Working entirely on topologically anonymized embeddings, fraud detection is performed using iterative rounds of unsupervised filtering followed by supervised sniping to create an ultra-low latency privacy--preserving triage that allows institutions to flag suspicious activity without compromising Personally Identifiabl...
This paper proposes a robust decentralized personalized federated learning method R-DPFL, that enables clients to reduce the impact of Byzantine attacks via robust neighborhood direction estimation and history-based update trend prediction, rather than purely aggregating client models as in the existing work. In R-DPFL...
A tight bound puts the balanced accuracy of any single-trace monitor at $\tfrac12+\tfrac12\,TV(P_0,P_1)$, turning undecidability into a graded detectability frontier and defining an oversight gap: a monitor's shortfall below it.
To achieve effective, stealthy, and persistent control, TrojanWorld combines Decision-Reflective Induction to steer trigger-conditioned imagination toward attacker-specified actions using decision feedback, Clean Behavior Anchoring to preserve trigger-free predictive and behavioral fidelity, and Causal Propagation to s...
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Model misalignment, prompt injection, or operator misuse could lead AI agents operating frontier-lab accounts to exfiltrate model weights, poison training data, or weaken release gates. Existing benchmarks do not test whether defenders can detect this activity among routine work under a limited review budget. We introd...
These results provide a practical audit of both the requested memory change and the assistant's remaining behavior, with replay work determined by the surviving suffix.
A robust dynamic-expansion framework that integrates sample purification, selective recovery, and robust expert routing into a unified continual learning paradigm is proposed, and Bi-Prototype Purification (BPP) is introduced to identify suspicious samples by exploiting semantic discrepancies in feature space.
This work presents the first bit-flip attack on a VLA: a few gradient-selected flips reduce closed-loop success to $0\%$, while hundreds of random flips are harmless.
Yu-Dong Gao, Ling-Han Chen, Wenhan Wu et al.· 2 citations
Audio deepfake detectors are trained to distinguish genuine speech from synthetic speech and often perform well on standard benchmarks. Yet the same detector that achieves less than 1% error on one dataset can see its error rate increase twentyfold when evaluated on a different dataset. We argue that one contributing f...
PocketAgents is presented, a manifest-driven library of autonomous defense agents that evaluated two agents for the Command and Control and Exfiltration tactics in 18 closed-loop trials of a DarkSide-inspired attack on a small enterprise topology.
The results show that harmful compliance, harm recognition, and capability awareness are separable behavioral axes, and that self-audit and hallucination patterns are not necessarily robust safety signals under adaptive post-training.
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.