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The Check tools automate formal memory consistency model and security verification of processors by analyzing abstract models of microarchitectures, called $\mu$SPEC models. Despite the efficacy of this approach, a verification gap between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yao Hsiao , Nikos Nikoleris , Artem Khyzha , Dominic P. Mulligan , Gustavo Petri , Christopher W. Fletcher , Caroline Trippel

We propose using reinforcement learning to address the challenges of discovering microarchitectural vulnerabilities, such as Spectre and Meltdown, which exploit subtle interactions in modern processors. Traditional methods like random…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-21 M. Caner Tol , Kemal Derya , Berk Sunar

We introduce a novel framework for consolidating multi-turn adversarial ``jailbreak'' prompts into single-turn queries, significantly reducing the manual overhead required for adversarial testing of large language models (LLMs). While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Junwoo Ha , Hyunjun Kim , Sangyoon Yu , Haon Park , Ashkan Yousefpour , Yuna Park , Suhyun Kim

While automated vulnerability detection techniques have made promising progress in detecting security vulnerabilities, their scalability and applicability remain challenging. The remarkable performance of Large Language Models (LLMs), such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Avishree Khare , Saikat Dutta , Ziyang Li , Alaia Solko-Breslin , Rajeev Alur , Mayur Naik

Reentrancy remains one of the most critical classes of vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts, yet widely used detection tools and datasets continue to reflect outdated patterns and obsolete Solidity versions. This paper adopts a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Dalila Ressi , Alvise Spanò , Matteo Rizzo , Lorenzo Benetollo , Sabina Rossi

Post-quantum migration in Transport Layer Security (TLS) requires evidence-aware measurements that distinguish session negotiation, endpoint capability, certificate-chain evidence, and the provenance of missing observations. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-06 José Luis Delgado

Timing side-channel attacks exploit variations in program execution time to recover sensitive information. Cryptographic implementations are especially vulnerable to these attacks, since even small timing differences in operations such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nges Brian Njungle , Edwin P. Kayang , Mishel J. Paul , Michel A. Kinsy

Recently, APT attacks have frequently happened, which are increasingly complicated and more challenging for traditional security detection models. The system logs are vital for cyber security analysis mainly due to their effective…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Tieming Chen , Qijie Song , Xuebo Qiu , Tiantian Zhu , Zhiling Zhu , Mingqi Lv

Software vulnerability detection is generally supported by automated static analysis tools, which have recently been reinforced by deep learning (DL) models. However, despite the superior performance of DL-based approaches over rule-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Yanjing Yang , Xin Zhou , Runfeng Mao , Jinwei Xu , Lanxin Yang , Yu Zhangm , Haifeng Shen , He Zhang

Command and Control (C2) communication is a key component of any structured cyber-attack. As such, security operations actively try to detect this type of communication in their networks. This poses a problem for legitimate pentesters that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Gonçalo Xavier , Carlos Novo , Ricardo Morla

Developers usually use TPLs to facilitate the development of the projects to avoid reinventing the wheels, however, the vulnerable TPLs indeed cause severe security threats. The majority of existing research only considered whether projects…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Fangyuan Zhang , Lingling Fan , Sen Chen , Miaoying Cai , Sihan Xu , Lida Zhao

Large Language Models (LLMs) are emerging as transformative tools for software vulnerability detection, addressing critical challenges in the security domain. Traditional methods, such as static and dynamic analysis, often falter due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Ze Sheng , Zhicheng Chen , Shuning Gu , Heqing Huang , Guofei Gu , Jeff Huang

This paper proposes a jailbreaking prompt detection method for large language models (LLMs) to defend against jailbreak attacks. Although recent LLMs are equipped with built-in safeguards, it remains possible to craft jailbreaking prompts…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zheng Lin , Zhenxing Niu , Haoxuan Ji , Yuzhe Huang , Haichang Gao

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the possibility of implementing an attack on ALPC connection in the Windows operating system through the kernel without closing the connection covertly from programs and the operating system and to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Anastasiia Kropova , Igor Korkin

Context: Static Application Security Testing Tools (SASTTs) identify software vulnerabilities to support the security and reliability of software applications. Interestingly, several studies have suggested that alternative solutions may be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Matteo Esposito , Valentina Falaschi , Davide Falessi

Software vulnerabilities are a major cyber threat and it is important to detect them. One important approach to detecting vulnerabilities is to use deep learning while treating a program function as a whole, known as function-level…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zhen Li , Ning Wang , Deqing Zou , Yating Li , Ruqian Zhang , Shouhuai Xu , Chao Zhang , Hai Jin

Despite their superb capabilities, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have been shown to be vulnerable to jailbreak attacks. While recent jailbreaks have achieved notable progress, their effectiveness and efficiency can still be improved. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yunhan Zhao , Xiang Zheng , Xingjun Ma

Runtime verification enables checking temporal logic specifications over individual execution traces and offers a scalable alternative to exhaustive formal verification. In practice, systems must satisfy dozens to hundreds of temporal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Arınç Demir , Dogan Ulus

Last-Level Cache (LLC) represents the bulk of a modern CPU processor's transistor budget and is essential for application performance as LLC enables fast access to data in contrast to much slower main memory. However, applications with…

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