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Cascade attacks in LLM multi-agent systems (MAS) arise when adversarial influence propagates across agents and leads to escalated system-level failures through complex agent interactions. Detecting such cascades is challenging, as their…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Kavana Venkatesh , Jafar Isbarov , Saad Amin , Murat Kantarcioglu , Jiaming Cui

The landscape of cyber threats grows more complex by the day. Advanced Persistent Threats carry out attack campaigns - e.g. operations Dream Job, Wocao, and WannaCry - against which cybersecurity practitioners must defend. To prioritise…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Stefano M. Nicoletti , Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg , Mariëlle Stoelinga , Fabio Massacci , Carlos E. Budde

This paper proposes a new architecture for multi-agent systems to cover an unknowingly distributed fast, safely, and decentralizedly. The inter-agent communication is organized by a directed graph with fixed topology, and we model agent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-11 Hossein Rastgoftar

A cyber security problem in a networked system formulated as a resilient graph problem based on a game-theoretic approach is considered. The connectivity of the underlying graph of the network system is reduced by an attacker who removes…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Yurid Nugraha , Ahmet Cetinkaya , Tomohisa Hayakawa , Hideaki Ishii , Quanyan Zhu

TThis paper argues that \textbf{a comprehensive vulnerability analysis is essential for building trustworthy Large Language Model-based Multi-Agent Systems (LLM-MAS)}. These systems, which consist of multiple LLM-powered agents working…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Pengfei He , Yue Xing , Juanhui Li , Shen Dong , Zhenwei Dai , Xianfeng Tang , Hui Liu , Han Xu , Zhen Xiang , Charu C. Aggarwal , Hui Liu

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

This paper presents the first demonstration of using an active mechanism to defend renewable-rich microgrids against cyber attacks. Cyber vulnerability of the renewable-rich microgrids is identified. The defense mechanism based on dynamic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Tong Huang , Bin Wang , Jorge Ramos-Ruiz , Prasad Enjeti , P. R. Kumar , Le Xie

This paper proposes a unified detection strategy against three kinds of attacks for multi-agent systems (MASs) which is applicable to both transient and steady stages. For attacks on the communication layer, a watermarking-based detection…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Jinming Gao , Yijing Wang , Wentao Zhang , Rui Zhao , Yang Shi , Zhiqiang Zuo

Malicious agents pose significant threats to the reliability and decision-making capabilities of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) powered by Large Language Models (LLMs). Existing defenses often fall short due to reactive designs or centralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yang Feng , Xudong Pan

Modern Building Automation Systems (BASs), as the brain that enables the smartness of a smart building, often require increased connectivity both among system components as well as with outside entities, such as optimized automation via…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Guowen Li , Lingyu Ren , Yangyang Fu , Zhiyao Yang , Veronica Adetola , Jin Wen , Qi Zhu , Teresa Wu , K. Selcuk Candanf , Zheng O'Neill

Cyberattacks can cause a severe impact on power systems unless detected early. However, accurate and timely detection in critical infrastructure systems presents challenges, e.g., due to zero-day vulnerability exploitations and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Abhijeet Sahu , Zeyu Mao , Patrick Wlazlo , Hao Huang , Katherine Davis , Ana Goulart , Saman Zonouz

Modern threats have emerged from the prevalence of social networks. Hostile actors, such as extremist groups or foreign governments, utilize these networks to run propaganda campaigns with different aims. For extremists, these campaigns are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Fanyu Que , Krishnan Rajagopalan , Tauhid Zaman

Cyber-physical systems integrate computation, communication, and physical capabilities to interact with the physical world and humans. Besides failures of components, cyber-physical systems are prone to malicious attacks so that specific…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-02-29 Fabio Pasqualetti , Florian Dörfler , Francesco Bullo

In this paper we present a hierarchical scheme to detect cyber-attacks in a hierarchical control architecture for large-scale interconnected systems (LSS). We consider the LSS as a network of physically coupled subsystems, equipped with a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-29 Twan Keijzer , Alexander J. Gallo , Riccardo M. G. Ferrari

Hidden communication systems (HCS) embed covert messages within ordinary network activity to hide the presence of communication. In practice, the undetectability of an HCS is typically evaluated using ad hoc traffic statistics or specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Joud Khoury , Minyoung Kim , Christophe Merlin , Jose Meseguer , Zachary Ratliff , Carolyn Talcott

Security threats such as jamming and route manipulation can have significant consequences on the performance of modern wireless networks. To increase the efficacy and stealthiness of such threats, a number of extremely challenging,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Liyang Zhang , Francesco Restuccia , Tommaso Melodia , Scott M. Pudlewski

Consider a consensus-driven multi-agent dynamic system. The interaction range, which defines the set of neighbors for each agent, plays a key role in influencing connectivity of the underlying network. In this paper, we assume the system is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Saad J Saleh

The problem of mitigating maliciously injected signals in interconnected systems is dealt with in this paper. We consider the class of covert attacks, as they are stealthy and cannot be detected by conventional means in centralized…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Angelo Barboni , Thomas Parisini

The high mobility of Army tactical networks, combined with their close proximity to hostile actors, elevates the risks associated with short-range network attacks. The connectivity model for such short range connections under active…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-27 Brian Thompson , Richard Harang

Increased automation has created an impetus to integrate infrastructure with wide-spread connectivity in order to improve efficiency, sustainability, autonomy, and security. Nonetheless, this reliance on connectivity and the inevitability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-17 Tanushree Roy , Satadru Dey