This work introduces and formulate a new progressive-resolution secure-aggregation functionality in which clients upload once and successively finer resolutions of the same aggregate can later be authorized without renewed client participation.
A privacy-aware post-training quantization method that improves inversion resistance while recovering utility is guided, using a Fisher-type task-sensitivity proxy for budget-aware bit allocation, calibrates activation ranges, and jointly optimizes weight and activation scales and weight-rounding decisions.
This work proposes NEEDLE, a training-free method for targeted backdoor removal that achieves the lowest mean Attack Success Rate (ASR) among the evaluated defences, including 0% on challenging code injection attacks, while resulting in the lowest KL divergence and minimal changes in capability and safety.
Minoo Kim, Vasileios Lampos, George Drayson· 0 citations
Fine-tuning adapts aligned large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks, but a few dozen harmful examples can remove their refusal of harmful requests. Prior work localizes safety-related behavior to specific layers, directions, and tokens, suggesting targets for protection. We test whether successful localization...
Jungseob Lee, D. Lee, Sugyeong Eo et al.· 1 citation
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This paper presents a reproducible, educational study of evasion attacks in image classification and text classification. A compact convolutional network trained on MNIST reached 98.63% clean test accuracy and was evaluated under two white-box attacks. Under FGSM, accuracy fell to 60.20% at $\epsilon$ = 0.15 and 1.72%...
Parker Hummel, Ryne Skabo, Muhammad Abusaqer· 0 citations
Can response safety be scored by cosine similarity to the mean embedding of known-safe responses? A recent sleeper-agent detector proposes exactly this score, yet the raw positive-centroid rule is not identified: positive observations locate the safe class relative to an encoder origin, but do not determine which direc...
This work proposes Similarity-based Approach for Ground-truth-driven Exclusion (SAGE), which trains a generic feature extractor on a separate dataset and then flags poisoned training examples using a non-parametric, similarity-weighted prediction based on the verified set.
Chaeeun Han, Soodeh Atefi, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik et al.· 0 citations
Most large language models (LLMs) run on external clouds: users send a prompt, pay for inference, and must trust that the remote GPU executes the LLM without any adversarial tampering. We critically ask how to achieve verifiable LLM inference, where a prover (the service) must convince a verifier (the client) that an i...
Oguzhan Baser, Elahe Sadeghi, Eric Wang et al.· 0 citations
Humans are susceptible to undesirable behaviours and privacy leaks under the influence of alcohol. This paper investigates drunk language, i.e., text written under the influence of alcohol, as a driver for safety failures in large language models (LLMs). We investigate three mechanisms for inducing drunk language in LL...
Anudeex Shetty, Aditya Joshi, Salil S. Kanhere· 0 citations
LLMs are increasingly applied to cybersecurity workflows, where they are expected to translate analysts'intent into tool invocations. However, existing evaluations focus on knowledge-based assessments or end-to-end agentic tasks, and do not directly measure LLMs'ability to generate executable commands for real-world cy...
Peng-Fei Li, Naufal Suryanto, Si-Cheng Zhang et al.· 0 citations
Ransomware has emerged as a major cybersecurity threat, with incidents increasing in frequency and impact across critical sectors. These attacks are typically launched through phishing emails, malicious downloads, or exploitation of software vulnerabilities to gain system access. Once inside, the malware encrypts files...
Emmanuela Andam, Yasir Abbas Zaidi, Abdelali Hadir et al.· 0 citations
By 2030, Internet of Things (IoT) devices are projected to reach 40 billion, with fast-paced technological advancements in fields such as industry, healthcare, agriculture, automobiles, and building/home automation systems. This expansion has created a large attack surface for cybercrime, as the majority of these devic...
Emmanuela Andam, Rana Shaaban, Emanuel Grant et al.· 0 citations
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.