A Neuro-Cyber Exploitation and Reconnaissance Taxonomy (NeuroCERT) for Human-Centric Cybersecurity

[A Neuro-Cyber Exploitation and Reconnaissance Taxonomy (NeuroCERT) for Human-Centric Cybersecurity](https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlpaics-1.15.pdf)

[Cengiz Acarturk](/people/cengiz-acarturk/),
[Melike Çağlayan](/people/melike-caglayan/unverified/),
[Ece Caglayan](/people/ece-caglayan/unverified/),
[Anna Wilkosz](/people/anna-wilkosz/unverified/)

Abstract

Neuroscientists and cyber threat actors operate on a "black box" paradigm, relying on both the passive measurement of physical exhaust to infer hidden internal states, and the active injection of targeted stimuli to disrupt or manipulate those systems. This paper introduces the Neuro-Cyber Exploitation and Reconnaissance Taxonomy (NeuroCERT), a theoretical framework that maps cybersecurity side-channel attacks and active vectors to psychophysiological measurement and neurostimulation techniques. It proposes that AI can serve as a translational layer to parse noisy biological data into actionable metrics or automate closed-loop attacks, suggesting the potential of novel threat vectors in human-centric cybersecurity.- Anthology ID:

- 2026.nlpaics-1.15
- Volume:

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security- Month:

• June
• Year:
• 2026
• Address:
• Alicante, Spain
• Editors: Ruslan Mitkov,Rafael Muñoz,Elena Lloret,Tharindu Ranasinghe,Ernesto L. Estevanell-Valladares,Salima Lamsiyah,Andrés Montoyo,Saad Ezzini- Venue:

[NLPAICS](/venues/nlpaics/)- SIG:
- Publisher:

• Department of Languages and Information Systems, University of Alicante

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- Pages:

• 143–155

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- URL:
[https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlpaics-1.15/](https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlpaics-1.15/)- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):

• Cengiz Acarturk, Melike Çağlayan, Ece Caglayan, and Anna Wilkosz. 2026. A Neuro-Cyber Exploitation and Reconnaissance Taxonomy (NeuroCERT) for Human-Centric Cybersecurity. InProceedings of the Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security, pages 143–155, Alicante, Spain. Department of Languages and Information Systems, University of Alicante. - Cite (Informal):

[A Neuro-Cyber Exploitation and Reconnaissance Taxonomy (NeuroCERT) for Human-Centric Cybersecurity](https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlpaics-1.15/)(Acarturk et al., NLPAICS 2026)- PDF:
[https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlpaics-1.15.pdf](https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlpaics-1.15.pdf)