Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are increasingly used not only to interpret language models but also to intervene on their internal representations. We show that this creates a supply-chain attack surface: a maliciously modified SAE can induce attacker-chosen behavior when inserted into the forward pass of an otherwise unch...
E. Ahlers, Daniel Passon, Tobias Kiecker et al.· 0 citations
It is found that directly composing benign skills can already induce malicious behaviors, even when every individual skill passes security vetting, and some target malicious behaviors remain difficult to realize through direct composition, even when the selected skills collectively provide the required capabilities.
Zun-Long Zhou, Zi-Yuan Yang, Meng-Yu Sun et al.· 0 citations
We introduce a framework for multi-bit text watermarking with security defined directly through $f$-divergence from the base language model distribution. Unlike prior approaches that focus on average-key distortion-freeness or a particular statistical distance, our formulation supports general $f$-divergences, includin...
Benjamin D. Kim, Wan-Rong Zhang, Wei-Tong Ruan et al.· 0 citations
AgentDOXX, an evaluation suite of 822 synthetic interview transcripts grounded in public information about real individuals with known identities, is introduced, showing that observed attack trajectories can provide supervision for localizing identifying spans, offering a path toward attack-informed anonymization.
Jia-Ning Wen, Tian-Shi Li· 0 citations
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Mechanistic interpretability has emerged as the primary means to understand safety behavior of LLMs. However, existing tools primarily focus on the activating neurons or features of a model. The role of the remaining large set of inactive components is invisible to such methods. This work demonstrates that the inactive...
The increasing complexity and scale of modern cyber-attacks demand intelligent and computationally efficient Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). However, designing effective data pre-processing pipelines traditionally involves substantial trial-and-error effort and repeated evaluation of alternative configurations. For...
Bao-Phong Nguyen, G. Pham, Thai-Duong Do et al.· Journal of Supercomputing· 0 citations
Self-play red-teaming improves language-model safety by pitting attacker and defender roles against each other in a zero-sum game. However, real adversaries increasingly use mosaic attacks: multi-turn sequences whose individual fragments are innocuous in isolation yet assemble into a harmful payload. We develop a theor...
Emanuele La Malfa, Saar Cohen, G. La Malfa et al.· 0 citations
Large language model watermarking embeds detectable statistical signals during decoding, but the resulting changes to token probabilities can degrade generation quality. This trade-off is particularly important for code, where small changes in token selection can break syntax or alter program behavior. Existing code wa...
Hyundong Jin, Hyeseon An, Soohan Lim et al.· 0 citations
Proactive personal agents increasingly decide what to recommend, how to personalize advice, and what follow-up assistance to offer, creating a new user-decision attack surface for provider-side indirect prompt injection. We show that an external provider need not access private user context, compromise the agent, or ga...
Rui Wang, Chao Wang, Xin-Chen Wang et al.· 0 citations
An automated, feedback-guided attack generation pipeline is built and applied to Claude Code and Codex in their native runtimes, showing that production agents are vulnerable to context-aware, multi-step injection over long horizons.
Jing-Kai Liu, Yu-Fei Han, Xiaoting Lyu et al.· 0 citations
VulValidate is presented, a framework that uses LLM agents to coordinate dynamic analysis tools and construct vulnerability-triggering experiments from runtime feedback that reconstructs vulnerable and fixed revisions, selects suitable tools and execution paths, refines triggering inputs, and compares runtime behavior...
Jev turns natural-language questions into typed answers and probabilities with low latency and cost, enabling applications to route requests and select tools. While this interface allows Jev to integrate naturally into application workflows as a decision layer, the security and privacy implications of this emerging use...
Shang Wang, Tian-Qing Zhu, Hua-Jie Chen et al.· 1 citation
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.
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.