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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. Structured Driving-State Narratives for Small Language Model-Based GNSS Spoofing Detection

    Aug 17, 2026Abyad Enan, Sagar Dasgupta, Mizanur Rahman +1CybersecurityAdversarial Attacks

    Glenn Department of Civil Engineering Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, 29634, United States · Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, United States

  2. Decorrelation Is Not Complementarity: Skill, Not Lineage, Governs Trusted-Monitor Ensembles

    Aug 17, 2026Anik JhaEnsemble DiversityEnsemble Learning

    Independent Researcher

  3. Digital Twin Degradation: Detecting Cyber Physical Attacks via Temporal Inconsistencies

    Aug 17, 2026Konstantinos E. Kampourakis, Vasileios Gkioulos, Sokratis KatsikasCPS SecurityCybersecurity

    Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 2802 Gjøvik, Norway

  4. Chameleon: An Adaptive AI-Driven Honeypot Architecture Using Threat-Calibrated Particle Swarm Optimization and Semantic Deception Rapidly-Exploring Random Trees

    Aug 15, 2026Rohit Swami, Tushar Singh, Akash Warde +1Metaheuristic OptimizationCybersecurity

    Dept. of AI and Data Science, SIES Graduate School of Technology, Mumbai, India

  5. Hierarchical Agentic Incident Response with Digital-Twin-Validated Attack Inference

    Aug 15, 2026Yiran Gao, Juntao Chen, Tao LiCybersecurityLLM Agent Planning

    Department of Systems Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, 99977 · Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Fordham University, New York, NY, 10023, USA

  6. SysEvolve: An AI-native, safe, autonomous adversarial attack-defense co-evolutionary system

    Aug 15, 2026Yuhan Meng, Shaofei Li, Jionghao Huang +8CybersecurityAutonomous Cyber Defense

    School of Computer Science, Peking University · Southeast University · School of Computing, National University of Singapore

  7. Explainability Boosted Anomaly Detection Framework for O-RAN based NextG Networks

    Aug 14, 2026Nurullah Aksu, Ali Fuat Sahin, Semiha Tedik BaşaranNetwork Intrusion DetectionCybersecurity

    Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkiye · Communications and Signal Processing Research (HISAR) Lab, TUBITAK BILGEM, Kocaeli, Turkiye

  8. BGA: A noise-immune neural distillation framework for malicious signature extraction in high-entropy encrypted flows

    Aug 14, 2026Sheng Hong, Yixuan Huang, Weiwei Jiang +3Industrial Control System SecurityCybersecurity

    School of Cyber Science and Technology, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China · School of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China · Beijing Electronic Science and Technology Institute, Beijing, 100070, China

  9. TopoIntent: Compiling Security Intent into Executable, Compliance-Checked Network Topologies

    Aug 13, 2026Xiaokang Qu, Jianliang Ma, Zao Fan +3Cybersecurity

    School of Cyber Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China · Topsec Technologies Group Inc., Beijing, China

  10. Operationalizing Cyber Threat Intelligence with GraphRAG

    Aug 13, 2026Atul Kabra, Prakhar Paliwal, Manjesh K. HanawalCyber Threat IntelligenceGraph Retrieval-Augmented Generation

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

  11. 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 +5Autonomous Cyber DefenseDeep Q-Learning

    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

  12. Rethinking Agent Security as a Networking Problem

    Aug 12, 2026Van Tran, Taveesh Sharma, Tajveer Singh Dhesi +1CybersecurityAI Agent Security

    University of Chicago Chicago, United States

  13. RangeFactory: Scalable Construction of Multi-Hop Cyber Ranges

    Aug 10, 2026Hanlin Jiang, Puyi Wang, Jiandong Jin +10CybersecurityAutomated Penetration Testing

    Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies, Peking University, Ministry of Education · Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. · Southeast University

  14. STAIR: Effective Incident Response Using an End-to-End Agentic Planning Framework

    Aug 10, 2026Hanlin Jiang, Jionghao Huang, Shaofei Li +6Autonomous Cyber DefenseLLM Agent Orchestration

    Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies, Peking University, Ministry of Education · Southeast University · Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

  15. Security and Privacy Taxonomy Generation from Mobile App Reviews

    Aug 10, 2026Moghis Fereidouni, Krishna Upadhyay, Umar Farooq +1CybersecurityTaxonomy Induction

    University of Kentucky · Louisiana State University

  16. Retrieval-Constrained Policy Optimization for Attack Technique Extraction from Cyber Threat Intelligence

    Aug 7, 2026Jiayun Zhang, Junshen Xu, Zejun Xie +1Cyber Threat IntelligenceCybersecurity

    Amazon Web Services New York, New York, USA · Amazon Web Services Boston, Massachusetts, USA · Rutgers University Piscataway, New Jersey, USA

  17. FedTransKD-IDS: Robust Federated Transfer Learning with Knowledge Distillation for Intrusion Detection in IoT

    Aug 6, 2026Mohammad Hosssein Gholamrezazadeh, Ahmadreza MontazerolghaemAhmadreza MontazerolghaemIoT Intrusion DetectionCybersecurity

    Faculty of Computer Engineering University of Isfahan Isfahan, Iran

  18. Behavioral Residualization for Unsupervised Intrusion Detection in Automotive CAN Networks

    Aug 6, 2026Chandan Hegde, Mukundh R ReddyNetwork Intrusion DetectionCybersecurity

  19. Hardware Design and Security in the Era of Chiplets and LLMs

    Aug 5, 2026Johann Knechtel, Ozgur Sinanoglu, Paul V. Gratz +1Electronic Design AutomationCybersecurity

    NYU Abu Dhabi · Texas A&M University · NYU Tandon School of Engineering

  20. Post-Hoc Trajectory-Risk Certification for Modular LLM-Based Security Agents

    Aug 4, 2026Zhenpeng LiIoT Intrusion DetectionCybersecurity

    Guangzhou Health Science College, No. 248 Guangyuan Middle Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510405, China

  21. AI Security Leaderboard: Methodology, Results and Minimal Standard

    Aug 4, 2026Jasper Timm, Lukas Struppek, Ziwei Xu +12LLM Safety BenchmarksCybersecurity

  22. Agentic Incident Response through Digital Twin-Enhanced Multiscale Planning

    Aug 3, 2026Yiran Gao, Tao Li, Kim HammarCybersecurityModel-Based Planning

    City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR · Imperial College London, United Kingdom

  23. A Multi-Objective AutoML-based Efficient Intrusion Detection System for EV Charging Networks

    Aug 3, 2026Li YangNetwork Intrusion DetectionElectric Vehicle Charging

    Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada · Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

  24. Vulnerabilities, Secrets and Misconfiguration in the Highest-Exposure Docker Hub Images

    Aug 2, 2026Cristhian Kapelinski, Beatriz Machado, Diego KreutzSoftware Vulnerability DetectionCybersecurity

    *AI Horizon Labs, Federal University of Pampa (UNIPAMPA), Alegrete, Brazil

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

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

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

  26. 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 +4CybersecurityLLMs for Cybersecurity

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

  27. Deep Learning for Cyber Threat Detection and Mitigation in Healthcare-IoT

    Jul 31, 2026Mirza AkhiNetwork Intrusion DetectionCybersecurity

    Data-Driven Computer Engineering (D2ICE) Research Centre Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering Faculty of Science and Engineering University of Limerick

  28. Skillsets on the Chain: A Blockchain-based Zero-Trust Framework for Agentic AI Networking

    Jul 31, 2026Yayu Gao, Yong Xiao, Hao Hu +5CybersecurityAI Agent Security

    School of Electronic Information and Communications, the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China 430074 · Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China · Pazhou Laboratory (Huangpu), Guangzhou, China +4

  29. PCAP-LM: An LLM-Native Text Representation for TLS Bulk Traffic Analysis

    Jul 30, 2026Xavier Marjou, Lucas Tamic, Ilan Jaffeux-ChenioutEncrypted Network Traffic AnalysisCybersecurity

    Orange

  30. AgentSnare: Learning to Delay, Divert, and Defuse Autonomous Penetration Agents

    Jul 29, 2026Ruoyu Wang, Heng Zhao, Renjie Wu +4Autonomous Cyber DefenseCybersecurity

    The State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University · 3Hainan University · 4Anhui University +1