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When LLMs Meet Cybersecurity: A Systematic Literature Review

     

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Brief Introduction

📊 Paper Distribution by Research Question

📜 Literatures

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The complete literature review with 756+ papers has been moved to a separate file for better readability.

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• RQ1: Domain LLMs Construction

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• RQ3: Future Research Directions

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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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