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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Explainable Rule Mining of IPv6 Extension-Header Presence Patterns from Paired-Vantage Captures

An interpretable temporal-logic rule miner is used to recover a portable Fragment-EH rule that the protocol reveals to be a within-packet, near-definitional co-occurrence rather than a temporal pattern, so the temporal-logic machinery does no work for this dominant rule.

Priyankar Sinha, Nikolaos Kekatos, Stylianos Basagiannis et al. · 1 citation
#machine learning Open access Oct 2026

The Model Plants the Trigger: Answer-Side Backdoor Attacks in Multi-Turn Large Language Models

Safety alignment in Large Language Models (LLMs) remains vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing LLM backdoors are almost all input-centric: activation depends on explicit trigger patterns in the user input, so modern guardrails are built to sanitize the input space. We challenge this assumption with a novel answer-si...

Yi-Bo Zhang, Tian-Rong Guan, Liang Lin et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Open access Oct 2026

Deep Defence on Wheels: A Dual Intrusion Detection System Architecture for Comprehensive In-Vehicle Network Security

The combination of increasing connectivity to the outside world and the lack of inbuilt security mechanisms has made legacy intra-vehicular networks extremely vulnerable to cyberattacks. Consequently, significant research has been devoted to analysing the impact of potential attacks, yielding datasets crucial for devel...

Shashwat Khandelwal, Shreejith Shanker · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Evaluating Behavioral Context for Interpretable IAM Policy Risk Scoring in Cloud Environments

IAM policy analysis typically emphasizes the authorization capabilities encoded in a policy, but security analyst review priority may also depend on the behavioral and environmental context surrounding a policy event. This paper evaluates whether contextual information provides measurable incremental value for interpre...

Yassin Elsharkawy · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Lineage-Aware Memory Governance: A Derivation-Gated Framework for Privacy-Preserving Column-Level Access Control in Enterprise AI Agents

Enterprise AI agents that share a memory store face two unaddressed risks: sensitive data can leak through legitimately computed results the requester could not derive, and departments can silently compute a same-named key performance indicator (KPI) through conflicting logic. Existing agent-memory systems (e.g., MemGP...

Venkata M Sangaraju, Sudhir Vissa · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Jailbreaking Open-Weight LLMs via Random Embedding Perturbations

While open-weight models have enjoyed steady progress in capabilities and wide adoption across multiple domains, their safety remains an important concern. One key feature is the ability to refuse or deflect harmful, malicious, or insensitive prompts. In this paper, we expose safety vulnerabilities across six common op...

A. Dubey, Scott Sirri, Vaggos Chatziafratis et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Towards a Unified Misuse Monitoring Benchmark

LLM agents increasingly act in multi-actor environments, exposing them to misuse from multiple sources: decomposition attacks, where a harmful request is split into innocuous sub-requests, and prompt injection attacks, where a compromised tool delivers a malicious instruction. Existing evaluations treat these threats s...

Aniruddh Pramod, James Oldfield, Adel Bibi · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Which Image Property Carries the Jailbreak? A Controlled Dissection of Image-to-Text Jailbreaks

Image-to-text jailbreaks place harmful intent in text, image content, or the relationship between them. We examine image-side factors across four published attack families on a 313-prompt StrongREJECT slice, using five multimodal models and an additional appendix evaluation of InternVL3.5-8B. The harmful instruction is...

Bo-Yuan Chen, Yehia Dawoud, Hailemariam Mersha et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Where Does the Audio Jailbreak Live? A Controlled Frequency-Depth Audit of AdvWave-P on Qwen2-Audio

We audit frequency and decoder-depth claims for AdvWave-P, an additive audio jailbreak, on Qwen2-Audio. The protocol masks frequency components of the perturbation in the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain and measures attack success and audio-span representations. On 520 AdvBench prompts, the primary judge lab...

Boyuan Chen, Minseok Kim, Sohaila Abdulsattar et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

On the Intrinsic Limited Robustness of Latent-Based Watermarking

The first theoretical analysis explaining why latent-based watermarking methods intrinsically exhibit limited robustness is provided, and a maximum perturbation bound is derived that characterizes the relationship between pixel-space perturbations and their corresponding effects in latent space.

Cheng-Han Yeh, Kuan-Chun Yu, Cheng-Chang Tsai et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Adaptive Model Inversion Attacks Generalize a Privacy-Robustness Tradeoff

In this paper, we show that standard evaluations of high-resolution Model Inversion Attacks (MIAs) significantly underestimate training-data privacy leakage. State-of-the-art privacy defenses, standard training techniques such as MixUp and Adversarial Training, and undefended models all leak training images at rates 1....

Shailen Smith, Rasmus Torp, Adam Breuer · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Harmful SFT Leaves a Continuous Trace in LLM Checkpoint Updates

TRACE is introduced, a weights-only auditing method that localizes an unknown checkpoint update relative to frozen harmful and non-harmful reference prototypes and converts this geometry into a continuous harmful-objective score.

Zi-Qun Bao, Xin-Yu Zhang, Yu-Chen Shao et al. · 0 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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