Malicious AI causing harm to humans is not just a Hollywood fantasy. Indeed, as highly capable models such as Claude Mythos emerge and agent systems like OpenClaw rapidly spread, the question of how to stop an AI that acts maliciously -- whether by design or by accident -- has become urgent. To address this, we propose...
Sechan Lee, Hyounghun Kim, Sangdon Park· 0 citations
Large Language Models (LLMs), now a foundation in advancing natural language processing, power applications such as text generation, machine translation, and conversational systems. Despite their transformative potential, these models inherently rely on massive amounts of training data, often collected from diverse and...
Kang Chen, Xiuze Zhou, Yuanhui Yu et al.· 0 citations
An entropy-based poisoning filter that mitigates task-agnostic backdoor attacks due to vulnerabilities in data and training mechanisms and injects multiple syntactic backdoors into the pre-training space through corpus poisoning, while preserving the PLM's pre-training capabilities.
Pengzhou Cheng, Wei Du, Zongru Wu et al.· North American Chapter of th...· 9 citations· ⚡3
VLoc Benchmark results establish vulnerability localization as a distinct repository-scale capability and provide a setting for studying both how security agents search for vulnerable code and when they should refrain from reporting it.
Aman Priyanshu, Supriti Vijay, Kimia Majd et al.· 1 citation· ⚡1
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Rising societal and lifestyle complexity has been linked to a growing prevalence of mental distress worldwide. Educational institutions, workplaces, clinics, etc. collect large volumes of mental health survey data to understand and reduce this burden. Collaborative analysis of such data could yield effective generaliza...
Pretrained world models, learned simulators that encode an observation into a latent state and predict how it evolves under actions, are beginning to be reused as off-the-shelf dynamics backbones for control, like pretrained encoders and language models are reused today. We show that this reuse opens a supply-chain bac...
Roberto Riaño, Gorka Abad, S. Picek et al.· 0 citations
An event-native symbolic-temporal spike encoding framework that maps heterogeneous cyber events directly into sparse, spike-compatible inputs is introduced, assigning encoding roles to semantic identity, local frequency context, and inter-event timing, which preserves categorical semantics and temporal dynamics.
Dalton Diez, Peyton Andras, Maxwell T. Shroyer et al.· 0 citations
Visual Question Answering (VQA) with Vision-Language Models (VLMs) is increasingly used in privacy-sensitive and bandwidth-constrained settings. Federated Learning (FL), Split Learning (SL), and U-Shaped Split Learning (USL) keep raw data local, but transmitting all visual tokens across a model partition remains costly...
A semi-automated pipeline is presented that addresses the interoperability problem of integrating symbolic frameworks such as MulVAL to contemporary security workflows or agentic pipelines, but predicate coverage, rule coverage, and path precision remain limiting factors.
This work shows that a weaker, unaligned model can split a harmful task into benign-looking subproblems, consult a stronger aligned model independently on each, and combine the answers locally to laundering attack capability laundering.
M. Russinovich, Blake Bullwinkel, Giorgio Severi et al.· 0 citations
User prompts provided to large language models (LLMs) may contain sensitive or private information that can be misused by remotely deployed models, such as through inadvertent memorization during retraining. One way to protect user prompts is to execute the LLM inside a trusted execution environment (TEE), with the gua...
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This work formalizes poison selection as oracle-budgeted set optimization and introduces SAILS (Set-level Audit-Informed Iterative Learned Selection), which learns a set scorer from a few hundred finetune-and-evaluate runs, ranks millions of candidate sets, and audits only a small shortlist.
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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.