publications

2025

1. AsiaCCS

   PentestAgent: Incorporating LLM Agents to Automated Penetration Testing

   Xiangmin Shen, Lingzhi Wang, Zhenyuan Li, Yan Chen, Wencheng Zhao, and 3 more authors

   Proceedings of the 20th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS). Code release can be found here , 2025

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   @article{shen2024pentestagent,
     title = {PentestAgent: Incorporating LLM Agents to Automated Penetration Testing},
     author = {Shen, Xiangmin and Wang, Lingzhi and Li, Zhenyuan and Chen, Yan and Zhao, Wencheng and Sun, Dawei and Wang, Jiashui and Ruan, Wei},
     journal = {Proceedings of the 20th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS)},
     year = {2025},
   }

2. NDSS

   Incorporating Gradients to Rules: Towards Lightweight, Adaptive Provenance-based Intrusion Detection

   Xiangmin Shen^*, Lingzhi Wang^*, Weijian Li, Zhenyuan Li, R Sekar, and 2 more authors

   Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS). Code release can be found here , 2025

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   @article{wang2024incorporating,
     title = {Incorporating Gradients to Rules: Towards Lightweight, Adaptive Provenance-based Intrusion Detection},
     author = {Shen*, Xiangmin and Wang*, Lingzhi and Li, Weijian and Li, Zhenyuan and Sekar, R and Liu, Han and Chen, Yan},
     journal = {Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)},
     year = {2025},
   }

2024

1. AsiaCCS

   Decoding the MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Enterprise Evaluation: An Analysis of EDR Performance in Real-World Environments

   Xiangmin Shen, Zhenyuan Li, Graham Burleigh, Lingzhi Wang, and Yan Chen

   Proceedings of the 19th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS). Data release can be found here , 2024

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   @article{shen2024decoding,
     title = {Decoding the MITRE Engenuity ATT\&CK Enterprise Evaluation: An Analysis of EDR Performance in Real-World Environments},
     author = {Shen, Xiangmin and Li, Zhenyuan and Burleigh, Graham and Wang, Lingzhi and Chen, Yan},
     journal = {Proceedings of the 19th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS)},
     year = {2024},
   }