arXiv Machine Learning

A Hybrid, Multi-Layered Pipeline for Phishing and Threat Classification: Independently Validated URL and NLP Engines with a Calibrated Multi-Channel Fusion Stage

arXiv:2606. 21690v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Phishing is a multi-modal threat.

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 2

A Lightweight Hybrid MLP-Based Framework for Real-Time Phishing URL Detection Using Structural URL Features

arXiv:2606. 00889v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Phishing attacks remain a major cybersecurity threat, exploiting deceptive URLs to steal sensitive user information.

By Uche Unoke Emmanuel, Gideon Francis Oghie

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

Phishing Email Detection Using Large Language Models

arXiv:2512. 10104v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Email phishing is one of the most prevalent and globally consequential vectors of cyber intrusion.

By Najmul Hasan, Prashanth BusiReddyGari, Haitao Zhao, Yihao Ren, Jinsheng Xu, Shaohu Zhang

llms safety

arXiv AI

Jul 22

Adversarial Robustness of Phishing Email Detection: A Comparative Study of TF-IDF + Logistic Regression and Fine-Tuned DistilBERT

arXiv:2607. 18429v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Phishing emails remain one of the most persistent cybersecurity threats, and machine-learning classifiers are widely used to detect them.

By Tanveer Ahmed, Seyedali Pourmoafil

llms fine-tuning safety

arXiv AI

Jun 3

A Robust and Explainable Transformer-Based Framework for Phishing Email Detection

arXiv:2511. 12085v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Phishing and related cyber threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated, with email-based phishing remaining the most persistent attack vector.

By Sajad U P

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 11

Evaluating and Combating the Impact of Concept Drift on the Performance of Machine Learning-Based Phishing Detection Systems

arXiv:2606. 11471v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The expansion of the digital domain has resulted in a substantial increase in digital communication, with email emerging as one of the most prominent channels.

By Warren Fernando, Nikos Komninos

arXiv AI

Jul 3

kNNGuard: Turning LLM Hidden Activations into a Training-Free Configurable Guardrail

arXiv:2607. 02072v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in domains requiring guardrails to detect unsafe, off-topic, or adversarial prompts.

By Mahmoud Abdelfattah, Hamid Nasiri, Peter Garraghan

llms rag fine-tuning efficiency benchmarks safety

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 17

Multi-Source Cybersecurity Logs: An ATT&CK-Labeled Dataset and SLM Evaluation

arXiv:2606. 18190v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-stage cyberattacks span system, network, and browser logs.

By Abir Ashab Niloy, Ahmed Ryan, Imamul Hossain Rafi, Md Erfan, Md Rayhanur Rahman

llms fine-tuning safety

arXiv AI

1d ago

Breaking and Defending LLM-Powered Social Media Bot Detection Systems

arXiv:2608. 15893v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rise of social media bots poses a persistent threat, enabling misinformation, opinion manipulation, and the erosion of trust in online platforms.

By Nof Orenstein, Yoni Birman

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

MUZZLE: Adaptive Agentic Red-Teaming of Web Agents Against Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks

arXiv:2602. 09222v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) based web agents are increasingly deployed to automate complex online tasks by directly interacting with web sites and performing actions on users' behalf.

By Georgios Syros, Evan Rose, Brian Grinstead, Christoph Kerschbaumer, William Robertson, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Alina Oprea

llms agents safety

arXiv AI

Aug 11

Defending Retrieval-Augmented Intrusion Detection Against Knowledge Poisoning and Prompt Injection

arXiv:2608. 08100v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enables large language models to classify network flows and generate human-readable incident reports by retrieving semantically similar historical traffic from a vector knowledge base.

By Kaysarul Anas Apurba, Md. Hasibul Hasan, Mahedee Zaman Moon, Sk. Md. Mizanur Rahman, Atsuo Inomata

llms rag agents efficiency benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 18

Evaluating Prompting-Based Defenses Against Domain-Camouflaged Injection Attacks

arXiv:2606. 18530v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Domain-camouflaged injection attacks embed malicious instructions in retrieved content using domain-appropriate vocabulary, evading standard detectors that rely on syntactic injection markers.

By Aaditya Pai

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arXiv AI

Jun 2

Safe-FedLLM: Delving into the Safety of Federated Large Language Models

arXiv:2601. 07177v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Federated learning (FL) addresses privacy and data-silo issues in the training of large language models (LLMs).

By Mingxiang Tao, Yu Tian, Wenxuan Tu, Yue Yang, Xue Yang, Xiangyan Tang

llms fine-tuning safety

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