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Backdoor (Trojan) attacks are emerging threats against deep neural networks (DNN). A DNN being attacked will predict to an attacker-desired target class whenever a test sample from any source class is embedded with a backdoor pattern; while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Xi Li , Zhen Xiang , David J. Miller , George Kesidis

Due to cost benefits, supply chains of integrated circuits (ICs) are largely outsourced nowadays. However, passing ICs through various third-party providers gives rise to many security threats, like piracy of IC intellectual property or…

Software-exploitable Hardware Trojans (HTs) enable attackers to execute unauthorized software or gain illicit access to privileged operations. This manuscript introduces a hardware-based methodology for detecting runtime HT activations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Alessandro Palumbo , Ruben Salvador

Security of inference phase deployment of Convolutional neural network (CNN) into resource constrained embedded systems (e.g. low end FPGAs) is a growing research area. Using secure practices, third party FPGA designers can be provided with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Tolulope A. Odetola , Syed Rafay Hasan

Machine-learning architectures, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks: inputs crafted carefully to force the system output to a wrong label. Since machine-learning is being deployed in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Amira Guesmi , Ihsen Alouani , Khaled N. Khasawneh , Mouna Baklouti , Tarek Frikha , Mohamed Abid , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

The incremental diffusion of machine learning algorithms in supporting cybersecurity is creating novel defensive opportunities but also new types of risks. Multiple researches have shown that machine learning methods are vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Giovanni Apruzzese , Mauro Andreolini , Luca Ferretti , Mirco Marchetti , Michele Colajanni

Economic and operational advantages have led the supply chain of printed circuit boards (PCBs) to incorporate various untrusted entities. Any of the untrusted entities are capable of introducing malicious alterations to facilitate a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Tamzidul Hoque , Shuo Yang , Aritra Bhattacharyay , Jonathan Cruz , Swarup Bhunia

Outsourced deep neural networks have been demonstrated to suffer from patch-based trojan attacks, in which an adversary poisons the training sets to inject a backdoor in the obtained model so that regular inputs can be still labeled…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Ying He , Zhili Shen , Chang Xia , Jingyu Hua , Wei Tong , Sheng Zhong

In this work, we study literature in Explainable AI and Safe AI to understand poisoning of neural models of code. In order to do so, we first establish a novel taxonomy for Trojan AI for code, and present a new aspect-based classification…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Aftab Hussain , Md Rafiqul Islam Rabin , Toufique Ahmed , Navid Ayoobi , Bowen Xu , Prem Devanbu , Mohammad Amin Alipour

As deep neural networks and the datasets used to train them get larger, the default approach to integrating them into research and commercial projects is to download a pre-trained model and fine tune it. But these models can have uncertain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Khondoker Murad Hossain , Tim Oates

Insertion of hardware Trojans (HTs) in integrated circuits is a pernicious threat. Since HTs are activated under rare trigger conditions, detecting them using random logic simulations is infeasible. In this work, we design a reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Vasudev Gohil , Satwik Patnaik , Hao Guo , Dileep Kalathil , Jeyavijayan , Rajendran

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

The incredible effectiveness of adversarial attacks on fooling deep neural networks poses a tremendous hurdle in the widespread adoption of deep learning in safety and security-critical domains. While adversarial defense mechanisms have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Hossein Aboutalebi , Mohammad Javad Shafiee Alexander Wong

In multiple domains such as malware detection, automated driving systems, or fraud detection, classification algorithms are susceptible to being attacked by malicious agents willing to perturb the value of instance covariates to pursue…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-10 Victor Gallego , Roi Naveiro , Alberto Redondo , David Rios Insua , Fabrizio Ruggeri

This study investigates the vulnerabilities of autonomous navigation and landing systems in Urban Air Mobility (UAM) vehicles. Specifically, it focuses on Trojan attacks that target deep learning models, such as Convolutional Neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Reza Ahmari , Ahmad Mohammadi , Vahid Hemmati , Mohammed Mynuddin , Mahmoud Nabil Mahmoud , Parham Kebria , Abdollah Homaifar , Mehrdad Saif

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to attacks from adversarial inputs and, more recently, Trojans to misguide or hijack the model's decision. We expose the existence of an intriguing class of spatially bounded, physically realizable,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Bao Gia Doan , Minhui Xue , Shiqing Ma , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Outsourcing integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing to offshore foundries has grown exponentially in recent years. Given the critical role of ICs in the control and operation of vehicular systems and other modern engineering designs, such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Walid Saad , Anibal Sanjab , Yunpeng Wang , Charles Kamhoua , Kevin Kwiat

Industrial Systems-on-Chips (SoCs) often comprise hundreds of thousands to millions of nets and millions to tens of millions of connectivity edges, making empirical evaluation of hardware-Trojan (HT) detectors on realistic designs both…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yaroslav Popryho , Debjit Pal , Inna Partin-Vaisband

Semiconductor design houses are increasingly becoming dependent on third party vendors to procure intellectual property (IP) and meet time-to-market constraints. However, these third party IPs cannot be trusted as hardware Trojans can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Adib Nahiyan , Mehdi Sadi , Rahul Vittal , Gustavo Contreras , Domenic Forte , Mark Tehranipoor

The rapid proliferation of deep learning has revolutionized computing hardware, driving innovations to improve computationally expensive multiply-and-accumulate operations in deep neural networks. Among these innovations are integrated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Salma Afifi , Ishan Thakkar , Sudeep Pasricha