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Hateful meme detection aims to prevent the proliferation of hateful memes on various social media platforms. Considering its impact on social environments, this paper introduces a previously ignored but significant threat to hateful meme…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Ruofei Wang , Hongzhan Lin , Ziyuan Luo , Ka Chun Cheung , Simon See , Jing Ma , Renjie Wan

Neural network controllers are increasingly deployed in robotic systems for tasks such as trajectory tracking and pose stabilization. However, their reliance on potentially untrusted training pipelines or supply chains introduces…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Farbod Younesi , Walter Lucia , Amr Youssef

Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most fast-growing field in high technologies nowadays. Therefore, lots of electronic devices include wireless connections with several communication protocols (WiFi, ZigBee, Sigfox, LoRa and so on).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Guillaume Fournier , Pierre Matoussowsky , Pascal Cotret

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been shown to be susceptible to Trojan attacks. Neural Trojan is a type of targeted poisoning attack that embeds the backdoor into the victim and is activated by the trigger in the input space. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Diego Garcia-soto , Huili Chen , Farinaz Koushanfar

Hardware Trojan detection and protection is becoming more crucial as more untrusted third parties manufacture many parts of critical systems nowadays. The most common way to detect hardware Trojans is comparing the untrusted design with a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Amr Alanwar , Mona A. Aboelnaga , Yousra Alkabani , M. Watheq El-Kharashi , Hassan Bedour

The rapid growth of real-time huge data capturing has pushed the deep learning and data analytic computing to the edge systems. Real-time object recognition on the edge is one of the representative deep neural network (DNN) powered edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Ka-Ho Chow , Ling Liu , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Stacey Truex , Wenqi Wei , Yanzhao Wu

It is well documented that criminals use IoT devices to facilitate crimes. The review process follows a systematic approach with a clear search strategy, and study selection strategy. The review included a total of 543 articles and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ashley Brown , Nilufer Tuptuk , Enrico Mariconti , Shane Johnson

Thermal Trojan attacks present a pressing concern for the security and reliability of System-on-Chips (SoCs), especially in mobile applications. The situation becomes more complicated when such attacks are more evasive and operate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Mehdi Elahi , Mohamed R. Elshamy , Abdel-Hameed Badawy , Ahmad Patooghy

Trojan attacks pose a severe threat to AI systems. Recent works on Transformer models received explosive popularity and the self-attentions are now indisputable. This raises a central question: Can we reveal the Trojans through attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Weimin Lyu , Songzhu Zheng , Tengfei Ma , Haibin Ling , Chao Chen

Trojan attacks threaten deep neural networks (DNNs) by poisoning them to behave normally on most samples, yet to produce manipulated results for inputs attached with a particular trigger. Several works attempt to detect whether a given DNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Tianlong Chen , Zhenyu Zhang , Yihua Zhang , Shiyu Chang , Sijia Liu , Zhangyang Wang

Hardware Trojans are malicious modifications in digital designs that can be inserted by untrusted supply chain entities. Hardware Trojans can give rise to diverse attack vectors such as information leakage (e.g. MOLES Trojan) and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Tanzim Mahfuz , Pravin Gaikwad , Tasneem Suha , Swarup Bhunia , Prabuddha Chakraborty

We present a Trojan (backdoor or trapdoor) attack that targets deep learning applications in wireless communications. A deep learning classifier is considered to classify wireless signals using raw (I/Q) samples as features and modulation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Kemal Davaslioglu , Yalin E. Sagduyu

Deep neural networks are known to have security issues. One particular threat is the Trojan attack. It occurs when the attackers stealthily manipulate the model's behavior through Trojaned training samples, which can later be exploited.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Songzhu Zheng , Yikai Zhang , Hubert Wagner , Mayank Goswami , Chao Chen

Design companies often outsource their integrated circuit (IC) fabrication to third parties where ICs are susceptible to malicious acts such as the insertion of a side-channel hardware trojan horse (SCT). In this paper, we present a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Tiago Perez , Malik Imran , Pablo Vaz , Samuel Pagliarini

In Natural Language Processing (NLP), intelligent neuron models can be susceptible to textual Trojan attacks. Such attacks occur when Trojan models behave normally for standard inputs but generate malicious output for inputs that contain a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Qian Lou , Yepeng Liu , Bo Feng

Near-Field Communication (NFC) is being used in a variety of security-critical applications, from access control to payment systems. However, NFC protocol analysis typically requires expensive or conspicuous dedicated hardware, or is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Steffen Klee , Alexandros Roussos , Max Maass , Matthias Hollick

The proliferation of consumer IoT products in our daily lives has raised the need for secure device authentication and access control. Unfortunately, these resource-constrained devices typically use token-based authentication, which is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Yue Xiao , Yi He , Xiaoli Zhang , Qian Wang , Renjie Xie , Kun Sun , Ke Xu , Qi Li

Protecting integrated circuits (ICs) from piracy and theft throughout their lifecycle is a persistent and complex challenge. In order to safeguard against illicit piracy attacks, this work proposes a novel framework utilizing Non-Fungible…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Shashank Balla , Yiming Zhao , Farinaz Koushanfar

Recent works found that deep neural networks (DNNs) can be fooled by adversarial examples, which are crafted by adding adversarial noise on clean inputs. The accuracy of DNNs on adversarial examples will decrease as the magnitude of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Zhanhao Hu , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang , Xiaolin Hu

Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a new paradigm of building natural language processing (NLP) systems: general-purpose, pre-trained language models (LMs) are composed with simple downstream models and fine-tuned for a variety of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Xinyang Zhang , Zheng Zhang , Shouling Ji , Ting Wang