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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. A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Targeted Routing Hijacking in Federated RAG

    May 27, 2026Junjie Mu, Qiongxiu LiRetrieval-Augmented GenerationCybersecurity

    Politecnico di Milano Milan, Italy · Aalborg University Aalborg, Denmark

  2. Certified Causal Attribution for Real-Time Attack Forensics in 6G Network Slicing

    May 26, 2026Minh K. Quan, Pubudu N. Pathirana6G NetworksTime-Series Causal Discovery

    School of Engineering, Deakin University, Geelong VIC 3220, Australia

  3. Control Physiology: An Agent-Based Model of FAIR-CAM Dynamics

    May 26, 2026Jack Jones, Laura VoicuCybersecurity

    Enterprise Risk Quantification Institute, USA · Enterprise Risk Quantification Institute, Switzerland

  4. Intelligent Detection and Mitigation of Carpet-Bombing DDoS Attacks in SDN Using Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Large Language Models

    May 25, 2026Mohammed N. Swileh, Shengli Zhang, Kai LeiNetwork Intrusion DetectionCybersecurity

    College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China · ICNLab, Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China

  5. CTI2TTP: Evidence-Grounded TTP Extraction from Cyber Threat Intelligence via Diverge-then-Converge Verification

    May 25, 2026Yutong Cheng, Changze Li, Raihan Sultan Pasha Basuki +3Cyber Threat IntelligenceDocument Information Extraction

    Virginia Tech · Universitas Ary Ginanjar, Jakarta, Indonesia · Amazon

  6. When Agents Control Robots: A Zero Trust Policy Model for Agentic Cyber-Physical Systems

    May 25, 2026Tharindu Ranathunga, Kavishka Fernando, Susan ReaRobotic ControlCyber-Physical Systems

    Nimbus Centre, Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland

  7. CyberMaskQA: A Privacy-Aware Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Cybersecurity Question Answering

    May 23, 2026Matilda Gaddi, Jin Noh, Onat Gungor +1CybersecurityLLMs for Cybersecurity

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

  8. CyBOKClaw: Human-in-the-Loop CyBOK Mapping for Cybersecurity Curriculum

    May 23, 2026Yan Lin Aung, Kevin TogbeCybersecurityHybrid IR

    University of Derby, Derby, UK

  9. AI-Driven Adaptive Adversaries and the Erosion of Cryptographic Trust in Public Key Systems

    May 23, 2026Petar RadanlievAdversarial AttacksCybersecurity

    Department of Computer Sciences, University of Oxford, Wolfson Building, Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3QG · The Alan Turing Institute, British Library, 96 Euston Rd., London NW1 2DB

  10. Less Effort, Shorter Proofs: Reinforcement Learning for Security Protocol Analysis in Tamarin

    May 22, 2026Matthias Cosler, Cas Cremers, Bernd Finkbeiner +2Reinforcement LearningAutomated Theorem Proving

    CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarbrücken, Germany · Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

  11. Are Frontier LLMs Ready for Cybersecurity? Evidence for Vertical Foundation Models from Dual-Mode Vulnerability Benchmarks

    May 22, 2026Vivek Dahiya, Sunny Nehra, Vipul Dholariya +2Software Vulnerability DetectionCybersecurity

  12. Cyber-Physical Anomaly Detection in IoT-Enabled Smart Grids Using Machine Learning and Metaheuristic Feature Optimization

    May 21, 2026Adis Alihodžić, Eva Tuba, Milan TubaCyber-Physical SystemsCybersecurity

    Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, University of Sarajevo, Zmaja od Bosne 33–35, Sarajevo, 71000, Bosnia & Herzegovina · Singidunum University, Danijelova 32, Belgrade, 11000, Serbia · Trinity University, 1 Trinity Pl, San Antonio, 78212, Texas, USA +1

  13. Innovations in Cardless Artificial Intelligence Banking: A Comprehensive Framework for Cyber Secure and Fraud Mitigation using Machine Learning Algorithms

    May 21, 2026Md IsrafeelFinancial ServicesFinancial Fraud Detection

    Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA

  14. HIDBench: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Host-Based Intrusion Detection

    May 20, 2026Danyu Sun, Jinghuai Zhang, Yuan Tian +1LLM EvaluationCybersecurity

    University of California, Irvine · University of California, Los Angeles

  15. GenAI-Driven Threat Detection with Microsoft Security Copilot

    May 20, 2026Scott Freitas, Amir GharibAutonomous Cyber DefenseCybersecurity

    Microsoft Security Research

  16. Latent Geometry as a Structural Monitor: Eigenspace Alignment for Anomaly Detection in Anonymity Networks

    May 19, 2026Vaibhav ChhabraOnline Anomaly DetectionCybersecurity

    USPTO Patent #64/034,500

  17. Quantum Machine Learning for Cyber-Physical Anomaly Detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Leakage-Free Evaluation with Proxy-Audited Feature Sets

    May 19, 2026Carlos A. Durán Paredes, Javier E. León Calderón, Nicolás Sánchez Perea +2CybersecurityQuantum Machine Learning

    Corporation for Aerospace Initiatives, Research and Innovation (CASIRI), Popayán, Colombia · Department of Electronics Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales, Colombia. · Department of Electronics Engineering, Universidad del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia. +1

  18. Active Defense Against False Data Injection Attacks in Robotic Manipulators

    May 18, 2026Gabriele Gualandi, Carl Mikael Larsson, Alessandro V. PapadopoulosRobotic ControlFalse Data Injection Attacks

    Mälardalen University, Väster˚as, Sweden

  19. Ablating Safety: Mechanisms for Removing Alignment in Language Models for Security Applications

    May 17, 2026Isaac David, Arthur GervaisLanguage Model Safety EvaluationCybersecurity

    University College London

  20. Latency-Aware Deep Learning Benchmark for Real-Time Cyber-Physical Attack and Fault Classification in Inverter-Dominated Power Grids

    May 17, 2026Emad Abukhousa, Saman Zonouz, A. P. Sakis MeliopoulosEfficient Neural Network InferenceTime Series Classification

    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

  21. Integration of AI in Cybersecurity: Current Trends with a Focused Look at Intrusion Detection Applications

    May 17, 2026S. Tazili, A. Mansour, M. Y. ChkouriNetwork Intrusion DetectionCybersecurity

    SIGL Laboratory, ENSATE, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tetouan, Morocco

  22. GenAI-FDIA: Physics-Informed Generative Models for False Data Injection Attacks

    May 15, 2026Mohammad A. Razzaque, Muta Tah HiraCyber-Physical SystemsPhysics-Informed Generative Modeling

    School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Teesside University, UK · Smartifier Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees, UK

  23. Context-aware Entity-Relation Extraction for Threat Intelligence Knowledge Graphs

    May 15, 2026Inoussa Mouiche, sherif SaadRelation ExtractionKG Construction

    School of Computer Science, University of Windsor, ON, Canada

  24. A Multi-Layer Cloud-IDS Pipeline with LLM and Adaptive Q-Learning Calibration

    May 15, 2026Syed Waqas Ali, Ibrar Ali Shah, Farzana Zahid +2Network Intrusion DetectionCybersecurity

    Department of Computer Software Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Mardan, 23200, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan · Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, 3240, New Zealand · WICON, RPTU University, Kaiserslautern-Landau, Kaiserslautern, 67663, Germany +1

  25. Muse Spark Safety & Preparedness Report

    May 14, 2026Cristina Menghini, Peter Ney, Hamza Kwisaba +117CybersecurityAI Safety Evaluation

    Sail

  26. Quantifying Cyber-Vulnerability in Power Electronics Systems via an Impedance-Based Attack Reachable Domain

    May 14, 2026Hongwei Zhen, Ze Yu, Xin Xiang +2Cyber-Physical SystemsReachability Analysis

  27. Context-Aware Web Attack Detection in Open-Source SIEM Systems via MITRE ATT&CK-Enriched Behavioral Profiling

    May 13, 2026Badr Alboushy, Assef Jafar, Mohamad Aljnidi +2Network Intrusion DetectionCybersecurity

    Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology (HIAST), Damascus, Syria. · Syrian Private University, Damascus, Syria. · Arab International University, Damascus, Syria. +1

  28. PreScam: A Benchmark for Predicting Scam Progression from Early Conversations

    May 12, 2026Weixiang Sun, Shang Ma, Yiyang Li +5LLM EvaluationCybersecurity

    University of Notre Dame · Arizona State University

  29. Adversarial SQL Injection Generation with LLM-Based Architectures

    May 11, 2026Ali Karakoc, H. Birkan YilmazRetrieval-Augmented GenerationAdversarial Attacks

    Department of Computer Engineering, NETLAB, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

  30. Threat Modelling using Domain-Adapted Language Models: Empirical Evaluation and Insights

    May 11, 2026Saba Pourhanifeh, AbdulAziz AbdulGhaffar, Ashraf MatrawyDomain AdaptationCybersecurity

    Department of Systems and Computer Engineering Carleton University · School of Information Technology Carleton University