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This work presents a rigorous analysis of the adverse effects of cyber-physical attacks on the performance of multi-agent consensus with event-triggered control protocols. It is shown how a strategic malicious attack on sensors and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-03 Farzaneh Tatari , Aquib Mustafa , Majid Mazouchi , Hamidreza Modares , Christos G. Panayiotou , Marios M. Polycarpou

The ability to accurately predict cyber-attacks would enable organizations to mitigate their growing threat and avert the financial losses and disruptions they cause. But how predictable are cyber-attacks? Researchers have attempted to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Nazgol Tavabi , Andrés Abeliuk , Negar Mokhberian , Jeremy Abramson , Kristina Lerman

Electric power grids are at risk of being compromised by high-impact cyber-security threats such as coordinated, timed attacks. Navigating this new threat landscape requires a deep understanding of the potential risks and complex attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Ömer Sen , Dennis van der Velde , Katharina A. Wehrmeister , Immanuel Hacker , Martin Henze , Michael Andres

We take the position that agent security must be approached as a systems problem: the AI model powering the agent must be treated as an untrusted component, and security invariants must be enforced at the system level. Through this lens,…

Regular and uninterrupted operation of critical infrastructures such as power, transport, communication etc. are essential for proper functioning of a country. Cyber-attacks causing disruption in critical infrastructure service in the past,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Aneet K. Dutta , Bhaskar Mukhoty , Sandeep K. Shukla

Attack-Defence Trees (ADTs) are well-suited to assess possible attacks to systems and the efficiency of counter-measures. In this paper, we first enrich the available constructs with reactive patterns that cover further security scenarios,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Jaime Arias , Carlos E. Budde , Wojciech Penczek , Laure Petrucci , Mariëlle Stoelinga

The security of LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) is critically threatened by propagation vulnerability, where malicious agents can distort collective decision-making through inter-agent message interactions. While existing supervised…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Rui Miao , Yixin Liu , Yili Wang , Xu Shen , Yue Tan , Yiwei Dai , Shirui Pan , Xin Wang

Cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructures, such as water treatment facilities, represent significant threats to public health, safety, and the environment. This paper introduces a systematic approach for modeling and assessing covert…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Victor Mattos , João Henrique Schmidt , Amit Bhaya , Alan Oliveira de Sá , Daniel Sadoc Menasché , Gaurav Srivastava

Future power networks will be characterized by safe and reliable functionality against physical malfunctions and cyber attacks. This paper proposes a unified framework and advanced monitoring procedures to detect and identify network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-03-16 Fabio Pasqualetti , Florian Dörfler , Francesco Bullo

The ongoing penetration of energy systems with information and communications technology (ICT) and the introduction of new markets increase the potential for malicious or profit-driven attacks that endanger system stability. To ensure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Thomas Wolgast , Nils Wenninghoff , Stephan Balduin , Eric Veith , Bastian Fraune , Torben Woltjen , Astrid Nieße

In a world of ever-increasing systems interdependence, effective cybersecurity policy design seems to be one of the most critically understudied elements of our national security strategy. Enterprise cyber technologies are often implemented…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-06-28 Michael D. Norman , Matthew T. K. Koehler

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) have been increasingly attacked by hackers. Recent studies have shown that CPS are especially vulnerable to insider attacks, in which case the attacker has full knowledge of the systems configuration. To better…

Applications · Statistics 2021-11-30 Michael Biehler , Zhen Zhong , Jianjun Shi

Machine learning algorithms are effective in several applications, but they are not as much successful when applied to intrusion detection in cyber security. Due to the high sensitivity to their training data, cyber detectors based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Giovanni Apruzzese , Mauro Andreolini , Michele Colajanni , Mirco Marchetti

Organizations such as government departments and financial institutions provide online service facilities accessible via an increasing number of internet connected devices which make their operational environment vulnerable to cyber…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Insha Ullah , Kerrie Mengersen , Rob J Hyndman , James McGree

Power electronics systems are increasingly exposed to cyber threats due to their integration with digital controllers and communication networks. However, an attacker-oriented metric is still lacking to quantify the extent to which a node…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Hongwei Zhen , Ze Yu , Xin Xiang , Wuhua Li , Mingyang Sun

Distributed multi-agent optimization (DMAO) enables the scalable control and coordination of a large population of edge resources in complex multi-agent environments. Despite its great scalability, DMAO is prone to cyber attacks as it…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Mahan FakouriFard , Mingxi Liu

A multi-agent AI system (MAS) is composed of multiple autonomous agents that interact, exchange information, and make decisions based on internal generative models. Recent advances in large language models and tool-using agents have made…

Critical real-world applications strongly rely on Cyber-physical systems (CPS), but their dependence on communication networks introduces significant security risks, as attackers can exploit vulnerabilities to compromise their integrity and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Samuel Oliveira , Mostafa Tavakkoli Anbarani , Gregory Beal , Ilya Kovalenko , Marcelo Teixeira , André B. Leal , Rômulo Meira-Góes

Accurate local state measurement is important to ensure the reliable operation of distributed multi-agent systems (MAS). Existing fault-tolerant control strategies generally assume the sensor faults to be bounded and uncorrelated. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-31 Shan Zuo , Yi Zhang , Yichao Wang

Assignment of critical missions to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is bound to widen the grounds for adversarial intentions in the cyber domain, potentially ranging from disruption of command and control links to capture and use of airborne…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Vahid Behzadan