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With VLM-powered computer-using agents (CUAs) becoming increasingly capable at graphical user interface (GUI) navigation and manipulation, reliable step-level decision-making has emerged as a key bottleneck for real-world deployment. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Zhenyu Wu , Jingjing Xie , Zehao Li , Bowen Yang , Qiushi Sun , Zhaoyang Liu , Zhoumianze Liu , Yu Qiao , Xiangyu Yue , Zun Wang , Zichen Ding

Recent years have witnessed a rise in the frequency and intensity of cyberattacks targeted at critical infrastructure systems. This study designs a versatile, data-driven cyberattack detection platform for infrastructure systems…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Sarin E. Chandy , Amin Rasekh , Zachary A. Barker , M. Ehsan Shafiee

A memory leak in an application deployed on the cloud can affect the availability and reliability of the application. Therefore, to identify and ultimately resolve it quickly is highly important. However, in the production environment…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Anshul Jindal , Paul Staab , Jorge Cardoso , Michael Gerndt , Vladimir Podolskiy

Defending against sophisticated cyber threats demands strategic allocation of limited security resources across complex network infrastructures. When the defender has limited defensive resources, the complexity of coordinating honeypot…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Dongyoung Park , Gaby G. Dagher

Proof-of-Vulnerability (PoV) generation is a critical task in software security, serving as a cornerstone for vulnerability validation, false positive reduction, and patch verification. While directed fuzzing effectively drives path…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Haoyu Li , Xijia Che , Yanhao Wang , Xiaojing Liao , Luyi Xing

We present DIO, a generic tool for observing inefficient and erroneous I/O interactions between applications and in-kernel storage systems that lead to performance, dependability, and correctness issues. DIO facilitates the analysis and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Tânia Esteves , Ricardo Macedo , Rui Oliveira , João Paulo

Securing critical assets in a bus-based System-On-Chip (SoC) is imperative to mitigate potential vulnerabilities and prevent unauthorized access, ensuring the integrity, availability, and confidentiality of the system. Ensuring security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Sudipta Paria , Aritra Dasgupta , Swarup Bhunia

Exploitation is not a binary event. It is a ladder of acquiring progressive capabilities, from executing a single buggy line of code to taking full control of the target. However, existing LLM security benchmarks treat a crash as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Seunghyun Lee , David Brumley

Virtual machine consolidation describes the process of reallocation of virtual machines (VMs) on a set of target servers. It can be formulated as a mixed integer linear programming problem which is proven to be an NP-hard problem. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Jiang-Yao Luo , Jian-Hua Yuan

Repairing system crashes discovered by kernel fuzzers like Syzkaller is a critical yet underexplored challenge in software engineering. While recent works have introduced Large Language Model (LLM) based agents for Linux kernel…

Accurately assessing software vulnerabilities is essential for effective prioritization and remediation. While various scoring systems exist to support this task, their differing goals, methodologies and outputs often lead to inconsistent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Viktoria Koscinski , Mark Nelson , Ahmet Okutan , Robert Falso , Mehdi Mirakhorli

Malicious software attacks are having an increasingly significant economic impact. Commercial malware detection software can be costly, and tools that attribute malware to the specific software vulnerabilities it exploits are largely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Eduard Andrei Cristea , Petter Molnes , Jingyue Li

This paper presents VulBERTa, a deep learning approach to detect security vulnerabilities in source code. Our approach pre-trains a RoBERTa model with a custom tokenisation pipeline on real-world code from open-source C/C++ projects. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Hazim Hanif , Sergio Maffeis

The increasing complexity of autonomous systems has driven a shift to integrated heterogeneous SoCs with real-time and safety demands. Ensuring deterministic WCETs and low-latency for critical tasks requires minimizing interference on…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Christopher Reinwardt , Robert Balas , Alessandro Ottaviano , Angelo Garofalo , Luca Benini

LLMs are increasingly explored for malware analysis; however, current LLM-based malware attribution remains limited by unsupported indicators and insufficient code-level grounding for identifying malicious and vulnerable code segments. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Christopher G. Pedraza Pohlenz , Hassan Jalil Hadi , Ali Hassan , Ali Shoker

This paper introduces BeaCon, a novel tool for the automated generation of adjustable container security policies. Unlike prior approaches, BeaCon leverages dynamic analysis to simulate realistic environments, uncovering container execution…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Haney Kang , Eduard Marin , Myoungsung You , Diego Perino , Seungwon Shin , Jinwoo Kim

Agentic security systems increasingly audit live targets with tool-using LLMs, but prior systems fix a single coordination topology, leaving unclear when additional agents help and when they only add cost. We treat topology choice as an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Isaac David , Arthur Gervais

In a multi-tenant cloud, a number of Virtual Machines (VMs) are collocated on the same physical machine to optimize performance, power consumption and maximize profit. This, however, increases the risk of a malicious VM performing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Ahmed H. Anwar , George Atia , Mina Guirguis

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has advanced the capabilities and transparency of language models (LMs); however, reasoning chains can contain inaccurate statements that reduce performance and trustworthiness. To address this, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Minsu Kim , Jean-Pierre Falet , Oliver E. Richardson , Xiaoyin Chen , Moksh Jain , Sungjin Ahn , Sungsoo Ahn , Yoshua Bengio

Vulnerability detection is a crucial component in the software development lifecycle. Existing vulnerability detectors, especially those based on deep learning (DL) models, have achieved high effectiveness. Despite their capability of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Baijun Cheng , Kailong Wang , Cuiyun Gao , Xiapu Luo , Li Li , Yao Guo , Xiangqun Chen , Haoyu Wang