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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

The Safeguard Worked. Is the LLM System Safer?

This work determines what each reported result implies for that question: how much help with harmful tasks the service still gives an attacker who keeps adapting or finds another way in.

Pingyu Wu, Wei-Ming Zhang, Neng-Hai Yu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

EvoFlint: An Evolutionary Atlas of Multi-Turn LLM Vulnerabilities

This work argues that red-teaming is better framed as a search problem: discover, organize, and iteratively refine a diverse archive of attack strategies, producing a structured map of how a target model fails rather than a list of one-off successes.

Fei-Tong Qiao, Li-Ren Peng, Shi-Ming Ren et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Does Reasoning Mitigate Backdoor Attacks? A Neuro-Symbolic Perspective

This paper claims that an in-depth investigation of the adversarial robustness of NeSy models is necessary and provides the first systematic evaluation of backdoor attacks against NeSy, and shows that while NeSy models are indeed more robust than their neural counterpart on average, their robustness vastly depend on th...

Marco Antonio Corallo, Andrea Agiollo, Mauro Conti et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Capability-Gated Language Models: Security Composes, Utility Does Not

Deployed language model safeguards (safety fine-tuning, filtering, unlearning) vary by principal only outside the model weights: filters are reconfigured, tiers are multiplied, and artefacts are reissued; inside one set of weights every request meets the same model configuration. This motivates us to define capability-...

Patrikas Vanagas, Augustas Macijauskas, L. Lopata · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Workload Identification with Physical Side Channels for AI Governance

It is shown that an external observer can identify the class of the workload running on an NVIDIA H200 from its power draw, and adversarial traces are recorded, offering initial insights beyond genuine activities and a dataset for developing and testing stronger evasion mechanisms.

Simone Gargiulo, Gabriel Kulp · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Delegation Without Trust: An Empirical Gap Analysis of Identity, Authorization, and Runtime Governance in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

It is argued that agent security must be evaluated under an untrusted-model assumption: a correct system is one in which a fully prompt-injected agent still cannot exceed the authority explicitly delegated to it, and an authorization broker is implemented that closes the gap.

Panduranga Sai Varma Dantuluri, Jyotirmoy Sundi · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

A Formal Analysis of Agent Payment Protocols

This work formalizes four representative agent payment protocols: x402, MPP, ACP, and AP2 in Tamarin, and constructs source-grounded models that capture each protocol's roles, state, trust assumptions, and lifecycle transitions.

Ke Jiang, Mo-Han Yu, Yuan-Yi-Chun-Min-Chieh Chang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Cheap Verifiers, Large Blind Spots: Measuring the Reliability Cost of Cost-Saving Cascades

The theory that explains the blindness, the theory that explains the blindness, the two-population conservation law, under which every in-loop metric improves while true quality does not, and a synthetic study that validates the mechanism are given.

D. Rajput, Nirdesh Chauhan, S.Rao Kosaraju · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Same Request, Different Boundary: Evaluating Cybersecurity Assistance across Conversational Contexts

3R-Bench (Refusal, Repetition, and Revision), a benchmark of 150 real-world cybersecurity requests augmented with two adversarial conversational settings, is introduced and eight LLMs are evaluated, finding that prior assistant behavior strongly changes responses to an unchanged request.

Rui Yang, Yang Hong, Yi-Chao Xu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

OpenAgentFlow: Enabling System-Wide Safety Boundaries for Heterogeneous AI Agent Fleets

OpenAgentFlow is presented, a control-plane/action-plane architecture that establishes the action-commit boundary as a shared enforcement interface and shows that a shared action-commit boundary provides a practical basis for system-wide governance across heterogeneous agent execution paths.

Dong-Sheng Chen, Xiang-Yu Zhao, Xin Yao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Long-Horizon State Tracking in LLMs: Executing MD5 through a Deep Sequence of Dependent Tool Calls

Gpt-oss-120b, a mixture-of-experts model with only $\sim$5.5B active parameters per token, carries the full state across all calls and returns the correct digest on a majority of completed runs, and localizes the residual failures by origin, separating state-carrying from arithmetic and from serving.

Dheeraj Mohandas Pai, Xian-Feng Lu · 0 citations

Let Them Steal: Trapping Large Language Model Extraction Attacks with Knowledge Honeypot

Experiments show that Knowledge Trap reduces surrogate Agreement by 6.2\% on average without degrading legitimate-user accuracy, outperforming existing defenses that impose measurable user impact, and suggest that defending knowledge-space traversal is a practical direction for mitigating LLM extraction attacks.

Yu-Yang Dai, Yushun Dong · 1 citation

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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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