Desktop GUI agents face TOCTOU attacks from UI state changes during the ~6.5s observation-to-action gap, with a three-layer pre-execution verification defense achieving 100% interception on two attack types but failing on DOM injection.
Zero-permission manipulation: Can we trust large multimodal model powered gui agents?
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Phone-use agents avoid harm more often through inability to act than through deliberate safe choices, so benchmarks must separate unsafe judgment from capability failure.
The paper develops a unified framework that organizes computer-use agent reliability around perception-decision-execution layers and creation-deployment-operation-maintenance stages to map security and alignment interventions.
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Temporal UI State Inconsistency in Desktop GUI Agents: Formalizing and Defending Against TOCTOU Attacks on Computer-Use Agents
Desktop GUI agents face TOCTOU attacks from UI state changes during the ~6.5s observation-to-action gap, with a three-layer pre-execution verification defense achieving 100% interception on two attack types but failing on DOM injection.
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Safe, or Simply Incapable? Rethinking Safety Evaluation for Phone-Use Agents
Phone-use agents avoid harm more often through inability to act than through deliberate safe choices, so benchmarks must separate unsafe judgment from capability failure.
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Securing Computer-Use Agents: A Unified Architecture-Lifecycle Framework for Deployment-Grounded Reliability
The paper develops a unified framework that organizes computer-use agent reliability around perception-decision-execution layers and creation-deployment-operation-maintenance stages to map security and alignment interventions.