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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

Cyber deception aims to distract, delay, and detect network attackers with fake assets such as honeypots, decoy credentials, or decoy files. However, today, it is difficult for operators to experiment, explore, and evaluate deception…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Brian Singer , Yusuf Saquib , Lujo Bauer , Vyas Sekar

The growing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices makes it imperative to be aware of the real-world threats they face in terms of cybersecurity. While honeypots have been historically used as decoy devices to help…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Armin Ziaie Tabari , Xinming Ou , Anoop Singhal

Humans are capable of strategically deceptive behavior: behaving helpfully in most situations, but then behaving very differently in order to pursue alternative objectives when given the opportunity. If an AI system learned such a deceptive…

Generative AI and misinformation research has evolved since our 2024 survey. This paper presents an updated perspective, transitioning from literature review to practical countermeasures. We report on changes in the threat landscape,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Alexander Loth , Martin Kappes , Marc-Oliver Pahl

Large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini have demonstrated unprecedented capabilities of autoregressive AI models across multiple tasks triggering disruptive technology innovations around the world. However,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Huwan Peng , Scott Davidson , Richard Shi , Shuaiwen Leon Song , Michael Taylor

In recent years, there has been a massive increase in the amount of Internet of Things (IoT) devices as well as the data generated by such devices. The participating devices in IoT networks can be problematic due to their…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used to augment and automate cyber operations, altering the scale, speed, and accessibility of malicious activity. These shifts raise urgent questions about when AI systems introduce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Krystal Jackson , Deepika Raman , Jessica Newman , Nada Madkour , Charlotte Yuan , Evan R. Murphy

Cyber Security is a critical topic for organizations with IT/OT networks as they are always susceptible to attack, whether insider or outsider. Since the cyber landscape is an ever-evolving scenario, one must keep upgrading its security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Upendra Bartwal , Subhasis Mukhopadhyay , Rohit Negi , Sandeep Shukla

Historically, enterprise network reconnaissance is an active process, often involving port scanning. However, as routers and switches become more complex, they also become more susceptible to compromise. From this vantage point, an attacker…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Iffat Anjum , Mu Zhu , Isaac Polinsky , William Enck , Michael K. Reiter , Munindar Singh

Network honeypots are often used by information security teams to measure the threat landscape in order to secure their networks. With the advancement of honeypot development, today's medium-interaction honeypots provide a way for security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Zain Shamsi , Daniel Zhang , Daehyun Kyoung , Alex Liu

Fooling adversaries with traps such as honeytokens can slow down cyber attacks and create strong indicators of compromise. Unfortunately, cyber deception techniques are often poorly specified. Also, realistically measuring their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Mario Kahlhofer , Stefan Achleitner , Stefan Rass , René Mayrhofer

Are frontier AI systems becoming more capable? Certainly. Yet such progress is not an unalloyed blessing but rather a Trojan horse: behind their performance leaps lie more insidious and destructive safety risks, namely deception. Unlike…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Sitong Fang , Shiyi Hou , Kaile Wang , Boyuan Chen , Donghai Hong , Jiayi Zhou , Josef Dai , Yaodong Yang , Jiaming Ji

As cyber threats continue to grow in scale and sophistication, blue team defenders increasingly require advanced tools to proactively detect and mitigate risks. Large Language Models (LLMs) offer promising capabilities for enhancing threat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yuqiao Meng , Luoxi Tang , Feiyang Yu , Xi Li , Guanhua Yan , Ping Yang , Zhaohan Xi

Today, internet and web services have become an inseparable part of our lives. Hence, ensuring continuous availability of service has become imperative to the success of any organization. But these services are often hampered by constant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-08-21 Hrishikesh Arun Deshpande

As artificial intelligence (AI) assistants become more widely adopted in safety-critical domains, it becomes important to develop safeguards against potential failures or adversarial attacks. A key prerequisite to developing these…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Abed Kareem Musaffar , Anand Gokhale , Sirui Zeng , Rasta Tadayon , Xifeng Yan , Ambuj Singh , Francesco Bullo

Artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) are transforming educational technology by enabling conversational tutoring, personalized explanations, and inquiry-driven learning. However, most AI-based learning systems rely…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Joseph Walusimbi , Ann Move Oguti , Joshua Benjamin Ssentongo , Keith Ainebyona

Cyberbullying is a significant concern intricately linked to technology that can find resolution through technological means. Despite its prevalence, technology also provides solutions to mitigate cyberbullying. To address growing concerns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Sylvia Worlali Azumah , Nelly Elsayed , Zag ElSayed , Murat Ozer , Amanda La Guardia

Cyber deception is emerging as a promising approach to defending networks and systems against attackers and data thieves. However, despite being relatively cheap to deploy, the generation of realistic content at scale is very costly, due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Kristen Moore , Cody J. Christopher , David Liebowitz , Surya Nepal , Renee Selvey

Large language models (LLMs) used across enterprises often use proprietary models and operate on sensitive inputs and data. The wide range of attack vectors identified in prior research - targeting various software and hardware components…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Sarbartha Banerjee , Prateek Sahu , Mulong Luo , Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner , Neeraja J. Yadwadkar , Mohit Tiwari