin