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AI agents plan and execute interactions in open-ended environments. For example, OpenAI's Operator can use a web browser to do product comparisons and buy online goods. Much research on making agents useful and safe focuses on directly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Alan Chan , Kevin Wei , Sihao Huang , Nitarshan Rajkumar , Elija Perrier , Seth Lazar , Gillian K. Hadfield , Markus Anderljung

The topic will focus on the U.S. Department of Defense strategy towards improving their network security defenses for the department and the steps they have taken at the agency level where components under DOD such as The Defense…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Christopher L Gorham

The rapid expansion of low-altitude economy Internet of Things (LAE-IoT) networks has created unprecedented security challenges due to dynamic three-dimensional mobility patterns, distributed autonomous operations, and severe resource…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Hongjuan Li , Hui Kang , Jiahui Li , Geng Sun , Ruichen Zhang , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Wei Ni , Abbas Jamalipour

This paper presents several novel algorithms for real-time cyberattack detection using the Auto-Associative Deep Random Neural Network, which were developed in the HORIZON 2020 IoTAC Project. Some of these algorithms require offline…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Erol Gelenbe , Mert Nakıp

Autonomous AI agents now operate across cloud, enterprise, and decentralized domains, creating demand for registry infrastructures that enable trustworthy discovery, capability negotiation, and identity assurance. We analyze five prominent…

The rapid growth of distributed energy resources (DERs), such as renewable energy sources, generators, consumers, and prosumers in the smart grid infrastructure, poses significant cybersecurity and trust challenges to the grid controller.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Md. Shirajum Munir , Sachin Shetty , Danda B. Rawat

Contemporary machine learning paradigm excels in statistical data analysis, solving problems that classical AI couldn't. However, it faces key limitations, such as a lack of integration with planning, incomprehensible internal structure,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Zeki Doruk Erden , Boi Faltings

We implemented and evaluated an automated cyber defense agent. The agent takes security alerts as input and uses reinforcement learning to learn a policy for executing predefined defensive measures. The defender policies were trained in an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Jakob Nyberg , Pontus Johnson

Autonomous agents deployed in the real world need to be robust against adversarial attacks on sensory inputs. Robustifying agent policies requires anticipating the strongest attacks possible. We demonstrate that existing observation-space…

AI agents are rapidly expanding in both capability and population: they now write code, operate computers across platforms, manage cloud infrastructure, and make purchasing decisions, while open-source frameworks such as OpenClaw are…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Xiaohang Nie , Zihan Guo , Kezhuo Yang , Zhichong Zheng , Bochen Ge , Shuai Pan , Zeyi Chen , Youling Xiang , Yu Zhang , Weiwen Liu , Yuanjian Zhou , Weinan Zhang

The Internet has evolved by progressively expanding what humanity connects: first computers, then people, and later billions of devices through the Internet of Things (IoT). While IoT succeeded in digitizing perception at scale, it also…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Roberto Morabito , Mallik Tatipamula

The techniques used in modern attacks have become an important factor for investigation. As we advance further into the digital age, cyber attackers are employing increasingly sophisticated and highly threatening methods. These attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Alexander Shim

The leading AI companies are increasingly focused on building generalist AI agents -- systems that can autonomously plan, act, and pursue goals across almost all tasks that humans can perform. Despite how useful these systems might be,…

Reinforcement learning techniques are being explored as solutions to the threat of cyber attacks on enterprise networks. Recent research in the field of AI in cyber security has investigated the ability of homogeneous multi-agent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Alex Popa , Adrian Taylor , Ranwa Al Mallah

The obstacles of each security system combined with the increase of cyber-attacks, negatively affect the effectiveness of network security management and rise the activities to be taken by the security staff and network administrators. So,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Mamoon A. Al Jbaar , Adel Jalal Yousif , Qutaiba I. Ali

Given the rise in cyber threats to networked systems, coupled with the proliferation of AI techniques and enhanced processing capabilities, Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated and easily executable. They…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Saleh Darzi , Attila A. Yavuz

Unlike other domains of conflict, and unlike other fields with high anticipated risk from AI, the cyber domain is intrinsically digital with a tight feedback loop between AI training and cyber application. Cyber may have some of the largest…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Andrew J. Lohn

Threat hunting is a proactive methodology for exploring, detecting and mitigating cyberattacks within complex environments. As opposed to conventional detection systems, threat hunting strategies assume adversaries have infiltrated the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Ángel Casanova Bienzobas , Alfonso Sánchez-Macián

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) agents into web browsers introduces security challenges that go beyond traditional web application threat models. Prior work has identified prompt injection as a new attack vector for web…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Kaiyuan Zhang , Mark Tenenholtz , Kyle Polley , Jerry Ma , Denis Yarats , Ninghui Li

AI agents, specifically powered by large language models, have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in various applications where precision and efficacy are necessary. However, these agents come with inherent risks, including the potential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ishaan Domkundwar , Mukunda N S , Ishaan Bhola , Riddhik Kochhar