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Cybersecurity studies how to prevent, detect, investigate, and recover from attacks on software, networks, organizations, and cyber-physical systems. Common approaches include signature-based defenses, statistical and deep-learning intrusion detection, graph and temporal analysis, formal verification, threat-intelligence mapping, and reinforcement-learning or language-model agents. Work spans settings such as cloud and IoT networks, industrial control systems, connected vehicles, vulnerability assessment, and security operations, with benchmarks increasingly testing realistic attack chains and operational response. A central tension is that strong results on fixed datasets or simulated environments may not transfer to changing, adversarial deployments, where false alarms, safety, cost, and human oversight also matter.

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  1. Atomic Security Concerns: Towards a Foundational Language for Security Knowledge Representation

    Oct 26, 2026Hanane HoumaniKnowledge RepresentationCybersecurity

    Secure-It Labs, Montreal, QC, Canada

  2. SoK: Timestamps Are Not a Time Model: Rethinking Temporal Reasoning in Host-Based Intrusion Detection

    Oct 26, 2026Rene Heinzl, Markus NisslCybersecurityKnowledge Representation

    datAInsights GmbH

  3. Sybil-Resilient Multi-Drone Exploration of Indoor and Confined Spaces

    Oct 24, 2026Shyaam Mahesh, Aditya B Prakash, Rubal Sagwal +1Resilient Multi-Robot CoordinationMulti-Agent System Security

  4. SecLog-Bench: A Scalable Benchmark for Cybersecurity Log Reasoning with Scaffolded Evidence

    Oct 22, 2026Yifan Wang, Dongliang Xu, Xiaoyong Li +3CybersecurityLLMs for Cybersecurity

    School of Airspace Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Shandong 264209, China. · School of Computer Science, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia. · an independent researcher in Braddon, ACT 2612, Australia.

  5. Bridging Number-Theoretic Primality Testing And Algorithmic Optimization: An Adaptive Cryptographic Framework

    Oct 22, 2026Tran Minh Thanh, Vo Hoai VietCybersecurity

    Faculty of Information Technology, University of Science, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  6. A Digital Twin to Improve Cyber-Social Impact

    Oct 20, 2026Vita Santa Barletta, Danilo Caivano, Gabriel Cellammare +3CybersecurityCPS Security

    University of Bari Aldo Moro · IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca · Sapienza University of Rome +1

  7. Robust Lightweight IoT Device Fingerprinting Under Network Traffic Anomalies

    Oct 19, 2026Roya Taheri, Shamik SenguptaCybersecurity

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

  8. HardEval: An Execution-Verified Benchmark for AI-Driven Security Hardening and Compliance Remediation

    Oct 16, 2026Manohar Vellala, Soumya Banerjee, Sandip Roy +2CybersecurityLLMs for Cybersecurity

    Center for Secure & Intelligent Critical Systems, Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA · Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA · School of Cybersecurity, Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA

  9. AWARE-RG: Abstraction Aware Explanation of Resiliency Graphs for Cyber Physical Systems

    Oct 14, 2026Shadaab Kawnain Bashir, Rakesh Podder, Philip D. Hopkins +3CPS SecurityCybersecurity

    Computer Science Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

  10. CyberArena: Benchmarking AI Agents in Live Symmetric Attack-and-Defense Combat

    Oct 13, 2026Bangya Liu, Jianhong Tu, Yueyang Pan +19AI Agent Security BenchmarksCybersecurity

    2077AI Open Source Foundation · University of Wisconsin–Madison · UC Santa Cruz +8

  11. Autonomous Cyber Operations Gym for Training and Evaluating AI Models for Defence

    Oct 13, 2026Tobias Hürten, Johannes F. Loevenich, Florian Spelter +5CybersecurityAutonomous Cyber Defense

    CortAIx Labs, Thales Deutschland, Ditzingen, Germany · Department of Mathematics/Computer Science, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany · Department of Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany +1

  12. AutoSec-RAN: Specification-Grounded LLM Fine-Tuning for Automated Security Analysis of O-RAN

    Oct 11, 2026Anoop Mishra, Joshua Moore, Aly Sabri Abdalla +1CybersecurityLLMs for Cybersecurity

    Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mississippi State University, USA

  13. Game-Theoretic Reinforcement Learning based Topology-Agnostic Defense for Virtual Power Plants

    Oct 10, 2026Pooja Algikar, Stefano Fenu, Kumarsinh Jhala +1Game-Theoretic RLCybersecurity

    the energy systems and infrastructure assessment division at Argonne National Laboratory

  14. SEEK: Agentic Knowledge Graph Retrieval for Secure Code Generation

    Oct 10, 2026Varun Gadey, Markus Tohn, Lichao Wu +2Secure Code GenerationRAG Security

    University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany · University of Bristol, UK · Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

  15. Defensive Sufficiency in a Stackelberg Model of AI Security

    Oct 7, 2026Subhabrata Majumdar, Rajlakshmi ChavanCybersecurityStackelberg Games

    Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

  16. Temporal transformer CAN encoder with federated lightweight heads for anomaly detection

    Oct 7, 2026Konstantinos Gyftodimos, Kyriakos Chiotis, Elena Politi +2Time-Series Anomaly DetectionCybersecurity

    ANADELTA P.C., Athens, Greece · Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece

  17. Contextualization of Third-Party Cloud Security Findings

    Oct 6, 2026Leon Goldberg, Gal EngelbergCybersecurity

    Sola Security, Tel Aviv, Israel

  18. Evaluating Behavioral Context for Interpretable IAM Policy Risk Scoring in Cloud Environments

    Oct 5, 2026Yassin ElsharkawyCybersecurityAccess Control

    Dept. of Computers and Artificial Intelligence Capital University Cairo, Egypt

  19. From Sandbox to Enforcement: Confidence-Qualified Threat Intelligence for Critical Infrastructure

    Oct 5, 2026Nikolaos Kekatos, Mihaela Curcă, Georgios Koutidis +5Cyber Threat IntelligenceCybersecurity

    Clone Systems, Cyprus · Romanian National Cyber Security Directorate (DNSC), Romania · Bolton Technologies, Cyprus +1

  20. Polar: LLM-Powered Synthesis of Real-World Cyber Evidence for Prioritization and Mitigation

    Oct 5, 2026Luoxi Tang, Yuqiao Meng, Ankita Patra +3CybersecurityCyber Threat Intelligence

    Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, USA · Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA · University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

  21. Does AI Help Cyber Attackers or Defenders? Evidence from Nonpublic Vulnerabilities and Subsequent Attacks

    Oct 5, 2026Tobias Heldt, Matt Turk, Christoph Landolt +1Automated Exploit GenerationAutomated Program Repair

    XOR · Protege · CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

  22. Adaptive-Shot Hybrid Quantum Anomaly Detection for Tactile Internet Security: Reliability-Aware Measurement Allocation Under Resource Constraints

    Oct 5, 2026Mubassir Serneabat Sudipto, Shakil Ahmed, Ashfaq Khokhar +1CybersecurityHybrid Quantum-Classical ML

    College of Engineering Iowa State University Ames, Iowa, United States · College of Computing Grand Valley State University Allendale, Michigan, United States · Carl R. Ice College of Engineering Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas, United States

  23. CyTReX: Explainable AI-Based Cybersecurity Threat Reasoning Framework for DER Networks

    Oct 3, 2026Damilola Popoola, Souradeep Bhattacharya, Manimaran GovindarasuCybersecurityExplainable Artificial Intelligence

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011

  24. A Quantitative Analysis of Graph Representation Strategies for Cyber Attack Detection

    Oct 2, 2026Ali Melih Kanca, Ilker TurkerCybersecurityGraph Representation Learning

    Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Computing and Informatics Sciences, Karabuk University, Karabuk, Türkiye · Computer Engineering, Faculty of Computing and Informatics Sciences, Karabuk University, Karabuk, Türkiye

  25. CVE2AP: Automated Generation of PDDL-Encoded Attack Paths via Large Language Models

    Oct 2, 2026Lin Cui, Vincenzo Scotti, Raffaela MirandolaCybersecurityLLMs for Cybersecurity

    KASTEL, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

  26. SecJev: Bringing Security Expertise to System One Decision Models

    Oct 2, 2026Zheng Chen, Fei Yu, Haohao Huang +3LLMs for CybersecurityCybersecurity

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · National Key Laboratory of Security Communication

  27. AgentTrap: Stateful Feedback Deception against Autonomous Penetration Testing Agents

    Oct 2, 2026Yuelin Wang, Jiongchi Yu, Yanbang SunCybersecurityAI Agent Security

    Tianjin University Tianjin, China · Nanyang Technological University Singapore

  28. From Requirements to Attack Trees: Grounded LLM Agents for Design-Time Security Review

    Oct 2, 2026Akash Iyer, Taha Demirkan, Keerthi Koneru +3CybersecuritySoftware Security

    Center for Advanced AI, Accenture

  29. HydroJEV: A one-second, training-free screen for cyber-attack and fault attribution in water distribution networks

    Oct 1, 2026Tianwei Mu, Shengyan Jiang, Mingzhe Yuan +5CybersecurityLLMs for Cybersecurity

    School of Municipal Engineering and Environment, Shenyang Jianzhu University, Shenyang 110168, China · Guangzhou Institute of Industrial Intelligence, Guangzhou 510000, China · Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110169, China +2

  30. A Structured State Space Sequence Model for Multi-Class Classification of Malware

    Oct 1, 2026Emmanuela Andam, Rana Shaaban, Emanuel Grant +1CybersecurityMalware Classification

    Artificial Intelligence Research (AIR) Center · School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering & Mines University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58201, USA