arXiv AI

Combating Knowledge Corruption in Agent Systems: A Byzantine-Tolerant Secure Collaborative RAG Framework

arXiv:2608. 04366v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While retrieval-augmented generation systems partially address the hallucination issues in large language models, it also introduces new vulnerabilities to knowledge corruption attacks.

arXiv AI
Jun 17

BadScientist: Can a Research Agent Write Convincing but Unsound Papers that Fool LLM Reviewers?

arXiv:2510. 18003v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The convergence of LLM-powered research assistants and AI-based peer review systems creates a critical vulnerability: fully automated publication loops where AI-generated research is evaluated by AI reviewers without human oversight.

By Fengqing Jiang, Yichen Feng, Yuetai Li, Luyao Niu, Basel Alomair, Radha Poovendran
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
arXiv AI
Jun 29

Seven Security Challenges That Must be Solved in Cross-domain Multi-agent LLM Systems

arXiv:2505. 23847v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving into autonomous agents that cooperate across organizational boundaries, enabling joint disaster response, supply-chain optimization, and other tasks that demand decentralized expertise without surrendering data ownership.

By Ronny Ko, Jiseong Jeong, Shuyuan Zheng, Chuan Xiao, Tae-Wan Kim, Makoto Onizuka, Won-Yong Shin
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Securing Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Taxonomy of Attacks, Defenses, and Future Directions

arXiv:2604. 08304v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) extends large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge, but this access path also introduces security risks that existing work often conflates with inherent LLM flaws.

By Yuming Xu, Mingtao Zhang, Zhuohan Ge, Haoyang Li, Nicole Hu, Yongqi Zhang, Zhiyuan Wen, Jason Chen Zhang, Qing Li, Lei Chen
arXiv AI
Jun 3

Inference Cost Attacks for Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models

arXiv:2606. 02643v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)-enhanced LLM systems, while powerful, introduce substantial inference costs due to the inclusion of an extra multi-stage pipeline that dynamically retrieves and synthesizes information from external knowledge sources.

By Chengliang Liu, Liangbo Ning, Yujuan Ding, Wenqi Fan