From APTs to advanced persistent biological threats (APBTs): a taxonomy and large-scale metadata audit of genomic surveillance infrastructure
Nasreen Anjum, Mahreen Kiran, Hessa Abdulrahman Alfraihi, Aikaterini Kanta, Mahreen Ul-Hassan, Brandon Jeffery Weihs
The paper audits metadata vulnerabilities in genomic repositories, identifying structural weaknesses that could enable malicious metadata poisoning as part of an APBT operation.
bioRxiv · Oct 11, 2026 · PreprintGenomics