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When LLMs Meet Cybersecurity: A Systematic Literature Review

🔍 Explore 861+ Papers Across 11 Research Categories

📊 RQ1: Domain LLMs | 🎯 RQ2: Applications | 🤖 RQ3: Future Directions

Updates

📆[2026-08-20] We have updated the related papers up to 2026/08/20, with 105 new papers added.

📆[2026-06-15] We have updated the related papers up to 2026/06/15, with 108 new papers added.

📆[2026-02-09] We have updated the related papers up to 2026/01/31, with 80 new papers added (2025.08.31-2026.01.31).

📆[2025-11-17] We have updated the related papers up to 2025/08/31, with 176 new papers added (2025.03.01-2025.08.31).

📆[2025-03-03] We have updated the related papers up to 2025/02/28, with 33 new papers added (2025.01.01-2025.02.28).

📆[2025-01-21] We have updated the related papers up to 2024/12/31, with 74 new papers added (2024.09.01-2024.12.31).

📆[2025-01-08] We have included the publication venues for each paper.

📆[2024-09-21] We have updated the related papers up to 2024/08/31, with 75 new papers added (2024.06.01-2024.08.31).

Brief Introduction

📊 Paper Distribution by Research Question

RQ	Category	Papers	Percentage	Trend
RQ1	📊 Evaluation Benchmarks	93	10.8%	📊 Stable
	🔧 Fine-tuned LLMs	37	4.3%	📊 Stable
RQ2	🛡️ LLM Assisted Defense	150	17.4%	📈 Growing
	🐛 Vulnerability Detection	120	13.9%	📈 Growing
	⚔️ LLM Assisted Attack	126	14.6%	🔥 Hot
	🔨 Program/Vulnerability Repair	78	9.1%	📊 Stable
	📦 Others	72	8.4%	📊 Stable
	🎯 Threat Intelligence	54	6.3%	📊 Stable
	🔍 FUZZ	26	3.0%	📊 Stable
	⚠️ Insecure Code Generation	34	3.9%	🚫 Unmaintained
RQ3	🤖 Agent4Cybersecurity	71	8.2%	🚀 Emerging

📜 Literatures

👉 View Full Literature Review →

The complete literature review with 861+ papers has been moved to a separate file for better readability.

Quick Links by Research Question:

RQ1: Domain LLMs Construction
- Cybersecurity Evaluation Benchmarks (93 papers)
- Fine-tuned Domain LLMs (37 papers)
RQ2: LLM Applications in Cybersecurity
- Threat Intelligence (54 papers)
- FUZZ (26 papers)
- Vulnerability Detection (120 papers)
- Program/Vulnerability Repair (78 papers)
- Insecure Code Generation (34 papers)
- LLM Assisted Defense (150 papers)
- LLM Assisted Attack (126 papers)
- Others (72 papers)
RQ3: Future Research Directions
- Agent4Cybersecurity (71 papers)

BibTeX

@article{zhang2025llms,
  title={When llms meet cybersecurity: A systematic literature review},
  author={Zhang, Jie and Bu, Haoyu and Wen, Hui and Liu, Yongji and Fei, Haiqiang and Xi, Rongrong and Li, Lun and Yang, Yun and Zhu, Hongsong and Meng, Dan},
  journal={Cybersecurity},
  volume={8},
  number={1},
  pages={1--41},
  year={2025},
  publisher={SpringerOpen}
}

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