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Goal hijacking is a type of adversarial attack on Large Language Models (LLMs) where the objective is to manipulate the model into producing a specific, predetermined output, regardless of the user's original input. In goal hijacking, an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Zheng Chen , Buhui Yao

Many terminals are used in safety-critical operations in which humans, through terminal user interfaces, become a part of the system control loop (e.g., medical and industrial systems). These terminals are typically embedded, single-purpose…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Luka Malisa , Kari Kostiainen , Thomas Knell , David Sommer , Srdjan Capkun

The SYN flood attack is a common attack strategy on the Internet, which tries to overload services with requests leading to a Denial-of-Service (DoS). Highly asymmetric costs for connection setup - putting the main burden on the attackee -…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Dominik Scholz , Sebastian Gallenmüller , Henning Stubbe , Bassam Jaber , Minoo Rouhi , Georg Carle

Clustering algorithms play a fundamental role as tools in decision-making and sensible automation processes. Due to the widespread use of these applications, a robustness analysis of this family of algorithms against adversarial noise has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Antonio Emanuele Cinà , Alessandro Torcinovich , Marcello Pelillo

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks frequently happen on the Internet, paralyzing Internet services and causing millions of dollars of financial loss. This work presents NetFence, a scalable DoS-resistant network architecture. NetFence uses a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-09-02 Xin Liu , Xiaowei Yang , Yong Xia

One key challenge in backdoor attacks against large foundation models is the resource limits. Backdoor attacks usually require retraining the target model, which is impractical for very large foundation models. Existing backdoor attacks are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yuzhou. Nie , Yanting. Wang , Jinyuan. Jia , Michael J. De Lucia , Nathaniel D. Bastian , Wenbo. Guo , Dawn. Song

Prefill attacks are an effective and low-cost jailbreaking method, as they directly insert an acceptance sequence (e.g., "Sure, here is how to...") at the start of an LLM's output and lead the model to continue the response. We make two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Asen Dotsinski , Panagiotis Eustratiadis

We present a novel approach for semantically targeted adversarial attacks on Optical Flow. In such attacks the goal is to corrupt the flow predictions of a specific object category or instance. Usually, an attacker seeks to hide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Tom Koren , Lior Talker , Michael Dinerstein , Roy J Jevnisek

We present practical poisoning and name-server block- ing attacks on standard DNS resolvers, by off-path, spoofing adversaries. Our attacks exploit large DNS responses that cause IP fragmentation; such long re- sponses are increasingly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Amir Herzberg , Haya Shulman

As the prevalence of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices becomes more and more dominant, so too do the associated management and security challenges. One such challenge is the exploitation of vulnerable devices for recruitment into botnets,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Angelo Feraudo , Diana Andreea Popescu , Poonam Yadav , Richard Mortier , Paolo Bellavista

Low-rate application layer distributed denial of service (LDDoS) attacks are both powerful and stealthy. They force vulnerable webservers to open all available connections to the adversary, denying resources to real users. Mitigation advice…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Michael Siracusano , Stavros Shiaeles , Bogdan Ghita

Blockchain-based cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, have seen on the rise in their popularity and value, making them a target to several forms of Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, and calling for a better understanding of their attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Muhammad Saad , Joongheon Kim , DaeHun Nyang , David Mohaisen

Data poisoning is one of the most relevant security threats against machine learning and data-driven technologies. Since many applications rely on untrusted training data, an attacker can easily craft malicious samples and inject them into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Nicolas M. Müller , Simon Roschmann , Konstantin Böttinger

Due to the numerous advantages of machine learning (ML) algorithms, many applications now incorporate them. However, many studies in the field of image classification have shown that MLs can be fooled by a variety of adversarial attacks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Islam Debicha , Benjamin Cochez , Tayeb Kenaza , Thibault Debatty , Jean-Michel Dricot , Wim Mees

Adversarial black-box attacks aim to craft adversarial perturbations by querying input-output pairs of machine learning models. They are widely used to evaluate the robustness of pre-trained models. However, black-box attacks often suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Lu Wang , Huan Zhang , Jinfeng Yi , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Yuan Jiang

The paper demonstrates how traffic load of a shared packet queue can be exploited as a side channel through which protected information leaks to an off-path attacker. The attacker sends to a victim a sequence of identical spoofed segments.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-01-25 Jan Wrobel

We present the first micro-architectural side-channel attack which runs entirely in the browser. In contrast to other works in this genre, this attack does not require the attacker to install any software on the victim's machine -- to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Yossef Oren , Vasileios P. Kemerlis , Simha Sethumadhavan , Angelos D. Keromytis

Backdoor attacks significantly compromise the security of large language models by triggering them to output specific and controlled content. Currently, triggers for textual backdoor attacks fall into two categories: fixed-token triggers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jingyi Zheng , Tianyi Hu , Tianshuo Cong , Xinlei He

In this paper, we address the challenges facing the adoption of client puzzles as means to protect the TCP connection establishment channel from state exhaustion DDoS attacks. We model the problem of selecting the puzzle difficulties as a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Mohammad A. Noureddine , Ahmed Fawaz , Tamer Basar , William H. Sanders

With the significant development of the Internet of Things and low-cost cloud services, the sensory and data processing requirements of IoT systems are continually going up. TrustZone is a hardware-protected Trusted Execution Environment…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Arup Kumar Sarker , Md Khairul Islam , Yuan Tian