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

    Jul 29, 2026Lehan Wang, Boli Chen, Ruixue Ding +7LLM Agent EvaluationCybersecurity

    Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group · Alibaba Cloud Computing, Alibaba Group · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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

    Jul 28, 2026Neta Kirmayer, David Tayouri, Andrés Murillo +3Multi-Agent LLM SystemsExplainable Artificial Intelligence

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

  3. 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 +1CybersecurityLLMs for Cybersecurity

    WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

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

    Jul 28, 2026Abu Bakar SiddikAI Agent EvaluationCybersecurity

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

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

    Jul 28, 2026Md Salahuddin, James Rooney, Fida HasanAI AccountabilityCybersecurity

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

  6. SecDrift: Measuring Sector-Conditioned Security Drift in AI-Generated Code

    Jul 28, 2026Narayanaswami Natraj Bharadwaj, Dhivya ChandramouleeswaranCybersecurityLLM Security

    Independent Researcher USA

  7. TRACE-CTI: Auditable Post-Extraction Governance of TTP Claims with Knowledge Graphs

    Jul 27, 2026Federico Valletta, Giacomo Longo, Enrico Russo +1KG ConstructionAI Assurance

    CASD – School of Advanced Defense Studies, Piazza della Rovere 83, 00165 Rome, Italy

  8. DeepFaith: Evidence-Grounded LLMs for Faithful Incident Reporting in Multi-Stage APT Defense

    Jul 27, 2026Trung V. Phan, Tri Gia Nguyen, Thomas BauschertCybersecurityLLMs for Cybersecurity

    Chair of Communication Networks, Technische Universität Chemnitz, 09126 Chemnitz, Germany · Department of Information Assurance, FPT University, Da Nang 50509, Vietnam

  9. Agentic Cloud Decoys: A Deception-Driven Framework for Autonomous Intrusion Investigation

    Jul 27, 2026Mohan Manivannan, Dalal AlharthiAutonomous Cyber DefenseCybersecurity

    College of Information Science University of Arizona Tucson, AZ, USA

  10. ADVERSARIAL: And-Inverter Graph-Assisted Hardware Trojan Detection At Scale

    Jul 26, 2026Yaroslav Popryho, Debjit Pal, Inna Partin-VaisbandCybersecurity

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607 USA

  11. The Illusion of Secure LLM Code: Closing the Security Gap via Iterative Reprompting

    Jul 26, 2026Ishpuneet Singh, Shreyas Mahajan, Gurjot Singh +1LLM PromptingCybersecurity

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India · David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

  12. Rendering on Real Silicon: GPU Render-Timing as a Passive, AI-Resistant CAPTCHA Signal

    Jul 25, 2026David Noever, Forrest McKeeCybersecurity

    PeopleTec, Inc.

  13. Micro-Segmentation Anomaly Detection in Zero-Trust Software-Defined Network Fabrics

    Jul 24, 2026Ashly JosephNetwork Intrusion DetectionCybersecurity

  14. Practical Graph Optimisation and AI-Driven Models for Active Directory Security Hardening

    Jul 24, 2026Huy Q. NgoAutonomous Cyber DefenseCybersecurity

    School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide

  15. Evaluating Large Language Models for Symbolic Security Protocol Analysis

    Jul 22, 2026Paolo Modesti, Syed Ahmed, Ioannis Sfyrakis +1LLM EvaluationCybersecurity

    Teesside University, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

  16. The Ethics of Autonomous AI Agents for Offensive Security

    Jul 22, 2026Andreas Happe, Jürgen Cito, Jasmin WachterAI AccountabilityCybersecurity

    TU Wien, Vienna, Austria · University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

  17. An Automated Framework for Extracting Reachable Attack Chains from Cyber Threat Intelligence Reports

    Jul 22, 2026Wenbo Hou, Ning Hu, Xueping Wang +2Reachability AnalysisCyber Threat Intelligence

    Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Novel Security Intelligence Technologies, School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China · New Network Research Department, Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China · Great Bay University, Dongguan, China

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

    Jul 20, 2026Tanveer Ahmed, Seyedali PourmoafilAdversarial RobustnessCybersecurity

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

  19. Evaluating Open-Weight LLMs for Generating Structured Threat Information for Autonomous Vehicle Vulnerabilities

    Jul 17, 2026Md Erfan, Ahmed Ryan, Md Kamal Hossain Chowdhury +1CybersecurityLLMs for Cybersecurity

    Department of Computer Science, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA · Alabama Water Institute, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA

  20. Reliable Remediation Impact Prediction for Black-Box Security Ratings

    Jul 17, 2026Nada Hanad, Mehdi Acheli, Ali NourEldin +2Surrogate ModelingCybersecurity

    SAMOVAR, Telecom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France

  21. Qubes OS Security in the Public Record

    Jul 16, 2026Alfonso De GregorioSoftware Vulnerability DetectionCybersecurity

    Pwnshow

  22. 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 +2Cybersecurity

    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

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

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

    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

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

    Jul 10, 2026Ivan Alejandro Montoya Sanchez, Anantaa Kotal, Aritran PiplaiZero-Shot LearningCyber Threat Intelligence

    The University of Texas at El Paso

  25. VEXAIoT: Autonomous IoT Vulnerability EXploitation using AI Agents

    Jul 10, 2026Katherine Swinea, Kshitiz Aryal, Lopamudra Praharaj +1CybersecurityLLM Agent Security

    Department of Computer Science, Tennessee Tech University, TN, USA. · School of Interdisciplinary Informatics, University of Nebraska Omaha, NE, USA. · Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, NC, USA.

  26. Authority-Bound Governance of Heterogeneous AI Security Decisions in Telecom and IoT Networks

    Jul 10, 2026Saviz Changizi, Nasibeh Mohammadzadeh, Mohammad Shojafar +1CybersecurityAI Governance

    6G Innovation Centre, Institute for Communication Systems, University of Surrey, UK · Department of Network Engineering, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

  27. Neuro-Agentic Control: A Deep Learning-based LLM-Powered Agentic AI Framework for Controlling Security Controls

    Jul 10, 2026Saroj Gopali, Bipin Chhetri, Deepika Giri +2Industrial Control System SecurityLanguage Model-Based Control

    Department of Computer Science1, Texas Tech University1 · Cumberland University2 · Advanced Academic Programs Science3, Johns Hopkins University3

  28. Detecting Ladder Logic Bombs in IEC 61131-3 PLC Programs using ESBMC-PLC+: A Formal Verification Approach with Trigger Synthesis

    Jul 9, 2026Pierre Dantas, Lucas Cordeiro, Waldir JuniorIndustrial Control System SecurityCybersecurity

    Electrical Engineering Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) Manaus, AM, Brazil

  29. Reverse Engineering Compliance: A Dual-Graph Verification Framework for Auditing Legacy IT Security Concepts

    Jul 9, 2026Lea Roxanne Muth, Marian MargrafOntology-Guided Information ExtractionCybersecurity

    Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Freie Universität Berlin Berlin, Germany

  30. From Legacy Documentation to OSCAL: An MCP-Based Agent Pipeline for Threat-Informed Continuous Compliance in Critical Infrastructure

    Jul 9, 2026Lea Roxanne Muth, Marian MargrafCybersecurityLLMs for Cybersecurity

    Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Freie Universität Berlin Berlin, Germany