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  1. KaliBench: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Cybersecurity Tool Use on Kali Linux with Runtime-Free Verifiable Rewards

    Oct 1, 2026Pengfei Li, Naufal Suryanto, Sicheng Zhang +1Large Language Model SafetyCybersecurity

    Khalifa University · University of Western Australia

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

    Oct 1, 2026Emmanuela Andam, Rana Shaaban, Emanuel Grant +1MalwareInternet Of Thing

    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

  3. No One Architecture Fits All: A Cross-Environment Evaluation of Hierarchical Red Team Agents

    Sep 30, 2026Ayan Javeed Shaikh, Arunesh Sinha, Nathaniel D. Bastian +1Red-TeamingCybersecurity

    Indiana University Bloomington, IN, USA · Rutgers University Piscataway, NJ, USA · Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD, USA

  4. Cybersecurity in Edge Computing: A Trust-Aware Federated Hybrid Intrusion Detection Framework

    Sep 30, 2026Zawad Yalmie Sazid, Robert AbbasEdge DevicesIntrusion Detection

    Victoria University, Sydney, Australia

  5. LogiC-Diff: Embedding Security Properties Into AI-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems

    Sep 29, 2026Ziyan An, John Stankovic, Meiyi MaCyber-Physical SystemCybersecurity

    Department of Computer Science Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN · Department of Computer Science University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA

  6. Adversarial Debiasing of Machine Learning Models for Enhanced Network Security against DDoS Attacks

    Sep 28, 2026Aadith Sukumar, Isha Singh, Devershika Mohane +4Distributed Denial-Of-ServiceGenerative Adversarial Network

    Symbiosis Institute of Technology Pune, India · Symbiosis Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence, Pune, India · Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia Moscow, Russian Federation

  7. Blockchain-Enabled Artificial Intelligence and AI Agents for Secure Data Sharing and Cybersecurity Applications

    Sep 23, 2026Harsh VermaBlockchainCybersecurity

    Palo Alto Networks, Artificial Intelligence, United States

  8. Efficient Nash Equilibrium Computation for Cybersecurity Games

    Sep 16, 2026Michael Lanier, David Farmer, Yevgeniy VorobeychikNash EquilibriumEquilibrium

    Washington University in St. Louis

  9. MiST: Mid-Training LLMs for Cybersecurity

    Sep 16, 2026Oded Ovadia, Elad Ben Zaken, Elad Guttman +1CybersecurityLarge Language Model Training

    Dream

  10. Self-Verifying Anomaly Detection using Explainable AI for Cybersecurity of DER Networks

    Sep 14, 2026Damilola Popoola, Souradeep Bhattacharya, Manimaran GovindarasuInterpretable Anomaly DetectionDistributed Energy Resources

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

  11. Evaluating Context Segmentation in Locally Deployable SLMs for Cybersecurity CTF Tasks

    Sep 11, 2026Sebastiano Nordio, Michele LottoCybersecuritySmall Large Language Models

    Independent · University of Genoa, Via All’Opera Pia, 16145 Genoa, Italy

  12. Cyber-Financial Contagion: Modeling the Propagation of an AI Vendor Compromise Through the Banking System

    Sep 9, 2026Alex LeytesBankingArtificial Intelligence Risk

    NICE Actimize, USA.

  13. Benchmark Scores Are Pipeline-Dependent: A Reliability Audit of Cybersecurity LLM Benchmarks

    Sep 8, 2026Aymene Berriche, Cathrine Shalby, Mohannad Alhanahnah +1Large Language Model SafetyCybersecurity

    Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU

  14. SENTINEL-RL: Offloading Topological Reasoning from LLM Agents in the Security Operations Center

    Sep 3, 2026Uday Vallabhaneni, Cassie L. Cagwin, David J. WildLarge Language Model AgentsCybersecurity

    Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering · Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

  15. Reducing Catastrophic Risk from AI with Systematic Monitoring and Evaluation of Rogue AI Progression

    Sep 2, 2026T. Bauer, W. P. Kegelmeyer, E. Begoli +15Artificial Intelligence RiskCybersecurity

    Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, 87185, USA. · Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94451, USA. · Oakridge National Laboratories (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN, 37830, USA. +9

  16. Same Request, Different Boundary: Evaluating Cybersecurity Assistance across Conversational Contexts

    Sep 1, 2026Rui Yang, Yang Hong, Yichao Xu +3Large Language Model SafetyCybersecurity

    Johns Hopkins University

  17. CyberFactory: Scaling Cyber Security Capabilities with Instances from the Wild

    Aug 24, 2026Jian Yang, Haau-Sing Li, Shawn Guo +10CybersecurityModel Training

    Beihang University · ELLIS · IQuest Research +1

  18. Sovereign by necessity? Frontier AI export controls, cyber security, and the limits of national AI capability

    Aug 13, 2026Alan Woodward, Andrew RogoyskiDigital SovereigntyCybersecurity

    University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

  19. Operationalizing Cyber Threat Intelligence with GraphRAG

    Aug 13, 2026Atul Kabra, Prakhar Paliwal, Manjesh K. HanawalCyber Threat IntelligenceCybersecurity

    MLiONS, Department of IEOR, IIT Bombay Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  20. Machine Learning-Based Cyber Defense for Cloud Infrastructure: An Adaptive Deep Q-Network Architecture for Intelligent Intrusion Detection and Automated Threat Mitigation

    Aug 12, 2026Md Yassir Mottalib, Md Yousuf, Eklachur Rahman Bhuiyan +5Threat DetectionIntrusion Detection

    Master of Science in Information System Technology, Wilmington University, USA · Master's of Science in Data Analytics, College of Sciences and Technology, University of Houston- Downtown, USA · Master of Science in Information Technology, Washington University of Science and Technology, USA +4

  21. The Next Challenge for Agentic Cybersecurity: A Realistic, Contamination-Free Reverse Engineering Benchmark

    Aug 11, 2026Jeremy Spence, Nicholas Assaderaghi, Feng Xiao +9Security EvaluationReverse Engineering

    Columbia University · UC Berkeley · Vals AI +2

  22. CyberAGENTS: Structured Autonomy for Agentic Gamified Learning in Cybersecurity

    Aug 8, 2026Ivan Hornung, Deepthi Marasinghe Arachchige, Tharindu Kumarage +4Agentic LearningCybersecurity

    Arizona State University · Amazon AGI

  23. Enhancing Anomaly Resilience in Research Networks: A Large-Scale Forecasting Benchmark for Dynamic Security Baselining

    Aug 6, 2026Mohammad Arafath Uddin Shariff, Byrav RamamurthyAccurate Traffic ForecastingCybersecurity

    School of Computing University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE, USA

  24. Antares: Foundation Models for Agentic Vulnerability Localization

    Aug 3, 2026Supriti Vijay, Aman Priyanshu, Didier Chapoteau +8Vulnerable CodeCybersecurity

    1Foundation AI–Cisco Systems Inc. · 2Yale University

  25. MITRE-SAGE: A Multi-Agent Cybersecurity Question-Answering Model

    Aug 3, 2026Ali Habibzadeh, Farid Feyzi, Reza Ebrahimi AtaniCybersecurity

    Department of Computer Engineering University of Guilan Rasht, Iran

  26. Supporting Cybersecurity Risk Management for Medical Devices via the SECUMAN Ontology and Shapes

    Aug 1, 2026Martin Diller, Anne Esslinger, Piotr Gorczyca +3CybersecurityOntology

    Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany · Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Digital Health, Dresden, Germany · secunet Security Networks AG

  27. From Chasing Ghosts to Missed Attacks: Perspectives and Perceptions of SOC Practitioners on LLM Integration, Risks, and Readiness

    Aug 1, 2026Jonas Thurner, Nadine Jost, Stefan Albert Horstmann +4CybersecurityLarge Language Model Safety

    FH Münster, Germany · Ruhr University Bochum, Germany · University of Cologne, Germany +2

  28. Distilling Knowledge from Large Language Models into Lightweight Reinforcement Learning Agents for Autonomous Cyber Operations

    Jul 30, 2026Konur Tholl, François Rivest, Mariam El Mezouar +2Cybersecurity

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Canada · Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Canada · Defence Research and Development Canada, Ottawa, Canada +1

  29. (EC)2: Event-Centric Explainability for Cybersecurity Through Multi-Agent LLM Investigations

    Jul 28, 2026Neta Kirmayer, David Tayouri, Andrés Murillo +3CybersecurityInterpretable Anomaly Detection

    Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel · Fujitsu

  30. The Disruptive Impact of Large Language Models on Capture the Flag Competitions and the Path Toward Fair Play

    Jul 28, 2026Michael Macaulay, Harmony Bouabid, Guo Gen Ang +1Large Language Model SafetyCybersecurity

    WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

  31. Cyber-Capable AI Agents: Vulnerabilities, Evaluation Containment, and Defensive Response

    Jul 28, 2026Abu Bakar SiddikCybersecurityModel Vulnerabilities

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology, Rajshahi 6204, Bangladesh

  32. AI Deployment and Cyber Governance Failures in Public-Sector Organizations: A Typological Analysis

    Jul 28, 2026Md Salahuddin, James Rooney, Fida HasanArtificial Intelligence GovernanceCybersecurity

    School of Professional Studies, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Canberra, Australia · School of Business, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia

  33. Find Before You Fine-Tune: A Diagnostic Study of Small LLMs for Cybersecurity QA

    Jul 21, 2026Shaswata Mitra, Subash Neupane, Trisha Chakraborty +4Large Language Model SafetySmall Large Language Models

    The University of Alabama · Meharry Medical College · Mississippi State University +1

  34. Adversarial Robustness of Phishing Email Detection: A Comparative Study of TF-IDF + Logistic Regression and Fine-Tuned DistilBERT

    Jul 20, 2026Tanveer Ahmed, Seyedali PourmoafilPhishingBert-Based Models

    School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Herts AL10 9AB, United Kingdom

  35. AI in Cyberpsychology: A systematic literature review of Cybersecurity enhancement by using AI for analyzing psychology of Victims, Attackers, and Defenders

    Jul 14, 2026Georg Thamer Francis, Malek Malkawi, Sevim Eyüpoğlu +2CybersecurityPsychology

    Istanbul Medipol University, Department of Computer Engineering, Beykoz, 34820, Istanbul, Turkey · Atlas University, Department of Psychology, Kağıthane,, Istanbul, Turkey · University of Calgary, Department of Computer Science, Calgary,, Alberta, Canada +1

  36. A Knowledge-Based Multi-Agent Framework for Security Control Recommendation

    Jul 10, 2026Carolina Fernández-Martínez, Shuaib Siddiqui, Vanesa DazaSecurityCybersecurity

    Cybersecurity & Blockchain Research Group, i2CAT Foundation, Barcelona, 08039, Spain · Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 08018, Spain · Cybersecurity & Blockchain Research Group, i2CAT

  37. SMETA-ZSL:Semantic Meta-Alignment for Zero-Shot Threat Classification

    Jul 10, 2026Ivan Alejandro Montoya Sanchez, Anantaa Kotal, Aritran PiplaiCybersecurityThreat

    The University of Texas at El Paso

  38. Secret Scanner Agent: Extracting Secrets and Access Context from Unstructured Documents

    Jul 10, 2026Zixiao Chen, Mariko Wakabayashi, Charlotte SiskaSecurity EvaluationData Leakage

    Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA

  39. Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI in Cybersecurity and Privacy: A Survey of Dual-Use Risks, AI-Generated Malware, Explainability, and Defensive Strategies

    Jul 8, 2026Kiarash Ahi, Saeed ValizadehCybersecurityGenerative Artificial Intelligence

    Virelya Intelligence Research Labs, San Francisco Bay Area, California · Google, Mountain View, California

  40. LLM-Driven CI-CD Workflow Intelligence for Cyber Systems Engineering

    Jul 6, 2026Bonan Shen, Jiazhou Gao, Tao Ning +2Code QualityAgentic Workflow Design

    Independent Researcher

  41. Piercing Gilbreath's Conjecture: From Deep Number Theory Insights to Fintech and Cybersecurity

    Jul 5, 2026Vincent GranvilleOpen ProblemsRandom

  42. Not All Refusals Are Equal: How Safety Alignment Fails Cybersecurity at Scale

    Jul 2, 2026Vadym Hadetskyi, Dario Pasquini, Artem SorokinSafety AlignmentCybersecurity

    Cracken AI

  43. Neuro-Bayesian-Symbolic Residual Attention Shallow Network: Explainable Deep Learning for Cybersecurity Risk Assessment

    Jun 29, 2026Nicolaie Popescu-Bodorin, Madeleine TogherCybersecurityDeep Learning

    Engineering & Computer Science Department Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, Romania · Computer Information Science Department Higher Colleges Technologies, Sharjah, U.A.E.

  44. AI-Generated PowerShell Malware: An Experimental Framework and Dataset

    Jun 29, 2026Luciano Pianese, Vittorio Orbinato, Pietro Liguori +1Attacker Large Language ModelMalware

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (DIETI), Universit`a degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy · Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy

  45. Cybersecurity is the True Frontier for Generative AI Success or Failure

    Jun 27, 2026Edward Raff, Maor Ashkenazi, Sagar Samtani +2CybersecurityGenerative Artificial Intelligence

    CrowdStrike · University of Maryland, Baltimore County · Edward Raff∗† +2

  46. Towards Improved Anomaly Detection for Cloud Cybersecurity via Graph Neural Networks

    Jun 27, 2026Manu Nandan, TJ Jaymes, Michael Brautbar +1Threat DetectionCybersecurity

    CrowdStrike, Inc., USA · Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

  47. LLM agents security duality: a comprehensive survey of self-security and empowered cybersecurity

    Jun 26, 2026Yiwei Xu, Yong Zhuang, Xuanming Liu +6CybersecurityLarge Language Model Agents

    School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA.

  48. Fortress and Gatekeeper: Theorizing Transitive Trust in Third-Party Cybersecurity Risk Governance

    Jun 25, 2026Yijun Chen, Misita AnwarCybersecurityGovernance

    Macquarie University, NSW, Australia · Monash University, Swinburne University of Technology, VIC, Australia

  49. Helpful or Harmful? Evaluating LLM-Assisted Vulnerability Patching via a Human Study

    Jun 24, 2026Giulian Biolo, Michael Tezza, Yuanjun Gong +1RemediationCybersecurity

    University of Trento, IT · Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL

  50. A Hybrid CNN-LSTM Intrusion Detection Framework for Cybersecurity in Smart Renewable Energy Grids

    Jun 23, 2026Sajib Debnath, Remon DasDistributed Energy ResourcesIntrusion Detection

    O&M Analytics, AES Clean Energy · The AES Corporation · Louisville, CO 80027, USA +3

  51. Leveraging Large Language Models to Obscure Code Stylometry: A Comparative Study of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4

    Jun 21, 2026Saman Pordanesh, Benjamin TanStylometricAuthorship

  52. Graph neural networks at war: integrating cybersecurity and drone intelligence in the Israeli-Iranian conflict

    Jun 15, 2026Sozan Sulaiman Maghdid, Tarik Ahmed Rashid, Shavan AskarCyber-Physical SystemGraph Neural Networks

    Department of Information Technology, Khabat Technical Institute; Erbil Polytechnic University, Erbil, Iraq · Computer Science and Engineering Department; AIIC, University of Kurdistan Hewler, Erbil, Iraq · Department of Information Systems Engineering, Technical College of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Erbil Polytechnic University, Erbil, Iraq

  53. Safety-Contract Graph Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Network Security Response

    Jun 11, 2026Jose Luis Lima de Jesus SilvaMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningCybersecurity

    Oxaala Tecnologias, Rua Dinah Silveira de Queirós, 06, Quinta do Candeal, Horto Florestal, Salvador, 40296-160, Bahia, Brazil · Universidade Federal da Bahia, Instituto de Geociências, Rua Barão de Jeremoabo, s/n, Ondina, Salvador, Bahia, 40170-115, Brazil

  54. Can Open-Source LLM Agents Replace Static Application Security Testing Tools? An Empirical Assessment

    Jun 10, 2026Derek Yohn, Luke Flancher, Mirajul Islam +1Security EvaluationCybersecurity

    College of Engineering and Science, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, USA

  55. Understanding and mitigating the risks of OpenClaw for non-technical users: A practical guide with Skill

    Jun 9, 2026Junchang Zheng, Junfeng Tan, Jialiang LinOpenclawCybersecurity

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Guangzhou Institute of Science and Technology, Guangzhou, China · Science and Education Evaluation Lab, Guangzhou Institute of Science and Technology, Guangzhou, China

  56. AI-Native Closed-Loop Security for 6G-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems: From Edge Detection to Network-Wide Mitigation

    Jun 6, 2026Bilal Hussain, Muhammad Bilal, Tan Li +6Cyber-Physical SystemCybersecurity

    Division of Science, Engineering, and Health Studies, School of Professional Education and Executive Development, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China · School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, United Kingdom · Department of Computer Science, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China +4

  57. AMD-FCG: An Enhanced Function Call Graph Dataset with Integrated Topological Features for Malware Detection and Classification

    Jun 5, 2026Parthajit Borah, Sakshi Singh, D. K. Bhattacharyya +1MalwareGeneralist Graph Anomaly Detection

    School of Cyber Security and Digital Forensics, National Forensic Sciences University,Guwahati. · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tezpur University, Tezpur, 784028, Assam, India. · Computer Science, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado,Colorado Springs, CO 80933-7150, Colorado, USA.

  58. Hybrid CNN-LSTM Framework for Intelligent Cyber Attack Detection and Prevention in U.S. Critical Digital Infrastructure: A Comparative Machine Learning Evaluation on CSE-CIC-IDS2018

    Jun 4, 2026Md. Iqbal Hossan, Md. Serajul Kabir Chowdhury Rubel, Md. Arifur Rahman +1Threat DetectionIntrusion Detection

    Department of Computer Science, Maharishi International University, Fairfield, Iowa, USA. · Department of Information Studies, Trine University, Angola, Indiana, USA. · Department of Business Information Systems, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, USA.

  59. Explainable AI-Driven Cyber Risk Analytics and Model Reliability Assessment for Intelligent Governance of U.S. Critical Infrastructure: An XGBoost and SHAP-Based Intrusion Detection Framework

    Jun 4, 2026B. M. Taslimul Haque, Md. Arifur Rahman, Md. Serajul Kabir Chowdhury Rubel +1CybersecurityIntrusion Detection

    Department of Business Information Systems, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, USA. · Department of Information Studies, Trine University, Angola, Indiana, USA. · Department of Computer Science, Maharishi International University, Fairfield, Iowa, USA,.

  60. Cognitive Threat Intelligence and Explainable Federated Security Analytics for distributed Infrastructure Systems

    Jun 4, 2026Md. Arifur Rahman, B. M. Taslimul Haque, Md. Iqbal Hossan +1CybersecurityFederated Learning

    Dept. of Information Studies, Trine University, Angola, Indiana · Dept. of Business Information Systems, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan · Dept. of CS, Maharishi International University, Fairfield, Iowa, USA