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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Can We Stop Malicious AI? KILLBENCH: A Benchmark for External AI Kill Switch Feasibility

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
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Data Security in Large Language Models: Risks, Defense, and Directions

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
#artificial intelligence Conference Open access Feb 2024

SynGhost: Invisible and Universal Task-agnostic Backdoor Attack via Syntactic Transfer

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. · 9 citations · ⚡3
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Vulnerability Localization Benchmark: Measuring Agentic Security Analysis at Repository Scale

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
#artificial intelligence Review Sep 2026

LLM-Based Schema-Aware Split Learning for Privacy-Preserving Mental Distress Prediction Across Heterogeneous Surveys

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...

Md. Khalid Syfullah, Alvi Ataur Khalil · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

When the World Lies: Backdoor Attacks on Latent World Models for Downstream Control

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
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Event-Native Symbolic-Temporal Spike Encoding Framework for Heterogeneous Cyber Streams

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
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Don't Send What You Don't Need: Question-Guided Token Pruning as a Privacy Defense for Vision-Language Models

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...

Md. Khalid Syfullah, Alvi Ataur Khalil · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Automating Attack Graph Construction for Agentic Pentesting. Towards Neuro-Symbolic Vulnerability Hunting

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.

Oliver Stevanovic, Jasmin Wachter · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Divide, Consult, Conquer: Capability Laundering Through Aligned LLMs

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
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

SpliTEE: Improving LLM Inference on Trusted Hardware with Differentially Private GPU Outsourcing

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...

Shashie Dilhara Batan Arachchige, Robin Carpentier, H. Asghar et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Pick Your Poison: Learning to Select Poison Sets for Stronger LLM Backdoor Attacks

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.

Aashiq Muhamed, Mona T. Diab, Virginia Smith 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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