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Industrial control systems are critical to the operation of industrial facilities, especially for critical infrastructures, such as refineries, power grids, and transportation systems. Similar to other information systems, a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Guangxia Lia , Yulong Shena , Peilin Zhaob , Xiao Lu , Jia Liu , Yangyang Liu , Steven C. H. Hoi

Influenced by deep penetration of the new generation of information technology, power systems have gradually evolved into highly coupled cyber-physical systems (CPS). Among many possible power CPS network attacks, a false data injection…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-03 Zhaoyang Qu , Xiaoyong Bo , Tong Yu , Yaowei Liu , Yunchang Dong , Zhongfeng Kan , Lei Wang , Yang Li

A vector-valued model-based cumulative sum (CUSUM) procedure is proposed for identifying faulty/falsified sensor measurements. First, given the system dynamics, we derive tools for tuning the CUSUM procedure in the fault/attack free case to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Carlos Murguia , Justin Ruths

A rising number of botnet families have been successfully detected using deep learning architectures. While the variety of attacks increases, these architectures should become more robust against attacks. They have been proven to be very…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Rahim Taheri

In recent years, fuzzing has been widely applied not only to application software but also to system software, including the Linux kernel and firmware, and has become a powerful technique for vulnerability discovery. Among these approaches,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Masami Ichikawa

Fuzzing is widely used for software vulnerability detection. There are various kinds of fuzzers with different fuzzing strategies, and most of them perform well on their targets. However, in industry practice and empirical study, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Yuanliang Chen , Yu Jiang , Fuchen Ma , Jie Liang , Mingzhe Wang , Chijin Zhou , Zhuo Su , Xun Jiao

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are required to operate safely under fault and malicious attacks. The simplex architecture and the recently proposed cyber resilient architectures, e.g., Byzantine fault tolerant++ (BFT++), provide safety for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Luyao Niu , Abdullah Al Maruf , Andrew Clark , J. Sukarno Mertoguno , Radha Poovendran

While attack graphs are useful for identifying major cybersecurity threats affecting a system, they do not provide operational support for determining the likelihood of having a known vulnerability exploited, or that critical system nodes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Francesco Vitale , Simone Guarino , Stefano Perone , Massimiliano Rak , Nicola Mazzocca

Fuzz testing to find semantic control vulnerabilities is an essential activity to evaluate the robustness of autonomous driving (AD) software. Whilst there is a preponderance of disparate fuzzing tools that target different parts of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Andrew Roberts , Lorenz Teply , Mert D. Pese , Olaf Maennel , Mohammad Hamad , Sebastian Steinhorst

In this study, we focus on the impact of adversarial attacks on deep learning-based anomaly detection in CPS networks and implement a mitigation approach against the attack by retraining models using adversarial samples. We use the Bot-IoT…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Zahra Jadidi , Shantanu Pal , Nithesh Nayak K , Arawinkumaar Selvakkumar , Chih-Chia Chang , Maedeh Beheshti , Alireza Jolfaei

Coverage-based greybox fuzzing (CGF) is one of the most successful methods for automated vulnerability detection. Given a seed file (as a sequence of bits), CGF randomly flips, deletes or bits to generate new files. CGF iteratively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Van-Thuan Pham , Marcel Böhme , Andrew E. Santosa , Alexandru Răzvan Căciulescu , Abhik Roychoudhury

Coverage guided fuzzing (CGF) is an effective testing technique which has detected hundreds of thousands of bugs from various software applications. It focuses on maximizing code coverage to reveal more bugs during fuzzing. However, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Ruixiang Qian , Quanjun Zhang , Chunrong Fang , Lihua Guo

Machine learning components such as deep neural networks are used extensively in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). However, they may introduce new types of hazards that can have disastrous consequences and need to be addressed for engineering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Dimitrios Boursinos , Xenofon Koutsoukos

This paper deals with secure state estimation of cyber-physical systems subject to switching (on/off) attack signals and injection of fake packets (via either packet substitution or insertion of extra packets). The random set paradigm is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Nicola Forti , Giorgio Battistelli , Luigi Chisci , Bruno Sinopoli

Detecting kinetic vulnerabilities in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), vulnerabilities in control code that can precipitate hazardous physical consequences, is a critical challenge. This task is complicated by the need to analyze the intricate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Kohei Tsujio , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque , Yasser Shoukry

The power of fuzz testing lies in its random, often brute-force, generation and execution of inputs to trigger unexpected behaviors and vulnerabilities in software applications. However, given the reality of infinite possible input…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Chris Vaisnor

Modern Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are often designed as networked, software-based controller implementations which have been found to be vulnerable to network-level and physical level attacks. A number of research works have proposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-05 Ipsita Koley , Sunandan Adhikary , Soumyajit Dey

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) integrate sensing, computing, communication and actuation capabilities to monitor and control operations in the physical environment. A key requirement of such systems is the need to provide predictable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Hyoseung Kim

Industrial control systems (ICS) are vital to modern infrastructure but increasingly vulnerable to cybersecurity threats, particularly through weaknesses in their communication protocols. This paper presents MALF (Multi-Agent LLM Fuzzing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Bowei Ning , Xuejun Zong , Kan He

Fuzzing has gained in popularity for software vulnerability detection by virtue of the tremendous effort to develop a diverse set of fuzzers. Thanks to various fuzzing techniques, most of the fuzzers have been able to demonstrate great…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Yu-Fu Fu , Jaehyuk Lee , Taesoo Kim