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Federated learning is a technique that allows multiple entities to collaboratively train models using their data without compromising data privacy. However, despite its advantages, federated learning can be susceptible to false data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Or Shalom , Amir Leshem , Waheed U. Bajwa

A distribution inference attack aims to infer statistical properties of data used to train machine learning models. These attacks are sometimes surprisingly potent, but the factors that impact distribution inference risk are not well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Anshuman Suri , Yifu Lu , Yanjin Chen , David Evans

In this paper, we first address adverse effects of cyber-physical attacks on distributed synchronization of multi-agent systems, by providing conditions under which an attacker can destabilize the underlying network, as well as another set…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Aquib Mustafa , Rohollah Moghadam , Hamidreza Modares

We propose an artificial immune model for intrusion detection in distributed systems based on a relatively recent theory in immunology called Danger theory. Based on Danger theory, immune response in natural systems is a result of sensing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Mahdi Zamani , Mahnush Movahedi , Mohammad Ebadzadeh , Hossein Pedram

Cyber data attacks are the worst-case interacting bad data to power system state estimation and cannot be detected by existing bad data detectors. In this paper, we for the first time analyze the likelihood of cyber data attacks by…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yingshuai Hao , Meng Wang , Joe Chow

This paper proposes an active attack detection scheme for constrained cyber-physical systems. Despite passive approaches where the detection is based on the analysis of the input-output data, active approaches interact with the system by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh , Bruno Sinopoli

This paper is concerned with the detection, resilient and fault-tolerant control issues for cyber-physical systems. To this end, the impairment of system dynamics caused by the defined types of cyber-attacks and process faults is analyzed.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Linlin Li , Steven X. Ding , Liutao Zhou , Maiying Zhong , Kaixiang Peng

Decentralized control systems are widely used in a number of situations and applications. In order for these systems to function properly and achieve their desired goals, information must be propagated between agents, which requires…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Paul Griffioen , Raffaele Romagnoli , Bruce H. Krogh , Bruno Sinopoli

Recent years have seen increased interest in the design and deployment of smart grid devices and control algorithms. Each of these smart communicating devices represents a potential access point for an intruder spurring research into…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Scott Backhaus , Russell Bent , James Bono , Ritchie Lee , Brendan Tracey , David Wolpert , Dongping Xie , Yildiray Yildiz

In a macro-economic system, all major sectors: agriculture, extraction of natural resources, manufacturing, construction, transport, communication and health services, are dependent on a reliable supply of electricity. Targeted attacks on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Sagnik Basumallik

Consider a stochastic process being controlled across a communication channel. The control signal that is transmitted across the control channel can be replaced by a malicious attacker. The controller is allowed to implement any arbitrary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Cheng-Zong Bai , Fabio Pasqualetti , Vijay Gupta

In this paper, we consider the problem of attack-resilient state estimation, that is to reliably estimate the true system states despite two classes of attacks: (i) attacks on the switching mechanisms and (ii) false data injection attacks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Sze Zheng Yong , Minghui Zhu , Emilio Frazzoli

Most discussions about Large Language Model (LLM) safety have focused on single-agent settings but multi-agent LLM systems now create novel adversarial risks because their behavior depends on communication between agents and decentralized…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Rana Muhammad Shahroz Khan , Zhen Tan , Sukwon Yun , Charles Fleming , Tianlong Chen

This paper considers a constrained discrete-time linear system subject to actuation attacks. The attacks are modelled as false data injections to the system, such that the total input (control input plus injection) satisfies hard input…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-18 P. A. Trodden , J. M. Maestre , H. Ishii

Active distribution networks facilitating bidirectional power exchange with renewable energy resources are susceptible to cyberattacks due to integration of a diverse array of cyber components. This study introduces a grid-level defense…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Hampei Sasahara , Tatsuya Yamada , Jun-ichi Imura , Henrik Sandberg

Machine learning models are famously vulnerable to adversarial attacks: small ad-hoc perturbations of the data that can catastrophically alter the model predictions. While a large literature has studied the case of test-time attacks on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-01 Riccardo Giuseppe Margiotta , Sebastian Goldt , Guido Sanguinetti

Increased interconnectivity of Cyber-Physical Systems, by design or otherwise, increases the cyber attack surface and attack vectors. Observing the effects of these attacks is helpful in detecting them. In this paper, we show that many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Suresh K. Damodaran , Paul D. Rowe

The performance of control systems with packet loss as a result of an attack over the actuation communication channel is analysed. The operator is assumed to monitor the state of the channel by measuring the average number of packet losses…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-18 William Casbolt , Iñaki Esnaola , Bryn Jones

Adversarial attacks have exposed a significant security vulnerability in state-of-the-art machine learning models. Among these models include deep reinforcement learning agents. The existing methods for attacking reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Matthew Inkawhich , Yiran Chen , Hai Li

By developing communications and increase of access points, computer networks have been vulnerable considerably against wide range of information attacks, specially new and complicated attacks. Every day, replication attacks attack millions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Amir Hosein Bodaghi