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#artificial intelligence Review Apr 2026

Evaluating a Layered Prompt-Injection Defence for the Model Context Protocol: A Record-Level Audit of Decision Conventions, Corpus Provenance and Reproducibility

This paper audits one such evaluation at the level of individual decision records of a fully local layered defence, CASCADE, a fully local layered defence run in three configurations on a frozen 5,000-sample corpus under a pinned code revision.

İpek Abasıkeleş Turgut, E. Gümüş · 2 citations

Measuring Harmfulness of Computer-Using Agents

A new benchmark to more comprehensively evaluate CUAs'misuse risks, CUAHarm, and explores using LMs to monitor CUAs'actions, finding monitoring unsafe computer-using actions is significantly harder than monitoring conventional unsafe chatbot responses.

Aaron Xuxiang Tian, Ruofan Zhang, Janet Tang et al. · 8 citations · ⚡2

Refusal Before Decoding: Detecting and Exploiting Refusal Signals in Intermediate LLM Activations

Mechanical AutoDAN is introduced, a probe-guided variant of AutoDAN that replaces full-model fitness evaluation with partial forward passes and probe-based scoring inside a genetic prompt search loop, and it is found that refusal is linearly decodable well before the final layer, indicating that safety-relevant behavio...

M. G. Collu, Riccardo Conte, A. Giaretta et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

SENTINEL-RL: Offloading Topological Reasoning from LLM Agents in the Security Operations Center

This work presents Sentinel-RL, an agentic-SOC architecture that decouples topological reasoning from semantic reasoning, and contributes a reusable engineering pattern, a portable HPC deployment pattern, and an enterprise-readiness analysis covering false-positive economics, reversibility guarantees, audit compliance,...

Uday Vallabhaneni, Cassie L. Cagwin, David J. Wild · 2 citations · ⚡1
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

A Non-Formulable Theorem: A Fundamental Limit of Finite Syntactic Systems and Its Consequences for Security and AI

For every coherent and sufficiently expressive finite syntactic system S, we prove the existence of at least one theorem that S cannot produce autonomously. The result is a metatheorem: it proves the existence of a theorem, and applies to every finite syntactic system - security mechanisms, AI systems, formal verifiers...

Fabio F. G. Buono · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

PatchBench: Evaluating AI Agents for Vulnerability Patching

A patch similarity metric is introduced to detect memorized patches and new patch validation methods are developed that thoroughly evaluate both security and semantic correctness of agent patches for vulnerability patching.

Chihao Shen, Jia-Cheng Li, Aastha Mahajan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

A Blind Trust, the Bloody Thrust: When Attacker-Controlled Hook Updates Steer AI Agent Harnesses towards Malicious Behaviors

Modern AI agent harnesses expose lifecycle hooks that bind shell commands to runtime events such as session start, tool calls, and file edits. These commands run with host privileges yet ship as lifecycle-hook configuration and may fire at times the LLM never observes. We identify the lifecycle-hook update path, which...

Pengxun Li, Litian Zhang, Jianwei Hou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Privacy, Robustness, and Fairness Trade-offs in Federated Intrusion Detection: Geometric Indistinguishability at the Aggregation Interface

This paper introduces geometric indistinguishability as a conceptual lens for a regime in which privacy-induced dispersion in client updates can make minority-class signals harder for robust aggregation to preserve and suggests that aggregation-aware modeling and sample-aware evaluation are promising directions for tru...

Adrita Rahman Tory, Abm Shawkat Ali, M. Layek et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

When Optimization Becomes Manipulation: Defending Generative Search against Malicious Generative Engine Optimization

This paper proposes GEO Defender, a two-stage defense aligned with the attack chain that requires no fine-tuning of the target LLM's source use at inference, and demonstrates that GEO Defender reduces the average attack success rate, retains 94.12% of benign-evidence use, preserves answer quality, and generalizes to un...

Hao-Zhang Li, Yang-Guang Shao, Xin-Jie Lin et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

PrivateHub: Contrastive Diffusion Model for Private Sensor-Intensive Environment Data Generation

This work introduces Privatehub, which uses contrastive learning within a diffusion model to generate synthetic multi-sensor streams that keep non-private applications detectable while concealing private ones in sensor-intensive environments.

Jie-Chao Gao, Yuan-Dong Pan, Jie Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Privacy-Preserving Heterogeneous Multi-LLM Federated Inference for Cognitive Diagnosis

This work proposes a federated inference framework in which several commercial LLM APIs collaborate without requiring access to raw student data or proprietary model internals, and conducts rigorous privacy-utility analysis showing strong privacy guarantees with minimal accuracy loss.

Yagna Manasa Boyapati, Chong Yu, Tian-Yu Jiang 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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