cs.CR · 2026-10-01 · No. 130

Cryptography and Security, 2026-10-01.

4 new papers in cs.CR. Titles, authors, abstracts. Links to arXiv. Want this in your inbox every morning? Subscribe →

01 — The papers

4 entries
  1. 01

    CodeMimicry: Exploiting Safety Generalization Lag in Large Language Models via Structured Code Completion

    Zhen Liang, Hai Huang, Wentao Chen

    cs.CR · cs.AI

    Large language models have achieved remarkable capabilities across diverse domains, yet their safety alignment remains vulnerable to jailbreak attacks. In this work, we identify a previously underexplored failure mode - safety generalization lag - where alignment trained predominantly on natural language fails to transfer to the code domain. We show that this lag induces a code-completion blind spot, allowing malicious intent embedded within...

    arxiv.org/abs/2609.39902 · PDF

  2. 02

    PassGPT+: Leveraging Linguistic Priors for Password Modeling

    Rajneesh Anand, Neeraj Lakshmanan, Masoud Yari

    cs.CR · cs.LG

    Passwords remain the dominant online authentication mechanism, and understanding how humans choose them is essential for defensive strength estimation and attack simulation alike. Recent learning-based approaches such as PassGAN and PassGPT have shown that deep generative models can learn password structure directly from leaked corpora. However, both train from random initialization on password data alone. The role of linguistic prior...

    arxiv.org/abs/2609.39880 · PDF

  3. 03

    Pretext: Defeating Malicious Skill Detection Frameworks for AI Agents

    Tobias Kaisar, Aritra Dhar

    cs.CR · cs.AI

    Skills extend an agent's capabilities by injecting instructions and information into the context, and are widely used by agents such as OpenClaw and Claude Code. Prior work shows third-party marketplaces host malicious skills that give attackers direct influence over the victim's agent. The emerging defense scans skills before installation, pairing deterministic static checks with an LLM-based semantic judge, as in NVIDIA's SkillSpector. We...

    arxiv.org/abs/2609.39607 · PDF

  4. 04

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

    Zawad Yalmie Sazid, Robert Abbas

    cs.CR · cs.LG

    Edge computing has emerged as a critical computing paradigm in modern distributed systems by migrating data processing closer to end users and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. While this paradigm decentralizes processes, minimizes latency, and reduces backhaul bandwidth congestion, it exponentially enlarges the cyberattack surface. Heterogeneous, resource-constrained edge devices deployed across unmanaged administrative domains present...

    arxiv.org/abs/2609.39584 · PDF

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