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A Lifecycle and Application-Stack Survey of Large Language Model Vulnerabilities: Attacks, Risks, Defenses, and Open Problems

arXiv:2606. 31639v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are no longer only text generators.

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On Understanding, Identifying, and Mitigating Vulnerabilities in Agentic Large Language Models

arXiv:2608. 10530v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have undergone a shift from stateless conversational interfaces to autonomous agents capable of multi-step planning, tool invocation, code execution, and maintaining persistent memory.

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Data Security in Large Language Models: Risks, Defense, and Directions

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Toward Secure LLM Agents: Threat Surfaces, Attacks, Defenses, and Evaluation

arXiv:2606. 10749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are rapidly moving from conversational interfaces to software components that plan, invoke tools, maintain memory, and act on external environments.

By Yuchen Ling, Shengcheng Yu, Zhenyu Chen, Chunrong Fang

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Jul 14

Large Language Models in Misinformation Ecosystems: Misuse, Defense, and Vulnerability

arXiv:2607. 10402v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have transformed misinformation from a primarily content-centric problem into a broader ecosystem-level security challenge.

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CyberFactory: Scaling Cyber Security Capabilities with Instances from the Wild

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SoK: Systematizing LLM Prompt Security: Taxonomies, Datasets, and Unified Evaluation of Attacks and Defenses

arXiv:2510. 15476v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as interfaces to information, code, and real-world services, making prompt-level security failures a practical concern.

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