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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Mitigating Black-Box Score-Based Query Attacks via Gradient Confusion

Score-based black-box adversarial attacks pose a serious threat to deployed machine learning systems by exploiting repeated model queries to craft adversarial examples, requiring neither access to model parameters nor architecture. Existing defenses predominantly rely on stochastic output perturbations, which fail to p...

Ali Javeri, Javad Hezareh, Radin Shahdaei et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Who is the 'I' in AI? Establishing Decentralized Identity and Accountability for Autonomous Agents

The rapid proliferation of autonomous AI agents in decentralized ecosystems challenges existing identity paradigms. While human identity is traditionally anchored in biological and/or self-asserted attributes and government credentials, AI agents lack a standardized definition of selfhood, creating critical gaps in tru...

Ahammod Munim Ramil, Khalid Al Kafi, M. A. Abdullahis Sany et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Oct 2026

CWE-bench: Refocusing Agentic Security from Exploitation to Defense

CWE-bench is introduced, a private benchmark of 120 held-out repository audit-and-repair tasks spanning 73 CWE types, eight languages, and all OWASP Top 10 2025 categories, showing that no single agent is best across languages or vulnerability categories, and difficulty varies far more by vulnerability category than by...

Gonzalo Gonzalez-Pumariega, Ajay Jagannath, Adit Jain et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Unsupervised Data Drift Monitoring for Deployed Deepfake Speech Detectors

Deepfake speech detectors are typically evaluated as binary classifiers on fixed benchmarks, but deployed systems face evolving attacks, codecs, speakers, and recording conditions, with labels unavailable during operation. This makes it difficult to know when a detector operates in familiar conditions and can be relied...

Luk\'a\v{s} Proke\v{s}, Vojt\v{e}ch Stan\v{e}k, Anton Firc et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Oct 2026

StableJudge: A Lightweight Adversarial Defense Framework for LLM-as-a-Judge

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as judges to assign scalar scores that drive downstream decision-making, including tasks such as paper review and recommendation. However, LLM-as-a-Judge pipelines are vulnerable to score-hijacking prompt injection embedded in evaluated content, which corrupts scoring...

An-Ning Hu, Yang-Yu Li, Yu-Qi Huang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Logit Leakage through Floating-Point Bias Addition

Language model APIs can expose token-specific biases while withholding logits and token probabilities. Existing bias-based extraction recovers relative logits, leaving a common additive component undetermined in ideal arithmetic. We identify a numerical side channel in floating-point bias addition that exposes informat...

Shaomin Chen, Xiaorui Gong · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

CryptoFlowBench: Benchmarking Multi-Hop Reasoning on Blockchains for Cryptocurrency Fund Tracing

This work proposes ChainSleuth, a graph-tool-augmented agent that iteratively reasons, invokes graph tools, and updates its tracing trajectory, enabling adaptive information acquisition and recovery from erroneous paths in multi-hop fund tracing.

Ru-Nang He, Tong-Ya Zheng, Jing-Yao Cao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

When Agents Talk, Secrets Travel: Topology-Driven Leakage and Recipient-Conditioned Sanitization in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

Multi-agent LLM systems (MALS) introduce a privacy-leakage problem that conventional sensitivity-based defenses miss, since information disclosed to one authorized agent can propagate through routine coordination to an unauthorized one, without compromise or malicious behavior. This motivates topology-aware enforcement...

Sunday Oyinlola Ogundoyin, Muhammad Ikram · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

AutoSec-RAN: Specification-Grounded LLM Fine-Tuning for Automated Security Analysis of O-RAN

This paper presents AutoSec-RAN, a specification-grounded large language model (LLM) framework for automated security triage of Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) testing. Unlike approaches relying on static rule sets or privileged access to raw packet captures, AutoSec-RAN fine-tunes Mistral-7B-Instruct through two Low...

Anoop Mishra, Joshua Moore, Aly Sabri Abdalla et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Hardware-Assisted Multi-Stage Ransomware Detection with Adaptive Machine Learning

This paper proposes an novel framework that couples software-level scanning with hardware-level microprocessor activity monitoring to achieve efficient ransomware detection and mitigation and provides trace-level interpretability that explains the underlying decision process.

Salma Aboelmagd, Md Rakibul Ahasan, Zhi-Xin Pan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Scalable Weak-to-Strong Verifier Hardening for Agent Environments

Agent environments are essential for large language model (LLM) development. They use programmatic verifiers to turn complex outcomes into rewards. Verifiers can be attacked into awarding full credit to cheating agents without completing the intended task, causing inaccurate evaluation and misalignment in training. As...

Chong-Fang Zeng, Zi-Qian Zhong, Ke-Xun Zhang et al. · 2 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Nov 3, 2026

Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

Research Manager Mike Walker reflects on a career spanning hacker culture, cybersecurity, and AI, sharing lessons about trust, teamwork, leadership, and why solving difficult problems requires curiosity, judgment, agility—and an understanding of the rules. The post Learn the rules: The hacker mindset appeared first on Microsoft Research.

GPT-Lab Oct 30, 2026

Black October? The Week AI Changed the Cybersecurity Conversation

Critical flaws, compromised release channels and agentic AI threats landed within days of each other in mid-October 2026. Why “Black October” may say more about how well we now find weaknesses than about the attacks themselves. The post Black October? The Week AI Changed the Cybersecurity Conversation appeared first on GPT-Lab.

Google DeepMind Blog Jul 17, 2026

Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber

Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model to find and patch vulnerabilities.

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