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Industrial deployments increasingly rely on Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (OPC UA) as a secure and platform-independent communication protocol, while private Fifth Generation (5G) networks provide low-latency and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Song Son Ha , Kunal Singh , Florian Foerster , Henry Beuster , Tim Kittel , Dominik Merli , Gerd Scholl

With the rapid development of Internet and the sharp increase of network crime, network security has become very important and received a lot of attention. We model security issues as stochastic systems. This allows us to find weaknesses in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Lu Yu , Richard R. Brooks

In this paper, we study the impact of stealthy attacks on the Cyber-Physical System (CPS) modeled as a stochastic linear system. An attack is characterised by a malicious injection into the system through input, output or both, and it is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Tianju Sui , Yilin Mo , Damián Marelli , Ximing Sun , Minyue Fu

Cyber security risk assessments provide a pivotal starting point towards the understanding of existing risk exposure, through which suitable mitigation strategies can be formed. Where risk is viewed as a product of threat, vulnerability,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Sam Maesschalck , Alexander Staves , Richard Derbyshire , Benjamin Green , David Hutchison

The security of Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) is critical to ensuring the safety of industrial processes and personnel. The rapid adoption of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies has expanded system functionality but also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Francesco Aurelio Pironti , Angelo Furfaro , Francesco Blefari , Carmelo Felicetti , Matteo Lupinacci , Francesco Romeo

In this work, we focus on analyzing vulnerability of nonlinear dynamical control systems to stealthy sensor attacks. We start by defining the notion of stealthy attacks in the most general form by leveraging Neyman-Pearson lemma;…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Amir Khazraei , Miroslav Pajic

Backdoor attacks implant hidden behaviors into models by poisoning training data or modifying the model directly. These attacks aim to maintain high accuracy on benign inputs while causing misclassification when a specific trigger is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jianyao Yin , Luca Arnaboldi , Honglong Chen , Pascal Berrang , Mark Ryan

Autonomous agents deployed in the real world need to be robust against adversarial attacks on sensory inputs. Robustifying agent policies requires anticipating the strongest attacks possible. We demonstrate that existing observation-space…

With the growing amount of cyber threats, the need for development of high-assurance cyber systems is becoming increasingly important. The objective of this paper is to address the challenges of modeling and detecting sophisticated network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Tawfeeq Shawly , Ali Elghariani , Jason Kobes , Arif Ghafoor

Attackers have developed ever more sophisticated and intelligent ways to hack information and communication technology systems. The extent of damage an individual hacker can carry out upon infiltrating a system is well understood. A…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Cosimo Ieracitano , Ahsan Adeel , Mandar Gogate , Kia Dashtipour , Francesco Carlo Morabito , Hadi Larijani , Ali Raza , Amir Hussain

Sensor attacks compromise the reliability of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) by altering sensor outputs with the objective of leading the system to unsafe system states. This paper studies a probabilistic intrusion detection framework based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Parastou Fahim , Samuel Oliveira , Rômulo Meira-Góes

Assessing the security posture of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) is critical for protecting essential infrastructure. However, the complexity and scale of these environments make it challenging to identify and prioritize potential attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Lucas Miranda , Carlos Banjar , Daniel Menasche , Anton Kocheturov , Gaurav Srivastava , Tobias Limmer

In the network security domain, due to practical issues -- including imbalanced data and heterogeneous legitimate network traffic -- adversarial attacks in machine learning-based NIDSs have been viewed as attack packets misclassified as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Mohammad Shamim Ahsan , Peng Liu

Embodied Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises to handle edge cases in robotic vehicle systems where data is scarce by using common-sense reasoning grounded in perception and action to generalize beyond training distributions and adapt to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Luis Burbano , Diego Ortiz , Qi Sun , Siwei Yang , Haoqin Tu , Cihang Xie , Yinzhi Cao , Alvaro A Cardenas

This research introduces a robust detection system against malicious network traffic, leveraging hierarchical structures and self-attention mechanisms. The proposed system includes a Packet Segmenter that divides a given raw network packet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Anass Grini , Btissam El Khamlichi , Abdellatif El Afia , Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) constitute the backbone of contemporary industrial operations, ranging from modest heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems to expansive national power grids. Given their pivotal role in critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Luís Sousa , José Cecílio , Pedro Ferreira , Alan Oliveira

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a key feature of next-generation 6G wireless systems, allowing them to achieve high data rates and sensing accuracy. While prior research has primarily focused on addressing communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tingyu Shui , Po-Heng Chou , Walid Saad , Mingzhe Chen

Semiconductor intellectual property (IP) theft incurs hundreds of billions in annual losses, driven by advanced reverse engineering (RE) techniques. Traditional ``cryptic'' IC camouflaging methods typically focus on hiding localized gate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Junling Fan , David Koblah , Domenic Forte

Side-channel attacks on memory (SCAM) exploit unintended data leaks from memory subsystems to infer sensitive information, posing significant threats to system security. These attacks exploit vulnerabilities in memory access patterns, cache…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-09 MD Mahady Hassan , Shanto Roy , Reza Rahaeimehr

We study automated intrusion detection in an IT infrastructure, specifically the problem of identifying the start of an attack, the type of attack, and the sequence of actions an attacker takes, based on continuous measurements from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xiaoxuan Wang , Rolf Stadler