Polar: LLM-Powered Synthesis of Real-World Cyber Evidence for Prioritization and Mitigation

arXiv:2610.07298v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cyber threat analysis increasingly depends on evidence distributed across vendor advisories, vulnerability databases, and threat intelligence sources. Turning these fragmented observations into timely decisions requires models to connect technical severity with evolving exploitation evidence and available defensive actions. We present POLAR, an LLM-powered framework for synthesizing real-world cyber evidence into threat-centric assessments for prioritization and mitigation. POLAR first disentangles overlapping incidents and grounds each threat in source-linked evidence. For prioritization, it infers severity metrics from cyber evidence and combines the resulting assessment with temporally ordered exploitation signals to estimate near-term exploitation likelihood. For mitigation, it links the synthesized threat data to authoritative remediation knowledge and organizes applicable actions according to threat urgency and operational constraints. We evaluate POLAR on real-world vulnerability evidence collected from public resources and compare it with multiple baselines. Across heterogeneous incidents and zero-day settings, POLAR improves threat ranking and mitigation retrieval while producing evidence-linked intermediate assessments that support analyst inspection. The results establish evidence synthesis as a practical foundation for LLM-based cyber decision support across related security tasks.

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Source: arXiv cs.AI | 2026-10-07