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Since 2009, Moving Target Defense (MTD) has become a new paradigm of defensive mechanism that frequently changes the state of the target system to confuse the attacker. This frequent change is costly and leads to a trade-off between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Gabriel Ballot , Vadim Malvone , Jean Leneutre , Etienne Borde

This work proposes a moving target defense (MTD) strategy to detect coordinated cyber-physical attacks (CCPAs) against power grids. A CCPA consists of a physical attack, such as disconnecting a transmission line, followed by a coordinated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Subhash Lakshminarayana , E. Veronica Belmega , H. Vincent Poor

In this work, we model Moving Target Defence (MTD) as a partially observable stochastic game between an attacker and a defender. The attacker tries to compromise the system through probing actions, while the defender minimizes the risk by…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Mandar Datar , Yann Dujardin

Low-rate application layer distributed denial of service (LDDoS) attacks are both powerful and stealthy. They force vulnerable webservers to open all available connections to the adversary, denying resources to real users. Mitigation advice…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Michael Siracusano , Stavros Shiaeles , Bogdan Ghita

Denial of service (DoS) attacks and more particularly the distributed ones (DDoS) are one of the latest threat and pose a grave danger to users, organizations and infrastructures of the Internet. Several schemes have been proposed on how to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-04-26 B. B. Gupta , R. C. Joshi , Manoj Misra

Recently, moving target defence (MTD) has been proposed to thwart false data injection (FDI) attacks in power system state estimation by proactively triggering the distributed flexible AC transmission system (D-FACTS) devices. One of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-22 Wangkun Xu , Imad M. Jaimoukha , Fei Teng

Volumetric Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been a recurrent issue on the Internet. These attacks generate a flooding of fake network traffic to interfere with targeted servers or network links. Despite many efforts to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Michele Nogueira

The processing and storage of critical data in large-scale cloud networks necessitate the need for scalable security solutions. It has been shown that deploying all possible security measures incurs a cost on performance by using up…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Ankur Chowdhary , Sailik Sengupta , Dijiang Huang , Subbarao Kambhampati

Modern mission-critical systems (MCS) are increasingly softwarized and interconnected. As a result, their complexity increased, and so their vulnerability against cyber-attacks. The current adoption of virtualization and service-oriented…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Doğanalp Ergenç , Florian Schneider , Peter Kling , Mathias Fischer

In recent studies, moving target defense (MTD) has been applied to detect false data injection (FDI) attacks using distributed flexible AC transmission system (D-FACTS) devices. However, the inherent conflict between the security goals of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-03 Jiazhou Wang , Jue Tian , Yang Liu , Xiaohong Guan , Dong Yang , Ting Liu

This paper addresses the security allocation problem in a networked control system under stealthy injection attacks. The networked system is comprised of interconnected subsystems which are represented by nodes in a digraph. An adversary…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Anh Tung Nguyen , Sribalaji C. Anand , André M. H. Teixeira

Moving target defense (MTD) is a proactive defense approach that aims to thwart attacks by continuously changing the attack surface of a system (e.g., changing host or network configurations), thereby increasing the adversary's uncertainty…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Taha Eghtesad , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Aron Laszka

This paper examines how moving target defences (MTD) implemented in power systems can be countered by unsupervised learning-based false data injection (FDI) attack and how MTD can be combined with physical watermarking to enhance the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Martin Higgins , Fei Teng , Thomas Parisini

Over the years, most research towards defenses against adversarial attacks on machine learning models has been in the image recognition domain. The ML-based malware detection domain has received less attention despite its importance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Aqib Rashid , Jose Such

Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have emerged as a popular means of causing collection particular overhaul disruptions, often for total periods of instance. The relative ease and low costs of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-02-22 Saravanan Kumarasamy , Dr. R. Asokan

As water distribution networks (WDNs) become increasingly connected with digital infrastructures, they face greater exposure to cyberattacks that threaten their operational integrity. Stealthy False Data Injection Attacks (SFDIAs) are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Abdallah Alalem Albustami , Ahmad F. Taha

SYN-flooding attack uses the weakness available in TCP's three-way handshake process to keep it from handling legitimate requests. This attack causes the victim host to populate its backlog queue with forged TCP connections. In other words…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-08-27 Masoud Bekravi , Shahram Jamali , Gholam Shaker

The present complexity in designing web applications makes software security a difficult goal to achieve. An attacker can explore a deployed service on the web and attack at his/her own leisure. Moving Target Defense (MTD) in web…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Sailik Sengupta , Satya Gautam Vadlamudi , Subbarao Kambhampati , Marthony Taguinod , Adam Doupé , Ziming Zhao , Gail-Joon Ahn

Recommender systems (RSs) are now fundamental to various online platforms, but their dependence on user-contributed data leaves them vulnerable to shilling attacks that can manipulate item rankings by injecting fake users. Although widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Shutong Qiao , Wei Yuan , Junliang Yu , Tong Chen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

In response to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, recent research efforts increasingly rely on Machine Learning (ML)-based solutions, whose effectiveness largely depends on the quality of labeled training datasets. To address the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Gongli Xi , Ye Tian , Yannan Hu , Yuchao Zhang , Yapeng Niu , Xiangyang Gong