arXiv:2610.09138v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous and agentic clients can distribute reconnaissance across many identities so that each request remains valid, low-rate, and benign-looking while the population collectively acquires broad system knowledge. We formalize this threat as Distributed Collective Reconnaissance (DCR) and present SwarmReconGuard, a reproducible black-box benchmark in which the defender observes only service-boundary telemetry.
SwarmReconGuard: Black-Box Detection of Distributed Collective Reconnaissance by Individually Benign-Looking Agent Populations
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