DynaTrust: Defending Multi-Agent Systems Against Sleeper Agents via Dynamic Trust Graphs
Large Language Model-based Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have demonstrated remarkable collaborative reasoning capabilities but introduce new attack surfaces, such as the sleeper agent, which behave benignly during routine operation and gradually accumulate trust, only revealing malicious behaviors when specific conditions or triggers are met. Existing defense works primarily focus on static graph optimization or hierarchical data management, often failing to adapt to evolving adversarial strategies or suffering from high false-positive rates (FPR) due to rigid blocking policies. To address this, we propose DynaTrust, a novel defense method against sleeper agents. DynaTrust models MAS as a dyn...
| Authors | Yu Li, Qiang Hu, Yao Zhang et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 9 March 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 9 March 2026 |
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