arXiv AI
Jul 31

SecRespond: Benchmarking AI Agents for Real-World Post-Compromise Incident Response

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 AI
Jul 17

AgentWorm: Self-Propagating Attacks Across LLM Agent Ecosystems

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 AI
Jul 15

Isolation as a First-Class Principle for LLM-Agent System Safety: Concepts, Taxonomy, Challenges and Future Directions

arXiv:2607. 12406v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The capability of LLM agents to function as the ``brain'' of a system fundamentally expands the scope of analysis beyond a standalone model.

By Huihao Jing, Wenbin Hu, Shaojin Chen, Haochen Shi, Sirui Zhang, Hanyu Yang, Changxuan Fan, Zhongwei Xie, Hongyu Luo, Wun Yu Chan, Wei Fan, Haoran Li, Yangqiu Song
arXiv AI
Aug 5

Malice in Agentland: Down the Rabbit Hole of Backdoors in the AI Supply Chain

arXiv:2510. 05159v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While finetuning AI agents on interaction data -- such as web browsing or tool use -- improves their capabilities, it also introduces critical security vulnerabilities within the agentic AI supply chain.

By L\'eo Boisvert, Abhay Puri, Chandra Kiran Reddy Evuru, Nazanin Sepahvand, Nicolas Chapados, Quentin Cappart, Jason Stanley, Alexandre Lacoste, Krishnamurthy Dj Dvijotham, Alexandre Drouin