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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Backdooring Sparse Autoencoders

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
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Runaway Reaction: When Benign Skills Compose into Malicious Behavior

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
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

SimpleMark: Fast Multi-Bit Text Watermarking under f -Divergence Constraints

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
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

AgentDoxx: Agentic Re-identification of Anonymized Text with Web Search

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
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Don't Judge an LLM Only by Its Activations: Discovering Suppressed Safety Features via Counterfactual Activation Potential

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...

Swadesh Swain, Sanghamitra Dutta · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Open access Oct 2026

AutoDP-LLM: automating data pre-processing for intrusion detection systems using large language models

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. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Reflections and Fragments: Securing LLMs Against Sequential Mosaic Attacks

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
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Grammar-Guided Code Watermarking with Green Temperature

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
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Who Is Your Agent Serving? Provider-Side Indirect Prompt Injection in Proactive Agents

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
#artificial intelligence Review Oct 2026

VulValidate: Auditing Function-Level Vulnerability Labels with Executable Evidence

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...

Lei-Zhen Zhang, Sheng Chen · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Hidden Risks of Jev: An Empirical Study of Security, Privacy, and Dual Use

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

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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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