arXiv:2605.02346v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Operational technology (OT) devices run safety-critical physical processes, yet their security testing remains manual and expert-intensive. A...
By Adel ElZemity, Budi Arief, Shujun Li, George Oikonomou, James Pope
arXiv:2608. 15016v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Network incident response remains slow and labor-intensive as the defender must infer multi-stage attacks from partial observations and translate recovery decisions into reliable system commands.
By Yiran Gao, Juntao Chen, Tao Li
arXiv:2607. 02514v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI coding agents become more autonomous, they increasingly ship code iteratively, with the codebase persisting across sessions.
By Josh Hills, Ida Caspary, Asa Cooper Stickland
arXiv:2606. 26479v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work (2024 to 2026) has converged on a strategy for defending tool-using LLM agents against indirect prompt injection: rather than training the model to refuse malicious instructions, enforce security outside the model with a deterministic policy that mediates the agent's actions.
By Praneeth Narisetty, Shiva Nagendra Babu Kore, Uday Kumar Reddy Kattamanchi, Jayaram Kumarapu
arXiv:2606. 30602v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent systems (MAS) are increasingly used to automate complex, distributed workflows.
By Kunyang Li, Kyle Domico, Jonathan Gregory, Patrick McDaniel
arXiv:2609.36570v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Indirect prompt injection makes an LLM agent treat untrusted retrieved text as instructions. We present CounterSteer, an inference-time defense that...
By Mark Russinovich
arXiv:2603. 15727v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous LLM-based agents increasingly operate as long-running processes forming densely interconnected multi-agent ecosystems, whose security properties remain largely unexplored.
By Yihao Zhang, Zeming Wei, Xiaokun Luan, Chengcan Wu, Zhixin Zhang, Jiangrong Wu, Haolin Wu, Huanran Chen, Jun Sun, Meng Sun
arXiv:2605. 17986v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI agents such as OpenClaw are increasingly deployed in local workflows with access to external tools.
By Lei Zhao, Abhay Bhaskar, Edgar Dobriban
The paper investigates how multi‑step tool‑calling large language model agents can unintentionally create persistent billable state, allowing malicious or compromised tools to generate repeated charges without user credentials. It formalizes the persistent billable‑state boundary, identifies six denial‑of‑wallet attack vectors, and evaluates them with the DOW‑BENCH harness across six model families. The study shows significant cost amplification, demonstrates effective mitigation via deterministic history transformation and host‑side invariants, and highlights the scarcity of existing safeguards in real‑world repositories.
By Jinqian Zhang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Haojun Xia (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Shujiang Wu (Beihang University), Jingkun Yue (State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China), Xia Zhang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Zhangpei Cheng (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Bibo Tu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
arXiv:2607. 19430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent LLM applications chain a planner, worker agents, a verifier, and a synthesizer, and every hop between agents is an unmonitored channel through which an adversary can smuggle instructions.
By Elias Hossain, Md Mehedi Hasan Nipu, Fatema Tuj Johora Faria, Tasfia Nuzhat Ornee, Maleeha Sheikh
arXiv:2607. 26791v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly adopted in real-world security operations with access to host artifacts and command-line interfaces (CLIs), making it critical to thoroughly assess their security capabilities.
By Lehan Wang, Boli Chen, Ruixue Ding, Pengjun Xie, Jinwei Huang, Zhendong Liu, Shuo Wang, Tao Lei, Xin Ouyang, Xiaomeng Li
arXiv:2605.21694v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Connecting large language models (LLMs) to defensive enforcement requires more than asking a model whether an attack is happening. A defender...
By Sidnei Barbieri, \'Agney Lopes Roth Ferraz, Louren\c{c}o Alves Pereira J\'unior