AgentSnare: Learning to Delay, Divert, and Defuse Autonomous Penetration Agents

arXiv:2607.26998 · cs.CR, cs.CL, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-07-29 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR, cs.CL, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-07-29

Updated: 2026-09-30

Code: https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Steering — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 8× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Affordance — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ablation — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Provenance — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptive Response — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptive Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• State Management — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• FireAct: Toward Language Agent Fine-tuning
• VulnBot: Autonomous Penetration Testing for A Multi-Agent Collaborative Framework
• Can We Stop Malicious AI? KILLBENCH: A Benchmark for External AI Kill Switch Feasibility
• Hacking Back the AI-Hacker: Prompt Injection as a Defense Against LLM-driven Cyberattacks
• DARWIN: Evolving Jailbreak Adversary and Guardrail for LLM Safety Evaluation and Protection
• Dynamic Jailbreaking Attack
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• From Topology to Behavioral Semantics: Enhancing BGP Security by Understanding BGP's Language with LLMs
• CVE-Bench: A Benchmark for AI Agents' Ability to Exploit Real-World Web Application Vulnerabilities
• Cyber-Zero: Training Cybersecurity Agents without Runtime

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