Black-Box Adversarial Patch Attacks on VLAs via Ancestor VLM Exploitation

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Xiaoyi Pang, Haoyue Feng, Quanxin Shou, Yikun Miao, Zhengyang Yan, Song Guo)

Summary by Cyber Security News8 Oct 2026, 06:00 CET

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arXiv:2610.09708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) are increasingly deployed in safety-critical physical environments, yet their adversarial robustness remains poorly understood. Existing attacks typically assume white-box access or rely on surrogate VLAs, which rarely holds in real-world deployments.

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