Formation-consistent dispatch (FCD), which connects implementation analysis to execution authority, is presented, which produces provenance-bound over-approximations of declared in-scope effects from official source.
Geonwoo Kim, Brent ByungHoon Kang Korea Advanced Institute of Science, Technology· 0 citations
Veer is introduced, an agent-side runtime defense that leaves task planning to the base agent and intervenes on Web state when a proposed action would produce an unauthorized consequence, establishing task-relevant Web state as an effective runtime control target for protecting Web agents from deceptive outcomes.
DGF-Bench is a benchmark in which a board of agents (specialist gates and a General gate that consolidates their decisions) reviews synthetic dossiers while an attacker plants deceptive content in evidence the organization does not vouch for.
This work introduces PlanGuard, the first pre-execution detector that evaluates the physical safety of a complete multi-step plan in its current environment, and proposes Strong-Teacher Adaptive Compensation for On-Policy Distillation (STAC-OPD), which provides compact models with adaptive strong-teacher supervision al...
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This work presents a novel approach to monitoring the network traffic of agentic systems using complex valued hypersparse traffic matrices by integrating DBOS (DataBase OS), the OneSparse PostgreSQL database, and the GraphBLAS math library.
Manuel Tsoukatos, Hayden Jananthan, Jeremy Kepner· 0 citations
Auditing publicly released descendants of distilled models spanning diverse post-training objectives, SCOUT consistently identifies the distillation source and tracing teacher-associated *syntactic signatures* along training trajectories reveals that they emerge during distillation and persist through subsequent prefer...
Minwoo Jang, Jaechang Kim, Minhyeon Oh et al.· 0 citations
Results show that preserving already-correct work under unsupported accusation is a distinct safety challenge for long-lived agents, and introduces CAVE-Bench, a benchmark of 365 agentic tasks across six domains built around opaque tasks.
Xu-Tao Mao, Rui Qian, Long-Xiang Wang et al.· 0 citations
A probabilistic risk model linking five stages: reward hacking, containment escape, usable access, persistence, and failure of detection supports treating cyber-capable agent evaluations as hostile security zones in which indirect egress, shared infrastructure, credentials, and evaluation artifacts must remain outside...
Murat Ozer, Bulent Erenay, Ibrahim Berber· 1 citation
This paper comprehensively studies effective prompt injection attacks against 14 widely used open-source and three closed-source LLMs on five attack benchmarks and proposes a straightforward and effective hypnotism attack, showing that this attack causes aligned language models to generate objectionable behaviors.
Jia-Wen Wang, Pritha Gupta, E. Hüllermeier et al.· 9 citations
A detection framework that models this attack chain by combining a text detector, verifiers specific to each stage, explicit rule-based risk signals, user intent and action consistency analysis, and a logistic decision policy is proposed, which achieves a mean F1 score under the strict threshold setting policy.
DUALLM, a dual-method pipeline that integrates two approaches based on a Large Language Model (LLM) and a fine-tuned small language model, achieves 87.4% accuracy and an F1-score of 0.875, significantly outperforming prior solutions.
Xing-Yu Li, Jue-Fei Pu, Yifan Wu et al.· Network and Distributed Syst...· 1 citation
By leveraging the better privacy-utility trade-off of PrivaTree, this work is able to train decision trees with significantly better robustness against backdoor attacks compared to regular decision trees and with meaningful theoretical guarantees.
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.