arXiv:2607. 19742v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) reports richly describe real-world attack processes, but their unstructured narratives cannot be directly used for automated attack-path reasoning.
By Wenbo Hou, Ning Hu, Xueping Wang, Jiahao Gu, Wenjian Luo
arXiv:2608.28394v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is foundational to modern cyber defense, yet much of it resides in unstructured reports whose volume and heterogeneit...
By Changze Li, Yutong Cheng, Tsania Camila Finnisa, Qian Cui, Wei Ding, Peng Gao
arXiv:2606. 18166v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Classifying Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) using MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK) is essential for proactive defense, but historically required extensive human effort.
By Ahmed Ryan, Saad Sakib Noor, Md Erfan, Shaswata Mitra, Sudip Mittal, Md Rayhanur Rahman
arXiv:2606. 15123v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the task of CVE-conditioned exploit generation, where a model drafts proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits given software vulnerability context.
By Yiwei Chen, Lichi Li, Kai Cheung, Vinny Parla, Ganesh Sundaram
The paper introduces AUTOSIGMA, an automated system that converts unstructured cyber threat intelligence reports into Sigma detection rules. It enriches input data with a structured knowledge base, matches it against existing Sigma rule repositories, and uses a large language model as a judge to validate the generated rules. Experiments on real-world APT reports and security blogs show that AUTOSIGMA outperforms other methods in rule validity, relevancy, MITRE ATT&CK coverage, and robustness to input quality.
By Sepehr Ghaffarzadegan, Boubakr Nour, Makan Pourzandi, Mourad Debbabi, Chadi Assi
arXiv:2508. 18684v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Signature-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) detect malicious activity by matching network or host events against predefined rules.
By Shaswata Mitra, Subash Neupane, Martin Duclos, Sudip Mittal, Aritran Piplai, Md Rayhanur Rahman, Edward Zieglar, Shahram Rahimi
The paper introduces CTF-ABACUS, a trace-based auditing framework that reconstructs each autonomous language-model agent’s run in Capture-the-Flag (CTF) challenges into evidence‑grounded solve profiles. By decomposing actions into penetration‑testing phases and techniques, it distinguishes genuine exploitation from shortcut methods such as memorized recall or guessing. Applying the framework to 1,435 CTF attempts by six models on 240 challenges shows that only 62‑87% of recovered flags are trace‑verified, highlighting that many successes rely on shallow trajectories rather than true exploitation.
By Kimberly Milner, Minghao Shao, Nanda Rani, Haoran Xi, Venkata Sai Charan Putrevu, Meet Udeshi, Sandeep K. Shukla, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Farshad Khorrami, Muhammad Shafique, Ramesh Karri
CVE2AP is an LLM-based system that automatically converts natural language CVE descriptions into PDDL-encoded attack paths. It uses structured prompting and an error‑feedback loop that refines outputs based on planner‑reported syntactic and solvability errors. Empirical tests across various LLMs show high quality results, with up to 86.9% syntax correctness, 78.6% solvability, and 93.1% semantic correctness, and GPT‑5.5 providing the best quality‑cost balance.
By Lin Cui, Vincenzo Scotti, Raffaela Mirandola
arXiv:2607. 24348v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are difficult to detect and interpret due to their multi-stage and stealthy nature.
By Trung V. Phan, Tri Gia Nguyen, Thomas Bauschert
arXiv:2510. 11974v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is foundational to modern cybersecurity, enabling organizations to proactively defend against evolving threats.
By Yutong Cheng, Yang Liu, Changze Li, Dawn Song, Peng Gao
arXiv:2607. 05001v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) reports are predominantly unstructured, heterogeneous, and noisy, which limits their direct usability for automated analysis and reasoning.
By Mouhamed Amine Bouchiha, Gregory Blanc
arXiv:2607. 24563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Security Operations Centers increasingly rely on automated mapping of Cyber Threat Intelligence reports to MITRE ATT&CK, yet extractor outputs remain fallible and are often stored without the evidence, provenance, and validation history needed to decide whether an individual mapping should be trusted.
By Federico Valletta, Giacomo Longo, Enrico Russo, Alessio Merlo