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Model-serving systems have become increasingly popular, especially in real-time web applications. In such systems, users send queries to the server and specify the desired performance metrics (e.g., desired accuracy, latency). The server…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Debopam Sanyal , Jui-Tse Hung , Manav Agrawal , Prahlad Jasti , Shahab Nikkhoo , Somesh Jha , Tianhao Wang , Sibin Mohan , Alexey Tumanov

Internet has played a vital role in this modern world, the possibilities and opportunities offered are limitless. Despite all the hype, Internet services are liable to intrusion attack that could tamper the confidentiality and integrity of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-06-23 M. A. Faizal , M. Mohd Zaki , S. Shahrin , Y. Robiah , S. Siti Rahayu , B. Nazrulazhar

We release Terminal Wrench, a subset of 331 terminal-agent benchmark environments, copied from the popular open benchmarks that are demonstrably reward-hackable. The data set includes 3,632 hack trajectories and 2,352 legitimate baseline…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ivan Bercovich , Ivgeni Segal , Kexun Zhang , Shashwat Saxena , Aditi Raghunathan , Ziqian Zhong

Intrusion detection systems (IDS) reinforce cyber defense by autonomously monitoring various data sources for traces of attacks. However, IDSs are also infamous for frequently raising false positives and alerts that are difficult to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Max Landauer , Florian Skopik , Markus Wurzenberger

Today, machine learning is widely applied in sensitive, security-related, and financially lucrative applications. Model extraction attacks undermine current business models where a model owner sells model access, e.g., via MLaaS APIs.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jonas Sander , Anja Rabich , Nick Mahling , Felix Maurer , Jonah Heller , Qifan Wang , Thomas Eisenbarth , David Oswald

The deployment of Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) in high-stakes decision-making pipelines has introduced a novel and opaque attack surface: reasoning backdoors. In these attacks, the model's intermediate Chain-of-Thought (CoT) is manipulated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zhen Guo , Shanghao Shi , Hao Li , Shamim Yazdani , Ning Zhang , Reza Tourani

The success of DNNs has driven the extensive applications of person re-identification (ReID) into a new era. However, whether ReID inherits the vulnerability of DNNs remains unexplored. To examine the robustness of ReID systems is rather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Hongjun Wang , Guangrun Wang , Ya Li , Dongyu Zhang , Liang Lin

Autonomous agentic AI systems powered by vision-language models (VLMs) are rapidly advancing toward real-world deployment, yet their cross-modal reasoning capabilities introduce new attack surfaces for adversarial manipulation that exploit…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Hangoo Kang , Jehyeok Yeon , Gagandeep Singh

Typical fingerprint recognition systems are comprised of a spoof detection module and a subsequent recognition module, running one after the other. In this paper, we reformulate the workings of a typical fingerprint recognition system. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Additya Popli , Saraansh Tandon , Joshua J. Engelsma , Naoyuki Onoe , Atsushi Okubo , Anoop Namboodiri

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) requires large datasets and powerful computing resources, which has led some owners to restrict redistribution without permission. Watermarking techniques that embed confidential data into DNNs have been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Seonhye Park , Alsharif Abuadbba , Shuo Wang , Kristen Moore , Yansong Gao , Hyoungshick Kim , Surya Nepal

Recent advances in AI are transforming AI's ubiquitous presence in our world from that of standalone AI-applications into deeply integrated AI-agents. These changes have been driven by agents' increasing capability to autonomously make…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Jose Sanchez Vicarte , Marcin Spoczynski , Mostafa Elsaid

Embodied Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises to handle edge cases in robotic vehicle systems where data is scarce by using common-sense reasoning grounded in perception and action to generalize beyond training distributions and adapt to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Luis Burbano , Diego Ortiz , Qi Sun , Siwei Yang , Haoqin Tu , Cihang Xie , Yinzhi Cao , Alvaro A Cardenas

Fingerprint capture systems can be fooled by widely accessible methods to spoof the system using fake fingers, known as presentation attacks. As biometric recognition systems become more extensively relied upon at international borders and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Richard Plesh , Keivan Bahmani , Ganghee Jang , David Yambay , Ken Brownlee , Timothy Swyka , Peter Johnson , Arun Ross , Stephanie Schuckers

Backdoor attacks represent a subtle yet effective class of cyberattacks targeting AI models, primarily due to their stealthy nature. The model behaves normally on clean data but exhibits malicious behavior only when the attacker embeds a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Sujeevan Aseervatham , Achraf Kerzazi , Younès Bennani

An Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is a software that monitors a single or a network of computers for malicious activities (attacks) that are aimed at stealing or censoring information or corrupting network protocols. Most techniques used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Mahdi Zamani , Mahnush Movahedi

In todays rapidly evolving digital landscape, safeguarding network infrastructures against cyberattacks has become a critical priority. This research presents an innovative AI-driven real-time intrusion detection framework designed to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Maryam Mahdi Alhusseini , Mohammad Reza Feizi Derakhshi

Deep Learning backdoor attacks have a threat model similar to traditional cyber attacks. Attack forensics, a critical counter-measure for traditional cyber attacks, is hence of importance for defending model backdoor attacks. In this paper,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Siyuan Cheng , Guanhong Tao , Yingqi Liu , Shengwei An , Xiangzhe Xu , Shiwei Feng , Guangyu Shen , Kaiyuan Zhang , Qiuling Xu , Shiqing Ma , Xiangyu Zhang

Reconstructing system-level behavior from silicon traces is a critical problem in post-silicon validation of System-on-Chip designs. Current industrial practice in this area is primarily manual, depending on collaborative insights of the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Yuting Cao , Hao Zheng , Sandip Ray , Jin Yang

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems increasingly underpin critical applications, from autonomous vehicles to biometric authentication, their vulnerability to transferable attacks presents a growing concern. These attacks, designed to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Guangjing Wang , Ce Zhou , Yuanda Wang , Bocheng Chen , Hanqing Guo , Qiben Yan

Smart contract vulnerabilities, particularly improper Access Control that allows unauthorized execution of restricted functions, have caused billions of dollars in losses. GitHub hosts numerous smart contract repositories containing source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Chong Chen , Jiachi Chen , Lingfeng Bao , David Lo , Yanlin Wang , Zhenyu Shan , Ting Chen , Guangqiang Yin , Jianxing Yu , Zibin Zheng