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Large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to jailbreak prompts that elicit harmful or policy-violating outputs, while many existing defenses rely on expensive fine-tuning, intrusive prompt rewriting, or external guardrails that add…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Weiming Song , Xuan Xie , Ruiping Yin

Lately, the self-attention mechanism has marked a new milestone in the field of automatic speech recognition (ASR). Nevertheless, its performance is susceptible to environmental intrusions as the system predicts the next output symbol…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Lujun Li , Yikai Kang , Yuchen Shi , Ludwig Kürzinger , Tobias Watzel , Gerhard Rigoll

Customer-service LLM agents increasingly make policy-bound decisions (refunds, rebooking, billing disputes), but the same ``helpful'' interaction style can be exploited: a small fraction of users can induce unauthorized concessions,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Jingyu Zhang

Malicious agents pose significant threats to the reliability and decision-making capabilities of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) powered by Large Language Models (LLMs). Existing defenses often fall short due to reactive designs or centralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yang Feng , Xudong Pan

Today, human security analysts collapse under the sheer volume of alerts they have to triage during investigations. The inability to cope with this load, coupled with a high false positive rate of alerts, creates alert fatigue. This results…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Florian Wilkens , Felix Ortmann , Steffen Haas , Matthias Vallentin , Mathias Fischer

The rapid advancement of conversational agents, particularly chatbots powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), poses a significant risk of social engineering (SE) attacks on social media platforms. SE detection in multi-turn, chat-based…

Backdoor attacks pose a serious threat to the secure deployment of large language models (LLMs), enabling adversaries to implant hidden behaviors triggered by specific inputs. However, existing methods often rely on manually crafted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yige Li , Zhe Li , Wei Zhao , Nay Myat Min , Hanxun Huang , Xingjun Ma , Jun Sun

Defenses against indirect prompt injection (IPI) in tool-using LLM agents share two structural weaknesses. First, they all attempt to prevent attacks rather than detect the compromises that slip through. Second, they have only been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yassin H. Rassul , Tarik A. Rashid

Computer-using agents (CUAs), which can autonomously control computers to perform multi-step actions, might pose significant safety risks if misused. However, existing benchmarks mainly evaluate LMs in chatbots or simple tool use. To more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Aaron Xuxiang Tian , Ruofan Zhang , Janet Tang , Ji Wang , Tianyu Shi , Jiaxin Wen

Autonomous agent frameworks built upon large language models (LLMs) are evolving into complex, tool-integrated, and continuously operating systems, introducing security risks beyond traditional prompt-level vulnerabilities. As this paradigm…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Luyao Xu , Xiang Chen

Evaluating aligned large language models' (LLMs) ability to recognize and reject unsafe user requests is crucial for safe, policy-compliant deployments. Existing evaluation efforts, however, face three limitations that we address with…

Autonomous AI agents are deployed at unprecedented scale, yet no principled methodology exists for verifying that an agent has not regressed after changes to its prompts, tools, models, or orchestration logic. We present AgentAssay, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Varun Pratap Bhardwaj

Existing research on LLM agent security mainly focuses on prompt injection and unsafe input/output behaviors. However, as agents increasingly rely on third-party tools and MCP servers, a new class of supply-chain threats has emerged, where…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Zhuowen Yuan , Zhaorun Chen , Zhen Xiang , Nathaniel D. Bastian , Seyyed Hadi Hashemi , Chaowei Xiao , Wenbo Guo , Bo Li

Security incident analysis (SIA) poses a major challenge for security operations centers, which must manage overwhelming alert volumes, large and diverse data sources, complex toolchains, and limited analyst expertise. These difficulties…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Sourov Jajodia , Madeena Sultana , Suryadipta Majumdar , Adrian Taylor , Grant Vandenberghe

Large Language Model (LLM) agents use memory to learn from past interactions, enabling autonomous planning and decision-making in complex environments. However, this reliance on memory introduces a critical security risk: an adversary can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Qianshan Wei , Tengchao Yang , Yaochen Wang , Xinfeng Li , Lijun Li , Zhenfei Yin , Yi Zhan , Thorsten Holz , Zhiqiang Lin , XiaoFeng Wang

While large language model-based agents demonstrate great potential in collaborative tasks, their interactivity also introduces security vulnerabilities. In this paper, we propose and model group collusive attacks, a highly destructive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yiling Tao , Xinran Zheng , Shuo Yang , Meiling Tao , Xingjun Wang

As LLMs advance into autonomous agents with tool-use capabilities, they introduce security challenges that extend beyond traditional content-based LLM safety concerns. This paper introduces Sequential Tool Attack Chaining (STAC), a novel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jing-Jing Li , Jianfeng He , Chao Shang , Devang Kulshreshtha , Xun Xian , Yi Zhang , Hang Su , Sandesh Swamy , Yanjun Qi

We present swarm-attack, an open-source adversarial testing framework in which multiple lightweight LLM agents coordinate through shared memory, parallel exploration, and evolutionary optimization. Together, our results demonstrate that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Michael A. Riegler , Inga Strümke

The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as automatic judges for code evaluation is becoming increasingly prevalent in academic environments. But their reliability can be compromised by students who may employ adversarial prompting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Devanshu Sahoo , Vasudev Majhi , Arjun Neekhra , Yash Sinha , Murari Mandal , Dhruv Kumar
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