Cryptocurrencies: Who is vulnerable and what are the vulnerabilities? [PDF]
AbstractAustralians are embracing new forms of digital finance products and services, which includes purchasing cryptocurrencies and non‐fungible tokens (NFTs). There has been an increase in investment scams associated with cryptocurrencies. In this article, we sought to understand from cryptocurrency and NFT investors, who is vulnerable and what ...
Levon Blue, Congcong Xing, Thu Pham
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GPTScan: Detecting Logic Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts by Combining GPT with Program Analysis [PDF]
Smart contracts are prone to various vulnerabilities, leading to substantial financial losses over time. Current analysis tools mainly target vulnerabilities with fixed control- or data-flow patterns, such as re-entrancy and integer overflow.
Yuqiang Sun +7 more
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How Effective Are Neural Networks for Fixing Security Vulnerabilities [PDF]
Security vulnerability repair is a difficult task that is in dire need of automation. Two groups of techniques have shown promise: (1) large code language models (LLMs) that have been pre-trained on source code for tasks such as code completion, and (2 ...
Yi Wu +7 more
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CVEfixes: automated collection of vulnerabilities and their fixes from open-source software [PDF]
Data-driven research on the automated discovery and repair of security vulnerabilities in source code requires comprehensive datasets of real-life vulnerable code and their fixes.
G. Bhandari, Amara Naseer, L. Moonen
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Use of LLMs for Illicit Purposes: Threats, Prevention Measures, and Vulnerabilities [PDF]
Spurred by the recent rapid increase in the development and distribution of large language models (LLMs) across industry and academia, much recent work has drawn attention to safety- and security-related threats and vulnerabilities of LLMs, including in ...
Maximilian Mozes +3 more
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A Comprehensive Review of Cyber Security Vulnerabilities, Threats, Attacks, and Solutions
Internet usage has grown exponentially, with individuals and companies performing multiple daily transactions in cyberspace rather than in the real world. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has accelerated this process.
Ömer Aslan +4 more
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Is GitHub’s Copilot as bad as humans at introducing vulnerabilities in code? [PDF]
Several advances in deep learning have been successfully applied to the software development process. Of recent interest is the use of neural language models to build tools, such as Copilot, that assist in writing code.
Owura Asare, M. Nagappan, Nirmal Asokan
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Systematic Review of Security Vulnerabilities in Ethereum Blockchain Smart Contract
Blockchain is a revolutionary technology that enables users to communicate in a trust-less manner. It revolutionizes the modes of business between organizations without the need for a trusted third party.
Satpal Singh Kushwaha +4 more
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Demystifying RCE Vulnerabilities in LLM-Integrated Apps [PDF]
Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise in transforming software development, with a growing interest in integrating them into more intelligent apps. Frameworks like LangChain aid LLM-integrated app development, offering code execution utility/APIs for
Tong Liu +4 more
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Biology, vulnerabilities and clinical applications of circulating tumour cells
In recent years, exceptional technological advances have enabled the identification and interrogation of rare circulating tumour cells (CTCs) from blood samples of patients, leading to new fields of research and fostering the promise for paradigm ...
A. Ring +3 more
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