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In this paper, we present the concept of boosting the resiliency of optimization-based observers for cyber-physical systems (CPS) using auxiliary sources of information. Due to the tight coupling of physics, communication and computation, a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Olugbenga Moses Anubi , Charalambos Konstantinou , Carlos A. Wong , Satish Vedula

We develop and study new adversarial perturbations that enable an attacker to gain control over decisions in generic Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems including deep learning neural networks. In contrast to adversarial data modification,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Ivan Y. Tyukin , Desmond J. Higham , Alexander Bastounis , Eliyas Woldegeorgis , Alexander N. Gorban

With the increasing use of information and communication technology in electrical power grids, the security of energy supply is increasingly threatened by cyber-attacks. Traditional cyber-security measures, such as firewalls or intrusion…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Ömer Sen , Dennis van der Velde , Philipp Linnartz , Immanuel Hacker , Martin Henze , Michael Andres , Andreas Ulbig

In recent years, Information Security has become a notable issue in the energy sector. After the invention of The Stuxnet worm in 2010, data integrity, privacy and confidentiality has received significant importance in the real-time…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-11-12 A. Anwar , A. N. Mahmood

Smart grids are vulnerable to cyber-attacks. This paper proposes a game-theoretic approach to evaluate the variations caused by an attacker on the power measurements. Adversaries can gain financial benefits through the manipulation of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Kian Hamedani , Lingjia Liu , Jithin Jagannath , Yang , Yi

Deep reinforcement learning has advanced greatly and applied in many areas. In this paper, we explore the vulnerability of deep reinforcement learning by proposing a novel generative model for creating effective adversarial examples to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Xiangjuan Li , Feifan Li , Yang Li , Quan Pan

In this paper, we consider the problem of state-estimation in the presence of Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack. We formulate this problem as an state estimation problem for a plant with switching measured outputs. In the absence of attack,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-26 Mohammad Naghnaeian

Recent attacks on power grids demonstrated the vulnerability of the grids to cyber and physical attacks. To analyze this vulnerability, we study cyber-physical attacks that affect both the power grid physical infrastructure and its…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Saleh Soltan , Gil Zussman

This paper focuses on securely estimating the state of a nonlinear dynamical system from a set of corrupted measurements. In particular, we consider two broad classes of nonlinear systems, and propose a technique which enables us to perform…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Qie Hu , Dariush Fooladivanda , Young Hwan Chang , Claire J. Tomlin

An adversary looking to disrupt a power grid may look to target certain substations and sources of power generation to initiate a cascading failure that maximizes the number of customers without electricity. This is particularly an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Paulo Shakarian , Hansheng Lei , Roy Lindelauf

This article investigates the security issue caused by false data injection attacks in distributed estimation, wherein each sensor can construct two types of residues based on local estimates and neighbor information, respectively. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Jiahao Huang , Marios M. Polycarpou , Wen Yang , Fangfei Li , Yang Tang

Before executing an attack, adversaries usually explore the victim's network in an attempt to infer the network topology and identify vulnerabilities in the victim's servers and personal computers. Falsifying the information collected by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Rami Puzis , Hadar Polad , Bracha Shapira

False data injection attacks (FDIAs) represent a major class of attacks that aim to break the integrity of measurements by injecting false data into the smart metering devices in power grids. To the best of authors' knowledge, no study has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Osman Boyaci , Amarachi Umunnakwe , Abhijeet Sahu , Mohammad Rasoul Narimani , Muhammad Ismail , Katherine Davis , Erchin Serpedin

We address the problem of state estimation, attack isolation, and control of discrete-time linear time-invariant systems under (potentially unbounded) actuator and sensor false data injection attacks. Using a bank of unknown input…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Tianci Yang , Carlos Murguia , Margreta Kuijper , Dragan Nesic

The precise knowledge regarding the state of the power grid is important in order to ensure optimal and reliable grid operation. Specifically, knowing the state of the distribution grid becomes increasingly important as more renewable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Jonatan Ostrometzky , Konstantin Berestizshevsky , Andrey Bernstein , Gil Zussman

Attacks, including the manipulation of sensor readings and the modification of actuator commands, pose a significant challenge to the security and privacy of automated systems. This paper considers discrete event systems that can be modeled…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xiaoyan Li , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

In the past years, power grids have become a valuable target for cyber-attacks. Especially the attacks on the Ukrainian power grid has sparked numerous research into possible attack vectors, their extent, and possible mitigations. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Eric MSP Veith , Nils Wenninghoff , Stephan Balduin , Thomas Wolgast , Sebastian Lehnhoff

In this paper we develop a set of algorithms that can detect the identities of malicious data-manipulators in distributed optimization loops for estimating oscillation modes in large power system models. The estimation is posed in terms of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Mang Liao , Aranya Chakrabortty

Smart metering networks are increasingly susceptible to cyber threats, where false data injection (FDI) appears as a critical attack. Data-driven-based machine learning (ML) methods have shown immense benefits in detecting FDI attacks via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Md Raihan Uddin , Ratun Rahman , Dinh C. Nguyen

We consider a class of malicious attacks against remote state estimation. A sensor with limited resources adopts an acknowledgement (ACK)-based online power schedule to improve the remote state estimation performance. A malicious attacker…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yuzhe Li , Daniel E. Quevedo , Subhrakanti Dey , Ling Shi