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As the industry increasingly adopts agentic AI systems, understanding their unique vulnerabilities becomes critical. Prior research suggests that security flaws at the model level do not fully capture the risks present in agentic…

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Learned classifiers deployed in agentic pipelines face a fundamental reliability problem: predictions are probabilistic inferences, not verified conclusions, and acting on them without grounding in observable evidence leads to compounding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jugal Gajjar

The software supply chain attacks are becoming more and more focused on trusted development and delivery procedures, so the conventional post-build integrity mechanisms cannot be used anymore. The available frameworks like SLSA, SBOM and in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Toqeer Ali Syed , Mohammad Riyaz Belgaum , Salman Jan , Asadullah Abdullah Khan , Saad Said Alqahtani

Software vulnerabilities remain a critical security challenge, providing entry points for attackers into enterprise networks. Despite advances in security practices, the lack of high-quality datasets capturing diverse exploit behavior…

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Coding agents often pass per-prompt safety review yet ship exploitable code when their tasks are decomposed into routine engineering tickets. The challenge is structural: existing safety alignment evaluates overt requests in isolation,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Jonathan Steinberg , Oren Gal

In recent years, code security has become increasingly important, especially with the rise of interconnected technologies. Detecting vulnerabilities early in the software development process has demonstrated numerous benefits. Consequently,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-22 José Gonçalves , Tiago Dias , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

Agentic AI systems, specifically LLM-driven agents that plan, invoke tools, maintain persistent memory, and delegate tasks to peer agents via protocols such as MCP and A2A, introduce a threat surface that differs materially from standalone…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Javad Forough , Marios Kogias , Hamed Haddadi

LLM agents operating in open environments face escalating risks from indirect prompt injection, particularly within the tool stream where manipulated metadata and runtime feedback hijack execution flow. Existing defenses encounter a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Junda Lin , Zhaomeng Zhou , Zhi Zheng , Shuochen Liu , Tong Xu , Yong Chen , Enhong Chen

Microservices are widely adopted in modern cloud systems due to their scalability and fault tolerance. However, microservice architectures introduce significant complexity in privilege and permission control, creating risks of privilege…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Penghui Li , Hong Yau Chong , Yinzhi Cao , Junfeng Yang

Enterprise IT support is constrained by heterogeneous devices, evolving policies, and long-tail failure modes that are difficult to resolve centrally. We present VIGIL, an edge-extended agentic AI system that deploys desktop-resident agents…

Despite the success of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), misleading charts remain a significant challenge due to their deceptive visual structures and distorted data representations. We present ChartCynics, an agentic dual-path framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yanjie Zhang , Yafei Li , Rui Sheng , Zixin Chen , Yanna Lin , Huamin Qu , Lei Chen , Yushi Sun

Automated Alzheimer's Disease (AD) screening has predominantly followed the inductive paradigm of pattern recognition, which directly maps the input signal to the outcome label. This paradigm sacrifices construct validity of clinical…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jiawen Kang , Kun Li , Dongrui Han , Jinchao Li , Junan Li , Lingwei Meng , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng

Over the last decade the relative latency of access to shared memory by multicore increased as wire resistance dominated latency and low wire density layout pushed multiport memories farther away from their ports. Various techniques were…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Ashish Shrivastava , Alan Gatherer , Tong Sun , Sushma Wokhlu , Alex Chandra

Verification is critical for improving agents: it provides the reward signal for Reinforcement Learning and enables inference-time gains through Test-Time Scaling (TTS). Despite its importance, verification in software engineering (SWE)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Mohit Raghavendra , Anisha Gunjal , Bing Liu , Yunzhong He

This paper presents a Unified Security Architecture that fortifies the Agentic Web through a Zero-Trust IAM framework. This architecture is built on a foundation of rich, verifiable agent identities using Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Ken Huang , Yasir Mehmood , Hammad Atta , Jerry Huang , Muhammad Zeeshan Baig , Sree Bhargavi Balija

Agentic memory enables LLMs to persist information beyond a single context window and reuse it in later decisions, but it also introduces a new vulnerability: spurious correlations, where retrieved memory carries miscorrelated evidence and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Luoxi Tang , Rupali Rajendra Vaje , Yuqiao Meng , Sakshi Sunil Narkar , Weicheng Ma , Zeyu Ding , Dazheng Zhang , Zhaohan Xi

Coverage closure is the most time-consuming phase of hardware verification, and recent large language model (LLM)-based coding agents offer a promising approach to automated stimulus generation. However, prior LLM-based flows do not…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Vihaan Patel , Vidya Chhabria , Aman Arora

The Software Supply Chain (SSC) security is a critical concern for both users and developers. Recent incidents, like the SolarWinds Orion compromise, proved the widespread impact resulting from the distribution of compromised software. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Giacomo Benedetti , Serena Cofano , Alessandro Brighente , Mauro Conti

Security patch detection (SPD) is crucial for maintaining software security, as unpatched vulnerabilities can lead to severe security risks. In recent years, numerous learning-based SPD approaches have demonstrated promising results on…

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