Cybersecurity & Exploits

Global: AI-Enabled Cyber Risk Thresholds: A Structured Probabilistic ApproachResearchers at arXiv have introduced a new methodology for defining when artificial intelligence (AI) systems pose unacceptable cyber risk, outlining who is…

Global: New Hyperbolic Cross-Attention Model Enhances Multimodal Malware ClassificationResearchers led by Nitin Choudhury and colleagues posted a paper on arXiv on 25 January 2026 describing FOCA, a multimodal framework that…

Global: Study Analyzes Capture‑the‑Flag Formats for Cybersecurity EducationA paper released on January 24, 2026 investigates how capture‑the‑flag (CTF) competitions can be leveraged in cybersecurity education. The study, authored by Yi…

Global: Rule-Based Safeguard Framework Targets Over-Correction in Software-Defined Network SecurityOn January 24, 2026, a team of researchers including Yi Lyu, Shichun Yu, and Joe Catudal submitted a paper to arXiv…

Global: Prompt to Pwn: Automated Exploit Generation for Smart ContractsResearchers Zeke Xiao, Qin Wang, Yuekang Li and Shiping Chen have unveiled a new framework called ReX that automates the generation…

Global: Matcha Meta Users Lose Over $14 Million After SwapNet Vulnerability ExploitedA security breach on the Base blockchain resulted in the loss of more than $14 million in cryptocurrency assets,…

Global: Smart Contract Bug Leads to $3.4 Million Loss on DeFi PlatformA smart contract vulnerability on a decentralized finance platform resulted in the loss of at least $3.4 million from user…

Global: Analysis of JavaScript Dependency Updates Across Top 100,000 DomainsA recent study released on arXiv details a comprehensive examination of how frequently major websites refresh the JavaScript packages they employ.…

Global: IntelGuard Framework Achieves Near‑Perfect Detection of Malicious NPM and PyPI PackagesA new detection system called IntelGuard, developed by researchers including Wenbo Guo and colleagues, was introduced to address the…

Global: Free LLM Jailbreak Detection Achieves Near‑Zero Overhead, Study Finds A new study released on arXiv on 23 January 2026 outlines a technique for identifying jailbreak prompts directed at large language models…