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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Why Backdooring Neural Networks is so Easy?

It is shown that the same feature-learning dynamics that make neural networks powerful can also make them more vulnerable to backdoors, and that security audits based on linear heuristics can systematically underestimate backdoor vulnerability in the widely adopted feature-learning regimes.

Issam Seddik, Mohamed El Amine Seddik · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Open access Sep 2025

AI-driven cybersecurity in software engineering

AI-driven cybersecurity in the software engineering field is discussed, where machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and reinforcement learning can be applied throughout the software development lifecycle to provide increased security.

Harsh Verma · 0 citations
#cybersecurity Preprint Sep 2026

When Privacy Becomes a Weapon: Understanding Doxxing and Privacy Vulnerabilities in Mainland China's Social Media Ecosystem

Survivors' experiences are synthesized into a framework conceptualizing how doxxing operates in mainland China, suggesting that effective protection requires constraining systemic vulnerabilities rather than relying solely on user empowerment and proposing multifaceted recommendations spanning legal reform, platform de...

Xiao Zhan, Shi-Jing He, Chi Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint May 2026

Trojan Hippo Bench: A Dynamic Benchmark for Persistent Memory Attacks and Defenses in LLM Agents

The Trojan Hippo Bench is introduced, a dynamic evaluation framework for persistent memory attacks and memory-layer defenses, comprising an OpenEvolve-based adaptive red-teaming benchmark that stress-tests defenses and memory backends against continuously refined attacks, and a capability-aware security-utility analysi...

Debeshee Das, Julien Piet, D. Kaviani et al. · 12 citations · ⚡1
#artificial intelligence Review Sep 2025

Adversarial Defense in Cybersecurity: A Systematic Review of GANs for Threat Detection and Mitigation

A four-dimensional taxonomy spanning defensive function, GAN architecture, cybersecurity domain, and adversarial threat model is introduced, emphasizing hybrid models, unified evaluation, real-world integration, and defenses against emerging threats such as LLM-driven cyberattacks.

Tharcisse Ndayipfukamiye, Jian-Guo Ding, D. Sarwatt et al. · 9 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Jul 2025

Meta-SecAlign: Training LLMs against Prompt Injection for Robust Agents

Meta-SecAlign is proposed for utility-preserving defense by (1) randomized injection position during training to avoid shortcut learning and (2) self-generated responses as high-quality in-distribution training labels as high-quality in-distribution training labels.

Si-Zhe Chen, A. Zharmagambetov, David A. Wagner et al. · 0 citations

BadRAG: Identifying Vulnerabilities in Retrieval Augmented Generation of Large Language Models

A novel threat is unveiled in which attackers steer the RAG system's response by injecting malicious passages into its knowledge base, enabling the attacker to steer the response without altering the user input or modifying the RAG weights.

Jiaqi Xue, Meng Zheng, Yebowen Hu et al. · 109 citations · ⚡8
#artificial intelligence Preprint May 2026

JUMP: Efficient Membership Inference on Fine-Tuned Diffusion Language Models

JUMP is proposed, an efficient MIA that exploits the ability of dLLMs to predict masked tokens in parallel that improves mean ROC-AUC over a prior multi-mask attack and is extended to the target-only setting by replacing target-reference scoring with relative token preference.

Yeachan Jun, Albert No · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Making Duplicate Reimbursement Unrepresentable: A Verified Ethereum E-Invoice System for Humans and AI Agents

This paper presents the design, formal analysis, and implementation of a complete blockchain-based electronic invoice system on Ethereum, and formalizes the invoice lifecycle as a guarded labeled transition system and proves that the system guarantees reimbursement uniqueness, face integrity, and authorization soundnes...

Jian-Ze Cai · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Backdoor in the Loop: Compromising Agentic Search via Malicious Retrievers

This work proposes a controlled inject-and-remove cycle: deliberately inject a weaker backdoor and then unlearn it, which weakens detector-visible signatures and fools the backdoor detectors with an illusion of purification while preserving the malicious retrieval behavior.

Bei-Ning Xu, Pei-Chun Hua, Yun-Ming Xiao · 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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