Kernel traces improve detection of attacks against infrastructure-enabled AI agents

Across a paired corpus of agent sessions, syscall evidence exposed malicious behavior that application-layer telemetry could miss.

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University of Georgia · Amazon Web Services

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King et al.

The authors introduce Agent Cross-Layer Evidence (ACE), a corpus pairing prompts, tool schemas and model trajectories with kernel-level system-call traces from the same sessions.

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Kernel-level syscall traces combined with application-layer telemetry improve detection of adversarial LLM agent attacks.

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