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In this paper, we propose a class of false analog data injection attack that can misguide the system as if topology errors had occurred. By utilizing the measurement redundancy with respect to the state variables, the adversary who knows…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Yuqi Zhou , Jorge Cisneros-Saldana , Le Xie

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are subjected to attacks on both cyber and physical spaces. In reality, the attackers could launch exponentially unbounded false data injection (EU-FDI) attacks, which are more destructive and could lead to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-09 Yichao Wang , Mohamadamin Rajabinezhad , Yi Zhang , Shan Zuo

The distributed nature of smart grids, combined with sophisticated sensors, control algorithms, and data collection facilities at Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) centers, makes them vulnerable to strategically crafted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Suman Maiti , Soumyajit Dey

This letter introduces attack-resilient Control Lyapunov Functions (AR-CLFs) and attack-resilient Control Barrier Functions (AR-CBFs) for nonlinear control-affine systems subject to control-input false data injection attacks (FDIA)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Mohamadamin Rajabinezhad , Shan Zuo

LLM-integrated applications and agents are vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, where adversaries embed malicious instructions within seemingly benign input data to manipulate the LLM's intended behavior. Recent defenses based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Sarthak Choudhary , Divyam Anshumaan , Nils Palumbo , Somesh Jha

This letter proposes a novel, fully distributed, transient-safe resilient secondary control strategies for AC microgrids, addressing unbounded false data injection (FDI) attacks on control input channels. Unlike existing methods that focus…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Mohamadamin Rajabinezhad , Nesa Shams , Yichao Wang , Shan Zuo

Tele-operated driving (ToD) systems are special types of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) where the operator remotely controls the steering, acceleration, and braking actions of the vehicle. Malicious actors may inject false data in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Subhadip Ghosh , Aydin Zaboli , Junho Hong , Jaerock Kwon

Data-Flow Integrity (DFI) is a well-known approach to effectively detecting a wide range of software attacks. However, its real-world application has been quite limited so far because of the prohibitive performance overhead it incurs.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Lang Feng , Jiayi Huang , Jeff Huang , Jiang Hu

In this work, we focus on analyzing vulnerability of nonlinear dynamical control systems to stealthy false data injection attacks on sensors. We start by defining the stealthiness notion in the most general form where an attack is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Amir Khazraei , Miroslav Pajic

The rapid growth of AI-driven data centers and large-scale energy storage systems is increasing the reliance of power system operation on real-time measurement data and automated decision-making. However, many existing detection methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xin Li , Chenhan Xiao , Jonathan Cohen , Aviad Elyashar , Yang Weng , Rami Puzis

In this paper, we propose a data-driven networked control architecture for unknown and constrained cyber-physical systems capable of detecting networked false-data-injection attacks and ensuring plant's safety. In particular, on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-22 Mehran Attar , Walter Lucia

We study the security threats of power system operation brought by a class of data injection attacks upon load forecasting algorithms. In particular, with minimal assumptions on the knowledge and ability of the attacker, we design attack…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-17 Yize Chen , Yushi Tan , Ling Zhang , Baosen Zhang

Smart grids are inherently susceptible to various types of malicious cyberattacks that have all been documented in the recent literature. Traditional cybersecurity research on power systems often utilizes simplified models that fail to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Abdallah Alalem Albustami , Ahmad F. Taha , Elias Bou-Harb

Power system operators routinely perform N-1 contingency analysis, yet conventional tools provide limited guidance on which lines or transformers deserve heightened attention during fast post-fault transients. In particular, static…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Ayrton Almada , Laurent Pagnier , Igal Goldshtein , Saif R. Kazi , Michael , Chertkov

In this paper a new class of cyber attacks against state estimation in the electric power grid is considered. This class of attacks is named false data injection attacks. We show that with the knowledge of the system configuration an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Muneer Mohammad

Smart Grid has rapidly transformed the centrally controlled power system into a massively interconnected cyber-physical system that benefits from the revolutions happening in the communications (e.g. 5G) and the growing proliferation of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Haftu Tasew Reda , Adnan Anwar , Abdun Mahmood

Systematic attack design is essential to understanding the vulnerabilities of cyber-physical systems (CPSs), to better design for resiliency. In particular, false data injection attacks (FDIAs) are well-known and have been shown to be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-05 Yu Zheng , Sridhar Babu Mudhangulla , Olugbenga Moses Anubi

This paper presents a hybrid data-driven physics model-based framework for real time monitoring in smart grids. As the power grid transitions to the use of smart grid technology, it's real time monitoring becomes more vulnerable to cyber…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-28 Cody Ruben , Surya Dhulipala , Keerthiraj Nagaraj , Sheng Zou , Allen Starke , Arturo Bretas , Alina Zare , Janise McNair

This paper proposes a cyber-resilient secure control framework for autonomous vehicles (AVs) subject to false data injection (FDI) threats as actuator attacks. The framework integrates data-driven modeling, event-triggered communication,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Yashar Mousavi , Mahsa Tavasoli , Ibrahim Beklan Kucukdemiral , Umit Cali , Abdolhossein Sarrafzadeh , Ali Karimoddini , Afef Fekih

The increasing reliance of drivers on navigation applications has made transportation networks more susceptible to data-manipulation attacks by malicious actors. Adversaries may exploit vulnerabilities in the data collection or processing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Taha Eghtesad , Sirui Li , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Aron Laszka